Uses a systems approach to creativity to study one student as that person learned to make art in an university-level introductory sculpture class. Shows ways that the class was an open system that modeled and encouraged artistic creativity and provided constraints and opportunities for the student to construct knowledge. (DSK)

Explores research about creative thinking and outlines various processes that students go through when they attempt an art assignment. Describes the blocks to creative thinking that non-art majors have experienced, such as cultural blocks, conceptual and perceptual blocks, and social blocks. Discusses the instructional conditions important for…

This case study focuses on one student as she engaged in a general education art course that integrated visual art, writing, and expressive movement. In the beginning of the semester, this elementary education major had little interest or experience in the arts. Over the semester, however, she moved from being resistant and fearful of art to being…