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Instructional Video5:30
TED-Ed

TED-ED: Is there a difference between art and craft? - Laura Morelli

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Was da Vinci an artistic genius? Sure, but he was also born in the right place at the right time -- pre-Renaissance, Western artists got little individual credit for their work. And in many non-Western cultures, traditional forms have...
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Instructional Video5:17
The Art Assignment

Art Trip: Twin Cities | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

9th - 12th
In which we explore a few of Minnesota's many fantastic art offerings. Let's take a trip through the Twin Cities! Featuring the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Soo Visual Art Center, Soap Factory, Law...
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Instructional Video3:25
SciShow

Cymatics: Turning Sound into Art

12th - Higher Ed
Sound waves vibrate more than just our eardrums, they can also make visual art!
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Instructional Video7:01
Atomi

HSC Visual Arts - The Renaissance

9th - 11th
In this HSC Visual Arts video, we take you through the Renaissance movement starting with its origins then moving on to its characteristics and finishing with some of the big names of the movement. To watch more videos, head to our...
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Instructional Video5:03
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Making a TED-Ed Lesson: Visualizing complex ideas

Pre-K - Higher Ed
How can animation convey complex, intangible concepts? A visual metaphor, or an idea represented through imagery, can take an idea as massive as Big Data and tie it to the familiar depiction of a growing tree. TED-Ed animators explain...
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Instructional Video4:49
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How art can help you analyze - Amy E. Herman

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Can art save lives? Not exactly, but our most prized professionals (doctors, nurses, police officers) can learn real world skills through art analysis. Studying art like Rene Magritte's Time Transfixed can enhance communication and...
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Instructional Video4:22
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Who decides what art means? - Hayley Levitt

Pre-K - Higher Ed
There is a question that has been tossed around by philosophers and art critics for decades: how much should an artist's intention affect your interpretation of the work? Do the artist’s plans and motivations affect its meaning? Or is it...
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Instructional Video3:07
TED-Ed

TED-ED: Distorting Madonna in Medieval art - James Earle

Pre-K - Higher Ed
After Rome was destroyed, people were wary of attachment to physical beauty. As Christianity gained traction, Romans instead began to focus on the metaphysical beauty of virtue, and art began to follow suit. James Earle discusses how...
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Instructional Video15:00
TED Talks

TED: every piece of art you've ever wanted to see -- up close and searchable | Amit Sood

12th - Higher Ed
What does a cultural Big Bang look like? For Amit Sood, director of Google's Cultural Institute and Art Project, it's an online platform where anyone can explore the world's greatest collections of art and artifacts in vivid, lifelike...
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Instructional Video4:28
Great Big Story

Giving Artists With Disabilities a Space to Thrive

12th - Higher Ed
New ReviewStep into the world of Creative Growth Art Center, where art becomes the universal language bridging the gap between ability and disability. Discover the transformative power of creativity as artists with disabilities express their...
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Instructional Video15:09
Curated Video

Judith Slaying Holofernes, Artemisia Gentileschi: Great Art Explained

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Women were excluded from almost all cultural and social resources in the centuries from 1400 to 1900 when so much of the world's great art was created. And visual art was almost entirely a male industry before modern times. Having an...
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Instructional Video5:52
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Ellen Winner - The Psychology of the Arts

Higher Ed
Ellen Winner is Professor and Chair of Psychology at Boston College, and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. She directs the Arts and Mind Lab, which focuses on cognition in the arts in...
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Instructional Video6:20
The Art Assignment

Create an embarrassing object. | Geof Oppenheimer | The Art Assignment

9th - 12th
This assignment comes to you from Chicago based artist Geof Oppenheimer. Geof's work reflects personal experience and the social and political atmosphere they were created in, and he wants you to make an object that does the same. John...
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Instructional Video8:41
The Art Assignment

Be a news photographer. | Alec Soth | The Art Assignment

9th - 12th
Order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes this + new assignments!): http://bit.ly/2kplj2h Alec Soth is a photographer who works on large-scale projects that play with the boundaries between his roles as a fine art photographer and...
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Instructional Video7:52
The Art Assignment

Use creativity to transform a discarded object. | Brandan Odums | The Art Assignment

9th - 12th
The Art Assignment continues its journey through New Orleans with Brandan "BMike" Odums, the mastermind behind "ExhibitBE", a collaborative street art exhibition that transformed an unoccupied apartment building and gave it new life. Now...
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Instructional Video2:30
The Art Assignment

What is Mildred's Lane? | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

9th - 12th
We continue our stay at Mildred's Lane and talk to it's Director and Ambassador of Entanglement J. Morgan Puett about it's origins, it's goals and how her installation art practice influences her vision for the site.
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Instructional Video6:28
The Art Assignment

Photo a Friend Highlights | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

9th - 12th
Happy Participant Appreciation Month!! We're taking the next 4 weeks to show off all the hard work you've put into making responses for The Art Assignment, and recognize the many ways in which you support and contribute to this community...
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Instructional Video16:34
Curated Video

Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Untitled (Skull)': Great Art Explained

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat would produce this painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and mark-making in a raw and uncensored explosion. In a single painting, he would...
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Instructional Video6:20
The Art Assignment

Air Guitar: Book Club # 1 | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

9th - 12th
This week we kick off The Art Assignment Book Club with Dave Hickey's "Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy." We discuss everything from John geeking out in a library to Michael Jackson's chimpanzee - Bubbles. Oh, and we discuss the...
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Instructional Video7:42
The Art Assignment

Five Favorite Works of Art with Jon Cozart | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

9th - 12th
Jon Cozart talks to us about classical music, internet videos, Lord of the Rings, and of course, musicals. Here are Jon's five favorite works of art: 1) Spring Awakening 2) Mozart's Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 3) The Lord of the Rings:...
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Instructional Video4:01
Curated Video

Connecting Through Art at the Border

Pre-K - Higher Ed
An interactive art installation with giant lights and booming loudspeakers is helping people communicate across the U.S.-Mexico border. Visitors to the exhibit on both sides of the border are invited to send searchlights into the sky and...
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Instructional Video5:44
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Mercer Hall - Graphicacy Taking Control of the Visual Classroom

Higher Ed
Mercer Hall has been teaching for over sixteen years at an independent school on Long Island, New York. He is a five-time honoree as Teacher Of The Year, and he has been awarded both the Thomas J. Reid Excellence In Teaching Award and...
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Instructional Video3:10
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Instructional Video3:24
Curated Video

Volcanic matter consumes all in its path | Kongkreto by Lucy Raven | Visual Art | Random Acts

9th - 11th
A short horror film in which a lahar, a violent molten pyroclastic flow also known as “wet concrete”, slowly consumes everything in its path, including the television screen. Lucy Raven is an artist living and working in New York. Recent...

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