This paper examines the role of visual arts in student creativity development and gives guidelines for using a comprehensive visual arts program which can foster interdisciplinary connections throughout the curriculum. Sections of the paper include: (1) "Visual Arts in Education"; (2) "Visual Arts is a Way to..."; (3)…

Study of the arts enhances young people's intellectual, personal, and social development. The arts provide a rich and engaging curriculum that develops students? abilities to think, reason, and understand the world and its cultures. A comprehensive arts education encompasses such areas as the history of the arts, the honing of critical-analysis…

Students created and drew sketches for each of the twelve months of the year, which were printed and sold to raise money for class and club activities. (GB)

Describes an art lab developed as an alternative form of education for inner-city children. (GB)

Big business is increasingly receptive to the idea of displaying children's art work in their executive offices. (Author)

Author looked at the position and role of the visual arts and the artist as they reflect and contribute to the creation of a culture's concept of reality or world view and what this means to art educators. (Author/RK)

This study was conducted to determine if raters would use a single policy for determining the beauty of paintings and to demonstrate the JAN technique in an experiment where the predictors first had to be hypothesized and then a quantified measure ascribed to each. (Author/RK)

Discusses how working with clay can be an enriching experience, enlarging the student's awareness of and appreciation for all crafts as well as developing his aesthetic judgment. (GB)

Considered the enameling process, a craft by which students can produce sophisticated art works through elementary application of materials. (Author/RK)

Discusses the continuing emphasis on cool realism and its relationship to the field of modern art. (GB)

A discussion of the elements of aestheticly pleasing and effective instructional materials. (HB)

Author describes a successful venture of a school art gallery and the relationship of painting to sculpture. (GB)

The interest and atmosphere generated during the mural painting produced a class cohesiveness and cooperation that could never be achieved in more individual projects. (Author)

An art teacher captured students' interests by bringing a motorcycle into the art workshop as a model. (GB)

Wall space can be a valuable resource for artistic expression. (GB)