The National Art Education Association (NAEA) has failed to recognize the talents, skills, and aspirations of Afro-American art educators. There needs to be greater participation of ethnic minorities in the NAEA. (RM)

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.…

In times past art instruction for young children was integrated with other subject matters. Integration provides more meaningful experiences than can be achieved through separate study of narrowly defined subjects. (RM)

Intermediate grade students were asked to do a creative writing project based on Kier's painting "The Picnic." The approach they used to view the painting was one influenced by the aesthetic philosophy of Mikel Dufrenne. (RM)

Fifteen activities that interrelate art and reading are described. The activities can be used with elementary school children. (RM)

A subject area with rich potential for integration with art is natural science. Assignments that enable elementary students to focus on a natural phenomenon, understand it in scientific terms, and develop a drawing or painting based upon it are suggested. (RM)

Educators need to include technology within the liberal arts. Educators must modify how they think about scientific and technical problems, recognizing that the arts and humanities sharpen analytical and perceptual skills. (RM)

Instructional strategies based on a portrait painting of Francisco Goya introduce primary grade students to the idea that portraits are pictures of people. Students also develop an awareness that the visual vocabulary of color, shape, line, texture, and the quality of brushstrokes can communicate feelings and ideas. (RM)

Instructional strategies based on a portrait painting of Jean-Baptiste Oudry familiarize intermediate grade students with the techniques of portraiture and introduce the characteristics of eighteenth-century French rococo painting. (RM)

The instructional strategies suggested use a work of one of Mexico's most celebrated political history painters, David Siqueiros, to introduce junior high students to formal qualities in portraiture and contemporary Mexican art history. (RM)

Instructional strategies introduce students in grades 10-12 to the stylistic characteristics and portraiture technique of Mary Cassatt and help them understand Cassatt's relationship to work of other Impressionist painters. (RM)

Smith replies to Matoba's earlier art/sports analogy (Art Education, v38 n4 p30-31,46). Smith's basic disagreement is that art is not a sport. (RM)

The compelling career of the late Margaret Trowell and her efforts to infuse local cultures into the study of art in East Africa are discussed. Her chief concern was to make it plain that art is of the people and natural to the people. (RM)

Horse drawings by female children are analyzed. The construction of meaning in children's drawing frequently remains as much in the child's mind as it is graphically expressed. Educators must develop an appreciation for children's fantasy worlds and the ways these worlds both mirror and transform their lives. (RM)

The results of an intensive study of sixth graders' perceptions about art are presented. It is increasingly apparent that students and their variations in perception, preferences, individual aptitudes, styles, personalities, and traits influence instruction and its outcomes as much as does the teacher. (RM)