We investigated the impact of inquiry instruction within a well-established, yearlong, studio-focused high school student program based at a contemporary art museum in the southwestern United States. The pretest and posttest focused students' attention on the work of two different contemporary artists and used the same prompts to solicit student…

This study investigates the widely accepted notion that spending more time looking at works of art results in better art appreciations. To this end, we examined the verbal responses of 34 non-expert viewers to works of public contemporary art. We structured and conducted the study in such a way as to compare, for each informant, examples of free,…

Discusses and describes the art work of Pedre Friederberg. (RB)

The author suggests that we tend to give short shrift to sculpture when we go to art museums and great architectural landmarks. She describes various forms of sculpture: carving; modeling; modern plastics, rope, glass, rubber; and mobiles. (KC)

Suggests that, in a classroom, lead can be used to produce similar creative results without the expense or noise of copper. (RB)

Profiles sculptor Henry Moore, discussing his work and its appeal to children. Discusses an exhibit of his work at Yorkshire Sculpture park in England, as well as a book on his work, "Henry Moore: From Bones and Stones to Sketches and Sculpture." (MDM)

Article has excellent photographs of various forms of African Art and includes detailed descriptions. (GB)

Upper elementary students visited an exhibit of nude sculpture. Most of the children reacted in a mature way. Activities were used to prepare children for this art appreciation experience. (AM)

Article discusses the sculptures on the campus of Princeton University and includes some interesting photographs. (GB)

Tells how a third grade class built a geometric papier-mache sculpture with inexpensive materials. (GB)

Mead Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia, displays private art collection at two elementary schools in Palo Alto, California, to provide children with an exposure to high quality painting. (DS)

There is a natural progression from making single objects to creating sculpture. By modeling the forms of objects like funnels and light bulbs, students become aware of the quality of curves and the edges of angles. Sculptural form in architecture can be understood as consistency in the forms. (CS)

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)

Sculpture is the revelation of our withness with things: our being-in-the-world. Because this is so, sculpture has a special and healing role in our times. (Author)

Author describes a successful venture of a school art gallery and the relationship of painting to sculpture. (GB)