Research Guides: Art Education: Websites

Art Open Education Resources (OERs)

Smarthistory
Smarthistory.org is an open, not-for-profit, art history textbook. Smarthistory collaborates with museums and scholars from all over the world and is the official provider of art history for khanacademy.org.
Open Art Histories
Open Art Histories (OAH) is a platform for art, art history, visual art, communication, and museum studies teachers and instructors in Canada. Open to anyone who uses visual and material culture in their pedagogical practices, OAH offers a dynamic and collaborative space for Open Education Resources (OERs), and serves as a virtual community and repository for art and art history instructors at all stages of their academic and professional careers.
A Quick and Dirty Guide to Art, Music, and Culture
An open textbook by The Ohio State University that discusses art and music in the context of popular culture. Includes assignments, and supplementary course materials.
Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning
A comprehensive introduction to the world of Art. Authored by four USG faculty members with advanced degrees in the arts, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It includes over 400 high-quality images illustrating the history of art, its technical applications, and its many uses.

Art Education Websites

Aesthetics Teaching Resources
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.
Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR)
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.
Arts Education Partnership
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.
ArtsEdge: The National Arts and Education Information Network
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.
Education at the Getty
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.
McRel Resources Lesson Plans: The Arts
A collection of lesson plans and activities for use in the classroom for dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: For Educators
Includes publications for educators.
National Art Education Association
The National Art Education Association (NAEA) promotes art education through professional development, service, advancement of knowledge, and leadership.
Visual Thinking Strategies
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) is a research-based teaching method that improves critical thinking and language skills through discussions of visual images.
AIGA Design Teaching Resource
The AIGA Design Teaching Resource is a peer-populated platform for educators to share assignments, teaching materials, outcomes, and project reflections.
Dear Students - An Introduction to Euro-centrism of the Art History Canon
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.