This pamphlet describes a point of view for art education and suggests methods of planning for art facilities. Activities to be included, art in the self contained classroom, specifications for the self contained classroom, and the multipurpose art room in the elementary school are considered, with reference to the junior and senior high levels.…

Students learn about drawing landscapes by using a twig from a tree as a model for drawing adult trees. (GB)

Suggests various methods that can be used to teach children to emphasize color and motion in painting. (RB)

Art Students must know not only the works they produce, but also the necessities behind putting on an art show. (MF)

The article tells how to use repousse in the classroom. (MF)

Techniques for making Christmas gifts, greeting cards, holiday figures, and room decorations. (CO)

The artist experiences the world and extracts from it elements that have worth. The study of art is a training in perception. Children should be introduced to works of quality and should be encouraged in their own artistic activity because art educates their responsiveness to values. (CS)

Describes how the author teaches children to write poetry the way the cubists made art, by connecting cubist portraits with series poems in a drawing-and-writing lesson that connects art and poetry. (SR)

Offers an essay by children's author and artist Peter Catalanotto. Argues that contests and competitions stunt creative growth. Maintains that there is no "best" in art; all children should feel confident to add artistic adventuring to their lives; and the joy and lasting value of creativity is in the discovery of process, and in creating from the…

The International Child Art Festival, sponsored by the International Child Art Foundation, was held September 9-12, 2003, on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The three-day event was a celebration of the creativity of youth around the world. This article briefly describes the highlights of the this festival.

Author described a show of dissident art held in Moscow on September 29, 1974, and contrasted the government's efforts to control artistic freedom with the determination of Russian artists to resist such imposition. (RK)