Arts & Drama Education: PreK-12 : Images, Video, Audio

The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections provides free and open access to digital resources, including images, slides, maps, prints, and posters, that support the teaching and resources needs of the UW Community.

Creative Commons provides images that are free of traditional copyright restrictions.

Educational videos for classrooms broken down by subject and grade level.

Use pre-selected art from a variety of artists to inspire students. Teachers can create closed class groups and students can share stories back and forth.

This database is an illustrated, descriptive index to the Artists' Book Collection, located in the Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Presently, the Artists' Book Collection contains over 800 titles.

The Arts Collection brings together, in digital form, primary and secondary materials relating to the creative arts as broadly defined: visual, literary, musical, and performing.

ARTstor contains approximately 300,000 images in the areas of western and non-western architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, and visual culture. It is comprised of The Image Gallery, a general collection, and a number of specialized collections.

This collection includes digitized primary materials significant to the decorative arts and material culture of Early America including electronic texts and facsimiles, image databases, and Web resources.

InSitu is the online catalog of the Visual Resources Collection, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, emphasizing the digital holdings of the collection. Full access to InSitu is restricted to individuals who are employed by or enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (log-in may be required for remote access). Guest users have unrestricted access to text records and thumbnail images. Help files are available on the search pages.

Networks offers a place for sharing reports of action research, in which teachers at all levels, kindergarten to postgraduate, are reflecting on classroom practice through research ventures. It also provides space for discussion of other ways in which educational practitioners, alone or in collaboration, use inquiry as a tool to learn more about their work with the hope of eventually improving its effectiveness.

This database contains the full text of the original 34 volume Dictionary of Art (1996), with ongoing revisions and updates. The searchable articles cover all aspects of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, graphics, contemporary art forms such as performance and installation, architecture, decorative arts, and photography) from prehistory to the present.

The Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database is an online resource for the study of craft traditions, manufacturing, state and local history, and material culture. This searchable archive brings together examples of furniture, ceramics, textiles, and other 19th and early 20th century material culture artifacts from the collections of museums and historic sites across Wisconsin.