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** ART ** [|AIGA Design Archives]is one of the richest online resources available to those who practice, study and appreciate great design. It represents the quality of work being created, as well as shifting aesthetics and sensibilities of the designers of the day. Included in this resource are more than 20,000 selections from AIGA’s annual juried design competitions dating from 1924 through the present. In addition, it features special collections of major American design firms and practitioners whose design accomplishments might otherwise not be preserved online or made available to the public.

[|ArtBabble] is a website that showcases high quality art-related video content from more than 50 cultural institutions from around the world.

[|Art on the Edge] This joint publication of the State Department's ART in Embassies Program and its Bureau of International Information Programs showcases the work of 17 contemporary American artists. All have made their art available in U.S. ambassador's residences in countries around the world. As a group, these up-and-comers exemplify such bedrock American values as innovation, diversity, freedom, individualism, and competitive excellence.

[|Artwork Looted by Nazis Register] The database documents the plundered art objects that came into the hands of the ERR in German-occupied France and Belgium which were processed through the Jeu de Paume between late 1940 and August 1944. It is a repository of historical and visual information concerning these objects that has been extracted from three different archival sources.

[|Art.Net (also known as Art on the Net)] is a collective of artists helping each other to come up on the Internet and share their works on the World Wide Web. Artists create and maintain studios and rooms in the gallery where they show their works and share about themselves.

[|John James Audubon's //Birds of America//]is a portal into the natural world. Printed between 1827 and 1838, it contains 435 life-sized watercolours of North American birds, all made from hand-engraved plates, and is considered to be the archetype of wildlife illustration. Nearly 200 years later, the Audubon prints are coming to life once again, thanks to our vibrant digital library. Each print is also available as a free high-resolution download.

[|Cool Text] A FREE graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own custom image created on the fly.

[|Digital Collections of the Harvard College Library (HCL)] has thousands of digitized historical photographs, pamphlets, manuscripts, books, music scores, rare maps and other rare and unique materials. The vast majority of these images are freely available online for public access.

[|Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture] The Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture collects and creates electronic resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America. Included are electronic texts and journals, image databases, and information on organizations, museums and research facilities. Made possible by the Chipstone Foundation, the site was created and is maintained at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

[|www.DigitalArtMuseum.com] offers opportunities for the presentation of digital artfrom all digital artists, and provides a forum for critical dialogue between emergingand established artists and their audiences.

[|Duke University Libraries Digital Collections] includes Advertising and Consumer Culture; African-American History; Art, Literature, & Music; Documentary Photography; Human Rights; Transcultural Experiences; and Women’s History.

[|FreeFoto.com] is made up of 132516 images with 182 sections organized into 3638 categories. FreeFoto.com is the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet (link back and attribution required).

[|FreePhotoBank] is a free stock photo site. Feel free to download pictures (up to 2048 pixels, Creative Commons license) but don't forget to link back to FreePhotoBank!

Free music and photos <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">* [|Creative Commons] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">* [|4 free photos] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">* [|Pixabay/Images] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">* [| Pics4learning] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">* [| Morgue File/Images] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">* [|Image Base] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">* [| Open Photo Project] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">* [|Photo Pin] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">* [| Big Stock Photo] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">* [|Burning Well] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">* [|Dave's Nature Photos] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">* [|Free Sound] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">* [|Soundzabound] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">* [|Purple Planet/Music] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">* [|FMA/Music]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Glass making in the Roman Times] This interactive exhibit from the Penn Museum explores the history of glassworking through the six centuries of Roman domination of the Mediterranean world.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art]explores the humble but beautifully crafted coiled basket which has been made in Africa for millennia and by Africans in the American South for as long as they have been on these shores. Includes a teacher’s guide.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Google Art Project] In a nutshell, Google has taken their Street View technology (what's used to capture the street images available with Google Maps and Google Earth) brought it indoors, made some modifications, and began creating digitized images of objects housed in 17 art museums and galleries.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Google Logos] See past Google logos from around the world.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Menlo School]Select from the list of academic subjects on the right-hand side of the screen for more links.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA)] offers exhibitions of the most thought-provoking art created since 1945. The MCA documents contemporary visual culture through painting, sculpture, photography, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">video and film, and performance.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Museum of Modern Art]offers a sizable collection of online resources for teaching art lessons. Part of that collection is a series of lesson plans, but there are also collections of art for students, an art game for young (5-8 years old) students, interactive activities for older students, and podcasts about art and artists. The MOMA lesson plans collection can be searched by theme, artist, medium, or subject. If the lesson plans in the collection don't offer quite what you're looking for, MOMA has free resources you can use in developing your own plans. MOMA offers many images and PDFs that you can use in developing own lessons and or slideshows.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|National Gallery of Art Images] is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images. A standards-based reproduction guide and a help section provide advice for both novices and experts. More than 20,000 open access digital images up to 3000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use. NGA Images is designed to facilitate learning, enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|National Gallery of Art Kids Art Zone] interactives offer an entertaining and informative introduction to art and art history. Featuring a variety of art-making tools that encourage exploration and creativity, these activities are suitable for all ages.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Ookaboo], a collection of free images organized around precisely defined concepts.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Pics4Learning] is a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and images for classrooms, multimedia projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other project in an educational setting.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Picsearch] connects its users to the vast visual resources of the internet, using its own technology to crawl the web and has created a searchable index of images. Picsearch has a family friendliness that allows children to surf in safety as all offensive material is filtered out by our advanced filtering systems. The site is also very user friendly as it's designed to be simple, fast and accurate.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Ringling Collection] Comprised of cabinet cards, postcards and photographs of American and British actors and actresses. The Collection is one of several housed in the Belknap Collection for the Performing Arts in the Smathers Libraries' Department of Special Collections on the campus to the University of Florida (Gainesville, FL).

