Suggestions for 18 elementary classroom art projects. (CM)

Each August, third grade artists at Apple Glen Elementary in Bentonville, Arkansas, start the school year planning, creating, and exhibiting a clay relief mural. These mural projects have helped students to acquire not only art knowledge and techniques, but an even more important kind of knowledge: what it means to plan and successfully complete a…

This article describes why art educators might consider studying material forms from everyday life, presents suggestions for exploring them in an art classroom, and includes an example to illustrate teaching about an object of material culture. The author presents reasons for studying material culture in the art classroom and offers suggestions…

Article described briefly the development of the bas-relief sculpture and how to create a bas-relief of a different nature but of a similar relative appearance. (Author/RK)

Describes the use of different kinds of art materials for differing creative processes. (RK)

As Walter Benjamin described in his famous essay, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", the role of art in society and the notion that art has become modified through mechanical reproduction has engaged not only artists, but also curators and the museum public. Benjamin embraced the severing of the quasi-mystical…

Illustrates several ways to keep cardboard sculptures from falling apart when moved by using a simple clamp technique. (GB)

This paper discusses the thermoplastic and thermosetting resins presently being used by the artist, and the potential for exposure to the toxic chemicals and other hazards during the development of his creative work. (Author)

The Material Arts" course in junior high schools of Toronto, Canada, which includes welding, is described. (DB)

The author tells what to do with assorted carpet scraps. (MF)