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SchoolArts editor-in-chief Nancy Walkup discusses various ways in which this issue’s contributors helped students recognize and understand that part design plays in their everyday lives.

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The Design Issue, January/February 2024

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Jane B. Montero, co-editor, for this issue discusses how incorporating design into our curriculum not only strengthens our art programs but also produces higher-level thinkers who are technologically creative and innovative.

Young students use nontraditional mark-making techniques to create an abstract impressionist painting.

Elementary students adapt and recreate a famous artwork or artist portrait in art parody style by incorporating animals into the piece.

Middle-school students discover and reflect on the uniqueness that fingerprints and snowflakes share. Students will create cut-paper snowflakes using fingerprinted paper.

High-school students create an illustration that incorporates a random object.

Art educator, Leah Kruger, challenged students to take the idea of road signs and redesign them to express messages about art.

Author and art education professor, Robin Vande Zande, discusses how design teaching is a creative and collaborative project-based approach that promotes social responsibility and support entrepreneurial skills.

Creating a website for your art room can enhance learning. Discover Caroline Nay's journey and tips for success in building an art resource site.

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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.

Middle-school students use drawing software to create vector-style illustrations of bright, vibrant flowers with a focus on value and color.

High school students begin with a project on poster design and then researched information on the intersection of environmental action and art which evolved into a mural project and then into paintings around storm drains in the community.

Young students combine physical drawings with digital animations to create expressive robots with glowing, symbolic icons.

Graphic designer, illustrator, and musician Joe Bastardo creates visual representations of music and electronic sound.

High-school students work with district leaders, administrators, and community members to complete a variety of design projects.

Elementary students design infographics that allow them to interact with fonts, color, symbols, and composition in a fun and engaging way.

Middle school students use the design thinking process to develop ideas for wearable art. Students bring their design ideas to life using a laser cutter.

Elementary students express themselves through traditional flipbooks, 2D digital animations, and stop-motion animations.

High school students venture into packaging design by creating flower packets and tissues boxes inspired by the works of Yayoi Kusama and Dale Chihuly.

The RGB/CMY Digital Color Wheel poster (18x24") and teacher’s guide provides a framework for teaching learners some of today’s most foundational color concepts to ensure their interaction with color on digital screens is based on understanding digital color as opposed to intuition or trial and error.

The Washed Ashore organization builds and exhibits aesthetically powerful art to educate a global audience about plastic pollution in the ocean and waterways and to spark positive changes in consumer habits. Learn how the Washed Ashore project served as a catalyst for students to use plastic trash to create works of art.

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