Recommended Reading for High School Art Students

Have you noticed that more and more college programs have in their literature a list of reading for incoming freshman students? As this trend developed, our team created a list and began to read the books. Our next step, is to include these readings within our curriculum. 

 AP Drawing Portfolio, 2010

Here is the list we have:

Recommended reading for incoming college freshman in art programs:
- Art Forms in Nature, Ernst Haeckel, Dover Pictorial Archives
- Blue and Yellow Don’t Make Green, Michael Wilcox
- CAD Monkeys, Dinosaur Babies, and T-Shaped People: Inside the World of Design Thinking and How It Can Spark Creativity and Innovation, Warren Berger
- How to Wrap Five Eggs, Hideyuki Oka
- The Art of Possibility, Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander
- Orbiting the Giant Hairball, Gordon MacKenzie
- The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron
- The Blank Canvas, Anna Held Audette
- Art and Fear, David Bayles and Ted Orland

Do you have additional reading materials that you would recommend to this list?

-Laura Mila