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Mangan, Katherine – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
This article describes how a 26-panel altarpiece that once adorned a 15th-century Spanish cathedral inspired faculty members and students at Southern Methodist University to spend a semester dissecting the piece in a multidisciplinary course that featured songs, floats, videos, and painting. The course sprang out of a discussion Mark Roglan,…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Elective Courses, Private Colleges, College Faculty
Wasley, Paula – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
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…
Descriptors: State Universities, Studio Art, Art Education, Art Activities
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Eckhoff, Angela – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2008
The visual arts can be an important and rich domain of learning for young children. In PreK education, The Task Force on Children's Learning and the Arts: Birth to Age Eight ("Young children and the arts: Making creative connections", Washington, DC: Arts Education Partnership, 1998) recommends that art experiences for young children…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Art Education, Art Activities, Art Appreciation
Stawski, Conrad – 1977
A humanities course that teaches an appreciation of tradition and culture through the visual arts includes consideration of contemporary art as well as classic paintings and sculpture. Study of Leonardo DaVinci's "Last Supper" provides an exercise in the intellectual approach to religious painting, while the portrait of Mona Lisa by the same…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Artists, Cultural Enrichment, Humanities Instruction
Perfect-Miller, Suzanne – Instructor, 1988
Five projects in the arts, such as drama and facepainting, provide a day's worth of class activities. Detailed instructions for each project, including materials and procedures, are given. (JL)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Class Activities, Drama, Intermediate Grades
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Doernbach (Matthews, Marguerite S.) – School Arts, 1972
The author discusses techniques of making students aware of colors. (MF)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Products, Color
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Garvis, Susanne; Pendergast, Donna – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2010
This paper examines and reports on beginning generalist teacher self-efficacy, which Bandura (1997) suggests plays an important part in student outcomes. In 2008, 201 beginning generalist teachers throughout the state of Queensland, Australia, participated in a study that aimed to provide a snapshot of current perceptions towards support in…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Art Education
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Michaels, Judy Rowe – English Journal, 2009
In this article, the author discusses how students create their arts projects by responding to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." In creating their arts projects, students incorporate film, painting, performance, and other arts in their imaginative and innovative responses to Coleridge's classic work. The author discusses…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Visual Arts, Theater Arts, Poetry
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Armon, Joan; Uhrmacher, P. Bruce; Ortega, Tony – Art Education, 2009
"Letras y Arte: Literacy and Art" is a 3-week summer course at Regis University in Denver, Colorado, offering a social justice approach to art education. In this article, the authors outline the background of "Letras y Arte," contextualize the program in art education, and explain three strategies for engaging students: (1)…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Art Education, Learner Engagement, Visual Arts
Mardirosian, Gail Humphries; Lewis, Yvonne Pelletier – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Professors from American University and artists and educators from Imagination Stage, a children's theater and arts-education organization in nearby Bethesda, Maryland, have combined their intellectual and artistic strengths over the past 12 years to create an arts-integrated educational program for elementary and secondary schools throughout the…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Imagination, Visual Arts, Art Education
MacInnes, Colin – Times Educational Supplement (London), 1975
Author criticized the low priority given to the arts in schools. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Architecture, Art, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background
Gwin, William – 1973
Video is a very new medium; painting a very ancient one. This fact inevitably creates a great difference in the two, but not nearly so great as the confusion of this moment makes it seem. In an effort to reconcile the two media four concerns--naturalism, surface, a respect for the properties of the medium, and motion--appear to be important. These…
Descriptors: Art, Art Expression, Fine Arts, Painting (Visual Arts)
Barabacheff, Philippa – French Rev, 1970
Descriptors: Cultural Centers, Dance, Films, Foreign Culture
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Johnson, Ann – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2007
A friendship fence is a wonderful alternative to the standard mural. It provides a fantastic opportunity for children to help design a creative learning environment. In this article, the author describes an art project that involves creating a friendship fence. The author relates that she began introducing her students to Ndebele beadwork dolls…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Painting (Visual Arts), African Culture, Art Activities
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Moon, Bruce L. – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2007
This article presents a theoretical and methodological framework for interactive dialogue and analysis of dream images in existential art therapy. In this phenomenological-existential approach, the client and art therapist are regarded as equal partners with respect to sharing in the process of creation and discovery of meaning (Frankl, 1955,…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Sleep, Phenomenology, Counselor Client Relationship
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