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Carmen Lomas Garza's Barbacoa para Cumpleanos (Birthday Barbecue) depicts her childhood memory of a birthday party for her sister Mary Jane. Family, friends, and neighbors have gathered to celebrate at [...]

Are there any artworks, artists, or cultural traditions that you would like to include in your curriculum but have not because of trepidations about sensitive subjects? Can you think of [...]

Like many art teachers, you may begin the new school year with an emphasis on the foundations of art, especially the elements of art and the principles of design. If [...]

Have you ever wondered who was first responsible for the widespread teaching of the elements of art and the principles of design? Unless you have taken a course in the [...]

Welcome to art education online! Now that you are coveting a well-designed website of your own, it is extremely helpful to develop criteria through the thoughtful evaluation of existing sites. [...]

Welcome to art education online! If you are the fortunate art teacher who has a bank of computers in your classroom, please be patient with me this month (though you [...]

Without question, traditional research in the arts, whether about artists or works of art, provides a broad and strong foundation for interdisciplinary learning. Identifying topics, locating resources, organizing thoughts, creating [...]

The Art Problem Use mixed media to create a simple still-life composition. Objectives Students will create an effective still life using collage and watercolor painting. Materials 9 x 12' (23 [...]

The Art Problem The Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls that my grandmother made for me many years ago are used as the focus for a drawing lesson about the basic [...]

Last year, since our music teacher's student-teacher was from India, we decided into offer our fifth graders a one-day celebration in honor of Diwali, one of the most popular Hindu [...]

The Art Problem Create a simulated fossil using toy plastic dinosaurs and clay. Materials clay, cut into slabs about 4 x 5' (10 x 13 cm) and 1 ' (2.5 [...]

Introduction for All Students View and discuss examples of radial symmetry from natural sources and from different cultures, times, and artists. Review vocabulary from both art, such as tessellations, asymmetrical [...]

What characteristics determine if two quite similar objects are or are not works of art? Asking students to set personal standards and then apply that criteria to images and objects [...]

Isaac Newton first proposed the scientific method, an approach to scientific study, in 1687. It is a standard approach to conducting scientific experiments that involves asking a question based on [...]

This past summer when I was in Arizona, I visited a petroglyph site near Sedona. At the site, a tree-sheltered rock face was covered with carved symbols such as spirals, [...]

Until I went to China last January, I had not given much thought to China as a traditional destination--it seemed impossibly remote for this claustrophobic flyer, and my travels, up [...]

I have a confession to make (several, actually). Even though I have a cell phone with a camera, I've only taken three photos with it (and haven't e-mailed them to [...]

Even though most young students are not developmentally ready to approach portraiture as objectively as older students may be, they express their intuitive responses to the subjects of portraits they [...]

Back when I was in college (the first time), art history was taught as art in the dark. We looked at slides and memorized dates and artists' names. Most of [...]

In art, transformations may be created in many ways, but in mathematics, transformations are functions of geometry that involve congruent shapes--shapes that are exactly the same in size and shape. [...]

Ideas about nature may be examined from a number of perspectives, including the nature of art and art about nature. The Japanese worldview is nature-based and concerned with the beauty [...]

Prints and Patterns For Teachers Printmaking and its resulting multiple images are fascinating to students of all ages. Even the youngest students can experience simple forms of relief printing, and [...]

For Teachers Since the earliest cave paintings, images of the human figure have been depicted in art. As with other forms of art, the way the figure has been pictured [...]

Artists through time have sought aids to help them create illusions of reality. Some historic methods included the use of perspective as a system of drawing and the use of [...]

Exploring Community Through Haitian Art If you are fortunate enough to attend the National Art Education 2002 Convention in Miami this month, you may have an opportunity to explore the [...]

Honoring Cultural Beliefs Have you ever wondered if beliefs and attitudes about learning and teaching may differ between cultures around the world? For example, most Native American cultures hold the [...]