Bookcase
Books
Eisner, Eliot. The Arts and the Creation of Mind. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
Gallas, Karen. Languages of Learning: How Children Talk, Write, Draw, Dance, and Sing their Understanding of the World. New York: Teachers College Press, 1994.
Goldberg, Merryl. Integrating the Arts: An Approach to Teaching and Learning in Multicultural and Multilingual Settings (Third Edition). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Allyn & Bacon, 2005.
Perkins, David. The Intelligent Eye: Learning to Think by Looking at Art. Los Angeles: The Getty Center for Education in the Arts, 1994.
Websites
www.meltonarts.org: ready-made lesson plans on Judaic topics using the arts
www.avodaarts.org: an organization that creates artistic programs that serve as portals for Jewish learning
www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/links/toolbox/books.html: a resource listing hundreds of books and magazines in all fields of arts education
Council of American Jewish Museums: http://www2.jewishculture.org/cultural_services/museums/cajm/directory/
American Association of Museums: http://www.aam-us.org/aboutmuseums/directory.cfm
www.gildedlions.org: text and images of the Jewish folk art traditions exhibited at the American Folk Art Museum (see the article in this issue by Kalter and Lasser)