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel] is incredible. Move the mouse around…to view every part of Michelangelo’s Masterpiece. Just click and drag your arrow in the direction you wish to see. In the lower left, click on the plus (+) to move closer, on the minus (-) to move away. Choir is thrown in free.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Stained Glass in Wales]catalogue draws together hundreds of examples of the art in Wales from the fourteenth century up to the present day. These examples are searchable by date, artist, subject and location, listing about 1,800 windows with over 5,000 photographs from about 350 sites across Wales.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Treasures of Heaven] Based on the NEH-funded exhibit, explores the history of Christian saints and their relics through a variety of different digital tools and programs. Learn about exhibition objects through the cultural, geographical, and architectural environment for which they were originally created.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Yale’s Vast Cultural Collections]Over 225,000 digital images

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|World Wide Quilting Page]Everything you want to know about quilting

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Why Design Now?] is the fourth installation in the National Design Triennial exhibition series launched by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in 2000.The Triennial provides a sample of contemporary innovation, looking at what progressive designers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and citizens are doing in diverse fields and at different scales around the world.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|21st Century Skills Map]: The Arts This Skills Map presents just a few of the many ways that children acquire 21st Century Learning Skills through arts study.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[|McREL] has lesson plans and other resources that are helpful for curriculum planning, including activities developed for specific benchmarks. Subject areas include the Arts, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Civics, Economics, Foreign Languages, Geography, Health and PE, History, Language Arts, Math, Multi/Interdisciplinary, Science, and Technology.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Academic Index] has an art history section and a page devoted to Spanish artists.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The [|AdViews] digital collection provides access to thousands of historic commercials created for clients or acquired by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency or its predecessor during the 1950s - 1980s. All of the commercials held in the DMB&B Archives will be digitized, allowing students and researchers access to a wide range of vintage brand advertising from the first four decades of mainstream commercial television.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The British Library's Photostream]More than one million public domain images taken from 65,000 books spanning from the 17th to the 19th century.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Fashion Industry: Selected Sources]: Selected Sources from Business Reference Services, Library of Congress.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Getty Research Portal]™ is an online search platform providing globalaccess to digitized art history texts. Through this multilingual, multicultural union catalog, scholars can search and download complete digital copies of publications for the study of art, architecture, material culture, and related fields. The Portal is free to all users.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Global Philatelic Library]is a collaboration of the Royal Philatelic Society London, American Philatelic Research Library, and the Smithsonian to provide a single database to further the collection and study of postage stamps, postmarks, and related materials.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Internet Pinball Machine Database] — also known as the IPD or IPDB — is a comprehensive, searchable listing of virtually every pinball machine ever commercially made.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Museum of Bags] is a showcase of the bag in all its forms as an icon illustrating the history and culture of society.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Retronaut] is a collaborative storehouse for images, audio, and video from the past. Categorized by time periods/eras.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Rijks Studio]As a prelude to its reopening on April 13, 2013, one of the world’s leading museums, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, will launch [|Rijks Studio,] a new online presentation of 125,000 works in its collection which will go live today. Rijks Studio invites members of the public to create their own masterpieces by downloading images of artworks or details of artworks in the collection and using them in a creative way. The ultra high-resolution images of works, both famous and less well-known, can be freely downloaded, zoomed in on, shared, added to personal ‘studios’, or manipulated copyright-free.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Smarthistory.org]is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The AdViews digital collection]provides access to thousands of historic commercials created for clients or acquired by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency or its predecessor during the 1950s - 1980s. All of the commercials held in the DMB&B Archives will be digitized, allowing students and researchers access to a wide range of vintage brand advertising from the first four decades of mainstream commercial television.