In this article, overlapping, disparate stories from a university team teaching the Art and Design Education Lab course during the COVID-19 pandemic are presented in order as teaching faculty, academic librarian, and research and teaching assistants. The reflections from the teaching team reveal their COVID-19 pandemic responses as research, in…

As a university-based art educator inspired by the efforts of environmental artists, the author has been working to share their achievements with students and teachers through eco-art education. She aims to continue this work through this article by sharing recent developments in this emerging field of inquiry. In hopes of encouraging art…

Since the introduction of personal computers, art educators increasingly have adopted new digital technologies into their pedagogy, yet overall that adoption has been a slow process. Many teachers remain still infrequent users of technology or avoid using new learning technologies in art classrooms. It is important for art education to embrace an…

Gulf Island Film and Television School (GIFTS) is a community-based new media school founded 15 years ago by a group of documentary and commercial filmmakers on the site of a former logging camp on the island of Galiano in British Columbia, Canada. This article presents insights derived from a component of a larger research project investigating…

The process of curriculum development in art education at the provincial level in Alberta, Canada, is described. The interests, needs, and assumptions of five groups of stakeholders--government, the curriculum development committee, art teachers, students, and interested onlookers--are examined. (RM)

Several avenues of communication that bind art education in the United States and Canada are described. Developments of mutual understanding have tightened the art education relationship between the two countries. (RM)

Alberta's (Canada) new 1984 elementary art curriculum, which is described here, has as its central focus the child as artist. It is concerned with having children think and behave as artists. (RM)

The career and ideas of a pioneer art teacher, William P. Weston, who emigrated to British Columbia, Canada, from England in 1909, are described. (RM)

Teaching methods that elementary art teachers in British Columbia involved in an interdisciplinary art and language arts program have successfully used to help children experience an art project and then write about it are discussed. (RM)

The process of curriculum development in art education by committee in Manitoba, Canada, is discussed. Four areas that affect curriculum development by committee are (1) initiation, ownership, and control; (2) selection and composition of the committee; (3) effect of the group process; and (4) cohesion and time factors. (RM)

Teacher education in the visual arts in Canada has passed through a creative, golden age and is now in a critical period. The expansionist period of the 1960s and 1970s has passed, giving way to cutbacks and restraints. Possible scenarios are discussed. (RM)

The new arts education program at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, which stresses aesthetic education is described. Music, dance, drama, and the visual and literary arts are all included in the undergraduate program. (RM)

Two Canadian art educators carry on a fictional exchange of letters that address a very common set of problems: "Why do art educators have to educate the public to the value of art while a similar kind of public consciousness raising is not necessary for, say, math or reading educators?" (RM)

Compares works selected from the permanent collection of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, an art museum at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Provides two sets of painting reproductions, information about the artists, transcripts of the telephone-accessed comments for viewers of each set, additional background information, and suggestions for…

An art teacher who went to Bella Bella, a remote island in British Columbia, to teach an arts methods course for the University of British Columbia's Native Indian Teacher Education Program describes her experiences and the course she taught. (RM)