Provides an example of a discipline-based art lesson which interrelates the content areas of visual analysis, art production, and critical/historical analysis in a strategy employing interlocking imagery. Describes the model used for such lessons by the Getty Institute for the Education in the Visual Arts. (AEM)

A review of reports, a survey, and national assessments of art education shows that visual art students are not learning art knowledge and skills because art teachers do not teach art appreciation, art history, or design and drawing skills. Priorities concerning art education content and teaching methods must be changed. (RM)

The study examined the extent to which recent art education concepts are reflected in materials circulated by state departments of education. Project staff members identified ten major concepts: aesthetic and humanistic education, environmental design, interrelated arts, visual literacy, community resource utilization, art education for…