Promoting respect for diversity.Integrating the Internet into your art curriculum can add a completely new dimension to learning about and from the art of other cultures. The Web offers unprecedented access to the work of countless artists from historically underrepresented un·der·rep·re·sent·ed adj. Insufficiently or inadequately represented: the underrepresented minority groups, ignored by the government. cultural and ethnic groups. This global, inclusive reach enables students to study a much greater range of artists and visual forms of representation than ever before. When coupled with appropriate curriculum objectives and pedagogy, the Web can become a vital component of a collaborative-learning environment in which teacher and students are jointly engaged in inclusive, ongoing research exploring the commonality and diversity of art practices around the world. Here are ten valuable resources that offer starting points for such classroom investigations: African Art African art, art created by the peoples south of the Sahara. The predominant art forms are masks and figures, which were generally used in religious ceremonies. Cycles: African Life Through Art (www.ima-art.org/cycles) covers important themes in African art and life using a wide variety of media and works of art from the Indianapolis Museum of Art The Indianapolis Museum of Art is an art museum in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. History The Indianapolis Museum of Art is among the largest and oldest general art museums in the United States. . If you're teaching a ceramics lesson, you might have your students visit the National Museum of African Art's Beautiful Bodies: Form and Decoration of African Pottery exhibition site (www.nmafa.si.edu/ exhibits/bb) where they can compare and contrast seven handbuilt clay vessels from nineteenth- and twentieth-century Africa. Older students can explore the Virtual Museum of Contemporary African Art (www.vmcaa.nl/vm), sponsored by the Dutch Africaserver Foundation, which focuses on contemporary African art. Chicano Art and Culture The Chicano Art Digital Image Collection (cemaweb.library.ucsb. edu/digitalArchives.html), sponsored by the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , contains over five hundred images of works of art by Mexican-American artists. Another interesting site that highlights Mexican-American artists and culture is CHICANO (www.chicano-art-life.com), which presents works from a traditional art exhibit "Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) is a play written by Eric Overmyer. It makes extensive use of esoteric language and pop culture references from the late nineteenth century to 1955. " and a multimedia exhibit "Chicano Now: American Expressions" currently touring North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . A downloadable teacher's guide is also available on the site. Native Americans First American Art (www.nmai. si.edu/exhibitions/first american_ art/firstamericanart.html) is an exceptional interactive site, from the National Museum of the American Indian National Museum of the American Indian, institution devoted to the collection, preservation, and presentation of the culture of the indigenous populations of the Western Hemisphere, a division of the Smithsonian Institution. , which offers an in-depth examination of the rich aesthetic traditions of Native Americans. Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art (www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/gm), also from the NMAI, features an array of works of art in a variety of media by some of Mexico's greatest living folk artists. Asian Art Young students can view and study works from the ancient cultures of East Asia, including Japan, China, and Korea by using the Kyoto National Museum's Museum Directory for Kids (www.kyohaku. go.jp/eng/dictio/index.html). The Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Arthur M. Sackler (August 22, 1913, Brooklyn, New York – May 26, 1987, New York City) was an American physician, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He attended New York University School of Medicine and graduated with an M.D. Gallery's offers a fascinating look at modern Japanese prints and paintings from the Robert O. Muller Collection (www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/dreamWorlds/base. html). Lastly, students of all ages will enjoy the National Gallery of Australia's (www.nga.gov. au/Imagining) online collection of works created by artists in Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (păp`  ə, –y in response to their contemporary world.
Visit the SchoolArts Web site at www.davisart.com for an active version of this article. Craig Roland is an associate professor of Art Education in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Florida University of Florida is the third-largest university in the United States, with 50,912 students (as of Fall 2006) and has the eighth-largest budget (nearly $1.9 billion per year). UF is home to 16 colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. in Gainesville, Florida. He is the author of The Art Teacher's Guide to the Internet (Davis Publications, 2005). rolandc@ufl.edu |
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