Continuing Art Education for Adults || News of the Profession

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News of the ProfessionAuthor(s): Micheal F. AndrewsSource: Art Education, Vol. 18, No. 9, Continuing Art Education for Adults (Dec., 1965), pp.39-40+46Published by: National Art Education AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3190666 .

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standards of their results but pro- vides personal enrichment and ap- preciation for what has been pro- duced in the culture. It also makes for more validity and a reason for including craft experiences in education. There is less stress on activ- ity for its own sake, and more on the art growth of each child. This is a desirable direction, and it is hoped that more quality crafts will result, with a trend away from the trite and the banal.

The inclusion of a bibliography in the text is a welcome and much- ly needed addition.

Pauline Johnson, Seattle, Wash- ington

BOOK LISTINGS:

MAKING POTTERY WITHOUT A WHEEL. Ball, F. Carlton and Lovoos, Janice. New York: Rein- hold Publishing Corp., 1965. 160 pp. $9.95

ORIENTATION TO DRAWING AND PAINTING. Henks, Robert. Scranton, Pa.: International Text- book Co. 1965. 187 pp. $7.50

AUGUSTE RODIN: Readings on His Life and Work. Elsen, Albert. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-hall, Inc., 1965. 185 pp. $2.95

ON WEAVING. Albers, Anni. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1965. 204 pp. $15.00

THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON. Valsecchi, Marco. New York: Appleton-Century Channel Press, 1965. 158 pp. $8.95

CHARCOAL DRAWING. Meyers, Francis J. New York: Pitman Pub- lishing Corp. 1965. 48 pp. $1.00

THE HISTORY OF SURREAL- ISM. Nadeau, Maurice. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1965. 352 pp. $6.95

HISTORY OF ART CRITICISM. Venturi, Lionello. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1964. 398 pp. $2.60

P E R S I A N ARCHITECTURE. Pope, Arthur Upham. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1965. 288 pp. $25.00

A HANDBOOK OF CHINESE ART. Medley, Margaret. New York: Horison Press, 1965. 142 pp. $5.00

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profession: 1966-67 TRAVEL GRANTS FOR ADVANCED GRADUATE STUDENTS

The Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants announces oppor- tunities for advanced graduate students and scholars to engage in study and research in the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary during the academic year, 1966-67. This exchange, pres- ently in its eighth year, is made possible by the intergovernmental agreements on exchanges with the USSR and agreements with the educational ministries of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. The exchange is administered by the In- ter-University Committee on Trav- el Grants, a multi-university Amer- ican organization whose objective is to strengthen education in the United States. The program in- cludes a summer exchange of American teachers of Russian lan- guage with the Soviet Union.

All participants are chosen in national competition through appli- cation and interview. Participants must have proficiency in the lan- guage of the country commensu- rate with the needs of their pro- grams. Applicants must be either American citizens or permanent residents of the United States.

For additional information write: Dr. Howard Mehlinger, Inter-Uni- versity Committee on Travel Grants, 021 Lindley Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

CHILDREN'S ART MONTH ARTICLES OFFERED

All those planning CHILDREN'S ART MONTH activities for March 1966 are urged to send in the names and addresses of their local newspapers to the Crayon, Water Color and Craft Institute, Inc. so they will receive the art education articles the Institute sends out for March publication. The articles are accompanied by a note encourag- ing the papers to cooperate with school and youth groups in devel- oping feature stories about local projects and the views of informed local citizens on the importance of art training for all children.

By gaining wider distribution of its articles, the Institute hopes to make more people aware of the

many values of a purposeful art education in the development of each child's highest potential.

Sponsor of CHILDREN'S ART MONTH, with the support of The National Art Education Associa- tion, and the cooperation of some fifty national, civic and youth or- ganizations, the Institute welcomes and appreciates clippings of reports on local activities. It continues to make available material designed to help the planning and publiciz- ing of lc•;al projects. Those request- ing this material are asked to en- close a business size, self-addressed stamped envelope, and to indicate their affiliation. The address of The Crayon, Water Color and Craft In- stitute, Inc. is 420 Lexington Ave- nue, New York, N.Y. 10017.

