By participating in this art activity, students in grades seven-nine learn about one of the first American modernists, Stuart Davis, and come to understand how simplification and abstraction developed in American art. (RM)

Describes a course in printmaking taught at the Indiana University Summer Arts Institute (Bloomington), a two-week program for artistically talented seventh- through tenth-grade students. Focuses on two printmaking processes, acetate etching and linoleum block printing, and on altering and improving an image associated with each process. (LS)