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Art Expression

• Art, Education, and Community: Arts Genesis, Inc
  Arts Genesis, Inc. (AGI) forms partnerships with diverse communities to assist them in finding fulfillment through the arts by meeting their own self-defined needs; uses arts experiences to encourage discovery, creativity, and diversity; and continually strives for excellence in the arts and education.
• Art, Education, and Community: Arts Genesis, Inc
  Arts Genesis, Inc. (AGI) forms partnerships with diverse communities to assist them in finding fulfillment through the arts by meeting their own self-defined needs; uses arts experiences to encourage discovery, creativity, and diversity; and continually strives for excellence in the arts and education.
• Enhancing Monocultural Education Students' Multicultural Awareness through Art Experiences and Art Appreciation
  Explains how both experiential art processes and art appreciation can lead monocultural students in general education teacher training courses to a sense of their own cultural richness and that of others. By combining image making with art appreciation, education students are able to discover meaning in their own visual languages.
• Humour and Cultural Perspectives
  Approximately 5,000 works by Native artists across North America were examined to identify images that appeared to contain elements of humor.
• Mask-making and the Art in Multicultural Art Education
  Profiles the use of mask-making in an art education program at San Pedro Academy in Los Angeles. San Pedro is an all-male private school for elementary, middle and high school students with emotional and behavioral problems.
• Using Art To Teach Multicultural Issues
  Art education can be used to stimulate diverse ways of seeing and thinking. Through bringing about an awareness of diversity and various perspectives, art can lead students to enter into a dialog on different cultures and participate in a world where all experiences offer a richness of diversity.