Art Education

Here you'll find articles about aesthetics, philosophy of art, art theory, and art criticism, as well as information about aesthetics events worldwide, and links to other aesthetics-related resources on the Internet.

AHTR is home to a constantly evolving and collectively authored online repository of art history teaching content including, but not limited to, lesson plans, video introductions to museums, book reviews, image clusters, and classroom and museum activities.

The Arts Education Partnership (AEP) is a national coalition of arts, education, business, philanthropic, and government organizations that demonstrate and promote the essential role of the arts in the learning and development of every child and in the improvement of America's schools.

Offers free, standards-based teaching materials for use in and out of the classroom, as well as professional development resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment.

Includes a searchable databases of lesson plans by grade level and subject area as well as a guide on how to build visual arts lessons.

A collection of lesson plans and activities for use in the classroom for dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts.

Includes publications for educators.

The National Art Education Association (NAEA) promotes art education through professional development, service, advancement of knowledge, and leadership.

Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) is a research-based teaching method that improves critical thinking and language skills through discussions of visual images.

The AIGA Design Teaching Resource is a peer-populated platform for educators to share assignments, teaching materials, outcomes, and project reflections.

The following is a draft statement, shared at SECAC 2020 in the session Going Global: New Approaches to Expanding the Survey. It is intended as a possible starting point for survey courses or as an addendum to course texts. Its aims are to introduce students to art history’s origins as a scholarly field and recent globalist critiques, as well as to encourage open, collaborative and easily accessible course materials.

CARTA is a collaborative entity of art libraries building collections of archived web-based content related to art history and contemporary art practice. It includes in fo on art criticism, artist websites, galleries, organizations, education and more.