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MAKING MEANINGS
(concepts, imagination, process, connections, stimuli)
What is Art? What is an Artist? Artist Books
Collecting Connecting
Process
Affect
Art & Resistance Art with Heart Cultivating wonder Dreams
Environmental, ephemeral & recycled art

Mind Movies & Visualisation

Symbols, Signs,Myths, Metaphor

Something to think about

SELECTED ARTISTS


WHAT IS ART? WHAT IS AN ARTIST?
Driftwood as art by an unseen hand
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20050729friday.html

What is Art? What is an Artist? Great on-line resource from Chris Witcombe at Sweet Briar College
http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/artartists/artartists.html

Great ideas to expand your creativity
http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/reports/6/6.php

Layers of Meaning
http://layersofmeaning.org/wp/?cat=5

Ce'san
http://www.cesan.ca/art_index.php

Pauline O’Brien’s Philosophy
http://www.beacy.wa.edu.au/art/intro.htm

See also Cultivating wonder, Dreams MIndmovies below

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ARTIST JOURNALS / BOOKS

Artist Books using photography (also lots of info on alternative photography)
http://www.alternativephotography.com/articles/art028.html

Birdsong Gallery, commercial site. Lots of inspiration here

http://www.birdsongbookarts.com/art/gallery.html

San Diego Museum of Art (making artists books)
http://www.sdmart.org/education-plans.html


The Journal as Artist's Book An exhibition from a Wintersession Workshop

http://www.wellesley.edu/Library/Wintex/Journal_as_artist's_book.html

Unit on identity using a simple bookmaking idea
http://www.ocma.net/pdfs/Bookmaking.Lesson.pdf

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COLLECTING

Rainbow Challenge Beacy’s art pages
http://www.beacy.wa.edu.au/art/art.htm

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CONNECTING

Community arts net reading room. Includes links to Sockeye site
http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2005/01/ecoartists_enga.php

Dare: Digital Art Resource for Educators
http://www.dareonline.org/

Spirit of Baraka. A non-commercial site with a love of Baraka and other films that explore connection and wonder
http://www.spiritofbaraka.com/

"The Global Collage project aims to empower world-wide artists and audiences. We strongly believe that every person possesses the talent to create art as well as the need to experience it in daily life."
http://www.globalcollage.com/fresh_start/index.html


The Gleaners & I. Agnes Varda's amazing film exploring connections between art, life, gleaning and aging
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/02/23/gleaners.html

Tent that covers the world
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/shamiana/about/index.htm

Take one picture: Collaboration between UK galleries and UK schools, each year for the last 10 years. Brilliant site
http://www.takeonepicture.org/nesw/home.aspx

See also Art & Resistance, Art with Heart, Environmental, ephemeral and recycled art below

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AFFECT

ART & RESISTANCE
Freeway Blogger. Contemporary American site resisting the Iraq war & George Bushes presidency
http://www.freewayblogger.com/index.htm

Picasso's Guernica. Treasures of the World site. Given history/genesis of this famous work

http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/guernica/gmain.html

Kara Walker

http://www.gregkucera.com/walker.htm


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ART WITH HEART

Ceramics Art & Perception: Article on Ken Yonitani's ephemeral ceramics that highlight the destruction of Australian butterfly species
http://www.ceramicart.com.au/articles/fumie_tiles.htm

Emotion art and poetry
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/elem/Colleen-poetry.htm

Lucy Orta. Homepage Studioorta
http://studioorta.free.fr/lucy_orta.html

Downloadable interview
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/visual/stories/s552692.htm

Middle East Peace Quilt
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/quilt/
or http://traubman.igc.org/quilt.htm

Navaho Sand Paintings

http://www.snowwowl.com/naartsandp.html
Some background material on the sandpaintings
http://student.santarosa.edu/~lgrazios/Navajo.html


Project Guggenheim

http://www.projectguggenheim.org/pg/MainPage.htm

Report and images on AIDS Quilt in America 1996 CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/US/9610/12/aids.activism
or http://www.glinn.com/news/quiltwkd.htm


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CULTIVATING WONDER

Middle Street Primary School, Brighton. Exciting site.
http://www.middlestreet.org/cabinet/index.htm

American Visionary Art Museum. Showcases the artwork of untrained artists following their inner vision. Includes some images of Art Cars, as well as a selection of Wunderkammers

http://www.avam.org/

Effects of the Interesting - an interactive web based wunderkammer.The site is still under construction but the links are intriguing

http://www.melonride.com/Wunder/curios.html

The Design space.com. Has links to many things, including a variety of historical wunderkammers

http://thedesignspace.net/art/gallery/wunderkammer

Wunderkammer
. Site for an amazing shop in Melbourne - close to Lygon St & the Museum
http://www.wunderkammer.com.au/index.html

WonderWalker
An Online Wunderkammer. A bit hard to find your way around. Not for the fainthearted
http://209.32.200.23/gallery9/wunderkammer/


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DREAMS

Dreaming of deep water
http://www.uncp.edu/art/steeds/gallery.htm

Jennifer Beaver. Crow Dreams Series - collage
http://members.verizon.net/jbartlet/JenHome.htm

Marja Leena Rathje. Dream passages - collograph
http://www.marja-leena-rathje.info/main.php

