Learning Through Art encourages teachers and teaching artists to design art projects that support student learning across the curriculum. Recent research shows that this combination of activities helps students build important critical-thinking, art, and literacy skills.

This website provides two sets of tools for the classroom. The first explores how to facilitate class discussions around works of art, an approach we call "Inquiry with Art." The second is a database of selected Learning Through Art projects, or "Art Explorations," with links to additional related resources. Used individually or together, these resources can support teachers in creating an environment in which students are challenged to think, learn, and communicate.

eduweb's role: Information architecture, visual design, programming, and production.

Artists use visual elements and principles like line, color and shape as tools to build works of art. Learn about these concepts in a variety of ways. Explore the Toolkit with animations and interactive modules. See Artists in Action as they create compositions using the visual elements and principles. Delve into the heavily illustrated Encyclopedia to learn more about the elements and principles.

eduweb's role: Concept development, site organization and visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

Myths are stories that explain why the world is the way it is. Throughout history, artists have been inspired by myths and legends and have given them visual form. Explore myths and legends from around the world with these great works of art and in-depth interpretation and interactive features. (Middle and high school teachers and students)

eduweb's role: Site organization and interface design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

In Native American thought there is no distinction between what is beautiful or functional, and what is sacred or secular. For many native peoples, beauty arises from living in harmony with the order of the universe. This Web site is based on a slide curriculum but adds many contextual images to aid understanding, and lets users zoom in closely on each artwork.

eduweb's role: Site organization, visual design, image research, illustration, programming, and production.

eduweb and NMWA staff were eager to tackle another project after our first collaboration, Art Tales, won the "Best of the Web: Educational Use" award at Museums & the Web 2001. The topic now was art elements and principles—a fundamental of art education. Museum staff wanted to focus on Carl Rungius, one of America's finest wildlife artists and a mainstay of the museum's collection. We developed an activity which, like Art Tales, is open-ended and involves creativity and personal meaning-making. A Brush with Wildlife complements Art Tales by focusing on visual rather than language creativity. Users learn how to use art principles like balance, contrast, movement, and proportion to compose a powerful art composition. They can create their own composition and submit it to the Critique Gallery for review.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, animation, programming, and production.

With this project, we wanted to offer users an opportunity for thoughtful creativity using artworks from the museum's wonderful collection to tell a story. To foster motivation and an imaginative approach among users, we added a role play element—users choose to be a frontier explorer, field guide writer, or museum curator and then work with artworks to create something meaningful and original.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, programming, and production.

eduweb collaborated with Allentown museum staff on this multi-faceted Web site that explores Renaissance visual arts and innovations and their role in the making of the modern world. Applying research into learning styles and user engagement, we developed a suite of online activities and resources for middle school students and teachers: Explore a timeline of Renaissance art and innovation, commission an artwork as a patron of the arts, design your own innovation, and much more, all enhanced with quirky visuals, irreverent humor, and engaging interactivity that reveal the ways that Renaissance life and culture resemble our own.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, production, and user testing.

This online complement to a traveling exhibition mixes art, science, and technology for a multi-faceted exploration of dinosaurs, biology, and kinetic sculpture.

eduweb's role: Content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

Frank Gehry's amazing architectural designs have become world famous. This site explores a key building in his portfolio—the Weisman Art Museum. Explore the building inside and out. Learn about the design process and other remarkable buildings designed by Gehry.

Pintura was one of our first projects but remains very popular for its film noir approach to art history. Step into Pintura's shoes and try to solve the Case of Grandpa's Painting.

What if you were trapped inside a painting and had to solve a mystery to get out? This site developed in-house during eduweb's early days explores a painting from the inside out.