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CREATIVE ART Through Films and Slides by Wanda Wheeler Johnston Supervisor of Art and Audio-Visual Education, Knoxville, Tennessee Mary Ozelle Bible South Knoxville Junior High School Virginia Parker Head of the Art Department, Knoxville High School IT HAS OFTEN BEEN SAID that those students who are most able to create are those who have experienced the most vivid background and who have their heads "filled" with artistic experi- ences with form, pattern and design. On this principle we have attempted to accumulate, for the use of our art students, many experiences with form in nature and in design, pre- senting them through films and slides, charts and posters, or other graphic media. It is only as a result of a maximum of this type of ex- ploratory experience that we have any assurance that we can go ahead and say, "Now, boys and girls, using the medium or technique that you like best: water color, pastels, sten- cils, block printing, silk screen, or any number of others, do your crea- tive designing." Recently, then, we secured the col- ored slides. Expressive Forms in Na- ture* Potter's Workshop,* and Modern Ceramic Art* All three of these slide sets proved to be excel- lent. To these sets of slides we added the films Pottery Making** and Arts and Crafts, of Mexico.** The films, too, were excellent sources for show- * Expressive Forms in Nature, 100 slides; J97.50; Poller's Workshop, 39 slides, $27.50; Modem Ceramic Art, 56 slides. J47.fiO; Munday & Col- lins, 814 W. 8th St., Los Angeles 14, California. "Pottery Making, B&W, 10 min.. Arts and Crafts of Mexico, B&W, 10 min., both 16 mm sound; Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., 20 N. Wacker Drive. Chicago, Illinois. Left: This junior high school crafts class is beginning its, study of the slide set, "Pot- ter's Workshop," after which follows a dis- cussion of the techniques shown in the slides. tielow, left: After the discussion the group selected their own modeling projects and the procedure based on the information given in the pictures. lieUnu, right: As the final step, the students jAace their models in the kiln while Miss Bible lends a hand. {The bulletin board of pastel sketches is in the background.) 30 SEE AND HEAR