Published on 1 September 2022
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Art teachers guide students through activities that help them to learn about their peers and encourage self-expression. Young students create playful self-portraits that share how they are feeling about the first day of school, elementary students collaborate in a surrealism-inspired game of chance, middle-school students assemble name tags for teachers in their school, and high-school students express their personal interests through colorful cell phone wallpaper artworks.
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The Beginnings Issue, September 2022
The Beginnings Issue, September 2022
Experience Art from Davis
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Editor's Letter: Beginnings
The start of a new school year always seems to offer a fresh beginning. For new teachers especially, meeting students for the first time may offer a challenge. Personally, I always had students making art in the very first class, keeping them immediately busy. With this in mind, I asked teachers on social media, “What do you consider to be a favorite lesson to begin the school year?”
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Table of Contents
The Beginnings Issue, September 2022
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.
Meeting Individual Needs: Helping Hands
Art educator and author Bette Naughton shares a variety of ways to incorporate fine motor skill development into your art lessons.
ClipCard: Cityscape Accordion Book
Early childhood students create a city-themed accordion book using paint and collage techniques.
ClipCard: What's in Your Sandwich?
Elementary students reflect on their personal identity while choosing characteristics and objects of a surreal nature to use in a sandwich design.
ClipCard: Loops of Color
Middle school students use a variety of colors in a problem-solving activity.
ClipCard: What's Your Story?
High-school students design a storyboard based on a personal experience and featuring original characters.
Managing the Art Room: Starting with Booksart
Art educator, Julia L. Hovanec, created Booksart kits, where picture books inspire an art project that extends the book's message. Picture books when coupled with a contemporary artist, have the potential to teach learners young and old what it means to be human.
Point of View: Where Do We Go from Here?
Read about the challenges and successes of hybrid teaching in art education, Art educator, Jane B. Montero, shares insights from a year of virtual and in-person instruction. Learn how digital tools like Google Draw and Jamboard have been integrated into the art room, and consider the future of art education as a blend of pandemic innovations and traditional methods.
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The SchoolArts Collection: Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art, 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.
The Graphic Punch
High-school students are taught compositional techniques to create strong visual designs and use idea boards to plan their works.
Found Photography & Beyond
Middle-school students digitally illustrate the alphabet and collaborate to create nameplates for every teacher in their school.
Exquisite Corpse Self-Portraits
Elementary students create surreal exquisite corpse self-portraits, using traditional art and then using digital photography to showcase personal identity.
Contemporary Art in Context: Eric Tillinghast
Contemporary artist Eric Tillinghast uses water as the inspiration, subject matter, and medium to create thought-provoking artworks.
Art from the Heart
Elementary students in the United States and Poland participate in an art exchange and share powerful messages through tiny artworks.
Design with the Cell Phone in Mind
High school students create vibrant cell phone wallpapers. This engaging approach integrates STEAM principles to express students personal interests and gain insights into popular trends.
Personal Pigeon Portraits
Young students express how they are feeling on the first day of school through whimsical portraits inspired by a picture book.
Masked Self-Portraits
This middle school art lesson focuses on masked self-portraits, encouraging students to delve into identity and symbolism through drawing.
Focus In: Washed Ashore
The Washed Ashore mission is to build and exhibit aesthetically powerful art to educate a global audience about plastic pollution in the ocean and waterways.
The Visual Experience from Davis
The Visual Experience is the leading visual art curriculum in the country, with more images of student artwork, art by women artists, and contemporary and multicultural art than any comparable high-school art curriculum.
Tape Art Showcase
Student artwork examples using Piktotape™. Get a box of PiktoTape™ and find lesson plans and more resources at DavisArt.com/PiktoTape.
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The SchoolArts Collection books
In each of the SchoolArts Collection titles, SchoolArts editor Nancy Walkup and the editorial team from Davis Publications compile articles written by experienced art educators sharing their expertise. Each title, focused on a specific topic, is designed to help educators understand and implement lessons about that topic in their own classrooms.
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