The Anasazi and the Secrets of the Petroglyphs
www.brigantine.atlnet.org/GigapaletteGALLERY/websites/AnasaziWebQuest
Designed by art teacher Ruthann Meyer, this WebQuest sends middle-school students
on a journey into the past to live among the Anasazi people of ancient America.
Artist Trading Cards: A Collaborative Cultural
Performance
www.artist-trading-cards.ch
Artist trading cards are small original works of art created on baseball-card
size card stock that are then traded, in person, through snail mail, or online.
Beaded Prayers Project
www.beadedprayersproject.com
The Beaded Prayers Project engages people of all ages and backgrounds to create
beaded packets that contain their prayers, wishes, hopes or dreams.
Big Draw
www.show.me.uk/topicpage/The-Big-Draw.html
Annual national event in the UK intended to get everyone drawing.
Bridges to Understanding
www.bridgesweb.org
Bridges to Understanding engages students worldwide in direct, interactive learning and storytelling to build cross-cultural understanding
Collected Visions
cvisions.nyu.edu
This participatory website explores the relationship between family photographs
and memory.
Cross Cultural Collaborative
www.culturalcollaborative.org
An educational non-profit organization that invites people to Ghana to promote
cultural exchange and understanding through the arts.
Drumcroon Gallery
www.drumcroon.org.uk/School%20Projects/projects.html
Check out the cool projects accomplished by resident artists working with young people and teachers through the Drumcroon Gallery/Wigan Education Art Centre (in Wigan, UK).
Day of the Dead
www.mexic-artemuseum.org/education/dell-edu/home.html
Fifth grade students created this site during during a media workshop offered
in 2001 at the Mexic-Arte Museum of Austin, Texas.
DO IT at e-flux
www.e-flux.com/projects/do_it/homepage/do_it_home.html
In the Fluxus tradition, Do It is an autonomous show that exists as a growing
set of artist's instructions to be actualized by an interested audience, and
capable of taking place simultaneously in many locations in a myriad of permutations.
Earth Day Groceries Project
www.earthdaybags.org
The Earth Day Groceries Project is an easy, cost-free environmental awareness
project that teams up youth and grocers to spread the message of Earth Day.
Empty Bowls Project
www.emptybowls.net
In this project, participants create ceramic bowls then serve a simple meal
of soup and bread. Guests choose a bowl to use that day and to keep as a reminder
that there are always "empty bowls" in the world. In exchange for
a meal and the bowl, the guest gives a suggested minimum donation of ten dollars.
The meal sponsors and /or guests choose a hunger-fighting organization to receive
the money collected.
explodingdog
www.explodingdog.com
Sam draws pictures from titles that people send in via his Web site.
An Exquisite Corpse
anexquisitecorpse.net
Inspired by an early 20th century surrealist parlour game, an exquisite corpse
is a collaborative art project between a small number of artists, each with
little to no idea as to what has gone before, who create a single, unified work
that could not be created any other way.
Found Art!
found-art.com
Join a worldwide project that involves creating a small artwork and then leaving
it in a public place for someone to find. Finders can go to the Found Art! site
and leave comments about what they found and how it made them feel.
The FreedomQuest: Monument ot the Underground
Railroad
www.undergroundrailroad.org/freedomquests/monuments
This WebQuest encourages middle school students to plan and design their own
monuments to honor and preserve the heritage of the Underground Railroad of
nineteenth-century United States.
Global Art Project for Peace
www.global-art.org
This project's mission is to spread world peace by promoting tolerance and nonviolence
through art.
Global Collage
www.globalcollage.com
In its final form, the Global Collage will consist of thousands of art works
from worldwide artists.
Imagem
www.dshed.net/digitised/imagem
A photography project that links young people from Oporto, Portugal, and Bristol,
England.
My Place Asia Australia
www.asiaeducation.edu.au/myplace
My Place Asia Australia is an educational exchange between Australian schools
and their counterparts in China, Japan, Korea, India, Indonesia and Vietnam.
The Mirror Project
www.mirrorproject.com
A growing community of like-minded individuals who have photographed their likenesses
in a variety of reflective surfaces.
Monster Exchange
www.monsterexchange.org
In this popular e-mail project, students in one classroom are split into groups
and asked to design an original picture of a monster. Next, they write a description
of the monster that is exchanged with a group of students in another classroom
via e-mail on the Internet. Each group is then challenged to read the descriptions
and translate them into a monster picture.
The New Orleans Kid Camera Project
www.kidcameraproject.org
Cat Malovic and Joanna Rosenthal created this project to address the psychological and emotional impact of Hurricane Katrina on children returning home to New Orleans.
Outside my Window
www.outsidemywindow.org
Students at Evergreeen Valley High school in San Jose, CA invite others to send
them photographs taken outside their windows.
Pinwheels for Peace
www.pinwheelsforpeace.com
An
art installation project started in 2005 by two Florida art teachers as a way for students to express their feelings about what’s going on in the world and in their lives.
Postcard Project
thepostcardproject.tripod.com
Find other schools that you and your students can exchange ideas, cultures, and art through exchanging postcards.
Public Service Announcements (PSA)
edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=195
In this project, students work cooperatively to create a 30-second PSA that can air on a local access cable channel, be shown to the school, or posted on a school website.
Shared Drawing
www.shareddrawing.com
Collaborate with others in real-time to create drawings
and animation.
SketchCrawl
www.sketchcrawl.com
A communal site for people who like to sketch and share their drawings with others.
Synergy
www.sito.org
Synergy consists of a huge database of "collaborative art" projects
sponsored by SITO, a free on-line "gallery" space for artists since
1993. To participate in any of the active projects, you'll need to register
for a SITO ID.
The Talking Heads Project
www.asiaeducation.edu.au/talkingheads
In this intergenerational project, students are invited to create a visual portrait
of an older person and to record that person's memories.
Warhol and Collaboration
www.warhol.org/education/pdfs/. . .
Grades: Middle and High School
This lesson plan adapts the collaborative process of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel
Basquiat to engage students in dialogue and collaborative artmaking. (PDF file)
Women Beyond Borders
www.womenbeyondborders.org
Women Beyond Borders is a grass-roots collaboration involving 500 artists, curators,
critics and sponsors. Participants received an identical, miniature wooden box
as a point of departure, which was then transformed in a myriad of ways via
painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and mixed media.
YouDraw
www.youdraw.com
The aim of this simple, yet exceptionally innovative website is to show what
6 billion people look like by producing 12,000 copies of a book of 500,000 human
figures drawn by visitors to the site. Help the creators of YouDraw achieve
their goal by using the interactive drawing pad available on the site.
1000 Journals Project
www.1000journals.com
An independent, privately funded social experiment that attempts to follow 1000
journals throughout their travels, to see where they go, and what people do
with them.
