Stories Collection

  1. BIRDCAGE BOOKS' art games are winning awards and being sold in the world's major muse...
  2. Having been a district-wide gifted-education coordinator, I spent many years intertwi...
  3. For a recent class assignment, I read the "Funny Faces" article in your November 2000...
  4. Nudity and violence. Two art reproductions I can't use in my classroom (May 2003, pp....
  5. For over 20 years, INOVART, manufacturer of products and supplies for printmaking, ma...
  6. During the second semester of the freshman art-introduction course at our school, we ...
  7. Wow! "A&A It Works!" is great! I got sooo many great ideas from the original articles...
  8. I just received my second issue of your magazine and, although I am thrilled to have ...
  9. Creating art is my favorite thing to do. It's wonderful to make pictures that express...
  10. High-school art shows are an important annual event in the school calendar. Each year...
  11. (2002; $19.95), by Carolyn A. Dahl. Watson-Guptill Publications, 770 Broadway, New Yo...
  12. Cathedral High School, a private Catholic college-preparatory high school in Indianap...
  13. Numbers of animals, such as bears and sharks, live solitary lives, but a great many m...
  14. Video/50 min./$29.95. Level: Higher Ed. Home Vision Entertainment, 4423 N. Ravenswood...
  15. My fourth-graders experimented with gesture drawing using charcoal. Drawing lines qui...
  16. Video/25 min./$19.95. Level: Higher Education. Home Vision Entertainment, 4423 North ...
  17. Richard Zakin is a celebrated ceramic artist, a full professor at State University of...
  18. There is nothing so inspirational as the beauty and stature of a tree. Poets Emily Di...
  19. Dear Art Teacher, Please list all the home chores you hate to do on the side of this ...
  20. (2002; $22.50) by Lee Emery. The Learner/ Common Ground Publishing, P.O. Box 463, Alt...
  21. Art is the part of my day that I look forward to. It is that special time where I can...
  22. Students at our school are exposed to a lot of drawing instruction. By the time they ...
  23. (2003; $15.95), by James Horton. Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 387 Park Avenue South...
  24. For as long as art has been made, artists have experimented with new materials. For t...
  25. Wassily Kandinsky's lyrical lines and unblemished use of color captivate my imaginati...
  26. A worldwide leader in office and back-to-school products, ESSELTE CORP.'s latest inno...
  27. THINGS TO LEARN ABOUT NANCY GRAVES * Nancy Graves once wrote that titles were neces...
  28. Following is a listing of conferences being held in the coming year by art education ...
  29. PETER PUGGER, manufacturer of the original clay-mixing pugmill, has recently introduc...
  30. Nancy Groves (1940-1995). Cantileve, 1983. Bronze with polychrome patina. Overall: 98...
  31. CRYSTAL PRODUCTIONS announces the release of its 2003 Art Education Resources catalog...
  32. Kids and adults have fun creating messages and designs on a writable, erasable Chalkb...
  33. ABOUT THIS SCULPTURE At first glance, Nancy Graves' sculptures look delicate and fl...
  34. Introducing the CREATIVE GIRLS CLUB[TM], the first educational mail-order craft kit p...
  35. DELPHI is helping classes express their patriotism with a free stained-glass American...
  36. Do you share in your students' frustration when they struggle to achieve perfection i...
  37. Three Videos/10 min. each/$129 set; $49 each. Level: Grade Seven and Above. Lucerne M...
  38. Some drawing lessons need to be revisited with each incoming class. However, the dire...
  39. (2002; $6.95), by Edwin Noble. Dover Publications Inc., 31 East Second St., Mineola, ...
  40. Children love mixing colors, especially when they're doing so with creamy tempera pai...
  41. It is easy to see why art teacher Judith Johnson nominated her student, Neil Patel, f...
  42. Newly graduated from college with idealistic views about teaching, and feeling so pre...
  43. It was time to teach my sixth-grade students about style and its meaning. I wanted to...
  44. Eight Posters/Teacher's Guide/$49. Level: Middle School and Above. Crystal Production...
  45. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could just paint a picture of how we want things to be...
  46. In the book, The Dawn of Art, the Chauvet Cave (Harry N. Abrams, 1996), there is a ph...
  47. BIOFIT[R] Engineered Products offers a brochure featuring its new line of Fold-N-Roll...
  48. Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997). Torpedo ... Los, 1963. Oil on canvas; 68" x 80". [c] Es...
