The Pennsylvania Art Education Association
To promote, support and advance visual arts education within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania through professional development, leadership and service..

Color Matters
The concept of color can be approached from several disciplines: physiology, psychology, philosophy, and art. This web site provides some starting points for an exploration of color.

The Imagination Factory
The Imagination Factory, kids learn to recycle by making art. Find activities, lesson plans and lots of links at this non-polluting site.

ToonaCat's Online Coloring Pages
The ToonaCat.com site features an impressive coloring program where children can shade pictures with their own customized colors.

PBS FunGames for Kids
On its multidisciplinary site, PBS has created printable scenes meant for traditional coloring along with an online coloring book. The site provides numerous links to other popular art sites. Navigation is clear and easy.

Art Teacher on the Net
Provides ideas for art projects for everyone form Scouts to senior citizens. Create abstrationist art, a pointillist painting, or a perfumed sachet. Follow links for African Art and make your own Tanzanian rock paintings.

Sanford's ArtEdventures
Introduces primary grade students to shapes, color theory and other art concepts using games, stories and rhymes. All students are invited to submit their art work to the Student Gallery or to visit the Featured Artists for interviews, biographies, and online galleries.

Educational Web Adventure
Features online art games such as A. Pintura: Art Detective, a 1940's noir-style mystery about art history and art composition; and Inside Art, which has students answering "who, what, where, and how" questions in order to escape from the vortex of Van Gogh painting. For each page, the Teacher Resources include a study worksheet and key.

The Art Studio Chalkboard
Offers a collection of tutorial pages for older students, focusing on the technical fundamentals of drawing and pa9inting. Topics include linear and atmospheric perspective, compositional models, color theory, and techniques for choosing and applying paint. The newest features the Figure-Drawing LAN, dedicated to the fundamentals of drawing the human form.

ArtLex Visual Arts Dictionary
Contains definitions of more than 3,100 terms. Whether you build a scavenger huynt around this site or simply encourage your students to explore the many links to examples, quotations, and related information, you'll find it engages their interest. More than 120 longer articles serve as mini-courses on topics such as tessellations, the many faces of the Madonna, or the chronology of mythological art.

World Wide Arts Resources
The place to look for artists, museums, online exhibitions, and galleries. Several search options make it easy to locate more than 15, 000 artists and their work or to zoom in on hundreds of museum and art centers from around the world. Links to thousands of historic resources provide paths to investigating art's origins and ancestry, while daily news features provide reports on today's art world.

Sesame Street Central
This Children's Television Workshop site has games, stories, coloring pages and activities you can print and more.

KinderArt
Features free online art lesson plans, activities and recipes for K-8 classrooms. Designed by an artist and art instructor especially for parents, teachers, homeschoolers and kids, this site includes a "Little Hands" for preschoolers.