States that the history of frequently offered Saturday morning art classes in museums and university art departments is largely unknown. Traces the development of the earliest known North American example of such classes, the 1887 beginning of children's Saturday art classes in Halifax, Nova Scotia. (JDH)

Investigates the relationship between contemporary art and public art education during the 1960s in Quebec, within the theoretical perspective of the social history of art. Analyzes the consolidation of modernism and the importance of the societal debate on education that questions the place and the role of art in society. (KM)