Describes a student group's efforts in constructing a mural. (HOD)

Art students made sketches of their subject area teachers and created life-sized caricatures of some of them. They then created biographies for their figures and explored their reasons for the stereotypes they developed. (KC)

Article listed the benefits of filmmaking for young students. (RK)

A student arts festival that involved elementary and secondary students in drawing with chalk on a city block in New York City is described. Portraiture, cartoons, landscapes, abstractions, and inventive personal logos filled the huge canvas of the street in a virtual smorgasbord. (RM)

The article describes a group formed by a guidance counselor and art teacher concerned with meeting the needs and problems of artistically gifted high school students. (PHR)

Describes the functions, styles, and methods of creating medieval tapestries. Illustrates a narrative tapestry titled "The Prophecy of Nathan," attributed to Master Philip. Describes how textile artists' personal styles can be recognized. Suggests art activities for elementary and secondary students. (KM)

Article focused on the technique of creating batik prints, which while stirring student interest, were hung in school halls as part of the permanent collection of student work. (Author/RK)

Through play, children draw ideas from their own experiences and create exciting works of art. Materials and methods that can be used in the classroom to help children play are described. (CS)

An art program for elementary students based on the construction of a Japanese toy called a Daruma focused on another culture, yet taught basic skills and developed self-expression. Darumas are papier-mache faces. (AM)

Five K-12 art activities are described. Elementary students study the paintings of Paul Klee. Junior high students do tempera paintings of flowers. High school students make black and clear glue drawings, learn about the cup paper art of Henri Matisse, and study and interpret leaf forms of the magnolia trees. (RM)

By photosketching, students can alter an existing image in a personally expressive way and render a black-and-white photograph into line art. The technique involves students in drawing with India ink or any permanent colored ink on top of a black-and-white photograph, changing the photo in at least 10 ways. (RM)

The part that words play in teaching art has been underestimated. In a good art class, there is an interplay of ideas about the ongoing work. By using the right words, the teacher can help students develop their creative faculties. (CS)

This curriculum unit consists of four lessons that are designed to broaden students' understanding of art and culture; each lesson can stand alone or be used in conjunction with the others. The introduction offers a conceptual framework of the Artworlds unit, which takes an inquiry-based approach. The unit's first lesson, "Worlds within…

Since junior high students frequently claim that they can't draw, the author suggests initiating visual expression activities through a skill they do have confidence in--their handwriting. She outlines several drawing exercises in which letters are used to express movement. (SJL)