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It took me years to balance the need to teach high school students the 'grammar' of art--the principles and elements of art and design--with the desire (and pressure!) to teach [...]

Convincing rural, farm-grown teenagers to appreciate modern abstract art is akin to getting them to like liver and onions. We have all shown a poster of a Jackson Pollock or [...]

* The fire department inspects the school and tells you that you have too much flammable material hanging on your walls. * The functioning clock has been turned upside down [...]

The article presents a lesson plan for secondary education which teaches concepts about making artworks.

The article focuses on the art funding project made by high school students in Orland, California. It states that the community, together with the students engaged in a fund raising activity, wherein the students created artworks for sale. The students created thumbnails image, incorporating it into their compositions. The thumbnails were checked based on the principles, color schemes, design, texture, and value. Moreover, details on the actual thumbnails auction are presented.

The article offers high school art teachers a lesson guide for teaching students to see three-dimensional still life subjects. Art materials include square black construction paper, a wooden clothes pin and pieces of cotton rope. Each students should be encouraged to loop, knot, wrap and fray their subjects. To assess learning, close attention must be given to all projects' proportion and value.