An industry-funded, school-based project which developed a sequential system of instruction for teaching watercolor to elementary students is described. This model of collaboration between a public school system and a corporation illustrates what can be done to improve art instruction. (RM)

Through a private grant, Encinitas Union School District is developing a new art education program which features the videotaping of lessons and demonstrations by community artists and the incorporation of these videotapes with exhibits and workshops into a resource library for teachers. (Author/SJL)

It is felt that drawing progress is best achieved by art specialists working on repeated exposures rather than one-time lessons. This type of classroom research serves as a tool with which art educators can work with curriculum workers and administrators to improve art programs. (Author)

Both students and their mothers became motivated to participate in and react to an art program developed at Oklahoma State University. The program used the mothers as volunteers who were trained to stimulate students' interests in famous art prints. (RK)