Summer opportunities.

For Teachers

As we near the end of the school year, most teachers are thinking about the coming summer as a time to travel, recharge, relax, plan, and, perhaps, even make art. You can find many resources online to help with planning your summer, including two cultural travel experiences that I will be leading. And, as students leave school, you can equip them with websites they can explore on their own.

www.goaheadvacations.com/ master/destination/overview.asp ?tourcode=MPP

If you are interested in Mexican art and culture, join me on a nine-day excursion from Mexico City to Oaxaca beginning June 2. We will travel in an air-conditioned bus with a bilingual guide to visit prehistoric and historic ruins, cathedrals, and museums, including the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Teotihuacan, Puebla, the Cholula Pyramids, Mitla, and the Monte Alban Ceremonial Center. Nights will be spent in Mexico City, Puebla, and Oaxaca. You can contact me at [e-mail] for more information.

www.ghostranch.org/ seminars data/fall.php

Tres Culturas and the Visual Language of Art seminar I have led in Santa Fe, New Mexico for many summers to explore the Pueblo Indian, Hispanic, and Anglo cultures through their arts. Scroll down on the site to July 25-30, Santa Fe Campus.

www.andersonranch.org

The Anderson Ranch near Aspen, Colorado, offers workshops and field expeditions in ceramics, creative studies, digital imaging, furniture and woodworking, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and photography.

www.crizmac.com/professional _development/events.cfm?step =results&seventtypeid=1

Crizmac Art and Cultural Materials offers adventure travel seminars to Italy, Mexico, and Santa Fe.

www.idyllwildarts.org

The Idyllwild Arts Summer Program in California's San Jacinto mountains presents summer workshops in visual arts, music, dance, theater, filmmaking, and creative writing.

www.colum.edu/apsi

If you teach Advanced Placement art courses, you may want to consider enrolling in the summer training offered by the National Site for the College Board's AP Faculty Development in the Arts at Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois.

www.arrowmont.org

The Arrowmont School of Crafts offers two week-long courses in a variety of craft forms in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

For Students

Check out the following sites to continue to think about and make art, online and off, during the summer;

www.youdraw.com

Create and post your own drawing on YouDraw's draw pad.

www.nga.gov/kids/zone/zone. html

Try the interactive features here that include Collage Machine, PixelFace, PaintBox, 3-D Twirler, Cubits, Diamonds, Mobile, and River Run.

www.robertsabuda.com/ popupindex.asp

Learn how to make your own pop-op cards and books at Pop-up master Robert Sabuda's website.

www.etch-a-sketch.com

Have fun online with Etch-a-Sketch.

www.teleback.com.ar/ escolar21/blockmeister.swf

Build with Legos online with archimedia.

omu.kuiki.net/class.shtml

Try out the online, sequential, comic-art tutorials at the Online Manga University.

www.stephen.com/mondrimat

Use the MONDRIMAT to experiment with space, color, and rhythm in the style of Piet Mondrian.

www.moma.org/momalearning/ artsafari/make_your_own_art. html

Make your own artwork about animals online at the Museum of Modern Art.