Letter from heaven, Waiting for wings
http://www.coloria.net/dig.art/

Fantasy Art Site. An odd mixture - some interesting surrealist and other contemporary artists
http://www.fantasyarts.net/

Patricia Garfields Home Page. A specialist in dreams, dream imagery, universl imagery etc. A must see site.
http://www.patriciagarfield.com/

Zelda Leah Gatuskin - collage
http://www.cinderzelda.com

A dream diary and masklike artworks
http://www.spyrock.com/nadafarm/html/drmobj.html

NYU multiimaging project
http://mrl.nyu.edu/projects/npr/mpr/

Blog and images on various themes including the Temptation of St Anthony
http://www.spamula.net/blog/


Arts ConnectEd site Minnesota Lesson plans on various themes. Inner Worlds a dream based lesson outline with images

http://www.artsconnected.org/artsnetmn/inner/index.html


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ENVIRONMENTAL EPHEMERAL & RECYCLED ART

Community Arts eco-sites
http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2005/01/ecoartists_enga.ph

Commercial Site, includes some beautiful and inspiration work

http://www.bethgalston.com/index.html

Environment Canada youth site http://www.on.ec.gc.ca/community/youth/youth-e.html Includes archived material of primary art in the Great Art for Great Lakes link. Or go direct:
http://www.on.ec.gc.ca/community/great-art/2002/intro-e.html

Green museum(Check out the case studies under toolboxes for educators)
http://www.greenmuseum.org/

Lesson Plans from the Tenderland Education Collaboration
http://www.williamsongallery.net/tenderland/curriculum.html

Linda Gass - Using Textiles in the environment to invoke ancient landscapes and streambeds; landscape quilts, wearable art and more
http://www.lindagass.com/Portfolio.html

Lynne Hull - creating transpecies art and sculpture for wildlife
http://www.eco-art.org/


The Found Footage Festival. Recycling old movies found in op-shops etc. Amazing what out-of-context-footage can do. Wish I'd thought of it
http://www.cine-magic.com/foundfootagefest.html

Trashformations
http://layersofmeaning.org/archives/000234.html

Trashformations East. contemporary art made from recycled materials, includes essays
http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/5aa/5aa196.htm


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MIND MOVIES & VISUALISATION

Audio theatre
http://www.audiotheater.com/home.html

Bancroft Arneson Polar Expedition. Polar explorers who use visualisation to help them achieve their goals. Interesting website.
http://www.yourexpedition.com/bae_archive/pages/ed_site/d_t_d/dtd8.html#

Urban Legend Creatures. Some interesting creative play/drama ideas here. Worth considering how they might be developed further in relation to the visual arts.
http://www.ltta.ca/braingames/pdfs/UrbanLegend.pdf.

Making mind movies. Connects reading, the imagination and making visual art . Links to other sites & lesson plans
http://www.auburn.edu/~murraba/connect/dukerl.html

Opening the Door: teaching students to use visualisation to improve comprehension. Not just about improving reading comprehension, includes arts & general uses of visualisation http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev094.shtml

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PROCESS

Artist exhibition handmade works made from everyday items
http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/05/0119kam.html


A White Mans Dreaming. Article and pic on artist Matej Andraz Vogrincic's installation in the desert near Cooper Pedy.
http://slonews.sta.si/index.php?s=1&id=z

Pollock. One of several films about well known artists released in the last few years. Interesting for its depiction of artistic processes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183659/


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SELECTED ARTISTS

Andy Goldsworthy
http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/artartists/photoandy.html

Unit of work:
Cam Art Science and Technology
http://www.camartech.com.au/mj-andygoldsworthy-unit.shtml

Alexander Calder
http://www.sdmart.org/pix/education/Calder.pdf

Ce´san
http://www.cesan.ca/art_index.php

Tomoko Takahashi
Serpentine gallery Tomoko Takahashi (lesson plan)

http://www.serpentinegallery.org/downloads/Takahashi_teach_notes.pdf

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SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT & DISCUSS

Global Trends in Education
http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/education/iej/articles/v1n3/power/power.pdf

Why Creative Drama? Paper by Joanna Smith Arizona State Uni
http://www.public.asu.edu/~atbrl/about.html

Proposal for Integrating Technology with the Study of Art History by Virginia Kuhn
http://www.uwm.edu/~vkuhn/arhprop.html

Incomplete Manifesto for Growth - Bruce Mau Designer
http://www.brucemaudesign.com/manifesto.html

Irish Anarchist site
http://thisworldisnotforsale.com/


Teachable Moments
http://www.nwrel.org/nwedu/summer_99/article5.html


"Re visioning assessment as a collaborative venture" Paper presented by Anne Wilkes at the AARE Conference 2000: Education Research Towards an Optimistic Future
http://www.aare.edu.au/00pap/wil00005.htm

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Symbols, Signs, Myths, Metaphor

Aboriginal art
http://aboriginalart.com.au/gallery/iconography.html

Césan
http://www.cesan.ca/art_index.php

Islamic geometry calligraphy Ask Asia : Geometry and Islam
http://www.askasia.org/teachers/lessons/plan.php?no=65/

Telling Stories Symbols of a Life
http://www.getty.edu/education/for_teachers/curricula/stories/lesson02.html

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