Published on 15 December 2024
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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.
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Early ChildhoodElementaryMiddle SchoolHigh SchoolK-12Adaptive ArtAdvocacyAssessmentCareersChoice-BasedClassroom PracticeContemporary ArtCritique/DiscussionEquity, Diversity, and InclusionIdeationInterdisciplinary ConnectionsManaging The Art RoomMedia ArtsMeeting Individual NeedsSocial Emotional LearningSTEAMTherapeutic PracticesCelebrationCollaborationCommunicationCommunityDesignHistoryIdentityImaginationMessagesMindfulnessNatureObservationPlaceStoriesSustainabilityTransformationAnimationCeramicsDrawingFashion DesignFiber ArtGraphic DesignInstallationMixed-MediaMuralsPaintingPhotographySculptureStreet/Public ArtClayColored PencilsCrayonsDigitalGraphiteInk MarkersMetalsNon-TraditionalPaintPaperPastelsRecycled ObjectsTapeWoodMedia ArtsSketchbook / Visual Journal40 articles from this collection:
The Collaboration Issue, January/February 2025
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.
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Editor's Letter: Collaboration
SchoolArts editor-in-chief Frank Juárez discusses collaboration and how he benefitted from being part of a Professional Learning Community (PLC).
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Table of Contents
The Collaboration Issue, January/February 2025
Mayco
Mayco Colors is one of the world’s leading producers of quality ceramics products. Founded in 1954, our company has been serving artists of all levels and backgrounds ever since.
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.
ClipCard: Colorful Fish Collage
Young students use the primary and secondary colors to make a detailed paper fish collage.
ClipCard: Symmetry Coloring Book
Elementary students work collaboratively to create a coloring book featuring symmetrical holiday scenes.
ClipCard: Scrap Collage Contest
Middle-school students create collages from paper scraps to learn how to be resourceful and creative with art supplies.
ClipCard: Vacuum Breathing Warm-Up
High-school students participate in a breathing exercise and create a painting that depicts emotions passing through the body.
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.
Managing the Art Room: Finding Inspiration
Students use prompt cards, mind mapping, and layering text and images to tell their stories through art.
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.
Meeting Individual Needs: The Value of Inclusive Contests
A special education transition specialist shares the importance of providing opportunities for students with disabilities to receive recognition for their work.
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!
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.
Coolaboration
Young students work together on a variety of projects throughout the school year, cultivating a community of compassion and tolerance.
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.
SMACK! Collaborating for Impact
High-school students collaborate with artist Bryant Holsenbeck to create an outdoor jellyfish installation from sustainable materials.
Contemporary Art in Context: Cheng Tsung Feng
Taiwanese artist Cheng-Tsung Feng incorporates a modern design aesthetic into the ancient form of bamboo arts.
Collaboration in the Clay Room
An art teacher shares successful collaborative teaching experiences that took place in her school’s makerspaces and ceramics studio.
Piece by Peace
Middle-school students learn about narrative art and folk art, then create a woodblock painting depicting a significant family memory.
OK Go Sandbox Animation
High-school students create short six- to ten-second animations and combine them into one longer collaborative work.
Eighth-Grade Docents
Middle-school students embark on a year-long research project in which they learn about the life of an artist and emulate their work.
Collaboration: A Way to Reach All Learners
Elementary students build their problem-solving, social-emotional, and exploratory learning skills as they collaborate.
Milwaukee Recreation’s Arts Internship Program
A summer internship program provides Milwaukee-area high-school students with valuable hands-on experience in the creative fields.
Bard College at Simon's Rock
Follow you passions. Study performing and visual arts at Simon's Rock, where students start college after the 10th or 11th grade and earn their BA degree two years early.
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.
Art Career: Graphic Designer
You can see the work of graphic designers everywhere you look. But what do graphic designers do? Graphic designers use a combination of shapes, forms, images, and words to communicate a message to a specific audience.
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.
Kiss-Off® Stain Remover
Kiss-Off® Stain Remover is unique because it needs just water to remove stains. No harmful fumes, no liquid to spill, so it is safe to use at home, office, school, traveling, etc. Its convenient size makes it handy to take along anywhere a stain might find you.
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.
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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.
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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.