  49. To call attention to the importance of the arts, the ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATIO...
  50. A quick and easy way to get artwork ready for the art show is to cut 2-inches off the...
  51. In this in-depth text, Art and Cognition: Integrating the Visual Arts in the Curricul...
  52. Every year, the students in all grades of my elementary school do a papier-mache proj...
  53. Our mission this month is to help you "float into summer with teacher-tested ideas." ...
  54. An entertaining introduction to works of a great French Impressionist, Color Your Own...
  55. You know how it is. The school year is over for all practical purposes. The final exa...
  56. (2001 $28.99), by John Agnew. North Light Books, 1507 Dana Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45207...
  57. When I was little, my mom enrolled me in art class. No one else draws in my family; I...
  58. Pools and tubs are natural spaces for children's experiments and water is,a naturally...
  59. (2001; $9.95). Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 250 Wireless Blvd., Hauppauge, NY 1...
  60. Today, it seems that there are so many popular techniques that build on the making of...
  61. Watercolor is always a challenge, but it is the medium we use because it is an inexpe...
  62. (2002; $14.95, paperback) by Katie DuMont. Lark Books, 50 College Street, Asheville, ...
  63. The word "homage" means to show great respect for someone or something. Other words h...
  64. Video/100 min./$19.95 for VHS: $29.95 for DVD. Level: College. Public Media/ Home Vis...
  65. We have been teaching art together nearly 18 years at a private school comprising abo...
  66. Teachers nationwide are receiving free, sponsored educational videos from VIDEO PLACE...
  67. The creativity behind Ginny Rufner's art is a direct reflection personality and chara...
  68. America's largest art glass and mosaic supplier, DELPHI, has created a free education...
  69. THIS FACE This portrait is of a ferocious German submarine commander from the 1940s...
  70. AMERICAN ART CLAY CO., INC. (AMACO[R]) has recently introduced two new wheels: the Br...
  71. According to Professor Dee Schaad, head of the art department at the University of In...
  72. by Rubin Steinberg, March 1999 Usually I get ideas from articles in Arts & Activiti...
  73. by Geri Greenman, May 2002 I tried out this sculpture assignment with my fourth-gra...
  74. by Susan D. Cornett, October 1992 When "A Pledge is a Promise" appeared in Arts & A...
  75. by Helen Randall Evensen, September 1998 With the start of each school year, it is ...
  76. We hoped to receive a good response to our call for "It Works!" entries, and we were ...
  77. Free kiln-related pointers are available via e-mail from PARAGON INDUSTRIES. About ev...
  78. In the fall of 2000, I attended "The Arts for Children Program," which was a 15-hour ...
  79. by Paul Zabos, September 2002 This article attracted my attention initially because...
  80. by Christine Kernan, October 2002 This project was an incredible success with my se...
  81. by Elaine Canfield, October 2002 This lesson was a "realistic" success with my seco...
  82. AARDVARK CLAY & SUPPLIES The most comprehensive ceramic supplies catalog available....
  83. Tote Box: CD-ROM, lesson plans, slides, etc./$65. Level: Middle through High School. ...
  84. DUOMATRIX, INC. introduces Matrix NEO, a new polymer-based gypsum casting system that...
  85. Those of us who are art educators know that it is often a challenging task, inventing...
  86. by Geri Greenman, September 1999 After reading your magazine early one fall, I was ...
  87. by Susan Kropa, November 1983 Twenty-three years ago when I began my career as an a...
  88. by Bill Brittain, September 2001 I had been searching for a fun way to introduce th...
  89. ERRATA: In the April 2003 issue, text was missing from Creating Chemigrams in the Cla...
  90. (2002; $14.95 (Canada $22.95)) by Tanja Al Harari-Wendel. Sterling Publishing Co., 38...
  91. Published by NORTH LIGHT BOOKS, Painting on Rocks for Kids includes easy-to-follow pi...
  92. In 2000, two great projects came into alignment and looked toward space. The JASON Pr...
  93. by Harriet Gamble, December 1999 To say I was "fired up" to try this idea seems ver...
  94. by Caroline Schwarting Smith, October 1997 My fifth-grade students have great succe...
  95. by Andrew Wales, November 2002 For months, I pondered how to give our elementary st...
  96. (2002; $19.95) by Daniel Grant. Allworth Press, 10 East 23 St., Suite 510, New York, ...
  97. Wireform[R] is a specially manufactured metal mesh that is pliable enough to mold, ye...
  98. "It's a sort of inner vision. It is seeing with a spirit that is timeless. It is love...
  99. by Marcia Gibson, October 2002 For Halloween, 2002, we decided to dress up as famou...
  100. by Marcia H. Buban, October 2001 I have always felt that a great art lesson transce...
  101. "Repetition Makes an Impression," by Paula M. Slemmer, September 1999 "Falling into...
