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Contemporary Art in Context | Ryan Adams

Painter and muralist Ryan Adams creates large-scale community works using a signature “gem style” to break down words and phrases.

27 May 2026Contemporary Art
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Yesterdays with Yarn: “Painting” Childhood Memories

High-school students discover the yarn paintings of artist Annie Lucille Greene and choose a positive childhood memory to illustrate with yarn.

27 May 2026High School
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Into the Jungle: Drawing on Imagination

Elementary students learn that artist Henri Rousseau reimagined a place he never visited (the jungle) and sketch their own imaginative jungle scenes.

27 May 2026Elementary
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The Studio Series from Davis

The popular Davis Studio Series fits art teachers’ diverse instructional needs, teaching styles, and classroom configurations while encouraging students to explore their own unique styles and interests. Titles in this studio art curriculum series include: Communicating through Graphic Design, Experience Clay, Focus on Photography, Experience Printmaking, Discovering Drawing, Beginning Sculpture, Exploring Painting.

27 May 2026Advertisement
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A Cherry Blossom Tree Study: Kinesthetic Learning with Children and Parents

Young students connect their own growth to changes around them, observing cherry blossoms blooming outside the classroom.

27 May 2026Early Childhood
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Contemporary Art in Context | Rachel Gloria Adams

Multidisciplinary artist Rachel Gloria Adams shares her uninhibited approach to patterns and dynamic color combinations in paintings, prints, quilts, and more.

2 May 2026Contemporary Art
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Meeting Individual Needs: Buddy Crafts: Making Inclusion the Focus

An art educator designs an inclusive curriculum where students with disabilities and their non-disabled peers collaborate as equals.

1 March 2026Meeting Individual Needs
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Middle School ClipCard: Mixed-Media Constellations

Students research, draw, and embroider constellations onto painted mixed-media backgrounds.

1 March 2026Middle School
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Contemporary Art in Context: Jeffrey Gibson

Interdisciplinary artist Jeffrey Gibson creates vibrant works that fuse Indigenous cultural traditions with contemporary global practices.

1 March 2026Contemporary Art
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Advocacy: The Art of Selling

High-school students sell their work at art markets, gaining experience in branding, marketing, financial responsibility, and more.

1 March 2026Advocacy
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Inspired by Nature

Elementary students explore color, texture, and shape through a nature-based lesson inspired by contemporary artist Melissa Scherrer Paré.

1 March 2026Elementary
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Even Bigger Than Us: Imaginary Portraiture Inspired by Mickalene Thomas

Young students collaborate on a large-scale painting of an imaginary heroine, adding nontraditional materials to bring their ideas to life.

1 March 2026Early Childhood