Many art rooms are representative of anything else but visual order even though the subject is all about visual order. A well-organized, functional art room environment is essential to the implementing of an effective program of art. (Editor/RK)

The greatest challenge for the secondary school art teacher is motivating the average art student who "must" take art in order to complete his graduation requirements. Provides some suggestions for meeting this objective through a class project in which students create papier-mache caricatures of other students in their school. (Author/RK)

Art teachers learn new uses for old materials and how to escape stereotypes by providing fresh ideas for learning. Describes a "Playshop" for elementary school teachers as part of a Community Arts Enrichment Program. (Author/RK)

Develops a unit to help elementary school children revive the spontaneous bright color painting qualities of their preschool years. After observing book illustrations and Henri Rousseau's work, second grade students created compositions outlined in black paint and then used felt-tipped markers instead of paint to color in the shapes. (KM)