With the variety across The Arts, some sites are not topic specific but act as portals providing specific resources, associations, discussion forums, blogs, journals, magazines, … .

This page looks at sites that have been developed in Australia, many with original resources. There is also a listing of software for The Arts. These are commercial products. For Freeware, check the Education Software page.

The Second Page looks at sites and resources from countries other than Australia. Check carefully to be sure they conform to Australian requirements before use, e.g. spelling, Mathematical formatting, terminology, … .

You should also check individual Arts pages such as Art, Dance, Craft and Music and parts of Technology & Design for further resources.

For secondary schooling there may also be resources available from Arts topics among various Tertiary Subject pages such as Music and Visual Arts.

Listed individual resources are suitable for teacher use with all education levels unless specifically indicated otherwise.

Australian Sites

• a3 Australian Arts Alive
  Part of the Australian School of Performing Arts. It ‘offers a wide range of Performing Arts activities to primary and secondary schools including specialist song and dance workshops and professional development opportunities for teachers’.
• Art Education Australia
  ‘The AEA welcomes membership by art educators, researchers, students and others working in the field of or with an interest in Visual Arts Education’. Journals, resources, professional development, what’s on, search their links.
  Primary, Secondary
• Art Education Resources
  ‘This website is a gathering of free art resources for students and art teachers. We aim to support and encourage you in developing your interest in fine art practice’.
• Art Exhibition Guide
  ‘Locate upcoming art exhibitions state by state, cross referenced with Artists, Galleries’.
• Art Forum Australia
  ‘Free to join forum for Artists, Art Teachers & Art Students. Help, support and encourage each other’.
  Secondary, Tertiary
• ART-SEARCH Australia
  ‘Australia’s largest online art search engine directory’. Topics and sub-topics to search.
• Art-Stuff
  ‘Access art resources, ideas, tips, techniques and information to assist you to be all the artist [or art student] you want to be. Probably the biggest aim with this Visual Arts’ site is to provide resources so teachers and lecturers can send their students to find out more, to explore ideas, options and techniques about art and the art scene’.
  Secondary, Tertiary
• Art & Technology
  ‘The Photography Experience’. It ‘arises from one immediate question : How can traditional art education practices, techniques and media integrate with the new technologies ?’ Digital v traditional photography, student and Leader’s manuals, student film processing manual, Hyperstudio presentation on the darkroom, photographic database.
  Primary, Secondary
• ASME Links
  Includes, groups associations, state department areas, members specialist pages and more.
• Australia Dancing - Links
  Links grouped as Portals, Directories, Resource Collections and Reference Texts.
• Baroque On
  ABC. Develop an understanding of Baroque music by working with one piece of Handel’s music. Teacher information.
  Secondary
• Buzz Dance Theatre
  West Australian dance theatre presenting workshops and performances for students.
• Great Australian Albums
  ‘This documentary series will have interest and relevance for middle and senior secondary students studying a range of subjects including Music - Styles, Industry, History and Performance; English; Popular Culture; Australian Studies and Contemporary Culture’. From EnhanceTV.
• Jovian, Your Online Art Store
  ‘We guarantee the best quality art, craft and early learning products at competitive prices and quickly delivered to your door. We have a terrific selection of children’s craft materials for active young minds. Traditional artist supplies, general art, craft products’.

Musical Competitions & ‘Spectaculars’

Mainly Secondary

• Australian Singing Competition, The
  All the details you want.
• Creative Generation
  ‘State Schools Onstage’. Queensland.
• Croc Eisteddfod Festival [Queensland]
• Fanfare
  ‘Fanfare is the biennial state-wide festival of bands and orchestras from Queensland state schools. It showcases the exciting music making that is occurring in school-based ensembles across the state.’.
• Festival of Music [SA]
• Joining the Chorus [Victoria]
• Queensland Catholic Schools & Colleges Music Festival
• Rock Eisteddfod Challenge^®
• Schools Spectacular
  ABC site for the New South Wales Schools Spectacular.
• Wakakirri
  ‘The ultimate performing and visual arts challenge for schools’. Sections on the site for students [primary & secondary] and teachers.

