Resources By Discipline

If you have a suggestion about links that could be added, email Samuel Lockridge at Samuel.Lockridge@ky.gov.

American Ballet Theatre

Ask any of our dancers how their journey started when they were young. They will tell you it was nurtured, developed and supported. These are the keys to the future generations of dancers and dance aficionados. A seed that is planted. An imagination, captured. One of ABT’s main missions is to ensure that the traditions of dance and movement are sustained and carried on through exposure and celebration, education and training.

American Dance Alliance

The American Dance Alliance website provides quality information concerning dance education as well as a comprehensive links dealing with arts education.

The Literary Traveler

This site explores the human enthusiasms for travel, self-discovery, and literature. Its correspondents wander a different region of the world each season, examining life and writing along the way.

Poetry Daily

A new poem everyday, news, and a poetry archive make this site worth a visit and a bookmark.

Poetry Out Loud

Poetry Out Loud is a National Recitation Contest. Created by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, Poetry Out Loud is administered in partnership with the State Arts Agencies of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U. S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.

Lessons Plans for the Arts and Media

Lesson plans for visual arts, graphic arts, photography, performing arts and broadcast media.

National Endowment for the Arts - Multidisciplinary Works

In addition to traditional presenting programs, this area supports multiple disciplines, combine and/or integrate art forms, explore boundaries between art disciplines, fuse or transcend disciplines, and look to new forms of expression. This includes arts education projects.

Kentucky Music Educators Association

Learn about the major eras of classical music and the lives of classical composers. You can hear RealAudio clips of musical pieces and look up definitions of musical terms in a glossary.

Children's Music Workshop - Online Music Education

Learn about the major eras of classical music and the lives of classical composers. You can hear RealAudio clips of musical pieces and look up definitions of musical terms in a glossary.

Music Teachers National Association

The Music Teachers National Association is committed to furthering the art of music through programs that encourage and support teaching, performance, composition and scholarly research.

The American Alliance for Theatre and Education

The American Alliance for Theatre and Education serves and inspires a growing collective of theatre artists, educators and scholars committed to transforming young people and communities through the theater arts.

Children's Theatre/Creative Drama Website

The Children's Theatre/Creative Drama website contains great children's plays to produce, effective lesson plans for your drama classroom, a bibliography of helpful books, definitions of terms with discussion, proven monologues for young performers, a list of great links, and tons of other helpful stuff. This website is packed with resources for drama teachers in elementary and secondary schools, and for producers of theater for young audiences.

American Society for Aesthetics

The American Society for Aesthetics showcases articles about aesthetics, philosophy of art, art theory and art criticism. It also contains information about aesthetics events worldwide, and links to other aesthetics-related resources on the internet.

ArtSource

ArtSource compiles useful web links to art resources covering art and architecture, art libraries, art journals, artists' projects, electronic exhibitions, events, image collections, related organizations and vendor information.

International Visual Literacy Association

The International Visual Literacy Association is a multidisciplinary forum. You can use the site for exploration, presentation, and discussion of all aspects of visual learning, thinking, communication and expression.

Vision and Art

A tutorial dedicated to teaching how visual information is used in art. The site covers "Interposition," "Relative Size," "Impossible Figures, "Aerial Perspective" and more. This is part of a larger tutorial on sensation and perception.