ART CENTER SCHOOL RECEIVES $1,000,000 FORD FUND GRANT

The Art Center School of Los Angeles has received a $1,000,000 grant toward its building program from Ford Motor Company Fund, it was announced today by E. A. Adams, President of the School.

In making the grant, Ray C. Kooi, Director of the Fund, said "Our intention is that the gift will make possible a modern physical plant for this school whose unique design education on the college level contributes significantly to the economic and cultural progress of the country."

The funds will be used for new building construction and will serve to initiate the school's long-term master plan for a contemporary campus. First phase of the building program will involve classrooms, auditorium, research library, lab- oratories, studios and galleries.

The Art Center now is in its 35th year and has pioneered in higher education in the fields of industrial design, advertising design, illustra- tion, photography and fine arts.

The school has a student body of approximately 1000 in day and evening courses, and a faculty of 88.

Ford Motor Company Fund is a non-profit corporation for educational, charitable and scientific pur- poses, and is supported by contri- butions from Ford Motor Com- pany. It is not related to The Ford Foundation.

JUNIOR FILM FESTIVAL

Films from more than thirty countries were shown during the first international children's film festi-

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Continued from page 39) val held recently at Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia.

The outcome of a symposium or- ganized last year at Gottwaldov by the International Centre of Films for Young People-a body set up and supported by UNESCO-the festival is to take place every two years.

Film-makers and educationists attending the festival exchanged views on the role and content of films for children and young people, but the main thing was the films.

Over thirty were screened before a lively and critical audience- children from local schools who had been invited to express their preferences in a poll.

Their views coincided with those of the international jury which gave top marks to two Czech films- The Carp, a humorous story of a small boy who tries to save a live carp from the Christmas dinner table, and An Unusual Class, which tells of the hopes, fears and mis- adventures of a girls' class in a secondary school at exam time. The prize for the best cartoon went to Poland's Lolek and Bolek, two lads who try to re-enact the story of William Tell but find that bows and arrows bring more trouble than fun.

"A WINDOW OPEN ON THE WORLD"

Current, illustrative material about the people, cultures, and conditions of other countries is a continuing need in the teaching of world understanding. The U NE S C O COURIER, a monthly magazine published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, helps to fill this need with interesting and well-illustrated articles on science, history, youth, education, geography and the arts.

Without being too learned or too "popular" in its approach, the COURIER presents to its readers a vivid picture of the endless di- versity of peoples and countries. Intended particularly for teachers and students, the magazine can be used in the classroom as well as for supplementary reading. Separate editions in Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish have proved useful in the teaching of modern languages. Special pages in color are a regular feature.

The UNESCO COURIER is in- dexed monthly in the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature.

Subscriptions may be placed with the UNESCO Publications Center,

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EUROPE and the EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN July 1-August 25, 1966

15th annual art history study tour of the TYLER SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS

of TEMPLE UNIVERSITY. Six credits. Two weeks in Paris, in London, and motoring among the Dutch and Flemish art treasures are followed by a flight to Athens, for two weeks in Turkey and mainland Greece and a deluxe cruise to Crete, Rhodes and the Aegean islands-continuing with a week's stay in Rome followed by ten days of motoring through Italy's art cities-and an (optional) twelve day tour of Spain and Portugal. Miss Carolyn Pitts of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and several European art historians of distinc- tion will give a series of lectures related to the group's visits to ancient sites, palaces, museums, cathedral, galleries and studios-encompassing five millennia from the Minoans to the present. Cost: $1,836 for the first 44 days, $234 (optional) for the last 12-including jet flights NY back to NY, land travel by private motor coach, the Aegean cruise, good hotels, fine meals, evening entertainment, lectures, sightseeing and tuition.

