Sixteen conference papers representing diverse topics concerning research in the arts and presented as part of the 1984 Arts and Learning Special Interest Group (SIG) program of the American Educational Research Association are presented in the second of two volumes. Papers presented include: "First Graders' Conversations about Art Making: Social Life, Fantasy, Play, Verisimilitude, and Procedures" (Robin Alexander); "Film and Interest: An Analysis of Elementary School Children's Preferences for the Liveliest Art" (Carole Cox); "Children's Representations of Time in Music" (Carolyn Hildebrandt); "The Effects of Verbal Contextual Information on Visual Art Processing" (Judith Koroscik); "What is Said and What is Depicted: The Role of Medium, Referent, Age, and Knowledge in Representation: (Stuart Reifel); "Photographs, Contexts, and Interpretations" (Terry Barrett); "Developing an Instrument to Measure Dramatic Behavior" (Helane Rosenberg, Patricia Pinciotti, and Jeffrey K. Smith); "Differences among Ability Groups in the Performing Arts at the High School Level" (Patricia Dwinell and Mark Hogrebe); "The Application of Questioning Strategy Research to Art Criticism Instruction" (Karen Hamblen); "The Research and Development Function of the 1983 Getty Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts" (Jean C. Rush, W. Dwaine Greer, and Hermine Feinstein); "The Philadelphia Museum of Art Institute as Research and Development" (Theodore Katz); "The Philadelphia Museum of Art as a Vehicle for Inservice Education" (Jesse Lovano-Kerr); "A Study of Infant Musical Productivity" (Linda Kelley and Brian Sutton-Smith), "Contextual Information Effects on the Categorization of Differences among Photographs" (Kathleen Desmond and Judith Koroscik); "Perspective Drawing as Problem Solving" (J. Anne Murphy); and "Strategies of Representation: Observational Drawings of Four- and Five-Year Old Children" (Cynthia Colbert). The conference program is appended. (LH)