"Using few materials and simple tools, students can be stimulated to be creative and to produce sculpture that is expressive". Describes a course in sculpture taught by a professional sculptress for students at John F. Kennedy High School, Bronx, New York. (Author/RK)

How a secondary level art teacher used videotapes to teach calligraphy is described. Advantages of using the video system are discussed. (RM)

Described is an art course in which fifth-grade students made masks using low fire whiteware as the medium. (RM)

Scrounging, cooperation, and resourcefulness have made pottery the most popular--and the most visible--art class in a Missouri high school. The pottery course is described. (RM)

High school students in an advanced ceramics class made chess sets, using a wood pattern to make pawns for the sets. The class found that using a pattern increased efficiency and speed. (RM)

To help them get the cylindrical shape necessary for making pottery beer mugs, high school art students used flexible armatures stuffed with vermiculite. (RM)

In this art activity, eighth grade students use charcoal to draw space art. This versatile medium helps the students see and use dark and light in their forms to show real space and depth. (RM)

Article described a new art course developed to augment the students' experience with three-dimensional materials. (Author/RK)

This article attempted to give some insight into courses designed for non-art majors, who are required to take such courses for elementary certification. (RK)

Students learned to create head forms with clay at a special introductory class in Clay Portrait Sculpture at Vacaville High School, Vacaville, California. (Author/RK)

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)

An intermediate-grade art teacher describes how she teaches her students about Henri Matisse. Students learn about the life and background of Matisse, study his reproductions, and apply techniques that they have learned to their own art works. (RM)

Seventh graders reacted enthusiastically to this watercolor art activity. A blank piece of white drawing paper was soaked in water and then removed to a newspaper-covered table. Students held a brush full of watercolor above the paper and squeezed the bristles. When the droplets hit the surface, they spread beautifully. (RM)

The idea of art in commerce to catch your attention and make a forceful impression becomes so much more meaningful when students have a chance to try their hand at it. Here students learn to think of one word that can be illustrated only by the use of colored paper. (Author/RK)

Described is the Advanced Placement Program in Studio Art which encourages in-depth involvement by basing one-third of its requirements on the student's demonstrated ability to select and develop a project which makes greater demands than the usual assignment. This special project phase is described in depth. (KC)