This curriculum guide was compiled to help secondary school art teachers prepare lessons that fulfill both the New York state recommendations and the New York City requirements for high school graduation and to provide ideas for use in elective art classes. Seven chapters describe specific art fields, and each chapter is subdivided into units of artistic expression. Each unit presents teaching concepts and performance activities, and each chapter provides career information and a bibliography. Chapter 1 considers the basics of color, design, drawing, and lettering, while chapter 2 describes studio arts in terms of drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Chapter 3 introduces the creative arts of ceramics, macrame, batik, tie-dye, papier-mache, paper-making, soft sculpture, stitchery, patchwork, quilting, weaving, and jewelry. Commercial arts are examined in chapter 4 through introductions to layout, preparation and paste-up, package design, logos and trademarks, illustration, and cartooning. Chapter 5 considers fashion, costume, and textile design, and chapter 6 teaches about the media arts of photography, film animation, video, and computer graphics. Chapter 7 explores architectural design. Pictures, a general bibliography, an explores architectural design. Black and white photographs and drawings, a general bibliography, an miscellaneous references, and a compilation of museum resources are included. (JHP)