Description/Abstract: The National Art Education Association recognizes March as Youth Art Month, a time to "emphasize the value of art education for all children and to encourage support for quality school art programs." Youth Art Month was created in 1961 by ACMI, a non-profit association of art and craft materials manufacturers, in cooperation with the NAEA.

We draw attention to original resources and highlight select databases of relevance to the field of art education and youth:

Historical Art Collections is a virtual gallery of all artworks held at the Gottesman Libraries. Included are resources of art for and/or by children: the Edwin Ziegfeld Collection, Passow Collection of Israeli Children's Peace Art, Ukranian Children's Art Collection, Morton Schindel Animation Cells, and Rothman Lantern Slide Collection.

Pocketknowledge, the digital of Teachers College, has extensive materials, including faculty papers, historical dissertations, curriculum guides, historical images, and much more. Be sure to see A History of the Department of Fine and Industrial Arts at Teachers College, Foster Wygant's dissertation, which includes an index of all art faculty up until 1959.

Art Full Text indexes and abstracts art periodical literature from 1984 to the present, with full-text from 1997 onwards.

Art Index Retrospective is an index to periodical literature in art published from 1929 to 1984.

Education Full Text provides comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Indexing coverage begins June 1983; abstracts are included beginning spring 1994; full text of some journals is available beginning in January 1996.

Education Index Retrospective provides cover-to-cover indexing for an international range of English-language periodicals and yearbooks, with coverage from 1929 through mid-1983.

ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related periodical literature. ERIC (which stands for Educational Resources Information Center) provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books, and monographs.

For additional information be sure to see our research guides on Learning at the Library: Field Observations in Art Education, Historical Foundations of Art Education, and Arts and Humanities.

For a longer listing of databases in the arts, architecture, and applied arts, please visit Columbia University.