If your school district is like most school districts, money for supplies is an increasing problem. Art teachers are continually trying to develop meaningful art projects for which the cost is minimal. Here students learn to use discarded, large number 10 cans as planters for a macrame project. (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)

The Teaching-Learning Communities project has "apprenticed" hundreds of children to 125 "grandpersons" actively involved in 16 schools. (Author/IRT)

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)

Describes a program of 12 voluntary lunch hour minicourses for third graders at Royal View Elementary School. Each minicourse concerns a specific art activity, such as ceramics, weaving, and watercolor. (SJL)

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)

How can a teacher cover an exciting aspect of ceramics, provide his students with an exemplary model of an artist craftsperson, and bring about a growing sense of community through an alternate learning situation? One way is by offering a raku workshop, complete with kiln building. (Author)

As part of their facilities, the Department of Art Education at the University of New Mexico created an exhibition gallery open to both the academic community and the general public. The formation and program of the university-based art gallery is described. (RM)

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)

Describes a project in a summer art program for gifted junior high school students. Students studied Marisol Escobar's "found object assemblages" in which combined shaded drawings pass for sculpture and then created their own sculptures based on characters in the "Wizard of Oz." (AM)

Describes a museum experience for fourth, fifth, and sixth graders designed in the form of a treasure hunt/questionnaire. This tour format, which does not require the presence of an art specialist, was used at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. (SJL)

Touches upon an area where photography plays an integral role, its relationship to fine art. Demonstrates how photography can be creative, how the camera can be used to capture and record subject matter for the visual artist, and how photography can be used as a teaching tool. (Author/RK)

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)