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THE SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS OF INSEA

Michael F. Andrews Syracuse University The 17th Congress of the Inter- national Society for Education Through Art was held jointly at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan (the Tokyo Metropolitan Festival Hall in Ueno Park) and the Kokuritsu Kyoiku Kaikan (the National Assembly Hall for Education) in Tokyo, Japan August 2 through August 9, 1965. What the Japanese Prepara- tory Committee for INSEA--Ja- pan feared might be an unsuccess- ful conference, fortunately devel- oped into one of the most success- ful INSEA conferences since its in- ception in 1954.

Participating in the International Conference on Art Education were approximately twenty-five hundred representatives from thirty-one dif- ferent countries. The countries rep- resented included Argentina, Au- stralia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Eng- land, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Okinawa, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, T a i w a n, United States, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Yugo- slavia.

There were nearly sixty Ameri- cans in attendance. Forty-six of them, mostly strangers to each other at the onset, were members of the NAEA-NCCAE tour. They came from all parts of the United States. There were art educators from Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Mich- igan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Other Americans in attendance at the conference, such as Dr. John Olson from Long Beach, California and Professor Frank Wachoiak from Iowa City, Iowa, who were spending their sab- batical in Japan, were already in Tokyo.

The opening session proved to be a delightful experience. Greetings and words of welcome were ex- tended by the Presiding Chairman, Professor Saburo Kurata; the Hon- orable Crown Prince Hitachi, who with his most charming wife, was in attendance for the entire session; the Honorable Umekicki Naka-

mura, Minister of Education in Japan; Eleanor Hipwell who, rep- resented England, read a message from ailing Sir Herbert Read, Hon- orary President of INSEA; Dr. D'Arcy Hayman, UNESCO repre- sentative; and Dr. J. A. Soika, President of INSEA.

Some of the outstanding speakers were Professor John Bolling from the Netherlands; Professor K. J. Nakashime, Niigata University, Nagano-Ken, Japan; Professor Keiichi Mori, Chiba University, Chibashi, Japan; Professor E. Mill- ler from Switzerland, and V. K. Skotershchikov from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Speak- ing for the United States were Mi- chael F. Andrews, Frank Wacho- iak, Sister Mary Joseph, and Bar- bara Nottingham.

The Japanese ability to create an atmosphere of hospitality, however, helped greatly to make the conference a success. But there was more, much more, than the conference that added greatly to the enjoyment of the trip to Japan. The free days and nights of leisure were spent enjoying the exotic cuisine and entertainment forms of tra- ditional Japan: the all-male kabuki drama; the traffic packed, neon- ladened Ginza and Kyoto business districts; and the quaint but aes- thetic side streets, subways, pachin- ko parlors, and kamikaze taxi rides.

On Friday, August 6, with the conference over, members of the NAEA and NCCAE tour enjoyed a full day excursion as we traveled to Kamakura by way of the beautiful Tokaido Highway and along the Japan's Pacific coast to the Fuji- Hakone National Park.

Late afternoon of the next day the group boarded one of Japan's new super express trains for the classical city of Kyoto where we spent the last seven days of our most enjoyable fourteen day tour. Among the outstanding experiences were the visits to Mikimoto Pearl Island in Osaka, the world's largest cultivated pearl industry; Sanjusangendo Temple, the hall of a thousand and one gold gilded wooden Kannon Buddhas; the Nijo Castle with its beautiful gardens; Todaiji Temple which houses the world's largest Buddha and Kasuga Shrine with its thousands of com- memorative stone lanterns in Nara; the simple but elegant Shinto Shrine in Uju; and the Deer Park where we fed rice crackers to Ja- pan's most sacred animal - the deer. NOTE: The 18th INSEA Congress in Prague (August 3-10, 1966) will serve as the focal point of next summer's NAEA/INSEA European Tour. Watch Art Education for further details, or contact NAEA Headquarters.

Top: left, Prof. Keiichi Mori, Director of the 17th INSEA Congress; right, Charles Dorn, NAEA Executive Secretary, with D'arcy Hayman of Unesco. Bottom: left, Mike Andrews, President-elect of NAEA's Eastern Regional; right, Dr. J. A. Soika of Germany (INSEA President) with Prof. Kijusi Suzuki of Japan (INSEA Vice President).

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