A student arts festival that involved elementary and secondary students in drawing with chalk on a city block in New York City is described. Portraiture, cartoons, landscapes, abstractions, and inventive personal logos filled the huge canvas of the street in a virtual smorgasbord. (RM)

By beautification of their educational surroundings students make their learning experience more stimulating. (RK)

California high school students painted murals on a freeway retaining wall. (SP)

Presents simple instructions for 15 mixed media art projects for the elementary grades. Part one of this series, listing 18 other techniques, appeared in the September 1979 issue of Instructor on pages 145-49. (SJL)

Five articles describe techniques of mural making and mural projects which have been accomplished by elementary and secondary students, including a class of blind and partially sighted children. (SJL)

Instructions are given for making Malaysian shadow puppets out of x-ray film. (SJL)

The author presents a unique and innovative art project involving blueprinting, a process in which specially treated paper (Blueline-Blueprint) is exposed to ultraviolet rays. When washed in ammonia, any unexposed designs on the paper turn color, creating a clear, blue and white picture. (Author/SJL)

Describes a mural project designed to introduce students to the concept of overlapping similar images as a way of depicting a time sequence. This article is one of four articles in this issue on elementary-level mural projects. (Author/SJL)

The projects in this book were designed to introduce art to children in grades K-6. All of the projects are easy to understand, quick to do, and cost effective. Minimal preparation time is needed and clean up is easy. If finding time for quality art lessons is a problem in the classroom, one of these projects could be included as a supplement to…

An inexpensive process for developing student creativity. ( )

Junior high school students in Alaska carve a totem pole. (SP)

Describes the student creation of a remarkable unicorn mural for a neighborhood construction site. (MM)

Describes how a group of upper-elementary students in Highland, Illinois, designed and constructed a large mosaic mural depicting their city. Students were enthusiastic and highly motivated by the project. Widespread publicity excited intense community interest and involvement. The problems of design and construction are discussed. (AM)

Described is a five-day workshop in the new environmental art form of sky sculpture, which was presented at Wingfield High School in Jackson, Mississippi. Included are daily activities and the design considerations faced by students when planning their balloon creations for flight. (SJL)