Advocacy: Speed Chatting with an Artist
High-school students build their interpersonal skills while learning about the myriad of art careers from professionals in the field.
15 December 2024
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Collaboration
The Collaboration Issue, January/February 2025
This issue highlights several ways in which art teachers have integrated collaboration into their teaching practice, such as providing students with opportunities to problem-solve and work together throughout the year, learning about the Sustainable Development Goals and creating a tile installation symbolizing them, inviting a local florist to teach an art lesson, collaborating with an artist to create an outdoor installation, and more.
Stories
The Storytelling Issue, December 2024
Art teachers provide a variety of lessons for students to communicate their stories and ideas. Young students design their own personalized letters; elementary students create a mural based on food systems after learning about where their food comes from; middle-school students create nine-panel digital collages with symbols representing their likes and interests; and high-school students learn how cellphones and comic books can be powerful tools for visual communication.
Nature
The Nature Issue, November 2024
Art teachers use nature to inspire students become more in tune with themselves and their world around them. Young students take a mindful approach as they collage an place in which they feel calm, elementary students create drawings that evoke empathy for those experiencing environmental disasters, middle-school students collaborate to create a felted planter for a community garden, high-school students build birdhouses for residents at a retirement village, and more.
Interdisciplinary Connections
The Connections Issue, October 2024
Art teachers share lessons that students can relate to, fostering a sense of self and community. Young students identify emotions and facial expressions while collaging, elementary students trace their countries of origins and share their findings through self-portrait photo compositions, middle-school students create aquatic themed rug canvases with important ecological messages, high-school students draw alongside Tibetan monks as they create a sand mandala, and more.
K-12
The Beginnings Issue, September 2024
Art teachers start the school year with lessons that engage students while teaching them foundational skills and techniques. High-school students create paintless paintings with tissue paper; middle-school students complete the second half of their self-portraits in the style of a chosen artist; elementary students use the elements and principles to draw realistic and abstract landscapes; young students learn about personal preferences while designing paper shoes; and more.
Ideation
The Creativity Issue, Summer 2024
Art teachers encourage students to investigate their own ideas and make connections to the world around them. High-school students discover that the zine is a powerful medium for self-expression; middle-school students create symbolic artworks to honor teachers and staff members who inspired them; elementary students express solutions to community issues through printmaking; young students design a hat based on their friend’s preferences; and more.
Contemporary Art
The Contemporary Art Issue, May 2024
Art teachers inspire bold creative expression while incorporating contemporary art into their lessons. Students discover the large-scale paintings of Sean Scully and create multi-panel patterned compositions, investigate the landscape art of Dahlia Elsayed and assemble collaborative and individual collages, embrace mark-making as a whole-body exercise while using charcoal-taped drawing sticks, and more.
Choice-Based
The Choice Issue, April 2024
Art teachers present a variety of lessons that emphasize student choice and the Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) approach. Students work in groups to create a project using unfinished artwork; participate in an afterschool TAB program based on the Studio Habits of Mind; use the concept of the lighthouse to create personal pieces that honor who or what inspires them; embrace brainstorming and media exploration through sketchbook art journals; and more.
Mindfulness
The Mindfulness Issue, March 2024
Art teachers emphasize process-based, expressive arts experiences to help students develop mindfulness and present-moment awareness. Young students create observational paintings of peace while immersing themselves in nature; elementary students participate in a series of multisensory mark-making activities; middle-school students collaborate on a mural inspired by interconnectedness; high-school students express gratitude through printmaking; and more.
Article List
Coolaboration
Young students work together on a variety of projects throughout the school year, cultivating a community of compassion and tolerance.
15 December 2024
An Art Lesson from a Florist
Middle-school students are visited by a local florist and make connections between the elements of art and creating a bouquet arrangement.
15 December 2024
SMACK! Collaborating for Impact
High-school students collaborate with artist Bryant Holsenbeck to create an outdoor jellyfish installation from sustainable materials.
15 December 2024
Contemporary Art in Context: Cheng Tsung Feng
Taiwanese artist Cheng-Tsung Feng incorporates a modern design aesthetic into the ancient form of bamboo arts.
15 November 2024Media Arts
ClipCard: Symmetry Coloring Book
Elementary students work collaboratively to create a coloring book featuring symmetrical holiday scenes.
Media Arts, 15 December 2024
OK Go Sandbox Animation
High-school students create short six- to ten-second animations and combine them into one longer collaborative work.
Media Arts, 15 November 2024
Student Activity: How to Simplify an Image
Many logos are made up of familiar images that are greatly simplified but still recognizable. Simplifying images is a process students can learn—it just requires some practice and experimentation.
Media Arts, 15 November 2024
ClipCard: Text Art Animals
Elementary students place text strategically on a digital canvas to form recognizable animals.
Media Arts, 14 November 2024
Cellphones and Comic Books: Keys to Visual Storytelling
High-school students use their cellphones to take photos from various angles and create their own hand-drawn comic books.
Media Arts, 14 November 2024
The All About Me Design Challenge
Middle-school students create a nine-panel digital collage using symbols to represent their likes and interests.
Media Arts, 14 November 2024
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