As a university-based art educator inspired by the efforts of environmental artists, the author has been working to share their achievements with students and teachers through eco-art education. She aims to continue this work through this article by sharing recent developments in this emerging field of inquiry. In hopes of encouraging art…

Traces the development of an expanding definition and understanding of environmental-art education. Suggest new ideas and considerations for the future. Offers three lessons that incorporate different aspects of form and content: (1) the natural environment; (2) the built environment; and (3) the social environment. (CMK)

Provides an introduction and overview of installation art. Installation art challenges the accepted notion of passive viewing and comments on concepts concerning art and the environment by creating spatial environments using natural materials. Describes several student installation art projects and the issues raised by this approach. (MJP)

Focuses on the aesthetic environment of the classroom and playgrounds in which art teachers may be trying to teach aesthetics. Nothing that the school environment too often overcomes any effort to teach aesthetics, the author founded the Institute for Environmental Education, which combines architecture, art education aesthetics, and…

The author discusses some goals of the Architects-in-Schools program and how high school art students became more aware of the influence of the "built environment" on the natural environment, as well as how it is used as the vehicle for understanding and teaching of traditional academic subjects. (Author/RK)

Provides a case for teaching children about local architecture. Describes a specific example called the Kentucky Project as a humanist approach to built environmental education that enabled middle and high school students to study their architectural heritage through a program of videos and related teaching materials. (CMK)

Describes a high school course, "Material Arts Design," that celebrates materials, creativity, and culture, while concurrently encouraging individual responsibility towards the environment. Explains that the students develop a wide range of technical skills by exploring art and technology and address aesthetic and ecological issues through a…

Explores the sensory, formal, and symbolic orientations for studying environmental aesthetics. Points out that environmental aesthetics are related to both the natural and built environments. Discusses implications for art education in developing aesthetically oriented individuals. Maintains that learning something in environmental aesthetics is…

Describes "Site Omaha" an interactive public arts project designed to explore alternative art venues in the urban environment and to create a common link between artists and other community members. "Site Omaha" initiated innovative community arts projects. Provides a brief overview of urban environmental art. (MJP)