In an interview author Howard Gardner explains how Harvard Project Zero developed assessment techniques for the arts. The program links production of art to perception and reflection. (MD)

Art students must know and understand the media with which they are working. Techniques used to help junior high school students gain mastery of art materials are discussed. With control of the materials anything is possible, including creativity. (RM)

Article suggested four characteristics which are vital to the maturation process of the artist and discussed the real meaning of talent. (Author/RK)

Specially prepared exhibits can teach concepts about art and perception. (DS)

The author tells how a paper clothing making project was successful. (MF)

Presents an interview with Black artist Jacob Lawrence. He comments on the role of the artist and art in society, the value of the creative experience, and the influence of Harlem and Africa on his work. (AM)

Purdue University utilizes the model in the Super Saturday Program, in which art enrichment activities are provided for fifth- through ninth-graders from 14 surrounding counties. (SW)

This study explored the relationships between creativity and cognitive skills, and the implications for arts education. High school seniors (n=65) were given a battery of psychological tests emphasizing creative thought. Results indicated significant correlations of the arts orientation with five domains of creative behavior and three cognitive…

In these times when educational standards, assessment, and evaluation of core subjects seem to dominate the public school agenda including early childhood, the challenge for educators to provide essential art experiences for children is daunting. Examinations of the greater educational value of art media can reveal some answers. Knowing how…

This article is based on nearly 25 years of working with and studying folk art and folk artists. While certified art educators and their university teachers may think they are inclusive in their understandings about art and learning processes, generally speaking, they are either unaware or tend to ignore folk artists' ways of understanding the…

Visual literacy contains a vat of underlying understanding that fuses to the bones of students who actively pursue an art education. For everything visible, there is an invisible internal counterpart, and arts education provides vital depth that is currently being drained from Canadian culture. Visual literacy begins with the elements and…

Discussed the development of an art heritage program with the objective of accepting historical art as a daily experience of value. (Author/RK)

This paper presents a discussion of the use of microcomputers and computer graphics programs as basic design experiences which relate as much to the right as to the left side of the brain. It reviews selected research in art education that shows the importance of the right brain in various areas of creative behavior and in developing drawing…