Calder, Cheval Rouge (Red Horse)
 1974, painted sheet metal,
Washington, D.C.

Maria Martinez, black-on-black plate decorated with the water serpent design encircling the rim, 1958.

Photograph - courtesy of 
Western History & Genealogy
Department, Denver Public Library 

• Alexander Calder Biography - KinderArt

• Alexander Calder Foundation

• Biography and Photos

• Alexander Calder Virtual Tour

• Maria Martinez Pottery Making

• Calder's Life in Pictures

• Maria's Pottery

• Maria Martinez the San Ildefonso Pueblo Potter

• Mobile Maker and NGA Mobile Maker Tool   (interactive tools)

• Touched by Fire- The Art, Life, and Legacy of Maria Martinez

• National Gallery of Art- Calder Virtual Tour

• Rock and Wire Mobile - Sculpture and Collage - KinderArt

• Video clips from Calder's Circus 

•  Teacher: Lesson, biography, and links (PDF)

• Teacher Resources - (University of Modern Art, Chicago)

Grade 5 Artist:
M.C. Escher
1898-1972

Art of Native American Cultures

Sun and Moon 1948 woodcut in blue, red,
yellow and black, printed from 4 blocks

• Adobe Gallery of Southwest American Indian

• Computer Art inspired by M.C. Escher

• Andrea Fisher Fine Pottery

• Create a Tessellation Using Paint

• Basketry

• Karen's Tessellation Page

• Edward Nelson's Collection of Yup'ik Masks

• Make Your Own Tessellations

• Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher

• National Museum of the American Indian

• M.C. Escher Foundation (click the gallery to see his art)

• Native American Clay and Pottery

• NGA- Escher Collection

• National Gallery of Canada

• Native American Weaving

• Teaching Escher

• Pueblo Pottery

• Tessellations.com

• Robert Nichols Gallery

• Surrounded by Beauty

• The Eye

• Textiles of the North American Southwest

• Totally Tessellated