Published on 1 June 2022
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Art teachers spark curiosity through lessons that encourage material exploration, play, and reflection. Young students create flower petal prints inspired by Andy Warhol, elementary students collaborate to tell stories through installation and photography, middle-school students reconsider material choices and embrace a curriculum that encourages play, high-school students create reflective artworks based on visual journaling exercises, and more.
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Early ChildhoodElementaryMiddle SchoolHigh SchoolK-12AdvocacyAssessmentClassroom PracticeContemporary ArtCritique/DiscussionEquity, Diversity, and InclusionIdeationManaging The Art RoomMedia ArtsMeeting Individual NeedsSocial Emotional LearningTherapeutic PracticesCollaborationCommunicationCommunityDesignEmotionsHistoryHumorIdentityImaginationMessagesMindfulnessNatureObservationPlacePlayStoriesAnimationAssemblageCeramicsCollageComic ArtDrawingInstallationMixed-MediaMuralsPaintingPerformance ArtPhotographyPrintmakingSculptureStreet/Public ArtClayColored PencilsCrayonsDigitalGraphiteFound ObjectsInk MarkersNon-TraditionalPaintPastelsTapeCardboardMedia ArtsLanguageSketchbook / Visual Journal36 articles from this collection:
The Curiosity Issue, Summer 2022
The Curiosity Issue, Summer 2022
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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Editor's Letter: Curiosity
Curiosity and art go hand and hand. According to the artist John Andro Avendaño, “You can’t make art without being curious. . . . You have to be curious. About art, life, people. There’s just no way around it.”
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Table of Contents
The Curiosity Issue, Summer 2022
Co-Editors' Letter: Curiosity
Sara Wilson McKay and Amy Pfeiler-Wunder co-edit this issue of SchoolArts with the theme of Curiosity. "As former classroom art educators and current preparers of preservice art educators, we see the art room as a place alive with curiosity. We see this in the myriad of ways learners approach making through their selection and use of a range of materials, techniques, and subjects."
Advocacy: Collaborative Public Art
A muralist and K-12 teacher coordinates public art experiences for youth groups and local residents and involves them in the design process.
ClipCard: High-Design Chairs
Early childhood students create a miniature chair using clay and other supports.
ClipCard: Light Bulb Still Life
Elementary students create a still-life drawing of three light bulbs, focusing on values and capturing reflection, and add a surreal element to their design.
ClipCard: Hand-I-Work
Middle school students make a plaster cast of their hand and combine it with assemblage to express how they feel about a subject, dream, or ambition.
ClipCard: The World of Wonderment
High-school students apply and demonstrate their understanding of positive and negative space through mark making.
Meeting Individual Needs: Sparking Curiosity with Young Learners
Explore how meeting individual needs in early childhood education sparks curiosity and fosters engagement. Learn about adaptive methods and developmental milestones.
Point of View: Artists, Designers, and Change Agents
Explore how artists, designers, and change agents shape creative dispositions, equipping students with essential thinking skills to tackle today's complex world.
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: The Flipped Classroom
Explore how implementing flipped classroom strategies can transform art room management, fostering student independence and enhancing learning experiences.
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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.
Exploring Oneself Through Artmaking
High-school students create a series of three personal artworks inspired by reflective visual journaling exercises and illustrations.
Chalk the Walk
Elementary students created an interactive chalk walk where students choose a scene to draw with chalk and photographed themselves inside the scene as if they were a part of it.
Cultivating Inquiry
Middle-school students are empowered as choice makers in a process-based curriculum that encourages material exploration and play.
Contemporary Art in Context: Jooyoung Choi
Multidisciplinary visual artist JooYoung Choi explores issues of identity, belonging, and resilience through a fictional, fantastical world.
Extraterrestrial Installations
Elementary students sculpt clay space creatures and collaborate to share stories through installation, assemblage, and photography.
Kehinde Wiley Inspired Portraits
High school art students create self-portraits inspired by Kehinde Wiley's style. Students create depth using overlapping patterns, enhancing their artistic skills.
Warhol Flower Prints
Young students use paper towel tubes, brightly colored tempera paint, and oil pastels to create flower prints inspired by Andy Warhol.
Dagwood Sandwiches
Middle school students create unique Dagwood Sandwich artworks inspired by Pop Art and classic comic strips. From sketching to painting and then moving to collaborative ceramic sculptures, this lesson offers artistic growth and fun for seventh and eighth graders.
Focus In: Helping Hearts
Helping Hearts community art projects foster compassion and funding. Learn how Haiti Houses and Hearts of Hope inspire change. Discover more impactful initiatives.
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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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.
Branding Out: Clay Relief Landscapes
Middle school students create clay relief landscapes inspired by post-impressionists.
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