The concept of innovation and the use of new materials were effectively presented to students through the use of a synthetic foam for sculpture. (Author/RK)

How college art students made drawings using color is described. The activity helped the students analyze how they drew lines, shadows, and highlights. (RM)

Three art activities are described. Junior and senior high school students carved kachina dolls from blocks of wood, junior high school students created table sculptures from old bottles, and senior high students made richly colored face-plates. (RM)

As part of an introductory course in figure drawing, art students spent some time doing portrait studies and profile drawings. When the teacher threw in an ancedote on life masks, it had a double impact. Students learned to better understand underlying bone structure and facial planes and to create a new art product. (Author/RK)

In keeping with the Bicentennial celebration, many art teachers will find themselves "looking back" to crafts of the American past. Dyeing is certainly one that was used extensively and here a professor in a Fine Arts Department details how the process takes place. (Author/RK)

Describes a two-week program in computer graphics for middle school students interested in the arts. Students used the PAINT program and learned a process called digitizing. Learning to use the computer language and developing aesthetically pleasing graphics are equally important aspects of computer graphics. (CS)

Describes a course in fiber techniques, which covers design methods involving fibers and fabric, that students in the Art Department at Sleeping Giant Junior High School had the opportunity to learn. (Author/RK)

Describes collagraph printmaking, which offers many opportunities for exploration of a diversity of materials to achieve exciting effects in print. (Editor/RK)

To many students the complex technical problems of computer graphics seem to put them beyond reach. Computer technology can be reduced to the bare basics, however. In this activity elementary art students add an intriguing dimension to a crayon drawing by completing a computer image counterpart of a previously drawn image. (RM)

Describes an art project that involved blind secondary students in producing a large piece of sculpture for the terrace of their school. (RM)

Pictograms--assemblages of geometrical shapes that represent parts of the body--simply and vividly show how the body moves. They can be used to help elementary students draw larger figures and have confidence in drawing people. The pictograms also encourage children to look at shapes and details that artists use. (RM)

Students in the Creative Crafts class at Franklin D. Roosevelt High School, Brooklyn, New York, learn the medieval Tiffany method of making stained-glass panels. (Author/RK)

For the adventurous teacher and student there is an alternative to the often messy mixing, pouring, casting, cutting, scoring and sanding of plaster of Paris for casting or sculptural projects. Balloon sculpture, devised, designed and shown here by a sculptor/teacher, is an eye appealing sculptural form and holds a strong interest for students.…

Four panels hang in the Junior Gallery at the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. Conceived by Matthew Monks, an experienced artist and teacher, and students from his Saturday morning class at the art museum the college is the result of a mixture of art materials and a combination of creative ideas. (Author/RK)

The work described and shown in this article was produced by Elementary and Special Education majors participating in an art course for college credit prior to entering the teaching profession. They combined creative concepts with the use of papier-mache. (Author/RK)