Arts & Activities articles from June 2002

Arts & Activities archives from June 2002

Editor's note.
June 1, 2002... It's time to "kick off" the summer--and this issue is designed to make it happen (with some help from Charlie Chaplin!). We have assembled for you perfect projects for this special time of year. A fun, fantastical way to begin is by sharing...

U.S. Mint honors artists. (Arts Update).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The United States Mint launched a new component to its Web site featuring the artisans that help bring the nation's coinage to life. Visitors to the site can meet the U.S. Mint's staff of sculptor-engravers--the five artisans that work at the...

Global art competition. (Arts Update).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Every four years the International Child Art Foundation (ICAF) organizes the children's Arts Olympiad, which commences with a worldwide art competition. The theme of the current competition is Me in the New Millennium. Winners from the United...

Over the Line: the Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence. (Arts Update).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... This summer, the High Museum of Art will host a major touring retrospective featuring the art of Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000). Bringing together more than 200 works that span his long career, the exhibition is the most comprehensive look ever at...

Smithsonian Study Tours enrich travel experiences. (Arts Update).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... New from Smithsonian Study Tours is the Sabbatical in Siena, from Sept. 28 through Oct. 26, 2002. This sabbatical experience offers specially tailored excursions; lectures on Renaissance and modern-day life; and private visits to cathedrals,...

Artist info on Web site. (Arts Update).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Atlantic Papers has established an artist's event calendar on its Web site. Provided is information on upcoming events, workshops and opportunities to submit artwork to competitions. This site includes the activities of the college Art...

CCAE and TeachingArts.org launch news bulletin. (Arts Update).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The Calif. Alliance for Arts Education (CAAE) collaborated with Teaching Arts.org to launch the new ArtsEdMail, a biweekly e-mail news bulletin dedicated to informing and connecting all segments of the arts education community. ArtsEdMail will...

Roy Lichtenstein: Reflections.
June 1, 2002... Video/30 min./ $39.95. Level: All Ages. L & S Video, Inc., 45 Stornowaye, Chappaqua, NY 10514, (914) 238-9366. This fascinating video provides an intimate look and visual conversation with one of the great Pop artists, Roy Lichtenstein. He...

Paul Gauguin: Images from the South Seas.
June 1, 2002... (2001; $9.95), by Eckhard Hollmann. Prestel Publishing, 175 Fifth Avenue, Suite 402, NY 10010. With the growth of technology and computers, our students are experiencing greater and greater difficulty in understanding and empathizing with...

Depth of Field: Essays on Photography, Mass Media and Lens Culture.
June 1, 2002... (2000; $24.95), by A.D. Coleman. University of New Mexico Press, 3721 Spirit Drive S.E., Albuquerque, NM 87106-5631. In his book, Depth of Field, A.D. Coleman quotes Thoreau: "How can I know what I think till I see what I say?" This raises...

Louvre.
June 1, 2002... Video/83 min./$29.95. Level: High School and Adult. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159, Glenview, IL 60025, (800) 255-8629. Planning a trip to Paris in the near future? Whatever your travel plans are, you will benefit from and enjoy taking...

Pocket Watercolor Series: Lakes and Rivers; Forests and Woodlands.
June 1, 2002... (2001; each $14.95), by Richard Taylor. Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 387 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016-8810. Watercolor is a different medium especially for students accustomed to painting with opaque colors. Students must learn...

Marcel Duchamp.
June 1, 2002... (1999; $14.95), by Dawn Ades, Neil Cox and David Hopkins. Thames & Hudson Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110. For teachers in middle and high schools, Marcel Duchamp's artworks pose problems and opportunities in the classroom....

Royal & Langnickel Brush Mfg., Inc. (Shop Talk).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... ROYAL & LANGNICKEL BRUSH MFG., INC. announces its new Soft Grip[TM] brush, an ergonomic brush with a thick acrylic handle and comfortable, soft rubber grip. There are 144 different brushes available in both synthetic and natural hair types....

Creations by You[TM]. (Shop Talk).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... CREATIONS BY YOU[TM], formerly Chimeric, Inc., brings award-winning personalized keepsake activity kits like IlluStory[R], Plate Works[TM] and more. When activities are completed, materials are sent to Creations by You in the postpaid envelope...

Sax[R] Arts & Crafts. (Shop Talk).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The 2002 Visual Art Resource Catalog from SAX[R] ARTS & CRAFTS is now available. This comprehensive source for art education resources is rich in choices for Art History/Appreciation and Multicultural studies. This catalog abounds in titles and...

Crizmac Art & Cultural Education Materials, Inc. (Shop Talk).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... CRIZMAC ART & CULTURAL EDUCATION MATERIALS, INC. has received the Finalist Award in the New York Festival's 2001 Film and Video (Non-Broadcast) Competition in the category of Multicultural Education for the 2001 video Oaxacan Woodcarving:...

Barron's Educational Series, Inc. (Shop Talk).
June 1, 2002... BARRON'S EDUCATIONAL SERIES, INC. announces the new release of A Century of Graphic Design: Graphic Design Pioneers of the 20th Century, written by Jeremy Aynsley. This hardcover, oversized book covers 100 years of graphic design, from early...

