In this article, the author describes the Mississippi University for Women's studio art course that teaches students the ins and outs of mural making from inception and design to application of the final glaze. While students in other courses may spend the semester working toward a final exam or paper, this four-and-a-half-week summer course…

Teaching 11 agriculture-college students to make art--to see creatively, to represent imaginatively--has turned out to be a challenge, for an artist like Mr. Austin C. Heitzman who, during a year in Rome, painted a cheesy Wild West landscape, carried it down to the banks of the Tiber, and took photos of himself posing in front of it while wearing…

Job security is a relatively new concept in the ancient field of teaching art. Historically artists have created, and been judged on, their own credentials--that is, their art. The master of fine-arts (M.F.A.) degree, often described as a "terminal degree," or the endpoint in an artist's formal education, has long been sufficient for artists…