Art: Art and Discipline

The U.S. military training camp at Ft. Dix, N.J. has some 400 part-time soldier art students. Every Wednesday afternoon these men meet and work in two crowded, fully equipped art schools at the Fort's recreation centers (one of these is for Negroes).

Dix's schools are the result of one lec ture made at the camp a year ago by Director Boris Blai of the Tyler School of Fine Arts (part of Philadelphia's Temple University). Blai told soldier listeners that anyone could learn to use his hands to express himself. The men wanted to hear more. Back came Blai. He was swamped...

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