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.

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.

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

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

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...