A Peace Corps volunteer was assigned to teach art at the high school level in Lesotho, South Africa. The volunteer taught the basics of visual design through drawings to scale, anatomy charts, blueprints, and field trips. (AM)

A United States teacher visited an art class in a Chinese commune and observed fifth grade students working on line drawings. (AM)

Describes a study which examined how subject matter, color, and degree of realism influence preferences for paintings of subjects in grades 3, 5, 7, 11, and college. Realism is the most important factor in shaping untrained subjects' responses to paintings. Color and subject matter have less influence on these judgments. (Author/AM)

Five articles describe techniques of mural making and mural projects which have been accomplished by elementary and secondary students, including a class of blind and partially sighted children. (SJL)

Using three specific works of art, the author demonstrates how a study of selected landscape paintings can be integrated into units on landforms in secondary school earth science and general science courses. (Author/SJL)

A playful series of activities using the "Yellow Pages" as a resource. (Editor)

The development of fine design in alumni publications is traced and the roles of typography, photography, illustration, paper, printing, and color in designing a magazine are discussed. The nature and importance of visual communication are considered. (JMF)

Describes a mural project designed to introduce students to the concept of overlapping similar images as a way of depicting a time sequence. This article is one of four articles in this issue on elementary-level mural projects. (Author/SJL)

An activity is described in which children explored ways of changing a nontessellating circle into curved shapes which would tessellate. (MP)

Discusses some of the special art shows presented in honor of the nation's second century. Two examples were The Hudson River School: 19th Century American Landscapes, presented at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, and The World of Franklin and Jefferson at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. (Author/RK)

Attitudes of religious institutions toward art are discussed. It is suggested that art is regarded with suspicion because it involves the senses and sensibilities, and that Protestant-English based theology is afraid of sensuality because of its changing, rather than predictable, nature. (RW)

Presents print and CD-ROM versions of a pictorial and narrative history of America for the general reader published by Knopf and ArtLook containing more than 500 photographs selected from the visual collections of the Library of Congress. Describes the historical context of 27 highlighted illustrations. (PEN)

This article describes the Art Elective Program (AEP), a government supported program for gifted students at a girls' high school in Singapore. The AEP offers academically talented students, who usually concentrate on the sciences, exposure to the visual arts. Students study drawing, painting, design, and art history; do projects; and participate…

Discusses multiple ways to view nature by giving examples from several books and publications. Suggests that each art form and cultural perspective provides a different approach to the essence of an organism. Warns educators about the pros and cons of scientific imaging. (SOE)

In arts-based research, the mode of inquiry through an art form generates new insights that would not have been revealed through a traditional written format. Three sets of criteria for evaluating arts-based research are presented that privilege the written word. Additional criteria are offered for visual arts-based research. (Contains 22…