This Arkansas art education curriculum guide for grades 1 to 6 covers basic concepts, vocabulary, activities, and evaluation for each grade. The basic concepts to be taught throughout these grades include line, shape, color, space, drawing, painting, printing, art history, and art careers. Specific art techniques and types of arts are introduced at different grade levels. Grade 1 introduces glue and cutting, and grade 2 emphasizes collages, while grade 3 introduces movement, texture, unity and harmony, weaving, and three-dimensional art. Balance, lettering, fiber art, sculpture, and critical awareness are taught beginning in grade 4, and grades 5 and 6 include ceramics. Also included in the guide are: (1) a color wheel; (2) a resource list of organizations, associations, offices, and boards that supply information about art careers; (3) a resource list of 53 books, 14 periodicals and newspapers, 29 organizations that reproduce slides, filmstrips, and art reproductions, and 44 businesses that reproduce posters and art reproductions; (4) a resource list of six museums; and (5) a glossary of terms. Photographs and drawings are included. (DJC)