• MzuriDance
  ‘Facilitates learning and development of students’ technical and artistic ability in dance, music and performance. Mzuri has visited hundreds of primary and secondary schools over the last decade’. Information under Services. Based in Melbourne.
• Noteable Music Education Resources
  ‘Australasian company dedicated to creating and supplying top quality, great music education resources to music educators’. Most resources are Fee-based, though Several Samples are Free.
• OzMusEd
  By a practising Australian educator. ‘To provide students and teachers with useful links, ideas and resources on the effective use of Technology and the Internet’.
  Secondary
• The Arts Unit [NSW]
  ‘Responsible for dance, drama and music ensembles; runs camps and student workshops in dance, drama, choral and instrumental work; visual art exhibitions; debating, public speaking and spelling competitions; events and festivals; professional learning workshops and opportunities for teachers;’ more.
• The Butcher Shop
  ‘Below are a number of Free learning resources we have designed with trained teachers for use in secondary art classes - all activities are in line with the K-10 Syllabus’. Based in Perth. The resources relate to Urban Art.
• The Song Room
  ‘Targets its long-term, Free and tailored programs to disadvantaged children who would otherwise not have such opportunities, including socio-economically disadvantaged children, urban and rural Indigenous youth, children with learning, health or behavioural challenges, new migrant arrivals and children for whom English is a second language, children at risk of juvenile crime involvement, very young children [0-5 years] in disadvantaged areas and children in geographically isolated and remote regions’.
• This Is Art
  ‘The Artist Network of Australia’. sections cover Art, Events, Contests, Classifieds, Art Forum [check both Education and Virtual Tours of Great Art - check possible costs with the some of the second section] and Sites [resources, including Free software].
• Zart Art
  ‘Zart Art is a school and educational supplier of art and craft materials and resources. We also provide professional development workshops for teachers and educators of the visual arts’. Activities to do, products to create, a newsletter, special publications and more.
  Highly Regarded !

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The Arts Software

Commercial software. For Freeware, check the Education Software page.

• Morphases
  An ‘online next generation software in face manipulation’.
• Music Publisher
  ‘Music notation software system for all 32-bit Windows platforms’.
• Sight Reading Challenge
  ‘Learning to read music’.
• Tweenies : Play to the Music

• The Incredible Art Department
  Lesson plans for varying levels, activities, art resources, rubrics, cartoons, great new links monthly, art news, more. US-centric but easy to use.
• The Online Paper Airplane Museum
  ‘810+ designs’. Everyone should be able to find a design that works for them.
• The Piano Education Page
  Annotated links covering multiple, musical areas. ‘Here we bring together some of our collection of the links on the Internet that students, parents, teachers, and pianists might find useful or interesting. Our primary criterion for inclusion is educational value’.
• Ultimate Flash Face
  Like the police artist kit, but Flash allows you to create faces in a flash. Thousands of combinations to choose from, with all the add-ons.
• Uptoten.com
• VidKids
  Lesson plans to develop skills and techniques for making moving pictures with children.
  Primary, Secondary
• Vocalist
  ‘Free online singing lessons, learn to sing with articles on voice/auditions/performing or working in the music industry. Browse the site to find useful information on aspects of voice, singing, performance, plus Free online singing lessons, voice training articles for vocalists related to singing and getting into the music industry’. UK based.
• Watercolour & Watermedia Instruction
  Tips and demos that vary in length and quality but provide a reasonable introduction to this field
• Welcome to Colour Matters
  ‘Colour plays a vitally important role in the world in which we live. Sway thinking, change actions, cause reactions, irritate or soothe your eyes, raise your blood pressure, suppress your appetite’. Interactive areas, various resources.
• You Draw
  Online drawing, submit your drawing for inclusion, create your own e-drawing card, send it via email.
• Wild Music
  ‘Experience the sounds and songs of life’. Animals, Soundscape, About Sound, Research, Wild Music : The Exhibition.
• ZoomDo
  Activities linked to the show of the same name on PBS America. Grouped in 4 areas - Decorations, Paper, Paint & Pictures, Toy-o-Rama, Stuff to Wear.

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