Express-Ways, a children's art center in the Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, involves children in drawing, writing poetry, designing labels, working with kaleidoscopes, matching skin color, and doing rubbings. School groups are given special workshops designed to extend the concepts of the exhibit into the classroom. (Author/KC)

Describes the evolving functions of an in-house art gallery at a Milwaukee, Wisconsin elementary school. Teachers used the gallery exhibits extensively as an educational resource and as the basis of their classroom activities. Exhibit themes always involved at least two curriculum areas. (AM)

The author looks at the different tools and processes used in the art classroom, pointing out areas of safety concern, and suggests tool maintenance and use standards which can prevent classroom accidents. (SJL)