Try This: Take a look at these art department Web sites

   
   

Directions: Visit three of the art department sites listed below. Compare and contrast the sites you visit to evaluate overall visual design and layout, content, navigational features, and how student artwork is presented.

Elementary and Middle School Sites

Art Is Fun
www.artisfun.net
Jacqui Derby created this site that features class information, links to online resources, and artwork by her students at Alta Vista Middle School in Carlsbad, New Mexico.

Aurora Middle School Art Department
Aurora, Nebraska
www.esu9.org/~swegenas/midart
On this site, created by Sarah Wegenast, you will find several exhibitions of student artwork, information about the school’s art curriculum, and links to online art resources.

St. John's Lower School Art Gallery
Houston, Texas
www.sjs.org/arts/story
This site includes an overview of the school’s art curriculum, an art calendar, and numerous galleries of student artwork.

Harvard-Westlake Middle School Visual Arts
Los Angeles, California
hw.com/academics/msvisualarts
This site includes an overview of the school’s art curriculum, illustrated descriptions of art courses and projects, a gallery of student artwork, and a collection of links to online curriculum resources.

High School Sites

Homewood-Flossmoor High School Art Department
Fl
ossmoor, Illinois
www.hfhs.s-cook.k12.il.us/hfmain/art/artdept.html
This site includes extensive galleries of student artwork done in a variety of new and traditional art media, curriculum information, illustrated descriptions of special projects, and more.

Horton High School Art Department
Greenwich, NS, Canada
www.horton.ednet.ns.ca/staff/syme
This site, created by Paul Syme, is jam-packed with curriculum materials, student artwork, and projects done in traditional and newer media, links to online resources, and more. (Some areas of this site now require a password, which you can request by sending an email message to Paul Syme.)

Michelle Harrell’s Online Art Room
Southeast Raleigh High School
Raleigh, North Carolina
harrell.srhs.net
Michelle Harrell created this site that includes course descriptions and assignments, information for parents and other art teachers, photo galleries, plus links to other art teachers’ Web sites and art-related resources.

Monte Vista High School Art
Monte Vista, Colorado
www.monte.k12.co.us/art
Dan Garcia created this site that features galleries of student artwork, an overview of the school’s art curriculum, and links to online resources.

North Pole High School Art Department
North Pole, Alaska
www.northstar.k12.ak.us/schools/nph/depts/fineart/art
This site, created by Tyrell Robinson, includes art course descriptions, information about special events, and galleries of student artwork from past years.

District-level Sites

Millard Art Collection (retired from the Web 6.11.06)
Omaha, Nebraska
www.esu3.org/districts/millard/millART/millART.html
This site, created by the millART WWW Development Team, features galleries of student artwork, an overview of the district’s K–12 art curriculum, a database of art lessons for local art teachers, plus links to art museum sites and other curriculum resources.

Spring Branch Independent School District Art Department
Houston, Texas
www.springbranchisd.com/instruc/art/artindex.htm
This site provides a wealth of information on the district’s art programs including teaching philosophy statements, course descriptions, a calendar of important dates, descriptions of special events, exhibitions of student artwork, and a link to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Standards for Fine Arts.

Roanoke County Schools Art Department
Roanoke, Virginia
www.rcs.k12.va.us/art
On this site, created by Lazzelle Parker, you will find information about the district’s K–12 art program, including a teaching philosophy and goals statement, online curriculum guides, exhibitions of student artwork, virtual tours of art classrooms and local shows, a yearly calendar, the Visual Arts Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools, and a comprehensive list of links to online resources.

 

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