In an interview, designer and filmmaker Saul Bass discusses the nature of creativity and the creative process and his work in the visual arts and their implications for education. (HTH)

The technique of using toy cameras for both black-and-white and color photography in the art class is described. The author suggests that expensive equipment can limit the growth of a beginning photographer by emphasizing technique and equipment instead of in-depth experience with composition fundamentals and ideas. (KC)

Teachers and students who are ethnographers and who study the artifacts and "visual sign making" of their own culture will learn to value and understand the arts, as well as to produce art that matters. (Author)

The authors examined use of a bipolar scale containing ten descriptors of basic art concepts (e.g. "linear-painterly") identified by Heinrich Wolfflin for analyzing paintings. They found that both trained observers (art history students) and untrained observers (psychology students) could apply Wolfflin's concepts reliably to Renaissance…

The author states his belief that art education is more than developing art products, and that as long as the art product is the goal, rather than the educating of the child through the visual arts concepts, the potential of this discipline as a tool for learning will remain diminished. (Author/KC)

A eulogy to art educator and researcher Henry Schaefer-Simmern, explaining his theory of gestalt visual conceiving and artistic cognition. (SJL)

Described is a demonstration to illustrate the storytelling qualities of "clayscapes" and to suggest just one of the innumerable sculptured environments that are possible with clay. Clayscapes are sculptures which are minilandscapes made of clay. (KC)

In a voluntary summer program, Kingston High School students can work with internationnaly-recognized muralist Anton Refregier. (SJL)

The author suggests some approaches for facilitating the imagination and imagery activity essential to creative production in the visual and performing arts. Literature is reviewed on creative imagination imagery, the function of imagery, perception imagery and art, abilities and the visual performing arts, and facilitating the use of imagery.…

One girl's achievements in pattern-making are related with the intent of examining the way children think and the character and quality of the intellectual growth. (MP)

Mixing art history with practical experience in the elementary school can be a very rewarding experience. Through this process children receive an introduction to various artists. Here they learn about Rouault and his art works and attempt to translate his concepts with their own art work. (Author/RK)

The traveling exhibition titled "The Wild Beasts: Fauvism and its Affinities" opened first at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and was then moved to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1976. Discusses the exhibition's historic value, how Fauvism passed through three fairly distinct stylistic phases, and the social…

Describes some of the work of two members of the Half Moon Photography Workshop Collective, an independent London gallery committed to showing social and documentary photography. Examines The Workshop's major aim of promoting interest in the use of photography as a critical educational tool. (MH)

The message we can get from McLuhan is to use the visual communication that conveys its own message, as in the case of advertising arts. (HOD)

Describes an art program staffed by volunteers and utilizing materials costing an average of less than $50.00 per school. It attempts to supplement the teaching of art in the elementary grades by introducing youngsters to fine art and encouraging their enjoyment and appreciation of it. (Author/RK)