ABSTRACT
Arts Education for a Multicultural Society (AEMS) is the only national arts curriculum development research project currently in Britain. The project works on the principle of partnership between Local Education Authority and Regional Arts Associations, between educator and artist. Its major aim is to fuse the 'European' and 'ethnic' models by working with black artists who practise outside the Western European tradition and educators in schools and colleges. AEMS has contributed to this process and has tried to promote black artists within an arts rationale. This rationale is based on the view that the arts are inseparable from daily life. The physical, cultural, social, psychological, economic and political dimensions of society are all bound up with the arts. The artifacts produced are not only functional and decorative but are also symbolic of complex relationships within British society. In more recent years there has been a trend in education to combine a variety of arts subjects under one umbrella.
