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Besides Brown, other members of the committee are Lane Faison, Jr., Chairman of Williams College's Art Department; Dean Keppel of the School of Education; Donald Oenslager '23, prominent stage designer and member of the staff of the Yale School of Drams; Charles Sawyer, Dean of the Division of Arts of Yale University; Wolfgang Stechow, professor of Art at Oberlin College; George Wald, professor of Biology; and John Walker '30, Chief Curator of the National Gallery in Washington...
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Evolved by burly, kindly Ruth Faison Shaw at her experimental school in Rome (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933), finger painting has rapidly become a custom in progressive schools. It is done with earth pigments, invented by Miss Shaw, which come like jelly in little jars and can be licked or even eaten with impunity. A big sheet of glazed paper is dipped in water, spread smooth on a table, and gobs of color are dropped on it. The child then swirls the mixture over the paper with both hands, fingers, even forearms, continually creating new designs. Having no crayon or brush...
Fingerpainting, the process's official name, was evolved by capable, burly Ruth Faison Shaw at her experimental school for British & U. S. children in Rome. Her primary interest was more therapeutic than artistic. She wanted to give her pupils the simplest and most direct method of self-expression to avoid the element of fear induced by tools that the child feels incapable of mastering. Spreading paint with the bare hands was an obvious idea but ordinary paints have obvious disadvantages. Fingerpaints, Miss Shaw's own invention, are made with harmless earth, pigments and a cold-creamy substance...