Canon, Inc. (Shop Talk).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The new Micro-Portable Multimedia LV-X1 Projector from CANON, INC. features new optical technology and quieter operation. Easy to operate, the compact Canon LV-X1 projector is a plug-and-play micro-portable model that weighs less than 6 pounds....

Kodak Gear, a line of over 100 photo accessories made by the Tiffen[R] Co. under license from Eastman Kodak Co., now includes a series of six precision rotary trimmers under the professional line. (Shop Talk).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Kodak Gear, a line of over 100 photo accessories made by the TIFFEN[R] CO. under license from EASTMAN KODAK CO., now includes a series of six precision rotary trimmers under the professional line. The versatile Kodak Gear Professional M3 Series...

Volume index: vol. 131, February-June 2002.
June 1, 2002... In every January and June/Summer issue, ARTS & ACTIVITIES publishes a Volume Index. The Index lists, by category and author, the articles that ran during a particular five-issue volume. We recommend that you photocopy the Volume Indexes and...

Learning from exhibitions: Red Grooms: selections from the graphic work. (Cover Story).(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
June 1, 2002... Red Grooms truly is a most imaginative artist, technician and observer of life. As a painter, printmaker, sculptor, paper engineer, satirist and social pundit, Grooms combines a variety of talents and characteristics to create art objects quite...

Itinerary.
June 1, 2002... Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Montgomery, Alabama Through September 2002 Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, Florida September 2002 to January 2003 Plains Arts Museum Fargo, North Dakota February to April 2003 Cape...

Commitment and artistic expression. (Community connections).
June 1, 2002... "When the school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and providing him with the instruments of effective self direction, we shall have the...

Dramatic stained glass.
June 1, 2002... Few art forms display such raw, dramatic beauty as stained-glass windows catching the full light of the sun. The ruby reds, deep sapphire blues and the powerful lines of the leading seem to have an intoxicating allure, forcing a person to stop...

A view "through".(Brief Article)(Column)
June 1, 2002... Oftentimes, when I get a serious bunch of painting students--those that are going on in art and the few that want to become art teachers--I like to have them examine the "everyday" and create art from the mundane. It takes people with a...

Car art. (on the Art Career Track).(Brief Article)(Column)
June 1, 2002... Cars used to be thought of as a male thing, a "macho" interest. Today, however, girls are just as interested in owning and caring for a car. Caring often means customizing the car's body with pin stripes, a pet name for the car, or some...

Fundamentalism in form. (art Across the Curriculum).(Column)
June 1, 2002... If you were trying to tell a story, and really wanted to get across its point, some illustrations might help. It might not be too difficult to draw them with pencil and paper, or even get more elaborate and embellish them with colored paint....

Photorealism. (Classroom Use).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... THINGS TO LEARN * After hundreds of years when artists painted and carved realistic artworks, an artistic revolution occurred about 100 years ago called "Modernism." Art changed to become abstract. Modernist art eventually became divided...

Clip & save. (Art Notes).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Richard Estes grew up near Chicago and attended the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating in 1956. From the very beginning, he was more interested in realistic art than in abstraction, although his special interest in painting urban landscapes...

Young artist.(high school student Anne Lindberg)(Brief Article)(Column)
June 1, 2002... I have always liked to do art because it is not only a form of self-expression, but it helps me relax and think. When I draw I have plenty of time to just let my mind wander and I enjoy the alone time. From this simple pastime I started to like...

The book of luck. (Recycling renaissance).(Brief Article)(Column)
June 1, 2002... The good fortune of coming upon many free plastic video-cassette containers * was the starting point of our "Book of Luck" project. As my students were currently looking into myth, magic and superstition, the boxes were perfect for us to...

Strange Creatures: an additive wood sculpture project. (Recycling renaissance).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... One of the greatest challenges for elementary art teachers is finding three-dimensional art projects that don't cost a lot. One source for inexpensive materials I have found is the leftover scraps of wood from people I know who enjoy...

Cereal box totems. (Recycling renaissance).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Multicultural projects have always been popular in the field of art education. Whenever plausible, it is a good idea to correlate art projects with subjects or themes studied in the classroom. When my fourth-graders began a project about the...

Art on wheels. (Children's art diary).(Column)
June 1, 2002... My daughter, Ana's, purple 1950s Schwinn was so big and heavy, that I had to walk it for her. She wanted the wide-tired "tank" (found at a flea market) because of its imposing color and because it had not one, but two baskets--a wicker basket...

Wet and wild. (Clay corner).
June 1, 2002... Teaching advanced art to 30 children, ranging in grades K-5, in an art-enrichment setting was a challenging task. We needed a project that involved using advanced techniques, yet would accommodate the less-developed fine motor skills of our...

2002 guide to summer ordering.(Bibliography)
June 1, 2002... 2002 Guide to Summer Ordering ARTS & ACTIVITIES' comprehensive directory of sources of art and craft supplies and equipment, schools, publications and services... a ready reference for teachers, administrators and...