Web Sites for Students

Links to careers in art, copyright basics, and student interactive activities.

Arts Career Guide
Explore careers in Art with links to job descriptions, which include information such as daily activities, skill requirements, salary and training required.  To learn more about Arts, follow the related links to the career descriptions section.

Careers in Art 
From the Incredible Art Department, extensive information on careers in art. Includes topics advertising art, animation/cartooning, desktop publishing, graphic design, illustration, search for art jobs, special effects, and web design.

College Board AP Central
The Advanced Placement Program® is a cooperative educational endeavor between secondary schools and colleges and universities. The Program has provided motivated high school students with the opportunity to take college-level courses in a high school setting. Students who participate in the Program not only gain college-level skills, but in many cases they also earn college credit while they are still in high school. AP courses are taught by dedicated and enthusiastic high school teachers who follow course guidelines developed and published by the College Board.

Don't Buy It: Get Media Smart...
PBS Kids just launched a media/consumer literacy site for 9-12-year-olds. "Don't Buy It: Get Media Smart" uses games, parodies of ads and humor to "sell" kids on questioning advertising, evaluating media and becoming smart consumers.

First Gov for Kids
Includes a myriad of mostly government sites  designed for pupils with activities, history, games in art, and interactive online art. Contains nearly 50 educational, organization, government, and commercial sites.

It's My Life ...
Funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The site features games, in-depth articles, discussion questions for kids and parents, as well as some curriculum resources regarding the following topics: Friends: Bullies, Nicknames, When Friends Fight; Family: Birth Order, Divorce, How to be Safe Home Alone; School: Middle School, I think my Teacher Hates Me, Embarrassing Moments; Body: Eating Disorders, Smoking; and Emotions: Dealing with Life Post 9-11, Dreams.

The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Summer Seminar for High School Juniors
The seminar is a scholarship program (full tuition, room and board and all seminar related expenses, excluding transportation), available nationally to artistically gifted high school juniors (2005-06) in public and private schools. The Summer Seminar, held on the campus of The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado, is designed as an art institute offering an intensive visual art studio program for the students. Three, two-week seminars will be held this summer.

This two-week program allows each student to gain a stronger foundation of skills and understanding in the visual arts through experiencing college-level drawing and painting classes in a group setting. Artists-in-residence serve as the primary instructors. The artists will provide instruction, giving specific problems to solve and assignments to complete.

National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA)
NFAA seeks out artistically accomplished young people throughout the United States and give them national recognition through cash awards and scholarships. They encourage artistic growth and career development through workshops, public performances and exhibitions, internships, underwriting of creative projects and residency fellowships. These fellowships include stipends from Fellowships in the Visual Arts.

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
The largest, longest-running, and most prestigious recognition programs for creative young people in the United States. Each year, 250,000 students in grades 7 through 12 participate through regional programs and 50,000 students receive regional awards and exhibition opportunities. More than 30,000 entries qualify for national adjudication, and 1,100 young artists and writers across the country receive national awards. The Gold Portfolio Award recipients receive $10,000 scholarships, representing the highest level of achievement in The Awards.

SOS4Kids
This site includes facts and fun interactive activities for kids related to outdoor sculpture and monuments.

Whose Art is it Anyways? Copyright and Appropriation.
Some artists cut-and-paste, some take images from other artists and alter or use fractions of them in their own work, and some just borrow ideas.Sherrie Levine is a contemporary artist who has established herself by using forms of appropriation.Students decide the fate of Sherri Levine. Site created by Craig Roland. Many artist who appropriated images are listed. Has list of copyright links.