Frank Juárez, SchoolArts editor-in-chief, reflects on how contemporary art informs teaching and curriculum while deepening student engagement.

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Art educators engage in a hands-on printmaking workshop with artist Steve A. Prince, exploring monoprinting techniques to use in their classrooms.

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An artist and educator discusses how students engage more deeply with contemporary art when it reflects their shared time, place, and community.

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

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

Young students shape clay and imprint textures using various objects to create fossil designs.

Elementary students use simple lines and shapes to create expressive floral compositions.

Middle-school students research, draw, and embroider constellations onto painted mixed-media backgrounds.

High-school students design and build functional mugs using slab-building and sculptural techniques.

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

High-school students transform traditional portraits into imaginative compositions inspired by surrealism and contemporary art.

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

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Middle-school students use storytelling to connect personal experiences and create symbolic, relief-printed interpretations of monsters.

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

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Elementary students upcycle various materials and use found objects to create unique mini worlds inside glass jars.

Frank Juárez, SchoolArts editor-in-chief, talks murals and more with one of NAEA26’s Artist Series speakers.

Middle-school students use chalk and oil pastels to capture colorful, textured desserts in the playful spirit of Wayne Thiebaud.

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High-school students step out of their comfort zones to create themed nonobjective compositions inspired by two contemporary artists.

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