If you started to play the guitar anytime after the late 1940s, you probably encountered the guitar instruction books of the late Mel Bay. Bay started his life in the tiny town of Bunker, Missouri and over the next eight decades he created a vast music instruction empire that included hundreds of publications. This particular website happens to lead to Mel Bay's Creative Keyboard, which is a...

This Teacher Resources section of the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) website provides a selection of materials designed primarily for K-12 teachers, but also of interest to anyone involved in teaching both formally and informally. As a bonus, many of the resources can be used in online learning environments. Several types of materials exist, including some curated to align with works of art from the...

Taking its name from the type of American movie theater that houses a large number of screens in order to provide a wide variety of movies, the web site for Multiplex, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), teaches an art history lesson in an entertaining fashion. Introductory comments from Deborah Wye, curator of the exhibition, point out that it was around 1970 that our current...

Founded in 1947, the National Art Education Association (NAEA) is the "leading professional membership organization exclusively for visual arts educators." Their number includes student members, teaching artists, administrators, and others involved in the full palette of the visual arts. On the site, visitors can learn about grant activities, research, and advocacy efforts. In the Learning area,...

In recent years, the vast majority of museums have deemed public education an imperative. The Education portion of the National Galleries of Scotland's web site provides a nice mix of activities for web site visitors, as well as for those fortunate enough to be able to get to the museum itself, in Edinburgh. Among the interactive web site features, in the "Activities" section on the left, is...

The National Gallery of Art has a fantastic website for kids, and the site is all about interactive art. Many of the eighteen activities can be made easier or more difficult to accommodate the age of the child doing the activity. Visitors interested in American folk art will enjoy the opportunity to create digital portraits and landscapes using pictorial elements inspired by the National...

Like many museums around the country, the National Gallery of Art has an impressive collection of recorded public programs. The Notable Lecture series stretches back to 2007, and features several varieties of audio content, from art talks, to conversations with artists, to the notable lectures themselves. For example, in 2008, there's a 2-part podcast that coincided with Martin Puryear's...

The mission of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is "to empower artists at critical stages in their creative lives." Their website has many resources for artists, and the "About NYFA" link includes a list of prominent individuals titled "NYFA Names You Know" of artists who they supported in their early years. Visitors might recognize such artists as Spike Lee, Mira Nair, Julie Taymor,...

The Open Studio Project was conceived by Los Angeles artist Mark Bradford, and is the inaugural effort of the Getty Artists Program, an extension of the Museum's education department. The Open Studio Project makes it possible for more schools to have an artist-in-residence, virtually. Any K-12 art classroom with an Internet connection can bring in art-making activities created by a roster of...

Using a wide variety of materials culled from archival collections, primarily the Getty Research Institute, the J. Paul Getty Museum presents Overdrive, an exhibition of Los Angeles's urban landscape, presented in a way that would be almost impossible to recreate from ground level in L.A. Drawings, photographs, models, films, animations, oral histories, and ephemera provide a view of L.A.'s...