Google Maps

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Above is the Google Map I've assembled offering a "trip around the world" while exploring different examples of art. Art is a "common language" that is shared between cultures and has been expressed throughout time. This "trip" explores art from both modern and indigenous culture. Travel from continent to continent while viewing art.

Students can view art from different cultures, times and locations and read a little bit about each artwork (there is a link to click on for more continued information for each artwork). Students are welcome to continue their own research on artwork from different cultures or locations that interest them. Students may add artwork that they have discovered along with relative information as locations to the map.

This map can be a continuous project visited and revisited throughout the school year. It is a work in progress, reflecting artwork that students have discovered in context of visiting this map or as the result of personal artistic pursuits. As the map develops.....the idea that art is timeless and spans culture and continent will continue to develop and be reinforced.