Visual+and+Performing+Arts

Don't miss the Digital Storytelling page!! The new performing arts!!

[|Americans for the Arts]
 * [|Artists Build Cultural Bridges] "An ensemble of musicians separated by oceans and thousands of miles will perform together later this month for the first time, having composed music layer-by-layer with sound files exchanged over the Internet. Their goal: Show how the arts can bridge diverse cultures — even among people who have never met in person before coming together on stage. Musicians from Afghanistan, Iran, Ethiopia, Morocco will accompany American Jewish and Moroccan Muslim singers." From USA Today

[|Art Education 2.0]

[|ArtsEdge] Tons of resources on integrating the arts throughout learning. Interdisciplinary lessons available.

[|Arts Education Touted as Key to U. S. Innovation Agenda] From Education Week 01-30-08

[|Digital Campfire Tales] From Wired. "Atchley foresees technology as becoming ubiquitous in art. 'In the coming years, I expect that we'll lose the term 'digital' when [talking] about artists using computers.' For now, he notes, 'it's just a new way to tell old stories.'"

[|Flashpoint Academy Chicago School for Film, Game Design, Recording Arts, and Visual Effects]

[|The Phantom of the Optical: An Online Illustration Trove] "BibliOdyssey gives entrée to a gorgeous and idiosyncratic gallery of rare art."