Instructional Video4:04
Amor Sciendi

This Painting is About Democracy

12th - Higher Ed
Landscape paintings were HUGE in the early 19th century, and the reason? Well, it's complicated.
Instructional Video2:28
Sotheby's

Tom Wesselmann’s Icon of American Pop Painting

9th - 11th
Tom Wesselmann’s monumental Long Delayed Nude is an iconic pop American painting. In this episode of Anatomy of an Artwork, discover how Wesselmann crafts an intimate, almost filmic erotic scene that combines a ‘pop’ and ‘classical’...
Instructional Video5:34
The Met

Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui - Part 3 of 3

6th - 11th
Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717) September 9, 2008 - January 4, 2009 Galleries for Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 2nd floor, north wing Curator Maxwell Hearn presents an overview of the masterpieces...
Instructional Video6:53
The Met

Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui - Part 2 of 3

6th - 11th
Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717) September 9, 2008 - January 4, 2009 Galleries for Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 2nd floor, north wing Curator Maxwell Hearn presents an overview of the masterpieces...
Instructional Video10:14
The Met

Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui - Part 1 of 3

6th - 11th
Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717) September 9, 2008 - January 4, 2009 Galleries for Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 2nd floor, north wing Curator Maxwell Hearn presents an overview of the masterpieces...
Instructional Video4:39
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How to see more and care less: The art of Georgia O'Keeffe | Iseult Gillespie

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Feeling disconnected from creating art within classical conventions, artist Georgia O'Keeffe began experimenting with abstract drawings that defied easy classification. Using the shapes and rhythms of nature to capture her internal...
Instructional Video15:30
Curated Video

Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson: Great Art Explained

9th - Higher Ed
You could say Land art existed thousands of years even before oil painting, but it would take a group of American artists to bring it back to the public gaze in the 1960s and 70s. Artists like Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, and Nancy...
Podcast4:41
KERA

Ida O’Keeffe Escapes Her Sister’s Shadow

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Artist Georgia O’Keeffe is famous for her paintings of flowers and southwestern desert landscapes. Few know, however, that her sister Ida O’Keeffe was also an artist. Ida’s work is being exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Art. Listen to...
Instructional Video5:11
Tate

Catherine Opie – Photography, Painting and Portraiture | TateShots

K - 11th
American photographer Catherine Opie is best known for her documentation of American life. She rose to prominence in the mid-1990s with portraits capturing the West Coast leather community. Here, the artist visits Tate Britain to discuss...
Instructional Video6:06
Curated Video

American Purgatory

9th - 11th
Marc Trujillo paints members-only wholesale clubs, discount retailers and fast-food eateries that dominate the country's urban landscape. Read more about Marc Trujillo'http://bit.ly/1BQzeKf' tnewsletterank' rel='nofollow'>Trujillhere>...
Instructional Video6:20
NPR

Meet Al Black: Former Florida Prison Painter

6th - 11th
Al Black is one of 26 artists known as The Highwaymen that were inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 2004. But it was decades ago that, if you traveled by way of Florida's Route 1, you might have encountered them selling...
Instructional Video4:21
Tate

Ed Ruscha – The Tension of Words and Images | TateShots

K - 11th
Ed Ruscha began his career as a layout artist at a Los Angeles advertising agency in the late 1950s. He has continued to draw on this background, producing works that demonstrate an ongoing interest in typography, signage and the West...
Instructional Video3:56
Brainwaves Video Anthology

David Cappella - 'The Sledgehammer'

Higher Ed
A poet and teacher, David Cappella is a professor emeritus in the English department at Central Connecticut State University. He is the co-author with Baron Wormser of The Moves and of A Surge of Language: Teaching Poetry Day to Day....
Instructional Video2:37
Brainwaves Video Anthology

David Cappella - 'The Clothespin'

Higher Ed
A poet and teacher, David Cappella is a professor emeritus in the English department at Central Connecticut State University. He is the co-author with Baron Wormser of The Moves and of A Surge of Language: Teaching Poetry Day to Day....
Instructional Video2:12
Brainwaves Video Anthology

David Cappella - 'To Himself'

Higher Ed
A poet and teacher, David Cappella is a professor emeritus in the English department at Central Connecticut State University. He is the co-author with Baron Wormser of The Moves and of A Surge of Language: Teaching Poetry Day to Day....
Instructional Video1:20
Brainwaves Video Anthology

David Cappella - Teachers Make a Difference - The Physical Therapist

Higher Ed
A poet and teacher, David Cappella is a professor emeritus in the English department at Central Connecticut State University. He is the co-author with Baron Wormser of The Moves and of A Surge of Language: Teaching Poetry Day to Day....
Instructional Video13:51
VOA Learning English

Paul Bunyan, an American Folk Tale

3rd - 8th Standards
Paul Bunyan was a big guy—but not as big as his story has grown to be! Young readers listen and read along to the enjoyable story of Paul Bunyan, his big blue ox Babe, and the amazing imprint they left along the American landscape.
Instructional Video2:19
PBS

The Civil Rights Landscape Today for People of Color

9th - 12th
Do all American children have the same chance of getting on the "school-to-career path" or the "school to prison pipeline"? The narrator of a short video discusses the role racial and economic inequalities play in lives of people of color.
Instructional Video15:46
Geography Now

Geography Now! Nicaragua

8th - 12th Standards
The volcano is perhaps the best symbol for the country of Nicaragua. It's beautiful, but a bit unstable. A video resource profiles the Central American nation, which is the second poorest in the Western Hemisphere. Highlights include...
Instructional Video9:22
Geography Now

Geography Now! El Salvador!

8th - Higher Ed Standards
El Salvador's culture and politics may mimic its landscape—tough and beautiful. With every major city near a volcano and the legacy of a violent civil war, El Salvador grapples with its past. A video resource explores the Central...
Instructional Video2:36
MinuteEarth

The Great North American Locust Plague

6th - 12th Standards
The largest locust swarm recorded in North America measured 110 miles wide and 1,800 miles long, making it roughly twice the size of Colorado. A video begins with what locusts are and where they came from then explains the damage they...
Instructional Video8:07
Geography Now

Geography Now! Czech Republic (Czechia)

8th - Higher Ed Standards
The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is Europe's bridge between east and west. Known for its castles and mountains, the Czech people also take beer and mushrooms seriously. A video resources describes the European country that is...
Interactive46:12
American Museum of Natural History

Field Trip Mars

6th - 12th
Fly around the Martian surface. Pupils view a presentation on the planet Mars featuring a flyover that shows different views of the surface where rovers have landed and explored on different missions. As individuals watch the images, the...
Instructional Video14:11
Crash Course

The Market Revolution

9th - 12th Standards
Discover what John Green describes as "one of the least studied but most interesting periods in American history: the Market Revolution." The video details the nation's shift from the Jeffersonian ideal of Americans producing for...