Offers a lesson plan using Richard Estes' silkscreen print "Facade" to illustrate for students in grades four to six how artists visually represent the urban environment. Includes suggestions for classroom activities. (AEM)

Thomas Cole's painting, "The Architect's Dream," is used to illustrate a middle school lesson on how artists interpret cityscapes. Includes suggestions for classroom activities. (AEM)

Creates a lesson plan using Mark Tobey's painting, "Flow of the Night," to illustrate to students in grades 10-12 that artists may interpret their environments in a variety of ways, from the subjective to the abstract. Includes suggestions for classroom activities. (AEM)

Provides criteria, formulated by the Committee on Lifelong Learning for art education, for programs in the visual arts for adults. Specifically covers instructor qualifications, program goals and standards, program/curriculum content, instructional spaces, class size, and potential art hazards. (AEM)

Presents several central themes about aging which may prove useful in interpreting art works and increasing students' awareness of the human qualities of aging. Indicates that, when the artist represents the physical changes of aging, he or she equally characterizes cognitive, emotional, social, and spiritual levels of aging. Includes seven…

Reviews Pearl Greenberg's book on developing art programs for older adults. Finds it useful as reference for adult educators and those specifically involved in establishing art classes for older adults but lacking in its chapters on suggested art projects. (AEM)

This article describes how students at an elementary school in South Carolina use computers to create art. Includes samples of their computer graphics. (JDH)

This article describes how one art educator helps teacher education students develop more positive attitudes toward art and art instruction. (JDH)

This article reports the results of a study of 25 second-grade students' conceptions of art. The study used a combination of participant observation, questionnaires, and interviews. Concludes that second graders generally like art and conceive of it as an activity, a place, and as an object. (JDH)

Provides a four-category conceptualization of art which identifies the means of making art and the various elements of art. Discusses the aims of art and reasons for creating it. Examines the relationship that should exist between the ends and means of creating art and how it is taught and learned in schools. (JDH)

Provides a three-lesson-plan unit designed to introduce Beatrix Potter, the author of "Peter Rabbit," as an inspiration for drawing and painting. (JDH)

Based on a full-color reproduction of Marc Chagall's painting, "Wild Poppies," the goals of this lesson plan are to introduce students to artist's use of dreams and memories in making art, to communicate the idea that artists include their visual memories of people and things they love in their artwork, and to introduce the concepts of line and…

Using a full-color reproduction of George Tooker's 1953 painting called "Highway," this lesson plan is intended for students in grades four through six. The lesson's goal is to encourage an awareness of symbols and forms in contemporary society and to express attitudes and feelings about depersonalized structures and systems in society. (JDH)

Based on a full-color reproduction of Henry Fuseli's 1781 painting, "The Nightmare," the purpose of this lesson is to introduce a painting that presents a pioneering idea about the nature of dreams, and to help students understand how a masterpiece often points to new directions in thought and beliefs. (JDH)

This lesson uses a full-color reproduction of Adolph Gottlieb's 1946 painting, "Forgotten Dream," to introduce students to the ideas of symbolic imagery in abstract expressionist art, and to help students discover reasons and ways artists communicate their memories, dreams, and fantasies. (JDH)