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Welcome to the INSPIRE page!

A page of links to inspire your creativity.  Please share your recommendations with me in class and I will make additions as quickly as I can. Have fun!  Grab your sketchbook and make notes, sketches, reflections, etcetera and make something new.  As Kirby Ferguson notes in his TED talk all creativity is a remix; copy, transform, combine.  What will you be inspired to create?

Public Art, Installations, Videos, etc.

Canadian Institute of Diversity & Inclusion, Luge Ad
The Fun Theory
Adele portrait by RED (Hong Li)
Toronto Eaton Centre Intern...al Dance Day Flashmob
MoMA The Rain Room Installation
Kirsty Hall, 365 Jars
Kseniya Simonva, Sand Art, Ukraine's Got Talent #1
Ryan Woodward, Conte Animated
BALANCE, Wolfgang & Christoph Lauenstein, 1989. 
WestJet, T'was the Night Before Christmas
Site The Creators Project
The Book of Kells & The Secret of Kells, Intro
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore
The Sketchbook Project
Tall Painting
Rembrant's 'The Night Watch' Flash Mob
Tall Painting by Holton Rower
Flash Mob, Frozen Grand Central
Sony Bravia Bouncy Balls 
Shane Koyczan To This Day Project
Box, Projection Screens & Robots 
Short Film, The Butterfly Circus

Interesting Podcasts, TED Talks, etc.

TED, Candy Chang "Before I Die...'
TED, Reuben Margolin, Kinetic Sculpture
MAKE, Reuben Margolin, Kinetic Sculpture
TED, Cameron Russell 'Looks Aren't Everything'
TED, Raghava KK, My 5 Lives as an Artist
TED, Gabriel Barcia-Colombo 'Capturing Memories'
TED, Sir Ken Robinson 'Do Schools Kill Creativity?'
TED, Alexa Meade 'Your Body is my Canvas'
TED, Kirby Ferguson, 'Embrace the Remix'
Time to Thrive, Ellen Page Speech
TED, Leah Buechley 'How to Sketch with Electronics'
TED, Aparna Rao 'Art that Craves your Attention'
TED, Sir Ken Robinson 'Bring on the Learning Revolution'
Alan Watts 'What if money were no object?'
TED, Young-ha Kim 'Be an artist, right now!'
TED, Muri Kim 'My Underground Art'
Documentary, Ryan Woodward, The Thought of You

Current Artists and Their Work

Aoyama Hina Cut Paper Art
Sandy Skoglund Installation Artist
Banksy Article, Google the artist for images
Site and Art Blog Dresden Codak
Li Hongbo, Paper Sculptor, PURE WHITE PAPER
Barbara Kruger, Installation Artist (Bill Boards)
Julian Beever Chalk Drawings
Jennifer Maestre Pencil Crayon Sculptures
Shane Koyczan Canadian Spoken Word Artist
Aganetha Dyck Bee Hive SculpturesKonstantin Dimopoulos Blue Trees Installation
Andy Goldsworthy, Land Artist


Robert Gonsalves, GTA Artist,  Magic Realism
Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli
Kris Kuksi, Sculptor
View on Canadian Art
Ryan Woodward, Animator

Powerful Messages in Other Arts Forms

Music Video, Same Love by Macklemore & M Lambert
Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir
Spoken Word, Logic - Mixed Feelings
Maya Angelou, American Poet
Honda Choir AdvertisementGraphite Pencil Sculptures
Music Video, Skyscraper by Demi Lovato
User Interface Design UsTwo
Tetley Red Tea Advertisement
Pininfarina Italian Design Firm
Industrial Design, Carbon Design Group

Galleries, Museums & Events

Peel Art Gallery Museum + Archives PAMA
Art Gallery of Ontario AGO
Royal Ontario Museum ROM

Eras, Culture, History, etc.

Google Art Project
Family Portraits of all 56 Ethnic Groups in China
Smart Art History Site
The Book of Kells
arthistoryresources.net
Istanbul for 91 Days

Sketchbook: The Starting Point

Mattias Ink
Tom Gauld
OCADU Build a Strong Sketchbook
Google 'Creative Sketchbook Ideas,' go to Images
50 Sketchbooks
Geninne's Art Blog
A Collection of Approaches
Sketchbook - What to do

Discover a New/Old Viewpoint

Fritz Kahn (1888-1968), Artist
Edward Gorey, Goreyography

Develop My Art

Project ARTiculate, Elements and Principles of Art
Another Site, Composition, Elements and Principles
Drawing with String
Light and Shadow for Drawing
PinInterest, Light and Shadow
Mix Media Painting through Layers
Plenty of Colour
Painting with Crayons in Glue Gun
Nippon Colors: Traditional Japanese Colours

Outside the Box

Kinetic Sculptures (Art + Science + Other Neat Stuff)
Crayon Wax Sculptures
deviantART
AWE me (professional blacksmith - swords)
Freya Jobbins Sculptures using Doll Parts
Human Face Video Mapping
Scott Wade, Dirty Car Artist
3D Crocodile Illusion
Bananas as a canvas


Design Blog, swiss-miss
Many Paper Artists Here
Online Art Market Etsy
Art from Ordinary Things
Thibaut Sld, Responsive Hexi Wall
Creative Applications Network
Smooth McGroove Cappella Game Soundtracks
Painting on Water
Marbling, Painting on Water
Graphite Sculptures in Pencils
Artists that play with  Light & Shadow
Ten Thousand Cents Project
Patrick Owens, Rose Compass
Osaka Train Station Graphic Waterfall
Mike Tompkins Cappella Musician, Paradise
Pinterest. Amazing Art
Painted Hands

Sites Worth Knowing About

Creative Commons
Upworthy
Artists for Amnesty

1000 Most Creative People in Business
National Geographic The Genographic Project
Tales From the Green Valley, Season 1
weebly
weebly for Education
Pearl Trees (organize your ideas/content)

I Love a Good Book

Shaun Tan, The Arrival
Shaun Tan, Lost and Found
Shaun Tan, Tales from Outer Suburbia
Victoria Finlay, Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox
Tracey Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring
Cathy Marie Buchanan, The Painted Girls

the ones Mrs Showalter doesn't want to lose...

iPad Art app by Cathy Hunt
iPad Art Room, Cathy Hunt
OpenStudio, A Collection of Art-Making Ideas by Artists
Stephen Watson - Prof
Ontario Art Education Association
The Teaching Channel

The Incredible Art Department
Incredible Art Education Resource Page
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