Perhaps the individual least informed about the objectives and functions of the art educator in our elementary and secondary schools is the artist. Trained largely in professional art schools and in fine art departments in colleges and universities where mastery of art skills largely determines the curriculum, the artist rarely bestirs himself to get acquainted with the problems and functions of public school art. Art, he believes, should be taught by “artists,” although there is no evidence of mass movement of painters and sculptors from 57th Street to the classrooms of our urban and rural schools. With one eye glued on the canvas and the other on national exhibitions, one-man shows and local talent exhibits, the artist is neither aware of nor really cares what the art educator in the schools is trying to do or how he does it.