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Rodriguez, Steven – School Arts, 1985
Using the rub-out process to draw the human head, students begin with drawings that are initially executed in dark tones. The process calls for the student to rub out the pure white areas, building the image by showing the light that strikes the face. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Freehand Drawing

O'Connell, Ken – School Arts, 1985
How college art students made drawings using color is described. The activity helped the students analyze how they drew lines, shadows, and highlights. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Color, Course Descriptions

Hurwitz, Al; Blume, Sharon – School Arts, 1985
Secondary students are asked to study and compare three reproductions--Van Gogh's "Grove of Cypresses," Da Vinci's "Study of a Tree," and Mondrian's "Tree II." The activity will help students develop their powers of observation and analysis, powers that can be applied to their own drawings. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Comparative Analysis, Freehand Drawing

Pritts, Steven J. – School Arts, 1984
An art activity which involved elementary students in making coiled clay constructions is described. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Ceramics, Childrens Art

Schnitzspahn, Karen – School Arts, 1985
A shadow puppet project for elementary students is described. Making the puppets, the stage, the light source, and the performance are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Products, Elementary Education

Sasser, Elizabeth S.; And Others – School Arts, 1985
Three art activities are described. Junior and senior high school students carved kachina dolls from blocks of wood, junior high school students created table sculptures from old bottles, and senior high students made richly colored face-plates. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Course Descriptions, Design Crafts

Smith, Nancy R. – Studies in Art Education, 1985
There are different types of copying, some involving artistic behaviors and some not. It is important to differentiate these types, separating the replication of conventions from more inventive artistic behaviors. A framework for such examination is applied in a group of pilot studies involving children copying comic strips. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Art Education, Childrens Art, Comics (Publications), Creativity

Naested, Irene Russell – School Arts, 1985
Procedures for silkscreening t-shirts are provided. Students of all ages are delighted to design and print their own images, and they get to wear the results. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Materials, Elementary Secondary Education
Springer, Julie – 1999
Born in Sweden in 1929, Claes Oldenburg was brought to the United States as an infant and raised in Chicago (Illinois). Oldenburg came of age artistically in the early 1960s with the pop art generation. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated the power of the imagination to transform the everyday environment. This teaching guide gives an…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Products, Artists
La Pierre, Sharon Greenleaf, Ed.; Ballengee-Morris, Christine, Ed. – 2002
This publication, sponsored by the U.S. Society of Education through Art (USSEA) as a forum of past presidents involving audience participation, aims to stimulate dialogue on the evolving theme of teaching multicultural issues and what affects student learning. Session participants were past presidents of the USSEA who prepared written statements…
Descriptors: Art Education, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Multicultural Education
Stewart, Marilyn G. – 1997
Strategy guidelines for including aesthetics as part of K-12 art instruction are provided in this text. In addition to providing a rationale for inclusion of philosophical inquiry in the K-12 art program, the guide provides information about theories of art, suggestions for planning, sample programs and lessons outcomes or objectives, and examples…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Art Education, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Secondary Education

Cappetta, Ann – School Arts, 1990
Describes how students, influenced by Victorian architecture, created ceramic slab houses. Students devised a solution to depict the reflective nature of Victorian bay windows. Project incorporates art history, handbuilding, and surface ornamentation. Outlines and illustrates steps involved in making slab houses that can be adapted for use by…
Descriptors: Architecture, Art Activities, Art Education, Ceramics

Gentile, J. Ronald; Murnyack, Nancy C. – Art Education, 1989
Offers a comprehensive evaluation/grading scheme that can handle the four domains of discipline-based art education, outlining an approach for each. Addresses both norm-referenced and criterion-referenced goals, and methods for assessment. (LS)
Descriptors: Art Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Grading, Norm Referenced Tests

Krupa, Karen – Green Teacher, 1994
An artist and parent describes the potential for a schoolyard renaturalization to be integrated into arts curriculum and some art activities that have been inspired by planting in a schoolyard. (LZ)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Elementary Education, Environmental Education

Efland, Arthur; Soucy, Donald – History of Education Quarterly, 1991
Discusses the work of Isaac Edwards Clarke, an influential nineteenth-century U.S. education official. Reports that Clarke encouraged instruction in drawing as an important industrial skill. Indicates that, although interest in industrial drawing as an important aspect of art education waned by 1900, Clarke's influence continued to be felt. (SG)
Descriptors: Art Education, Drafting, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education