Art-Related Sites:
(These sites are particularly useful for student and instructor access to image resources)
The Art Library at the University of Maryland, College Park
The Art Library is a multi-faceted site for art related resources. Among its most useful features:
Pertinent information gathered on these pages include links to outside internet resources and art sites, a gateway to online art journals and publications, a listing of in-house resources (print, media and online), and explanations for locating specialized resources such as dissertation abstracts. A special feature is a concentration on resources and current art-related events, including links to area museums, in the Baltimore-Washington metro area.
Webbing Resources for Women, Art and Culture
A sub site on the home page constructed by Women's Studies Faculty member Katie King (UMCP), this page was assembled for teaching an undergraduate course (Wmst 250: Women, Art and Culture). Each of its 8 sections contains at least a dozen links to outside internet sites and resources specifically focusing on art by and about women, with an emphasis on art as activism. The sections are organized as follows: Art Museums; Artists in Various Forms, Genres and Medias; Art and Art Activist Organizations; Online and Exhibition Gallery Spaces; Feminism, Political Activism, and Feminist Approaches to Culture; Women and Girls -- Activism in the Web; Writings on Women, Art, Culture and Activisms; and resource and archive holding web sites. An example of the richness of the links assembled on this page is one entitled 'Feminist Zine Rack'. This link takes you to the Zine page for the Feminist Majority Foundation -- which in turn allows you to navigate the entire site. Professor King's larger web site, accessible from this page, offers additional resources on topics that include feminist theories of knowledge production, methodologies, pedagogies and practices. In addition to links to outside sources, these resources include her collected syllabi, publications, presentations and papers since 1999.
Pedagogical Resources:
Hosted by the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at Virginia Tech University, this site is copyrighted (1999) by Kristin Switala. It is readily apparent why this is a critically acclaimed site (Womyn's Network Feminist Site Award); its utility may also be measured by the frequency with which its internal pages surface as links on other feminist sites or in internet search engines. Due to its sophistication of design, it is at one and the same time easily navigable and also usefully and thoroughly cross referenced. It is the most globally comprehensive site I've discovered, a feature immediately made obvious by the option to proceed in one of three languages (English, French or Spanish) on the home page. The site is organized into three major divisions:
In addition to the cross referencing feature, each of the pages contains an extensive array of usefully linked bibliographic information.
This site, associated with the University of Texas at Austin, is organized under four main topic areas:
Useful features include a sizable wired bibliography and links to many other related websites, as well as a "Theories and Theorists" page. The one downside to this site is that a number of links are broken or merely direct you to online dictionaries. However, the number of practical live links and the resources gathered together far outweigh this disadvantage.
This richly informational site maintained by Christy Stevens in the Library and Information Science program at the University of Iowa has four major categories, each of which are further subdivided:
Last modified in Autumn of 2002 by the graduate students in 702: Teaching Women's Studies, this page contains buttons to 9 pages relating to teaching with/through Feminist Pedagogies, each with many links and resources. The linked pages are Film and Visual Culture, Critical Writing, Critical Reading, Pedagogy and Difference, Pedagogy Websites, Websites by Topic, TA Handbook, Teaching Resources and Bibliograhy. The perspective in each case is to gather instruction-based sites and resources. This website will not only provide students with tested and tried resources, it will also provide a useful exemplar of the kinds of collaborative work around the topic of teaching with feminist pedagogies that class members will be asked to engage in during the course.
Maintained by Martin Ryder in the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Denver, this page assembles an extensive, un-annotated but linked bibliography in its topic area. A particularly impressive feature is the notation that all links were verified as of 4/01/04.
Teaching Assistants' Feminist Pedagogy Website
This page originates from Canada's York University Division of Humanities Resource page, and thus provides a genuinely non-U.S. (although still North American) perspective. Its orientation is quite pragmatic and it includes many teaching suggestions and scenarios, along with some external resources and links. Teaching suggestions, posted in a pdf format, include such topics as 'Approaching Canonical Texts from the Perspective of the Other', 'Gender Stereotypes', 'Gender Ambiguity and Interaction' and 'Discussing "Man-Bashing"'.
Participatory Art Pedagogy Informed by Feminist Principles
This is not a metasite, but I anticipate it being an extremely useful site for class discussion. Created by Karen Keifer-Boyd, it features an explanation and demonstration of the Chicago/Woodman Teaching Methodology, an art teaching methodology, informed by feminist pedagogical practices and principles, developed by artists Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman.
Transforming the Classroom Through Feminist Pedagogy
This link is part of a larger page, itself arguably a metasite, maintained by the Women's and Gender Studies Department at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. The larger site is a link on several of the feminist pedagogy sites above. This page is specifically highlighted because it focuses on the 1994 video (30 minutes) entitled, "A Better Tomorrow: Transforming the Classroom through Feminist Pedagogy." It features a concise and very accessible discussion of what feminist pedagogy is, what possibilities it offers and where and how it is already in use.