  102. Set of 8 Posters/Teacher's Guide/ $49. Level: Middle School/High School. Crystal Prod...
  103. From author Sherri Haab and published by KLUTZ, Making Mini Books is a complete guide...
  104. THIS FACE The face in this wood-block print by the Japanese artist Katsukawa Shunte...
  105. by Monica Bishara, October 1992 This has to be the most consistently successful pro...
  106. by Helen Randall Evensen, September 1982 The pages are yellowed and torn, but my 20...
  107. by Patricia Kennedy, October 1999 I had the pleasure of receiving Arts & Activities...
  108. Video/28 min./$19.95. Level: College. Public Media/Home Vision Entertainment, 4423 W....
  109. Author Kathy Sabbath Oravecz announces the launch of her book, The Frog and the Footb...
  110. Katsukawa Shuntei (1770-1820). The Warrior Egara no Heita Battling with the Giant Ser...
  111. by Ted Barlag, June/Summer 2001 After reading the article I thought this would be a...
  112. by Karen Skophammer, April 1996 This particular project on drawing jars and their c...
  113. by Angela Wilkins, September 2002 I decided that the striking-looking animal-stenci...
  114. CRIZMAC ART & CULTURAL EDUCATION MATERIALS, INC.'s "Featured Product" offers Internet...
  115. ELMER'S[R] has taken drawing to a new dimension with its best-selling "3D Washable Pa...
  116. I had my junior and senior graphic-design classes look at beverage bottles to try and...
  117. by Cynthia Cox Farris, December 2001 This article inspired me to try a weaving proj...
  118. by Smedley C. Manion, April 1994 Traveling is fun, whether you actually go to a new...
  119. by Anne Hamilton, October 1996 This article got me thinking about printmaking proje...
  120. Three-D-O's[R], from SCRATCH-ART CO., INC., is an economical material to use for thre...
  121. L&L KILN MFG., INC. is introducing a new line of Easy-Fire top-loading electric kilns...
  122. I wanted my eighth-graders to experience jewelry making but my art room, like many of...
  123. by Geri Greenman, October 2002 Wow, what an inspirational lesson! What a great less...
  124. by Geri Greenman, March 2002 My seventh-graders had just studied contour drawing, s...
  125. "Primarily Paper," by Paula Guhin "A Figurative Departure from Realism," by Geri Gr...
  126. SARGENT ART, INC. has introduced five painting mediums that enable artists of any age...
  127. I have enjoyed art since I was in Japan. The reason why most of my art looks Oriental...
  128. The "It Works!" call was sounded last June and, wow, did our readers respond! From ac...
  129. by Mary McNamara Mulkey, March 2000 I used this project as part of my Pablo Picasso...
  130. by Esther L. Cannon, April 1991 Every winter I do a clay unit with my students. In ...
  131. by John P. Richards, November 1995 This is an absolutely magical lesson that I have...
  132. I feel that the Buyer's Guide is helpful, but should perhaps be a separate insert ins...
  133. Mosaic TileCreator Software and Grid from DELPHI can help you turn any image into a m...
  134. LEARNING OBJECTIVES Students will ... * define the terms: angle, texture, lightin...
  135. NaturePainter Software, a division of URBAN PURSUIT, INC., announced the release of N...
  136. I have subscribed to your magazine my entire teaching career and just yesterday plugg...
  137. The Floor Topper[TM] Mess and Toss Mat[TM] from NEAT SOLUTIONS[TM] is portable, dispo...
  138. MATERIALS * Polaroid 600 Write-On film * Watercolor pencils or water-based pastel...
  139. Multicolor Finger Paint Paper, from SCRATCH-ART[R] CO., INC., is no ordinary finger-p...
  140. CD-ROM/$49.95. Level: All Ages. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159, Glenview, IL 6002...
  141. MATERIALS * 140-lb. watercolor paper (Arches) * Paraffin (and perhaps broken cray...
  142. When I went to the local camera store to buy my "beginning-of-the-year" photography s...
  143. Thank you for sending copies of the issue featuring Teaching Art with Art: Hunters as...
  144. (2002; $29.95), by Caroline Holmes. Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 387 Park Avenue So...
  145. There's really no other shape that is like a square. There's nothing like it in natur...
  146. Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) was a fascinating, complex and distinctive American pain...
  147. I teach grades K-8, and I love this magazine! The activities are extremely helpful. I...
  148. (2000; $21.95), by Stefan Draughton. Watson-Guptill Publications, 770 Broadway, New Y...
