Art Education
Program at Penn State
Art
Education
This program is designed for students already holding a baccalaureate
degree in some field of art other than art education.
http://www.sva.psu.edu/arted/
Professional Associations
Allied Arts Association
Dedicated to perpetuating culture, art, and beauty.
http://www.alliedartsrichland.org
Association of Arts Administration
Educators (AAAE)
A forum for communication among its members. Advocates formal training
and high standards of education for arts administrators.
http://www.artsadministration.org/
Association for Art History
(AAH)
Focuses on the specific interests and concerns of art historians, museum
professionals, critics, and scholars.
http://www.indiana.edu/~aah/
Caucus of Social Theory in Art Education
The organization that produces the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education.
http://explorations.sva.psu.edu/cstae/
College Art Association (CAA)
Issues and concerns that are of interest to those who by vocation or avocation
are concerned about and/or committed to the practice of art, teaching,
and research of and about the visual arts and humanities.
http://www.collegeart.org/
National Art Education Association
(NAEA)
Promotes art education through professional development, service, advancement
of knowledge, and leadership.
http://www.naea-reston.org/
Society of Illustrators
Stimulates interest in the art of illustration, past, present and future.
http://www.societyillustrators.org/
World Artists Association
(WAA)
Promotes art and artists around the world.
http://www.artuk.co.uk/assoc/waa.htm
Selected Reference Sources
Children's Book Illustration and Design
A showcase of contemporary children's book illustration presenting the
award-winning work of more than 80 acclaimed illustrators of children's
picture books.
NC965.C43 1992 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor Paterno
Key Art Terms for Beginners
Defines key terms as they apply to art that novices may find unfamiliar
but which they may encounter regularly in art galleries, museums, and
in books about art.
N34.Y46 1995 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor Paterno
Talking with Artists: Conversations with Victoria Chess, Pat Cummings,
Leo and Diane Dillon, Richard Egielski, Lois Ehlert, Lisa Campbell Ernst,
Tom Feelings, Steven Kellogg, Jerry Pinkney, Amy Schwartz, Lane Smith,
Chris Van Allsburg, and David Wiesner
Fourteen distinguished picture book artists talk about their early art
experiences, answer questions most frequently asked by children, and offer
encouragement to those who would like to become artists.
NC975.T34 1992 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor Paterno
The Very Best of Children's Book Illustration
Information on writing and illustrating children's books and getting them
published.
NC975.V45 1993 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor Paterno
Wings of an Artist: Children's Book Illustrators Talk about Their
Art
More than twenty illustrators of children's books, including James Ransome,
Robert Sabuda, Maira Kalman, and Maurice Sendak, talk about art, their
work, and the muse that inspires their writings.
NC965.W56 1999 Q Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor Paterno
Writing and Illustrating Children's Books for Publication : Two Perspectives
Issues involved in writing and illustrating for children and on the realities
of the publishing marketplace.
PN147.5.A48 1995 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor Paterno
Indexes and Abstracts
Art
Abstracts
Indexes journal articles in the visual arts disciplines, such as painting,
sculpture, graphic arts, photography, decorative arts, crafts and related
disciplines in recent visual arts magazines, roughly 1984 to present.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#ARTABSTRACTS
ARTbibliographies
Modern
Provides indexing and abstracts of journal articles, exhibition, reviews,
and selected books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition
reviews.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/scripts/linklias.exe?where=Go+There&what=ARTBIB
Art
Index Retrospective
Indexes older articles from visual arts magazines published between 1929
and 1984.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#ARTINDEX
Arts
and Humanities Citation Index
Covers arts and humanities journals and provides users with the ability
to track known citations in the literature from 1986 - present.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/scripts/linklias.exe?where=Go+There&what=ARTHUMINDEX
Bibliography of the
History of Art
Bibliography of the History of Art is the most comprehensive art bibliography
worldwide, covering European and American art from late antiquity to the
present. This database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference
proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles
from over 4,300 periodicals. Citations encompass fine arts - painting,
sculpture, drawings, prings, architecture - , decorative and applied arts
- crafts, graphic arts, fold and popular art. It is the product of collaboration
between the Getty Research Institute of the J. Paul Getty Trust and the
French Institut de I'Information Scientifique et Technique de Centre National
de la Rechersche Scientifique. Bibliography of the History of Art includes
and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: Repertoire
d'Art et d'Archeologie (RAA) from 1973 to 1989 and International Repertory
of the Literature of Art (RILA) from 1975 to 1989. Updated quarterly.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#BHA
The Dictionary
of Art
The Dictionary of Art is the world's foremost encyclopedia of the history
of the visual arts in all media: architecture, ceramics, decorative arts,
design, drawing, sculpture, and others. All cultures from prehistory to
the 1990s are included. 41,000 articles on people, places, civilizations,
religions, media, and other specific topics were initially written by
recognized scholars for the 1996 paper publication. These are updated
continuously and illustrated with drawings and diagrams and links to web
sites with color pictures
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#DICTIONARYART
Education
Abstracts Full Text (Wilson)
Education Abstracts Full Text (Wilson) covers over 625 periodicals, with indexing
from 1983, and full text for many since 1994.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#ERLEDUCABS
ERIC
-- Educational Resources Information Center
ERIC, (Education Resources Information Center),
is a premier database of journal and non-journal education literature, with
more than 1.1 million citations since 1966. Sponsored by the Institute of
Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Dept. of Education.
