Published on 15 August 2024
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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.
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Early ChildhoodElementaryMiddle SchoolHigh SchoolK-12AdvocacyAssessmentChoice-BasedClassroom PracticeContemporary ArtCritique/DiscussionEquity, Diversity, and InclusionIdeationManaging The Art RoomMedia ArtsSocial Emotional LearningCommunicationDesignEmotionsIdentityImaginationMessagesMindfulnessNatureObservationPlacePlayStoriesTransformationAssemblageCeramicsCollageDrawingFashion DesignGraphic DesignInstallationMixed-MediaPaintingPhotographyPrintmakingSculptureStreet/Public ArtClayColored PencilsCrayonsDigitalFound ObjectsInk MarkersNon-TraditionalPaintPaperPastelsRecycled ObjectsTapeTextilesSketchbook / Visual Journal40 articles from this collection:
The Beginnings Issue, September 2024
Experience Art from Davis
Filled with opportunities to build critical thinking skills and choice, this brand-new middle school art curriculum for grades 7–8 is designed to help students express their ideas and feelings through meaningful artmaking and see themselves as part of the learning process.
L&L Kilns
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Editor's Letter: Beginnings
SchoolArts editor-in-chief Frank Juárez discusses how getting published can be a powerful advocacy tool and previews this issue’s contents.
Professional Development from Davis
Davis provides learning that is relevant to contemporary approaches and issues. Presented on-demand, virtually, or in-person by master teachers who are experts in the most current classroom pedagogy and the practical, discipline-specific, targeted application of research-backed content. Learn from educators who are recognized leaders with a plethora of applicable classroom successes.
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The Beginnings Issue, September 2024
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Choice-Based Art Education: Joyful Chaos
An art teacher shares the benefits of a child-centered TAB approach and how she facilitates guided play through various media centers.
ClipCard: Textured Collage
Young students use rubbing plates, watercolors, and found objects to make a textured collage.
ClipCard: Contour Color Portrait
Elementary students investigate abstract art and draw self-portraits using the contour line method.
ClipCard: Digital Blending
Middle-school students experiment with various ways to use Adobe Illustrator's Blend tool to create colorful digital art.
ClipCard: Symbolized Democracy
High-school students express what democracy means to them through symbolism and printmaking.
Advocacy: Art Advocacy Aprons
Students create designs to promote art advocacy and transfer them to an un unexpected alternative surface.
The Mindful Studio: Mindful Seeing and Photography
Students take fifteen photographs over a five-day period and choose five to examine in a mindfulness reflection.
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.
Celebrating a Legacy: Nancy Walkup
The SchoolArts staff wants to celebrate Nancy Walkupʼs twenty-year legacy as editor-in-chief in the best way possible—with a surprise feature in SchoolArts! Nancy, we cannot thank you enough for your dedication to the magazine, to art education, and to art teachers everywhere. Recently, we asked authors and educators to share their thoughts about the impact you have made on their careers.
SchoolArts Collection: Contemporary Art
This book is filled with lessons that will encourage your students to learn about, respond to, and create contemporary art. Organized into chapters on Identity, Social and Emotional Issues, and Collaboration, you’ll find studio lessons based on concepts and essential questions. Engage students in projects that are meaningful and discover what their voices add to the contemporary conversation.
My Museum
Elementary students introduce themselves to their classmates with personal show-and-tell museum drawings.
Inquiry Based Self-Portraits
Middle-school students begin with a guided exercise to draw half of their faces and finish their portraits in the style of a specific artist.
Painting with Paper
High-school students investigate shape-based thinking and color theory while creating paintless paintings with tissue paper.
Contemporary Art in Context: Jennifer Halli
Multidisciplinary artist Jennifer Halli shares abstract and site-specific works that explore themes of travel, growth, and loss.
I Love My Shoe
Young students learn about preferences, self-expression, and appreciation of others while designing paper shoes.
Stories in the Sky
A middle-school art teacher routinely displays the work of every student via seasonal stained-glass-inspired window installations.
Advantageous Avatars
High-school students familiarize themselves with the Adobe Illustrator workspace and various program tools while creating digital avatars.
A Tale of Two Landscapes
Elementary students consider composition, examine details, and utilize the elements and principles while creating realistic and abstract paintings.
NAEA National Convention 2025
National Art Education Association Convention, Louisville, KY, March 20-22, 2025. Join us in Louisville alongside thousands of visual arts, design, and media arts educators from around the world at this epic event! Register now!
Focus In: The Memory Project
An art teacher shares her students’ experiences participating in the Memory Project and its profound impact on developing compassion and empathy.
Spend a Week in Italy with Nancy Walkup
Travel to Venice, Florence, and Rome from July 1st to 9th, 2025. Whether you’re planning your first visit or coming back for a taste of new-to-you cities and regions, this weeklong tour will take you straight to the heart of Italy’s vibrant food, culture, and art. What’s more, this tour is an opportunity to travel with like-minded art lovers.
SQUARE 1 ART
Square 1 Art makes school fundraising with student artwork SIMPLE AND FUN! Your families will LOVE their child’s amazing masterpiece on keepsakes to cherish and share!
Media Arts Intensive from Davis
Get over 14 hours of professional development from wherever you are! This exciting virtual learning opportunity is the Media Arts content you have been looking for! Be inspired by 34 engaging sessions relevant to today’s classrooms. Learn at your own pace with access to all the content for one year.
The Masters Artist Soap
The Masters Artist Soap has been used by makers, painters, artists, and crafters since 1979.
Get Published in SchoolArts!
SchoolArts articles are written by art educators just like you! Your ideas and advice are valuable to your peers around the world! Share your successful lessons, areas of concern, and approaches to teaching art.
Adaptive Art: Teaching Suggestion
Advanced Preparation: Planning for adaptations to your lessons prior to instruction will enable students to more fully participate. Students will need customized adaptations.
Kiss-Off® Stain Remover
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The Mindful Studio from Davis
Throughout The Mindful Studio, you will discover centering practices to begin creative endeavors, mindfulness-based visual arts lessons with reflection questions, and lesson extensions to explore mindfulness in a variety of art modalities.
The Visual Experience from Davis
The Art Education in Practice Series is the single most comprehensive source for superior content in teacher education and professional development. Each contributor to this series is a nationally known expert on theory and practice in art education.
AMACO brent
AMACO (American Art Clay Company, Inc.) continues to be a leader and innovator for ceramics in the areas of art, technology, and education. Get ideas and inspiration for your next Lesson Plan project.
Blick Art Materials
As a leading art supply company, we provide artists, educators, students, and our associates with the tools, assistance, and training needed to grow, innovate, and reach their creative potential. BLICK Art Materials is family-owned and serving artists since 1911.
SchoolArts Magazine
A national art education magazine committed to promoting excellence, advocacy, and professional support for educators in the visual arts.