INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LIVING TRADITIONS IN ART

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Toward the Development of a Phenomenological Aesthetic Grounded Graduate Research Program in Art and Art Education draft paper by Dr. Carleton Palmer

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Proposal for Cross-Cultural Communication of Cultural Diversity - CPR (Culture, Peace, Respect Project) proposal by Dr. Frank Pio

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Notable current quotations from correspondents:

Dr. Robert C. Morgan - on David Ecker’s Phenomenology of Viewing

Dr. Howard Conant on discussing Seminar on Elementary and Secondary School Education in the Visual Arts, (a volume edited by H.C. Conant, NYU in 1965):

“One thing I did after completing the seminar was to take some actual art masterpieces from the NYU Art Collection out into the schools (Washington Irving High School and Valley Stream, L.I., Elementary). I taught “art appreciation” to the kids, as best I could, and told them why, in great detail, I thought the original paintings by Picasso and Renoir were, to my mind, so great. Then I asked them to write down their own personal definition of art and a few other questions. A SIXTH grader from Valley Stream said that “art is the memory of a vision.”

That blew my mind, but my experience in teaching many children has taught me that kids are incredible if just given a chance.”

- personal correspondence January 11, 2008