  149. MATERIALS * Live or artificial flowers * Pencils * Sketchbooks * Watercolor p...
  150. MATERIALS * 9" x 12" colored construction paper (assorted warm and cool colors) *...
  151. Box of 5 CD-ROMs/ $69.95. Level: High School and Adult. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box...
  152. Video/20 min./$29.95. Middle School and Above. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159, Gl...
  153. MATERIALS * Viewfinders * Acrylics * 18" x 24" painting surface * Brushes *...
  154. MATERIALS * 12" x 18" white paper * Tempera paints and brushes * Pencils and er...
  155. (2001; $14.95), by Christoph Becker. Prestel, 175 Fifth Ave., Suite 402, New York, NY...
  156. "I see letter forms as very powerful symbols. Either alone or in combination as words...
  157. MATERIALS * Resource books or Internet access * 12" x 18" white paper * Waterco...
  158. Come with us as we explore the power of paint this month. A good place to start is wi...
  159. LIQUITEX, a leading producer of professional-quality acrylic colors has relaunched a ...
  160. THIS FACE The subject of this portrait is Theodor Seuss Geisel (1902-1991), known b...
  161. My name is Joshua and I am 9 years old. I have lived in Jakarta, Indonesia, for the l...
  162. As an elementary art teacher, I read a lot of Dr. George Szekely's books and articles...
  163. Royal Soft Grip[TM] brushes from ROYAL[R] & LANGNICKEL are made with clear acrylic ha...
  164. Arnold Newman (b. 1918). Portrait of Theodor Seuss Geisel (better known as Dr. Seuss)...
  165. The reasons children make art are complex, but the notion of children making art to g...
  166. I read with great interest Learning from Exhibitions: The Artful Teapot in the Februa...
  167. WINSOR & NEWTON presents its elegant Artists' Water Colour Wood Box. Housing a select...
  168. What? Someone accidentally exposed some photo paper to room light? If you've ever do ...
  169. Recently introduced by AMERICAN ART CLAY CO., INC. (AMACO[R]), five new Genesis[R] Ar...
  170. The latest book in the Creative Kids series from NORTH LIGHT BOOKS, Artistic Drawing,...
  171. MATERIALS * Hot- and cold-press illustration board * Colored pencils and colorles...
  172. Video/25 min./S19.95. Level: Grade Six and Above. Public Media/Home Vision Entertainm...
  173. START, from the makers of quality fine art and graphic DERWENT pencils, introduces th...
  174. MATERIALS * 12" x 18" sheets of white drawing paper, black construction paper, Dipp...
  175. New from FABER-CASTELL USA are the Castell 9000 Artist's Graphite Pencil Bag Set and ...
  176. MATERIALS * Pencils * Prismacolor[R] pencils * Black paper * Photographs of d...
  177. Cartooning for Kids, by artist/author/ speaker Mike Artell, and published by STERLING...
  178. THIS FACE This portrait shows El Greco's idea about the looks and feelings of Saint...
  179. BOECKELER INSTRUMENTS, INC., recently introduced its VideoChalk[TM] line of presentat...
  180. El Greco (1541-1614). The Penitent Saint Peter, c. 1595-1600. Oil on canvas; 47 3/8" ...
  181. We have an issue full of "out-of-this-world" drawing ideas and some great projects th...
  182. PEEL PRODUCTIONS INC., 1-2-3 Draw series now includes offerings from author/illustrat...
  183. Art has always been a part of life and always will be. I love to draw and mess around...
  184. Set of six posters/$36.95. Level: Middle through High School. Crystal Productions, P....
  185. MATERIALS * Pencils * Drawing paper * Erasers * Rulers * Compasses * Prot...
  186. MATERIALS * Mirrors * White 8" x 8" drawing paper * Black permanent markers *...
  187. Video/45 min./Teacher's Manual/$79. Level: Grade 4 through Adult. Alarion Press, P.O....
  188. MATERIALS * Small art reproductions * Illustration board * Pencils and erasers ...
  189. WALKING through HISTORY After a walking tour of Florence with our group leader, we ...
  190. (2000; $35), by Barbara Oelke. Watson-Guptill Publications, 770 Broadway, New York, N...
  191. MATERIALS * 9" x 12" white drawing paper * Pencils * Black markers * Crayons ...
  192. Arts & Activities' listing of Summer Art Experiences provides ideas on how to make th...
  193. SANFORD CORP. introduces the Sharpie[R] Metallic marker in silver. In addition to off...
  194. MATERIALS * 90-lb. 9" x 12" white drawing paper (or as heavy as you can find) * P...
  195. (2001; $19.95), by Giovanni Civardi. Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 387 Park Avenue S...
  196. Ceramic artist/teacher, Jude Odell (whose whimsical work appears on our cover), says ...
  197. THE CHESTER BOOK CO. recently published Safety in the Ceramics Studio, by Jeff Zamek,...
  198. The form of the teapot as a vessel has been remarkably consistent since its introduct...