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Foster, Eden – Camping Magazine, 2003
In western North Carolina, 24 summer camps, business leaders, and a local community arts council collaborated on a project celebrating the visual and performing arts created by campers. Campers' art in every media was displayed in Hendersonville to highlight the benefits of summer camps to the community, including their economic, educational,…
Descriptors: Art Education, Arts Centers, Camping, Childrens Art
Hiller, Peter – Arts & Activities, 2003
Believes that it is important to continue to teach students film photography even with the advent of computers and digital photography. Focuses on the benefits of film photography for students, such as serving as a creative outlet and the enthusiasm exhibited by students working with film photography. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Computer Uses in Education, Creative Expression, Creativity
Szekely, George – Arts & Activities, 2001
Discusses types of art materials that children enjoy using in their artworks. Explores the art materials such as tasty art supplies, such as candy; peeled supplies, such as pencil shavings; sticky art supplies, such as Band-Aids; and fast-food supplies, such as forks and spoons. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Materials, Childrens Art

Best, Harold M. – Arts Education Policy Review, 2000
Discusses the condition in which people are confused about the nature and use of intellect in the arts. Focuses on associated dilemmas, the root cause, and how to address them. Explore topics such as musical/artistic mindedness and the benefits of a comprehensive music education. Includes suggestions. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Creativity, Educational Benefits, Elementary Secondary Education
Unsworth, Jean Morman – Momentum, 1990
Offers case studies of "problem" students who have been motivated to learn through their interest in and talent for artistic expression. Suggests ways teachers can channel students' interests in productive ways; e.g., Individual Idea Logs (to record fantasies, doodles, inventions) and five-minute drawing breaks. (DMM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Catholic Educators, Catholic Schools
Black, Susan – Executive Educator, 1996
Integrating art into the curriculum engages most students, enhances their creative expression, and benefits them academically. Even bored, rebellious, and unmotivated students respond to the arts. Elliot Eisner and other discipline-based art education proponents feel the arts are central to enjoyable learning. Exemplary K-12 programs are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Creativity, Discipline Based Art Education, Educational Benefits

Smith, Peter – Art Education, 1991
Reviews Natalie Robinson Cole's contribution to the field of art education by contrasting her philosophies with those of other art educators. Compares her teaching style with Viennese art educator, Franz Cizek. Concludes that Cole's life and work can be examined within as many frames for understanding as can be devised. (KM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art History, Art Teachers

Feinberg, Vickisa – School Arts, 1990
Describes how children six years and older can create plaster friezes. Children were first shown examples and then drew plans before creating their own friezes. (KM)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art History, Art Materials

Carroll, Karen L. – School Arts, 1990
Describes how artist Betye Saar collects technological debris that she manipulates to create her artwork. Compares her work with African art which has a long history of transforming materials from the environment into symbols and objects. Suggests activities for students to create art with debris from their environment. (KM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Art Expression

Fowler, John – NAMTA Journal, 1999
Discusses the connections between Montessori pedagogy and Brian Swimme's ideas of a human authorship of a connection with the evolution of the universe and a need to reestablish a connection with the natural world. Describes the ways the art of 11- and 12-year-old students demonstrates an awareness of these issues and a connection with the natural…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Childrens Art, Creative Art
Freifeld, Susan – Arts & Activities, 1999
Describes an activity in which fourth grade students created a three-dimensional representation of Vincent Van Gogh's room in Arles (France). Expounds that the students had to invent their own strategies for three-dimensional construction and two-dimensional embellishment. Provides directions for creating the room and bed. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Art Products, Artists
Greenman, Geri – Arts & Activities, 1999
Describes an assignment that requires students to develop an original concept for their artwork where they utilize mixed media and repetition within their drawing as a starting point. Explains that students learn about principles of design and the frequency of repetition to satisfy compositional needs. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Materials, Art Products
McNamara, Mary; Malm, Susanne – Arts & Activities, 1999
Discusses the importance for teachers to question personal paradigms by changing their beliefs about teaching practices. Explains that instead of having second-grade students use bright colors to create African masks, students can develop their shading skills instead. Provides instructions for a lesson where students use pencil shading when…
Descriptors: African Culture, Art Education, Color, Creativity
Swanson, Mary E. – Arts & Activities, 1999
Focuses on individualized expression resulting from ideas and skills that have developed over time. Describes how students first drew a group of people, then used values and added background details, and finally enlarged the drawings demonstrating their own ideas. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Childrens Art, Creativity
Szekely, George – Arts & Activities, 1999
Discusses the importance of designing settings for children that encourage hands-on creativity through play. Suggests the designs are art forms requiring a participatory art teaching style. Describes the technique and provides proven design ideas. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Materials, Art Products