Describes the art career guidance programs at Johnstown High School (Pennsylvania). Programs include high school art students' visits to elementary and junior high schools, an "Artist at Work" exhibit at a shopping mall, and an art career guide for high school students. The programs have increased interest in art careers from grade…

The recently opened George Gustav Heye Center (New York City) represents the first of three sites of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Three major exhibitions aim to tear down walls between Native and non-Native peoples and to give Native Americans the opportunity to interpret and present their own cultures through Indian…

An exhibition at the opening of the George Gustav Heye Center in New York City presents the talents of 15 contemporary Native American artists who during the past several years met at four different locations representing the cardinal directions. The exhibit combines sculpture, performance, poetry, music, and video to portray Indian world views…

The University of Michigan sponsored a 2-day, institution-wide exposition of quality management efforts, which included 64 exhibits staffed by university employees. The underlying principles, planning stages, evidence that the expo was successful, lessons learned, plans for similar future efforts, and ways to obtain further information about this…

Describes characteristics of the online marketplace. Topics discussed include technology barriers; data ownership; markets for online services, including libraries and end users; marketing and promotion tactics, including exhibits and conferences, advertising, direct mail, and user groups; international marketing and service; strategic marketing…

Reviews the American Library Association (ALA) midwinter conference, including lobbying aims, plans for an organizational review, gay rights activities, high-tech conference exhibits and seminars, and ALA presidential candidates. ALA Executive Director Peggy Sullivan and the 1993 conference of the Association for Library and Information Science…

Describes TECH 2000, a permanent gallery of interactive multimedia applications contributed by manufacturers and producers of multimedia systems. Located in Washington, DC, the gallery includes examples of multimedia technology in the areas of arts and culture, new technology, interactive training, educational tutorials, community information,…

Driven by mandates to serve and educate their communities and by political and financial pressures, museum's are seeking ways to alter their so-called elitist attitudes to draw in a more diverse group of visitors than they were able to in the past. Focuses on the Brooklyn Museum. (LZ)

Presents four classroom lessons designed for elementary and secondary students based on paintings in the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Provides an overall goal, specific objectives, background of the painting, and suggestions for discussion and activities for each painting. Includes full-page color prints of each painting. (CFR)

Two elementary teachers present plans, procedures, and activities used in organizing a two-day, schoolwide estimation and measurement fair. This event inspired enthusiasm for math by offering 40 indoor and outdoor activities concentrating on estimation in capacity, length, area, duration, and weight. (SM)

Describes the use of dioramas in natural-history museum exhibits. Discusses the roots of dioramas, the process of creating an illusion, the purposes of dioramas, and criticisms of the use of dioramas. Contains 20 references. (DDR)

This pilot program used videoconferencing technology to create a collaborative cultural exchange between fourth graders in San Francisco and Taiwan in which students from both cities saw an art exhibit and participated in a dialog addressing the content of the exhibit, as well as their own cultural backgrounds. (Author/LRW)

Provides information on marine painting, the historical treatment of its subject matter, and its stylistic development. Discusses and includes reproductions of paintings, from the marine collection of the Butler Institute of American Art, by Robert Swain Gifford, Stuart Davis, Alfred Thompson Bricher, Augustus V. Tack, and James E. Buttersworth.…

Reviews the work and life of Maxfield Parrish, an illustrator and painter. Considers "Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966," an exhibition featuring more than 170 works, including easel paintings, mural studies, drawings, and prints. Provides examples of his artwork and an itinerary for the exhibition. (CMK)

Highlights "Celebrating the Creative Spirit," a traveling exhibition featuring the work of 25 furniture-makers from nine southern states who use furniture as a means of personal artistic expression. Provides background on five different artists and an example artwork from each. (CMK)