Online Discussion Groups, Newsgroups, Mailing Lists and Listservs

for artists, educators, artists with disabilities,
art therapists and home schoolers

There are a wide range of discussion groups available to the public on the Internet in Art and Fine Art, Graphic Design, Animation, Art Education, Art Therapy, Museums, Disabled, Education, Home Schooling and Distance Learning.VSA arts will be offering several such groups in the future. Please consult with your Internet Service Provider for instructions how to access these groups, or go to Google Groups on the Internet.If you know of additional online discussion groups which would be valuable in this list of newsgroups and mailing lists please send your suggestions to webmaster@vsarts.org.

Parent's note: Some newsgroups have announcements posted which are not suitable for school age children. Teachers and parents are solely responsible for their children's access to these resources. Therefore, we have not provided direct links to these spots, but have provided the following information for you to use elsewhere.

DejaNews has now changed to 'Google Groups'

You can access both newsgroups and mailing lists through this service on the Internet. It allows searching of topics, groups and lists. You can also read your newsgroups there and send messages, etc.

Art and Fine Art

alt.architecture: Building design/construction and related topics

alt.architecture.alternative: Non-traditional building designs

alt.architecture.int-design: Interior design and decorating

alt.art.marketplace: no description

alt.artcom** : One of my favorites: Artistic community, arts and communication

alt.sculpture: alt.sculpture

bit.listserv.clayart** : One of my favorites: Very active group covering ceramic arts

fur.artwork.artists: Art techniques, materials, and media

humanities.misc: General topics in the arts & humanities

rec.arts.fine: Fine arts & artists:

rec.arts.misc: Discussions about the arts not in other groups

rec.crafts.glass: No description

www.keukdong.co.kr: BBS for the glass industry

Egg Tempera Forum: online posted list of questions, answers and statements about egg tempera

Art Education

k12.ed.art** : Arts & crafts curricula in K-12 education.

Art Therapy

ARCO: Art & Literature, Physchology and Communication
Mailing list for discussions. Open to all people "directly or indirectly interested in all aspects of interaction of art, literature, physiology and communication."

Art Therapy Students and Professor's Discussion List
Moderated listserv discussion. Also includes "Grouptalk" a list for creative arts group therapists.

C.A.T.S., Creative Art Therapies
Art Therapists' membership organization is an information page about art therapy. Java-based CHAT available for art therapists, and bulletin board.

Creative Arts Therapy Cyberjournal
For creative arts therapy students and professionals to submit works for cyberpublication, and for "increased scholarly research and opinions in creative arts therapy endeavors to be available to the general public."

Creative Arts Therapy International
Part of a larger site, Behavior Online, billed as "the gathering place for mental health and applied behavioral science professionals." Lots of interesting posts in art therapy areas.

Behavior Online, billed as "the gathering place for mental health and applied behavioral science professionals." Lots of interesting posts in art therapy areas.

Petrea Hansen Art Therapy Newsgroup
Online html based newsgroup with postings in your regular browser. See FAQ for more details.

Museums

bit.listserv.museum-l: Museum Discussion Group

Disabled

alt.education.disabled: Education for people with physical/mental disabilities.

alt.education.home-school.disabilities: For parents homeschooling

alt.comp.blind-users: No Description Available

alt.support.disabled.artists: To promote creativity among disabled artists

alt.support.disabled.caregivers: Support group for people who help disabled.

alt.support.disabled.carers: Support group for people who help the disabled

bit.listserv.blindnws: Blindness Issues and Discussions. (Moderated)

k12.ed.special: K-12 Net: Special needs in education discussions

uk.people.disability: Not description

General Education

alt.education**: alt.education

alt.education.industry.comp: alt.education.industry.comp

alt.society.high-school: alt.society.high-school

aol.commerce.education.marketplace: (AOL) Educational Products and Services Marketplace

at.blackbox.bbe.education: Education- and student- issues without borders

aus.education: Australian education

aus.education.open-learning: Australian education.open-learning

can.schoolnet: Canadian schoolnet

can.schoolnet.chat.teachers: Canadian General talk by SchoolNet teachers.

fj.education.announce: Announcements related to education

k12.chat.teacher**: Casual conversation for teachers of grades K-12.

k12.ed: No desctiption

k12.news: K-12 Net: News in the educational world.

misc.education: No description

misc.education.adult: No description

relcom.education: Education discussions.

school.general: school.general

school.subjects.humanities: school.subjects.humanities

school.teachers: school.teachers

Home Schooling

misc.education.home-school.christian: Christian home-schooling.

misc.education.home-school.misc: Almost anything about home-schooling.

ott.education.homeschooling: Homeschooling in Ottawa

Distance Learning

alt.education.distance: Learning from teachers who are far away