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Skutt Kilns & Potter’s Wheels
Skutt’s Kiln Management manual is a complete guide for art coordinators, administrators, and teachers covering all aspects associated with kilns in schools and universities. Topics include kiln maintenance and repair, safety guidelines, kiln room design, training, management tools, and more. Download your free copy at skutt.com/kilnmanagement.
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Wyland Foundation
Inspire Creativity & Environmental Stewardship in Your Students!
Now in its 14th Year! Join the National “Water is Life” Classroom Art and Mural Challenge, founded by renowned marine life muralist and conservationist Wyland and the non-profit Wyland Foundation. Encourage your students to express their creativity while exploring vital issues about our oceans and waterways through art. Open to all ages, this challenge invites students across the country to showcase why “Water is Life” through individual artwork or collaborative murals.
Challenge Dates: October 1, 2026–Dec 1, 2026
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Adaptive Art
A collection of tools and strategies to help art educators create adaptations for students with disabilities by capitalizing on their abilities. This practical resource will enable the educator to engage all students in a meaningful creative process of self-expression. The book includes a variety of instructional methods to adapt art activities, media, tools, and techniques to meet the needs of students with a wide range of abilities.
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Artmaking, Play, and Meaning Making
This title in the Art Education in Practice Series explores the use of play as a method for provoking new ways of thinking. While play is often considered in terms of young children or as a diversion for older students, author Sydney Walker invites us to consider play as a productive agent that works to evoke diverse thought and challenges students to move beyond traditional artmaking.
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Beautiful Stuff from Nature
This sequel to Beautiful Stuff takes found materials exploration outdoors. It is filled with diverse and inviting stories of real teachers challenged to explore their outdoor spaces with children. Discover ideas and suggestions for:
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Curator’s Corner
Curator’s Corner, written by Davis Publications’ curator and art historian Karl Cole, provides fascinating weekly insights on art and artists from around the globe and across time, along with engaging, relevant studio activities based on each blog. Follow Karl and learn something new about art! Awarded a “Top 25 Art Teacher Blog on the Web” via Feedspot.
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
Explorations in Art
2nd Ed., Grades K–6
The most comprehensive resource for K–6 art educators, with learning focused on Big Ideas and Essential Questions; brilliant fine art images, including some of the most exciting and innovative artists of the twenty-first century; engaging process-based studios; STEAM explorations and meaningful literacy and STEM connections that complement art instruction.
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Fashion Fundamentals
Immerse students in problem-solving and innovative thinking with fashion design! This book covers methods and approaches to teaching fashion, including fashion design history, foundations, cultural and personal influences, and materials and tools. Lesson activities guide students through the process of developing original ideas using the creative process and building fundamental skills in clothing creation with a variety of techniques and materials.
DavisArt.com/Fashion
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K12ArtChat, the Podcast
Introducing a podcast from the Creativity Department and Davis Publications. What do you get when two groups of mission-driven creatives band together? K12ArtChat, the podcast! Listen to K12ArtChat and learn from experts in the field. You’ll hear in-depth conversations filled with education innovations, resources, tips, tools, and inspiration to keep you connected and moving forward. Check out new episodes every Thursday!
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Making Artists
Making Artists picks up where The Open Art Room left off, covering issues and situations choice-based teachers encounter as they design their programs. This text provides tested methods for working through specific situations including room design, material handling, student ideation, production, and assessment. Additionally, you will enjoy a new set of unit and lesson plans to implement as you develop student-directed classrooms.
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SchoolArts Collection: Media Arts
The first title in the SchoolArts Collection series will help you incorporate media arts and digital technology into your classroom. We’ve compiled articles written by experienced educators specializing in digital processes and new technologies to help you understand and thrive in this emerging area of art education. In these pages, you’ll find lessons that cover the full spectrum of media arts, from beginner to advanced.
SchoolArts Magazine
Inspiring Creativity Since 1901