Pupils research various works of art, write essays, and create live performance art pieces in this 2-day Art, History, and/or Language Arts lesson for 7th and 8th grade. The use of a digital camera to capture the "live" performance is...

Students select a person whom they admired and get a picture of that person. Then they go through a lesson on creating and using grids. They learned how to properly use a grid to increase the scale when they create a drawing.

Students research local leaders and create a web page showcasing the leader.

Students examine the life and works of Vincent Van Gogh. They complete a class KWL chart, and watch a PowerPoint presentation about the life of Vincent Van Gogh. Next, they use a digital photo of themselves to create a self-portrait...

In this language arts worksheet, students practice for the TOEFL test by answering 5 questions. Students read the sentence that has one word surrounded by apostrophes. Students choose the word closest in meaning to this word. Students...

This site offers paintings by famous artists with some information about each of them, followed by a language arts lesson. They include the following: Van Gogh (reflexive pronouns), Seurat (-ight), Gauguin (-ou), Chagall (opposites),...

Robert Bateman is Canada's most famous wildlife artist. This is his personal site where you find biographical information and view many of his paintings.

This site contains a concise biography of the famous wildlife artist John James Audubon.

An exhibit from the Smithsonian includes 70 paintings and sculptures by famous American Western artists such as Catlin, Baker, Bierstadt, and Remington.

Studying the life and work of Robert Rauschenberg, we see a reflection of American culture. Click his name to a full biography and timeline.

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Thomas Chambers is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape and portraits. His landscape paintings famously depict the Hudson River...

Extensive information on Giovanni Pisano the famous Italian sculptor including images and a biography. Great for research assignments!

This site has biographies of women who contributed to our culture in many different ways. There are writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers, and others. Some were alive...

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Art Chantry is described here along with information on his contributions to art through through his famous posters.

The home on the web of Great Britain's National Portrait Gallery is a repository of the likenesses of famous British men and women. Portraits stretch back in time into the the sixteenth century and run right up to the present. Includes...

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, George Biddle is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his murals and famous frescos (designed for the Department of Justice Building).

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Robert Birmelin is described here along with information on his contributions to art through with work with realist social scenes and his famous paintings of New York crowd...

Short essay about one of Hilliard's most famous miniatures (Robert Deveraux, second Earl of Essex?) examines the artist's influences, Tudor symbolism, Elizabeth's relationship with the subject of the portrait, and the romantic ideals of...

An interview with Evelyn Cisneros and with the choreographer of a dance, "Lambarena," created especially for her. In it, Cisneros discusses why she started dance, her early training, and the work that went into "Lambarena."

This site contains biographical information of one of America's most famous naturalist painters. The website describes the life of the famous wildlife artist John James Audubon, born in 1785.

This site explains the details of the famous painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware" by German artist Leutze.