This book is designed to help school districts plan comprehensive art curricula that are addressed to the concerns of society as well as to the needs of individual students. Specifically, it will help elementary classroom teachers, art teachers, supervisors, and administrators prepare their own local art curriculum guides and courses of study. The book is divided into the following sections: (1) "Purposes of the Guidelines"; (2) "The Need for a New Guide for Elementary Art Instruction"; (3) "Art Program Goals"; (4) "Art Program Objectives in Relation to Goals"; (5) "Selecting Content and Designing Art Lessons"; (6) "Preparing BCAC Units of Instruction"; (7) "Long-Range Planning"; and (8) "Evaluating Art Instruction." An appendix provides a list of resources for a balanced comprehensive art curriculum in the elementary schools. (EH)