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Big Cartoon DataBase]is a giant directory of thousands of animated TV series, episode guides, cast and crew information, animated film lists, cartoon character registry, and cartoon pictures.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Digital Photography Resource Center]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Filmsite.org] A website for classic film buffs, students, moviegoers and anyone else interested in the great movies of the last century. Detailed plot synopses, review commentary and film reference material are just some of the features available on the site. The site also contains film analysis, original content, information on the top films and most memorable movie scenes, "best of…" articles, and the most popular film quotes in all genres of film. Its many resources include a comprehensive overview of film history, a complete survey of the Academy Awards (Oscars), milestones and turning points in the industry, and background and descriptions for hundreds of classic Hollywood/American and other English-language movies from the last one hundred years.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences], the world's preeminent movie-related organization, is involved in a wide array of education, outreach, preservation and research activities. The Academy's renowned Margaret Herrick Library has one of the world's most extensive and comprehensive research collections on the subject of motion pictures. Dedicated to the preservation and study of motion pictures, the Academy Film Archive collects, restores, documents and provides research access to films.The Science and Technology Council provides a forum for technological cooperation within the entertainment industry, sponsors publications and educational activities, and preserves the history of motion picture science and technology. Educational and Outreach Activities provide financial grants to film-related organizations and institutions, educates high school students about the crafts of filmmaking, and encourages and recognizes the achievements of future filmmakers.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Menlo School]Select from the list of academic subjects on the right-hand side of the screen for more links.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The New York Public Library’s Stereogranimator] The New York Public Library has a collection of more than 40,000 stereographic images, but it took an accidental discovery by NYPL patron Joshua Heineman to find that these stereographs could be made into a modern, internet-friendly form of entertainment—ah yes, the GIF.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|55 Great Websites To Download Free Sound Effects]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The CalArts Jazz CD Archive]is designed to give you easy access to all of the creative music produced at the legendary Capitol Studios by students at CalArts over the past twenty three years.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Finding Dulcinea]has a very comprehensive page on finding and using free sound effects on the Web.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Home Recording and Music Production Search Engine]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Incredibox]Express your musicality! Between creation and entertainment, you can become the conductor of a group of human beatbox.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)] The International Music Score Library Project has an extensive collection of music that can be browsed by computer, timeline, genre, instrumentation or recordings.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Menlo School] Select from the list of academic subjects on the right-hand side of the screen for more links.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Music Treasures Consortium] Provides online access to the world's most valued music manuscripts and print materials, held at the most renowned music archives, in order to further research and scholarship.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The National Jukebox] makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925. Jukebox content will be increased regularly, with additional Victor recordings and acoustically recorded titles made by other Sony-owned U.S. labels, including Columbia, OKeh, and others.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The National Music Museum (NMM) & Center for Study of the History of Musical Instruments], located on the campus of the University of South Dakota, is one of the great institutions of its kind in the world. Its renowned collections, which include more than 15,000 American, European, and non-Western instruments from virtually all cultures and historical periods, are the most inclusive anywhere. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The University of Oregon Libraries [|Historic Sheet Music Collection]is housed in the Douglass Audio & Video Room and consists of over 27,000 pieces of popular sheet music from the 1840s to the 1960s.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Wolfram Tones]uses algorithms, music theory, and sound samples to generate new collections of sounds.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Lortel Archives], also known as (Internet Off-Broadway Database) provides a catalogue of shows produced Off-Broadway, including title page credits, original cast members and replacements, window <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">card photos, awards won, number of performances and much more. In addition, there’s information about Off-Broadway theatre spaces, theatre companies and the people who make Off-Broadway come to life.