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Artopia is a comprehensive web-based arts experience designed for middle school students, covering the visual and performing arts.

Visual and Performing Arts for Grades 6-8

Artopia is a comprehensive web-based arts experience designed for middle school students, covering the visual and performing arts. Students will learn art history via animated one-minute movies, be guided on how to closely examine important works of art, and view videos of professional artists at work.This project was supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Please note many of the web videos include transcripts.

More in this Series

Series Dance - Artopia
Dance - Artopia

Step inside Artopia's Dance lobby!

Series Media Arts
Media Arts

Step inside Artopia's Media Arts lobby!

Series Artopia Music
Artopia Music

Step inside Artopia's Music lobby!

Series Artopia's Painting Lobby
Artopia's Painting Lobby

Step inside Artopia's Painting lobby!

Series Sculpture
Sculpture
Series Theater - Artopia
Theater - Artopia
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Talking About Amazing Grace | Artopia Poetry Workshop | Artopia

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Poetry Workshop | Artopia
Eboni Ramm provides advice about having a career in music and poetry. Listen to students perform spoken word.
Art Cards | Artopia Sketches | Artopia

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Sketches | Artopia
Maria Manhattan talks about the artistic direction for the website Artopia.
Video Games | Artopia

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Video Games | Artopia
Simon Tarr talks about how much he didn't enjoy math in school. He discovered later that trigonometry was very important to video game design.
Singing Amazing Grace | Artopia

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Singing Amazing Grace | Artopia
Eboni Ramm sings her jazz reinterpretation of the hymn, Amazing Grace and also includes spoken word.
Response to Digital Art | Artopia

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Response to Digital Art | Artopia
Simon Tarr talks about the responses he has received to his work. People usually either love or hate Tarr’s work, but he is not discouraged by negative feedback.
Apples & Studio | Artopia

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Apples & Studio | Artopia
Maria Manhattan talks about her apple paintings and the importance of having a studio.
Art Cards | Artopia

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Art Cards | Artopia
Maria Manhattan talks about her process of designing the Artopia art cards. Check out the art cards below: Dance Art Cards Media Arts Cards Music Art Cards Painting Art Cards Sculpture Art Cards...
Art Philosophy | Artopia

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Art Philosophy | Artopia
Maria Manhattan explains her art philosophy and how we should embrace our own art styles.
Marcelo Novo on Education | Artopia

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Marcelo Novo on Education | Artopia
Marcelo Novo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He graduated as a Profesor de Bellas Artes from Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes “Prilidiano Pueyrredon” and studied painting under Surrealist artist...
Dance as a Career | Artopia

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Dance as a Career | Artopia
Miriam Barbosa describes the passion and love it takes to make dance work as a career.
Music in Catharsis | Artopia

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Music in Catharsis | Artopia
Astor Piazzolla, an Argentinian composer, created the music used in Catharsis. The music provided some unique challenges to the choreographer and dancers.
Suspended Falls | Artopia

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Suspended Falls | Artopia
A Closer Look A waterfall flows, but it also leaps and rolls and turns. It breaks apart and comes back together and it is made up of many drops of water. As the Power Company dancers perform Suspended...
A Personal History | Artopia

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A Personal History | Artopia
Martha Brim describes her own past with dance and the decision to pursue it as a career.
V-Man | Artopia

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V-Man | Artopia
Marcelo Novo and Miriam Barbosa collaborated to create the multimedia dance performance, Catharsis. Novo and Barbosa describe the character, V-Man.
Source of Work | Artopia

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Source of Work | Artopia
The idea of the collective unconscious influences Novo’s work through his connection to his heritage and culture.