ERIC covers two types of literature:
Journals [over 1000 scholarly, professional
and practitioner journals]
ERIC Documents [non-journal literature, such
as conference papers, standards reports, etc. Not peer-reviewed].
The recommended ERIC search interface for PSU users is Cambridge Scientific
Abstracts.
What Works Clearinghouse
Created in 2002, the goal of the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) is to identify
findings of scientific evidence. The WWC collects, screens, and identifies
studies of the effectiveness of educational interventions (programs, products,
practices, and policies); reviews studies that have the strongest design;
and reports on the strengths and weaknesses of those studies against the WWC
Evidence Standards. Study
reports [ratings of individual studies and designs for reliability];
intervention reports [findings that meet WWC Evidence Standards for a
particular intervention]; topic
reports [description of topic and each intervention that the WWC reviewed]
http://www.w-w-c.org/
Professional
Development Collection
Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators and
librarians, provides a highly specialized collection of over 515 full text
journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles, with full text dating
as far back as 1965. . It also provides full text for 167 education pamphlets,
a searchable images database, and will soon contain full text for scholarly
monographs. A title list can be seen at http://www.epnet.com/titlelists/pdf/tf.pdf
.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#PROFDEV
State Education Journal Index and Educators' Guide to
Periodicals Research Strategies
Focuses on periodicals not indexed in other popular indexes.
Z5813.S68 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib
5th Floor Paterno
Selected Journals
American Art
Focuses on fine arts but encompasses all aspects of the nation's visual heritage
from colonial to contemporary times.
N6505.S6501 Pattee West Wing - 3rd Floor
The American Art Journal
The foremost journal on American art publishes outstanding articles on American
painting, sculpture, decorative arts, photography, architecture, and cultural
history.
N1.A26 Pattee West Wing - 3rd Floor
Journal
of Art & Design Education
Serves as the primary source for independently refereed articles about art
and design education at all levels. The
N81.J6 Pattee West Wing - 3rd Floor
Journal of Contemporary Art
Devoted exclusively to art projects and interviews with contemporary artists.
N1.J63 Pattee West Wing - 3rd Floor
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
Promotes the use of theoretical concepts from the social sciences to study
visual culture and the teaching of art.
N81.J60 Pattee West Wing - 3rd Floor
http://explorations.sva.psu.edu/cstae/journal/journal.html
PAJ : A Journal of Performance and Art
Offers extended coverage of the visual arts in addition to reviews of new
works in theatre, dance, film, and opera.
PN1561.P47 Pattee - Stacks
Resources for Art Education
Arts Resources
A blend of teaching methods, arts games, information, and links to several
categories of arts-related sites.
http://www.educationindex.com/art/
AskART.com
The world's most comprehensive database about North American artists
http://www.askart.com/
Electronic
Exhibitions
Electronic exhibitions from around the globe.
http://www.ilpi.com/artsource/exhibitions.html
The Independent
School Entrance Examination (ISEE) Practice Test Prep Review
This is a site that provides information and free online practice tests to
assist ISEE test takers. http://www.testprepreview.com
National
Standards for Arts Education
Outlines basic arts learning outcomes integral to the comprehensive K-12 education.
http://www.education-world.com/standards/national/arts/index.shtml