Outlines the following information regarding the new National Endowment for the Arts Arts-in-Education Program: (1) background, (2) themes, (3) structures, (4) immediate next steps for members of the arts education community, (5) important principles for a particular group of arts educators, and (6) initial comprehensive planning questions. (JD)

Maintains that current research, literature, and discussion on the need for arts in education reveal a lack of sound philosophical foundations. Describes the nature of the problem and offers a sounder basis for building a stronger case for including the arts in education. (JDH)

Summarizes the efforts of teachers at all levels of education to prepare students with the basics of art education. Describes the art foundations program of the Maryland Institute College of Art, and concludes that perceptual drawing is the most basic of all art subjects. (JDH)

The Arts in Special Education Project of Pennsylvania (ASE) works cooperatively with intermediate units to make arts inservice workshops and special events available at regional and local sites. Descriptions of ASE efforts in inservice, information, assistance and resource materials, and presentations are given along with a list of ASE…

Looks at reasons for the relatively low status of art education, and developments pointing to a hopeful trend for improving the prospects of art education (e.g., the evolution of a professional field, the creation of organizations with diverse interests, growth of curriculum research, private and public programming, and the utilization of new…

There are many experiences that we have, such as eating and talking, when we don't have to be focusing on anything visual. Art educators need to help children portray the sensory aspects of such experiences and to decrease their reliance on the visual aspects of experience. (RM)

Propositions which are used as guidelines for the development of a methodology for art criticism are presented. Based upon these propositions and generally following a phenomenological method of description, a method of art criticism composed of the following five components is described: receptiveness, orienting, bracketing, interpretive…

Article described an inexpensive method for students to experiment with relief printing. In this case the inner tube was used to supplement linoleum block printing. (Author/RK)

A community may be interested in raising the level of local involvement and informed interest in art. A critical examination about the issue of the service brought by "art fairs" to the community in art conscious middle America was discussed. (Author/RK)

Most art teachers are puzzled about what educational philosophy is and why it is needed. On the one hand, they feel that they should be able to articulate a guiding philosophy for what they do in the classroom. But just as typically, they perceive philosophy to be "a difficult study of obscure subjects," remote from their practical concerns as…

This book began with the idea that it would describe a set of arts-based service-learning courses developed and implemented during the unique multi-year project, Linking Service-Learning and the Visual Arts. These courses, in photography, graphic design, ceramics, and art education were to be offered as models, perhaps, or better yet, as…

It is important to maintain a history and archival record of the art education professional associations, state and national. Those who have gone before should be honored, since they struggled to build the National Art Education Association into the largest association of its kind in the world. And a history of its professional development, and in…

Using exercises based on the stacked mattresses image from the tale of "The Princess and the Pea," combined with Ecker and Kaelin's Aesthetic Inquiry ladder schematic, will help art educators schematize their thinking and talking about art in the classroom. Whether by selecting phenomenology or another philosophical method for navigating…

Author provides suggestions which supply direction for making your own photographs of art work. (Author/RK)

Discussed the drawings of bicycles by students with a strong interest in vehicles. (Author/RK)