The South Dakota Arts Council submitted this FY 2006 annual report to the Governor and Legislature. It presents the 530 grants that were awarded with funds from the State of South Dakota and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Fiscal Year 2006 grant funds of $977,000 generated $12 million in local cash matching funds. These…

An interdisciplinary focus promotes learning by providing students with opportunities to solve problems and make meaningful connections within the arts and across disciplines. Interdisciplinary curriculum encourages students to generate new insights and to synthesize new relationships between ideas. This brochure seeks to assist and support…

Article described a project that examined the relationship of the arts to community recreation and park programs. (Author/RK)

Following the comprehensive, systematic, curriculum-driven Discipline-Based Art Education approach should help erase many problems plaguing secondary level art education. Although developing a DBAE program is time- and energy-consuming, improvements in student motivation, learning, and aesthetic judgment justify these efforts. Includes five…

Art education can be used to stimulate diverse ways of seeing and thinking. Through bringing about an awareness of diversity and various perspectives, art can lead students to enter into a dialog on different cultures and participate in a world where all experiences offer a richness of diversity. (MAK)

This paper advocates music and other arts as offering a unique course to both the celebration of cultural diversity and the pursuit for those human, unifying factors that may keep society together. Sections of the paper include an introduction, a historical perspective on the value of the arts and humanity, and a conclusion related to how equity…

This document, published by the United Nations, is one of approximately twenty in a series designed to show how cultural policies are planned and implemented in various Member States. The studies which cover countries belonging to differing social and economic systems, geographical areas and levels of development present a wide variety of…

International units on art, on international development, and bibliographies of materials for teaching an international unit, and on foreign holidays and festivals are presented. (KM)

This article describes the philosophy, organization, and funding of the New Jersey State Teen Arts Program, a statewide model arts-in-education project which offers all New Jersey teenagers a chance to meet working artists and to actively participate in an interdisciplinary arts experience through annual state and county festivals. (SJL)

This planning guide provides artists, project directors, and representatives from schools and communities with practical suggestions for a successful residency. The manual describes the sponsor's responsibilities and role in conducting a successful Artists-In-Schools residency. Included are ideas for supplementing a residency program with teacher…

In San Rafael (California) a series of assembly programs and art shows exposes students to cultural events. (JM)

Discusses formalist/universalist, personal response/ antiformalist, and pluralist approaches to aesthetics. Recommends using a pluralist approach because it accounts for the aesthetic principles of non-Western art forms. Discusses pluralism in art education and how the criteria of Western aesthetics are now being challenged by art educators. (KM)

The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not Arts on the Square in Richmond, Virginia needed a multimedia center to enhance the implementation of its instructional art culturally-oriented programs. The study was descriptive, using the purposive non-probability sampling technique. The instrument used in the study was designed for Arts…

Describes a cultural arts program of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers (PTA) that encourages K-12 students to explore their thoughts and express them through the arts. The 1988-89 theme was "Proud Experiences," around which students created artwork that depicted feelings of accomplishment as well as national and family pride.…