Students explore an ancient artistic technique know as glass fusing or slumping. Using random arrangements of items, students decorate glass sheets. Next, students follow instructions for fusing the glass and placing it in a kiln.

Pupils study the use of texture, and rhythm as a principle of design when showing movement in a painting.

Students create a quilt-like fabric swatches using Crayograph crayons, emery paper and rubbing plates.

Students become immersed in a compelling anecdote of the civil rights movement through the experience of constructing dramatic scripts. An added goal is to equip students, through this "hands-on" experience, to critique dramatic...

Students analyze why the Colonial Revival came as a response to cultural changes caused by technological development, industrial growth, and changing populations in Deerfield and the Connecticut River Valley.

Students analyze the purpose of a social entrepreneur. In this entrepreneurship instructional activity, students create a "help wanted" advertisement and graphic organizer to provide information on how a social entrepreneur seeks...

Resource for an anthology of writings from William Morris and other artist founders of the arts and crafts movement along with a history of this movement with emphasis on the American segment.

Artcyclopedia gives a brief history of the Arts and Crafts Movement, focusing on William Morris and artists working for the William Morris Company.

Learn about the Arts and Crafts movement and the artists involved. There are images on the page and links to artists as well. Site by ArtLex, providing an online art dictionary.

From the Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, this is a vast digitized archive of architectural records and papers from the influential Greene & Greene architects of southern California. Active in...

Byrdcliffe was an artist colony founded in 1902-03 in New York. This exhibition from the Johnson Museum of Art is the first traveling exhibition of Byrdcliffe and it features art objects, historical materials, architecture, music, and...

Image gallery of utilitarian and decorative objects in the style of the arts and crafts and art deco movements, including pieces designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, William Morris, and Louis Sullivan.

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts provides a fun and interesting site to explore! Click on a time period to view examples and descriptions of various pieces of art from the modernism period. To see a larger image and more information of...

In this sixth unit of a course on Art Appreciation, students learn about the history of architecture, including ancient Greek and Roman works. They will learn about Frank Lloyd Wright and about Islamic architecture. They will also look...

This collection contains artifacts of North American and European origin from 1885 - 1945. Includes sections of: British Arts & Crafts Movement, Dutch & Italian Art Movement, American Industrial Design, World's Fairs & Expos,...

This site from The Victorian Web provides a wide variety of excellent resources related to Victorian artist William Morris, including a biography, social and political history, and information about his visual arts, themes, literary...

The biography of the American Art movement Folk art. Use this site out for more information, artist links and images.

Elbert Hubbard-founded home of a key community in the Arts and crafts movement.

This church is a masterpiece of the Arts and Crafts movement with an interior by Howard Van Doren Shaw.

A studio of Wharton Esherick who participated in Arts and Crafts Movement.

A farm and school for the Arts and Crafts movement, founded by Gustav Stickley.

Collaboration by Sydney Richmond Burleigh and Edmund Willson is a key early work by American Arts and Crafts Movement.

Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, and Jose Clemente Orozco-known as Los tres grandes-cultivated an artistic style that defined Mexican identity following the Revolution. They crafted epic murals on the walls of highly visible, public buildings...