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Butler, Laurel – Journal of Museum Education, 2014
The Young Artists at Work Program at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) recently shifted its model from an afterschool arts program to a young artists' residency. This decision arose from a desire to reposition the youth program as a priority within the larger organization, coupled with a commitment to deepening the pedagogical values of…
Descriptors: Artists, Youth Opportunities, Youth Programs, Program Descriptions
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Berman, Kim – Teaching Artist Journal, 2012
In this article, the author discusses how art, politics, and life intersect in a South African community visual arts studio program that seeks to educate artists as change agents. Artist Proof Studio (APS) was founded in 1991 and responded to the challenge of building democracy in a postapartheid South Africa. It is a community art center in…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Democracy, Educationally Disadvantaged, Change Agents
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Lai, Alice – Art Education, 2012
Facing the era of globalization, culturally responsive art teachers must recognize that students' home culture, including local artistic expression, is inevitably influenced by global forces. They should strive to engage with students systems and issues of globalization and its impact on their community culture and art. In this article, the author…
Descriptors: Art Education, Artists, Global Approach, Culturally Relevant Education
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Marshall, James B. – School Arts, 1985
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)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression, Elementary Secondary Education
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Tyree, Jeannine L. – School Arts, 1975
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)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression, Art Materials
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Bacon, Frederic H. – School Arts, 1984
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)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Products, Childrens Art
Parkman, Helen W. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1979
Trainable mentally retarded high school students in Brunswick, Maine, spend three hours out of every school day learning a variety of art and handicraft skills in the Title IV Marketable Skills Project, and the rest of their time learning daily living skills. (DLS)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression, Daily Living Skills
Zamith-Cruz, Judith; Pires-Antunes, Carla; Faceira, Maria Joao – 1999
This paper reports on the introduction of an exploratory program on emotional development, "Drawing Emotions," through which instructors try to: (1) help the child learn how to deal with feelings; (2) ascertain relational difficulties; (3) apprehend their own questions which were not answered; and (4) interfere in the presence of risks…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Therapy, Behavioral Science Research
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Armstrong, Carmen – Journal of the Association for the Study of Perception, 1981
Discusses the relevancy of visual arts programs to the development of the capacity for visual symbolizing. Explains the use of visual symbols to communicate at a very general level, to communicate accurately and specifically, and to communicate uniquely and expressively. Suggests schools not cut visual arts programs. (RC)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Communication Skills, Educational Needs
Hadary, Doris E. – Education Unlimited, 1979
The article describes American University's Laboratory Science and Art Program, an elementary teacher in-service education program which develops and implements a science and art curriculum for blind, deaf, emotionally disturbed, and normal students in a mainstreamed setting in Washington, D.C. (DLS)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression, Demonstration Programs
Goldhawk, Sara – 1998
The Task Force on Children's Learning and the Arts: Birth to Age Eight guides the development of arts-based early childhood programs and resources, and links the arts to the literacy of young children. This document presents examples of activities, programs, research, and resources that exemplify each of three guiding principles related to: the…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression, Child Development
Lawton, Cleopatra; And Others – 1976
This publication reports on the effectiveness of The World Is Your Museum Project in developing and implementing an art education model for elementary school children in the District of Columbia. Over the past three years, approximately 44 teachers and more than 1,000 students have made field trips into their community, visited museums, been…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Art Expression
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Parashak, Sharyl Thode – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 1997
Discusses connections between art therapy and art education and the use of community resources to enrich the content of a collaborative course. In this course, jointly sponsored by a university and an art museum, participants drew on various artistic disciplines and multisensory approaches to develop treatment plans for special needs children.…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Teachers, Art Therapy
Grunberg, Stephanie – 1980
An Art Involvement Program is described which helped students in middle schools, junior high and high schools develop their sense of aesthetic appreciation through visits to an art gallery. Publicized through press releases, the program involved various schools in New Jersey that decided to participate. Students from a wide variety of backgrounds…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Education, Art Expression, Art History