The Home School Herald

Art Classes

Miss Julie's Art School |

These are art classes that I teach at my home in La Quinta. We cover an artist or art period each week and complete a corresponding project. All materials included. $10 per one hour class.

Monart-Cathedral City

This is an official Monart School. You can find out more about Monart and it's creator by reading Drawing with Children by Mona Brooks. This is an excellent school.

Art Expressions
art lessons for kids and grown up in Palm Desert. $100 for four one hour classes. Ceramics, pottery and glass making classes available.

The Desert Museum 

The Palm Springs Art Museum has lots of fun stuff, even a family art night once a month. They have very reasonable art instruction lessons for kids beginning in first grade. Admission to the museum is free on Thursday nights during Palm Springs Village Fest from 5 to 8pm.  The museum has acquired lots of significant pieces from Matisse to Picasso. It is worth checking out again and again.

 Picasso Home Art School

This is something I found online. I do not know the areas it covers, but it is worth checking out. 

Online interactive websites for art

National Gallery of Art | NGAkids home page

NGAkids helps children develop interpretive and analytical skills through interactive discussions of paintings and sculpture in the National Gallery of Art, educational explorations, online interactive activities, and interactive art-making projects.

A. Pintura: Art Detective

 As A. Pintura, a 1940's-style detective with a  degree in art history, you must identify the artist of a mystery painting.

The Artist's Toolkit | Minneapolis Institute of Arts

 This is a great site that will take you through all the elements of art from line, color, texture, shadow, perspective and more. Good for art illiterate grown ups too!

A Lifetime of Color - Play

Guggenheim: Learning Through Art

Learning Through Art, an artists-in-the-schools program of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, encourages teachers and teaching artists to design art projects that support student learning across the curriculum. Our program focuses on both looking at art and hands-on art making.  Recent research shows that this combination of activities helps students build important critical thinking and literacy skills.

JacksonPollock.org

This link will immediately take you to a program where you can make your own drippy and messy Jackson Pollack painting!

Inside Art: An Art History Game

An exploration of art history, elements and principles

Isaiah53 with accompanying art from the great masters

K-6 Elementary Art Lessons - The Art Kids

7-12 Elementary Art Lessons - The Art Kids

The Art Kid's Teacher Stuff

Famous Paintings Art Appreciation Lessons for Kids

ExploreArt

Artsonia Kids Art Museum — The Largest Student Art Gallery on the Web!

 Elementary Art Exploration

The Crafty Crow

kidmade

artinhand.org

Launch Pad: Where Young Authors and Illustrators Take Off!

Kids Craft Weekly

 

 

Other Art Resources

La Quinta Arts Foundation Welcomes You

La Quinta Arts Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in La Quinta, California (greater Palm Springs area) dedicated to our 22-year mission of “Promoting and Cultivating the Arts through Education” to residents and visitors of the Coachella Valley

artistic pursuits: art curriculum, homeschool, independant study

Arts Attack: About Us

Discount Art Supplies - including Paint Brushes, Oil Paint, Oils, Watercolors, Canvas, Calligraphy, Clay, Crayons, Pencils, etc.

Art Supplies at Cheap Joe's Art Stuff

Music learning online

Creating Music

PianoNanny.com 

free online piano lessons

Children's Music - (Songs, Interactive, Online Activities, Instrument Crafts, Sheet Music, Worksheets, and More) @ Pratt's Educational Resources

Piano Lessons, Keyboard Lessons, Learn Piano Online Free!

On-Line Piano Lessons

Piano Lessons: Learn to play Piano BY EAR (Free Videos Online!)


Music Lessons

Guitar Lessons- Call Dana Chapman at 760.342.5890 or email at dfcmusicco@aol.com

Bass Guitar Lessons- Call Jody Moses at 760.861.4435 or email at mosespoolandspa@aol.com

Piano Lessons- Call Mary Avery at 760.408.6395

Piano Lessons- Call Vicki Barneck at 760.321.6269 or email at vbarneck@dc.rr.com