The president of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Ernest L. Boyer, discusses the importance of developing creativity in the classroom. (MD)

Suggests ways to create appropriate, well-fitting, economical costumes. (PD)

This art activity introduces students in grades four-six to the popular 18th-century capriccio painting of Canaletto, one of the greatest painters of views of Venice, Italy. (RM)

Students in grades 10-12 are introduced to a romantic-realist approach to landscape painting using masterpiece by Robert S. Duncanson. The activity helps students consider the decisions artists make in choosing how they will interpret nature. (RM)

Examines ways in which visible language works with or against an accompanying image to produce desired effects on a reader or spectator and investigates the role that fiction and myth play in life, using a book cover and comic strip illustrations as examples. (DF)

This tongue-in-cheek article calls for the critical reexamination of the history of modern art. The author believes that modern art is neither an extension of the Renaissance aesthetic nor a collective by-product of artists possessed of creative genius. Creators of modern art were actually representational artists suffering from visual stuttering.…

Although art, metaphorically, makes statements and conveys information, an identification of art with language is likely to be misleading in the teaching and learning of art. Why visual art is not a language is discussed. (Author/RM)

The arts are unique among the subjects which compose the curriculum and have enjoyed a small but secure place in elementary schools. This position is now in doubt. A case is made for helping the arts establish legitimacy and obtain both a secure and an expanded spot in the curriculum. (RM)

The article presents a chronological review of reseach from 1912 to the present on the identification of elementary and secondary students with superior abilities in the visual arts. Among issues raised are the relationship between IQ and talent and the nature of qualitative differences between talented and less able children. (CL)

Using the chemistry of basic black and white photography, students can combine painting techniques with photo techniques to achieve an aesthetically pleasing painting. (Author)

Article explained techniques for brayer painting with some accompanying examples of brayer art. (RK)

Authors describe a new method for making moulded sculpture. (HB)

The teaching model in the visual arts will be derived less from the painter and more from the art critic as art education moves into aesthetic inquiry. There are implications for other arts as well. (Editor)