Article focused on the technique of creating batik prints, which while stirring student interest, were hung in school halls as part of the permanent collection of student work. (Author/RK)

Ancient techniques of fabric embellishment merge with present-day attitudes about expressive values in art. (Editor)

Young Artists is the annual exhibition of student art work from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, public schools, which is displayed from late May to early September in the museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center. The program is described and some of the winning artwork is reproduced. (RM)

Describes an art activity aimed at the creation of a free-flowing design of lines and shapes. (Author/RK)

Papier-mache has traditionally been thought of as a quick, inexpensive and rough-finish type of activity for young children. At Lincoln Junior High, Wisconsin, papier-mache has evolved into a rather sophisticated form of sculpture. (Author/RK)

In this interdisciplinary art and science program elementary school children visited a planetarium, learned about astronomy, and created cosmic art. Integrating art and science allows students to take a more unified look at the many parts of the world. (RM)

A project which involved gifted and talented junior high school art students in painting a mural which was hung in the entrance of the Purdue University School of Education building is described. (RM)

An abstract "hand" sculpture is a good beginning project to help children understand the meaning of space and form. Here some elementary students learn what sculpture is and ways that it can be done. (Author/RK)

Wanting to provide some large permanent art to brighten a functional, yet sterile, lower school facility, fifth and sixth grade students designed and built a mural using some long-stored pieces of mosaic tile of various sizes and colors. (Author/RK)

Describes a ten-week high school visual arts program. Five incremental drawing assignments dealing with line quality, shapes, conversion from three-dimensional perception to two-, and perspective and distortion of shape are presented. (AM)

In this day of tightening budgets, it is necessary to supplement the available art supplies with free or found materials. One such material is the colorful, patterned wallpaper sample book. Describes one art activity in which the basic material is from wallpaper sample books. (Author/RK)

This document is a packet of information for art teachers about the Gorgeous Mosaic, a project being carried out by the classroom art teachers of the world in which students individually draw portraits of the many different types of youngsters there are in their world on small cardboard tiles. The completed tiles are mounted on panels for…

A student arts festival that involved elementary and secondary students in drawing with chalk on a city block in New York City is described. Portraiture, cartoons, landscapes, abstractions, and inventive personal logos filled the huge canvas of the street in a virtual smorgasbord. (RM)

Attempting to create something different is stimulating and challenging. With this in mind, the author introduced a clay-building project in which students created a functional coil container different from any they had ever seen. (Author/RK)

A window transparency is made from black paper strips and colored tissue papers. The three visual elements of line, shape and color are emphasized for this project. (Author)