Describes three methods for making plaster masks: face casting, styrofoam wig head casting, and balloon casting. (RM)

How to help elementary art students use form in their work to convey desired feelings is discussed. Awareness of the qualities of form is essential for effective expression. (RM)

Experimental printmaking can be exciting, rewarding, and inexpensive. High school students explored four different ways to create relief prints from odds and ends and scrap materials. (RM)

Secondary students utilize a simplified technique to make silk screen prints, which can be printed onto T-shirts. The only materials needed from art suppliers are a few squeegees and a few yards of polyester screen mesh. (RM)

One kind of printmaking that offers nice results with little complication and a minimum of materials is monoprinting with masks. The process is described. (RM)

The basics of four processes--serigraphy, intaglio, lithography, and relief--can be taught with low-cost tools and materials. A secondary-level semester course is described. (RM)

How high school students used foam to create three-dimensional forms on a large scale is described. The students made sculptures that they wore in a Mardi-Gras celebration. (RM)

Describes a technique for helping high school students make unique light shades using clay, stained glass scraps, and light. (RM)

Two high school art students designed and constructed papier-mache marionettes. Directions for marionette construction are included. (AM)

David Finkle is a fifteen-year-old who writes scripts and screen plays and draws cartoons. (AM)

All ages can enjoy printmaking activities, from a simple glue line relief print to an aluminum foil relief which gives the impression of metal embossing. Projects which can be geared to all levels of elementary education are described. (RM)

Presents four ceramics activities for secondary-level art classes. Included are directions for primitive kiln construction and glaze making. Two ceramics design activities are described in which students make bizarrely-shaped lidded jars, feet, and footwear. (AM)

Presents some concepts of design in art for use by elementary teachers. (SJL)

Summarizes the efforts of teachers at all levels of education to prepare students with the basics of art education. Describes the art foundations program of the Maryland Institute College of Art, and concludes that perceptual drawing is the most basic of all art subjects. (JDH)

Describes eight art activities using ceramics. Elementary students created ceramic tiles to depict ancient Egyptian and medieval European art, made ceramic cookie stamps, traced bisque plates on sketch paper, constructed clay room-tableaus, and designed clay relief masks. Secondary students pit-fired ceramic pots and designed ceramic Victorian…