The guide gives concepts and suggestions for teaching art to gifted students in grades 7 through 9. Noted is the need for adolescent gifted students to view reality with heightened aesthetic perception, to attain success in art work, and to remain uninhibited in development. Topics covered in an overview of art study are criticism of student art, art as a synthesizer, awareness as a source of art, identification of roles, and development of expression through techniques such as keeping hands under a cloth while sculpturing. The function of art is examined in relation to the artist and the viewer, a system of symbols, forces of design, transformation of an encounter to a visual statement, and art as a process of abstraction, symbolism, unification, and awareness of self and society. Approaches to the study of art are given to include elements such as line, artistic skills such as use of tools, presentation of art content such as varieties of textural experiences, and affective involvement such as study of Grecian art and philosophical concepts. Considered in a discussion of creativity and the study of art are cognitive synthesis, the process of transformation, abstraction and fluency, attributes of the gifted child, teaching methods that foster creativity, evaluation of art projects (a checklist is included), and development of human potential. (MC)