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Marque, Margo E. – Arts & Activities, 1999
Explains that creating paper-pulp bowls is designed to acquaint students with the beginning vocabulary and finger dexterity needed to sculpt clay. Describes the process of making paper-pulp bowls and identifies important vocabulary words. Provides directions for making paper bowl forms and lists the materials. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Art Products, Clay

Delacruz, Elizabeth Manley – Art Education, 1999
Discusses the life and artwork of Jack Barker who became a folk artist after running a local gas station in Essex, Illinois. Explains that art educators view student interactions with folk artists like Barker as valuable because these artists embody a creative spirit and a thirst for knowledge about materials and processes. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Materials, Art Products
Ide, Janet L. – Arts & Activities, 2000
Describes "Snakes in the Grass," a weaving project used with special needs students. Discusses the preliminary skill-building activities used, the process for creating the students' individual snakes, and the preparation and process for how the students wove the snakes. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Art Therapy, Childhood Needs
Szekely, George – Arts & Activities, 2000
Focuses on children as "wrapping artists," stating that a child's wrapping art includes elements of ritual: finding a special object, selecting and customizing the wrapper, and participating in the unwrapping event. Discusses surface decorating, the exploration of form through wrapping, and collecting wrapping-art. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Education, Art Expression, Art Materials
Kassin, Cherie – Arts & Activities, 2001
Provides an art project for use with eighth-grade students, who choose a work of art and recreate it in an interpretive and informative manner. Explains that students re-create the background of the artwork and then the students become a part of the painting via characters or objects. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art History, Artists, Creativity
Michel, Karl F. – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2004
This study is an exploration of the art produced by American veterans of the Vietnam War. In the areas of artistic history, military service, and the creative process, Vietnam veteran artists are a diverse group, and there are many different ways of explaining the connection between Vietnam experience and their art. Some individuals made limited…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Veterans, Artists, Art Products
Greenman, Geri – Arts & Activities, 2003
Describes an art assignment used in an oil painting class in which the students create a nonrepresentational painting using acrylic paint. Explains that the second stage of the assignment involves students in finding a face in this first painting and using oils to create the face on top of the original artwork. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Materials, Course Content
Oreck, Barry – Journal of Teacher Education, 2004
During the past decade, the arts have been increasingly included in professional development programs for general education teachers in the United States. Little is known, however, about teachers' attitudes toward the arts in education or the applications of arts processes in their teaching practice. In this mixed-methods study, data collected…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Teaching Methods, Student Diversity, Elementary Secondary Education
Equipping Future Arts Educators for Primary Schools of the 21st Century: An Australian Point of View
Temmerman, Nita – International Journal of Music Education, 2006
This article discusses two interrelated themes. First, that arts education plays a valuable role in developing the skills required by successful individuals of an increasingly sophisticated knowledge economy; and second, that arts education programmes in initial primary teacher education courses should be linked to, and compatible with, the needs…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Art Education, Foreign Countries, Art Teachers
Fowler, Charles; McMullan, Bernard J. – 1991
The ideas and case materials discussed in this study can contribute to the national dialogue on education reform and the search for excellence in all areas of education. The study attempts to clarify what the arts contribute to education. While it indicates that much more needs to be done, it suggests actions and approaches which can be utilized…
Descriptors: Art, Art Education, Classroom Environment, Creativity
Demery, Marie – 1984
Through the use of a visual literacy process of instruction as an initial stage in perceiving and creating, beginning college art students can acquire knowledge and skills for completing successful drawings. This process includes the following steps: selecting a simple and familiar subject; studying the entire form of the subject; looking for big…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Creativity
Fowler, Charles – 1988
The landmark 1977 report of the Arts, Education and Americans Panel entitled "Coming to Our Senses," contained recommendations for the future of arts education in the United States. The volume described here, written by a researcher involved in the first study, attempts to show the state of arts education as it was in 1977 and as it is today. The…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art, Art Activities, Art Education
Tuttle, Frederick B., Jr., Ed. – 1985
In this anthology the issues related to the fine arts (music, theater, visual arts) in the elementary secondary curriculum are examined. The fifteen articles, ranging in length from one to seven pages, are followed by a biographical page briefly identifying the contributors. The articles are: "What's It All About?" (Frederick B. Tuttle, Jr.);…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression, Creativity
Schumacher, Sally; Linder, Fredric – 1980
The goals of the Richmond County (VA) Arts Program are: (1) to provide a comprehensive arts education program; (2) to increase creativity and self-esteem of art students (grades 6-12) and student awareness and general appreciation of the arts (grades 1-12); (3) to broaden teachers' instructional strategies and increase teachers' perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Education, Community Involvement, Creativity
1970
Impressed with the results of a two-year experiment with film in the art classes of Central Peel Secondary School, the Creative Arts Committee of the Ontario Curriculum Institute designed five experimental projects that used film. The projects were undertaken by the art classes of four secondary schools. Each project, or experiment, was devised to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Art Activities, Art Education, Creative Art