During her career as a public university teaching assistant, Ting Fang (Claire) Chien observed many students who were not enrolled in an art degree program ("non-art-major students") struggle with studio art projects. As a result, she developed the Daily Life Object Project (DLOP) to show these students that art is connected to and…

Strength-based approaches, originating in juvenile justice as early as the late 1800s, situate the work of juvenile correctional facilities as assisting youth in utilizing their strengths and competencies to understand how they can be applied their lives to affect change and growth. While strengths-based approaches might have originated…

The National Gallery of Art is today "visiting" schools across the Nation - through programs available free from its Extension Service. (Editor)

Discussed an effective mural program for the Mexican Americans of East Los Angeles. (Author/RK)

One way students can be made more aware of their American heritage is through the visual arts program. Explains how elementary school students at the Reed School in the City of Ladue, St. Louis, Missouri, recreated the past in celebration of our nation's Bicentennial. (Author/RK)

Author developed a program for handicapped children which enabled them to express themselves creatively and, at the same time, expand the psychological image they project upon other people. (RK)

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)

Both students and their mothers became motivated to participate in and react to an art program developed at Oklahoma State University. The program used the mothers as volunteers who were trained to stimulate students' interests in famous art prints. (RK)