Creative art-based therapies (cABT) provide a creative non-pharmacological approach in therapy to people with dementia and can potentially improve their personhood. This review identified cABT that focused on the personhood of persons with dementia living in residential facilities and determined how quality of life (QOL) or well-being were…

The residual meanings attached to the arts emerge through histories that have maintained disciplinary difference between dance, music, art, drama. This modernist persistence affects intellectual and corporeal innovation in school-based arts so how might a rearticulation of arts practices, as well as research and education procedures from the…

Although prevalently focused on research-based outcomes (i.e. better understanding of a particular phenomenon, process or experience), arts-based researchers have widely emphasised the transformational potentialities of arts for individuals. In particular, the arts create space for thinking differently and provide opportunities to explore…

This paper locates its genesis in a small town called Vitebsk in Belorussia which experienced a flowering of creativity and artistic energy that led to significant modernist experimentation in the years 1917-1921. Marc Chagall, returning from the October Revolution took up the position of art commissioner and developed an academy of art that…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 25 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the development of American theatre management practices between 1830 and 1896; (2) the aesthetics of audience response; (3) P. Picasso as a theatrical…

Words aren't the only means of revealing America's story, a point made by the Nation's musicians, painters, sculptors, playwrights, choreographers, and other artists. (Editor)

The article reviews approaches used in several states to identify students gifted in the performing arts. Specific instruments, such as C. Seashore's Measures of Musical Talents, as well as locally created instruments, peer nomination, and product evaluation are considered. (CL)

The booklet provides information and resources for cultural organizations and institutions interested in making the arts accessible to deaf citizens. Preliminary information includes a discussion of deafness in America and the deaf in the history of the arts and notes that the era of silent films was the golden age of cinema. Listed are 36…

The Lincoln Center Library offers a variety of services, including circulating collections, art galleries, a bookstore, free movies, a children's room, special exhibits, and a small, neat auditorium that features everything from community drama to film retrospectives. (Author/NH)

Suggestions are given for expanding a public library collection in the fine, applied, and performing arts. (PF)

ELEVEN INSTITUTES FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS (THREE MUSIC, TWO ART, TWO THEATER, TWO HUMANITIES, ONE LATIN, AND ONE FILM) WERE EVALUATED ON THE BASIS OF QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES FROM 300 OF THE 430 PARTICIPANTS, FINAL REPORTS OF INSTITUTE DIRECTORS, AND DETAILED REPORTS OF OBSERVERS. THE GREATER EMPHASIS ON SUBJECT CONTENT THAN ON…

This revised edition of the New York learning standards for the arts incorporates changes in earlier editions to the content standards and performance indicators based on extensive review by the public. Samples of student work and teacher comments on the work are also new in this edition. The examples are intended to provide some ideas of tasks…

The second of three documents on Project SEARCH (Search for Exceptional Abilities Reachable among Children with Handicaps) describes the development of a systematic procedure for assessing the gifts and/or creative talent potential of handicapped students. It is explained that of 278 special education students evaluated by an adaptation of the…

The essays in this book concern successful experiences with interdisciplinary education during the 1972-73 school year at the Humanities Center in Richmond, Virginia. The first section of the book focuses briefly on the program's seven humanities-related subjects (including the directors of each subject): filmmaking; printmaking; mime, dance and…

This study examines the attitudes individuals have towards the arts and what role the arts play in U.S. life. A survey was designed specifically to examine issues of funding of the arts by government, the role of arts in the education of children, and what effect the current economic recession has had on participation in and attendance at arts…