http://www.artsonia.com/

 

 

 

ARTSONIA ONLINE STUDENT ART GALLERY 

 

Each year, thousands of art teachers nationwide showcase their students’ artwork online at 

www.artsonia.com. Artsonia, the world’s largest online student art museum, offers a free, educational 

program to schools, teachers and parents. This document describes the school and teacher benefits of 

participating in Artsonia. 

 

 

Artsonia: Benefits 

 

Participating in Artsonia provides many benefits to schools, teachers, students and parents: 

 

•  Boost students’ pride and self esteem: Repeatedly, participating teachers tell us about the 

increased pride and self esteem their students feel after participating in Artsonia. Viewing 

their own creations in an online museum, students are putting forth extra effort in the art 

room, knowing it will be posted for all their friends and family to appreciate. 

 

•  Increase parental and family involvement in students’ education: Parents and family 

members take a much more active role in their child’s art education by viewing the artwork 

online, joining the child’s fan club, and leaving supportive comments in the artist 

guestbook. Teachers tell us this feedback from family, especially relatives who may not 

live nearby, is priceless in the development of the child’s artistic confidence. 

 

•  Financial support for art program: After the student artwork is published online, the 

parents and family may purchase keepsakes from the museum with the child’s artwork 

imprinted on it, and 20% of the revenue is commissioned back to the school art program. 

Depending on the amount of promotion the teacher invests and the demographic of family 

members, this support could range from hundreds to thousands of dollars for additional 

equipment / art supplies for the classroom. 

 

•  Integrate technology into the classroom: Artsonia takes technology in the artroom to a 

new level. Through the use of computers as well as iPads and other such devices, both 

teachers and students can actively engage in the online art gallery activities. Teachers have 

tools to monitor, assess and provide feedback on artwork online. Students have the ability 

to submit artwork, post artist statements, constructively comment on peer galleries and 

monitor their own progress through their personal online gallery. All these activities are 

available within the safe, educational environment of Artsonia.com. 

 

•  Promote literacy in the artroom with artist statements: Participating students write their 

own artist statements for their artistic creations. This is a natural way to implement writing 

into your art curriculum and just happens to support English Language Arts Common Core 

State Standards.

 

•  School rankings and honors for art program: Each year, Artsonia highlights and honors 

top participating schools and art programs. The awards are based on both technology 

integration and community involvement. Other administrators tell us this provides a very 

tangible statistic to highlight to their local community about the richness of their art 

program. 

 

• Enrichment of school art program: Participating teachers can share and post lesson 

plans, increasing the quality of the art lessons provided by their school. This teacher 

resource keeps the art program on the cutting edge of quality cross-curriculum art projects.