Discusses how art teachers can broaden their students' art experiences by showing them how they became personally inspired and how they followed up on their inspirations. States that art instruction must go beyond art appreciation so that students will seek out experiences which become the sources for plans and projects. (GEA)

Describes a project for preservice art educators where they design their ideal classroom and then build a diorama expressing this vision. The students' ideal schools go through an evolutionary process involving decisions, modifications, and visual risks. Eventually, the dioramas come to express individual philosophies. Includes several…