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The structure of children's responses to art and efforts in making art were examined on a random sample of New Zealand schoolchildren, ages 8--9 and 12--13. Participants completed a set of 6 performance assessment tasks in aesthetic perception and artistic production. Factor analysis and multivariate analysis of variance were used to investigate the underlying structure among the tasks, and to look at the relationships among the factors of aesthetic perception and artistic production, with age, gender, and socio-economic status. Results indicated that a 2 factor solution was robust over age and gender combinations. Also, gender, age, and socio-economic status were all related to both production and perception factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]