Art and Music
Creative and Performing Arts Center
Julie Chilton, music and drama teacher, offers a collection of original activities, a poetry page, and a place for kids to publish and share their own arts resources.
Crossing the Threshold
University of Albany's University Art Museum hosts this exhibit (online and offline) highlighting thirty-two women artists of the 20th Century. The online exhibit includes bios for each artists and examples of her work.
Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students (CARTS)
CARTS, sponsored by City Lore and the National Task Force on Folk Arts and Education, aims to strengthen relationships between schools and communities through the sharing of cultural arts ideas and resources. The site includes a list of related Web sites, a discussion area, and descriptions of model cultural arts programs.
The Drama Teacher's Resource Room Lesson Plans
This growing collection of lesson plans serves to add progressive and dynamic dimensions to drama education. Find a lesson for your class or share one of your lesson plans with other site visitors.
Kinder ART: Multicultural Art
This page represents just one section of an enormous collection of art ideas for K-12 schools. Most of the activities listed focus on specific countries.
Melissa's Myriad Art Education
Melissa, an artist and art teacher, uses this Web site to share a variety of resources and lesson plans. Many of the lesson plans she includes are based on multicultural themes.
Multicultural Approaches to Art Learning
This ArtsEdNet site describes strategies for creating and implementing effective multicultural arts curricula. Special attention is given to factors that must be considered in the planning stages of multicultural curriculum transformation in the art classroom.
Multicultural Crafts
Sherri Osborn, the Family Crafts expert for About.com has collected this set of craft patterns and projects from around the world.
Multicultural Song Index
A collaborative project by teachers, students, and others around the world, the Multicultural Song Index encourages educators to use popular music to introduce classroom discussions on prejudice and discrimination. The index contains references and sample lyrics to hundreds of songs that touch on subjects such as racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, and ageism.
Music Heritage Network (MHN)
MHN is a virtual community of educators, musicians, and students working together to provide online music-related multicultural curriculum resources. Current features include “Virtual Tours” that introduce users to specific cultures through photographs, text, and music.
SUAVE Online
Socios Unidos para Artes Via Educación takes a multicultural approach to helping teachers integrate (or reintegrate) the arts into the classroom. The site includes curriculum ideas, articles, and related discussion opportunities.
Women Artists in History
Wendy Russ and Carrie Carolin bring you this collection of links and resources highlighting women artists. Resources are divided into centuries and eras.