May 3, 2002

An Art-Appreciation Course Emphasizes Experience

In this art-appreciation course -- "Introduction to the Creative Arts" -- students sing, paint, and write. Everything but dance.

Actually, they do that too.

Students learn to appreciate art by becoming artists for a few hours each week. But it's the combination of art forms that makes this course remarkable, according to Stuart Green, who is vice chancellor for academic affairs at Indiana University at Kokomo but moonlights as a fine-arts instructor. "Other programs have