Published on 1 June 2025
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Art teachers share new and exciting art-making experiences in and outside the art room. Young students collaborate to paint a hanging cardboard butterfly installation, elementary students use everyday objects to create illuminating bookshelf dioramas, middle-school students use 3D-scanning technology to print lifelike portraits, high-school students address contemporary issues while creating in an outdoor classroom, and more.
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The Innovation Issue, Summer 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: Innovation
Frank Juárez, SchoolArts editor-in-chief, reflects on the importance of an innovative art curriculum that fosters curiosity and creative risk-taking.
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Table of Contents
The Innovation Issue, Summer 2025
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Managing the Art Room: Mindful Art Starts: From Chaos to Calm
An art teacher begins her classes with a mindful art activity to ground students in the present and prepare them to learn.
ClipCard: Foam Cube Sculptures
Young students explore recycling and sustainability, fine motor skills, and texture while assembling a sculpture.
ClipCard: Garden of Flowers
Elementary students listen to the book Splatter by Diane Alber and create a garden of flowers using lines and shapes.
ClipCard: Colossal Cylinders
Middle-school students draw a cylinder, transform it into a common object, and add objects around it to make it look colossal.
ClipCard: Dr. Frida
High-school students combine the styles of Frida Kahlo and Dr. Seuss to create an original portrait communicating imagination and identity.
Meeting Individual Needs: Die-Cutting Machine Adaptions
An art teacher uses a die-cutting machine to enhance her lessons and create adaptations for students.
Advocacy: Creative Dreams and Community Connections
An art teacher shares strategies for cultivating a creative, art-centered community, including outdoor art projects and collaborations with artists.
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.
When Bookshelves Come Alive
Elementary students use everyday objects to create enchanting, illuminating bookshelf installations.
Eco Art: Fostering Environmental Advocacy
High-school students develop environmental awareness and tackle contemporary issues while interacting with nature.
Magical Mondrian Butterflies
Young students collaborate to paint a cardboard butterfly installation inspired by the works of Piet Mondrian.
Portraits in Three Dimensions
Middle-school students use 3D-scanning technology and modeling software to capture and print lifelike portraits.
Contemporary Art in Context: Sharon Norwood
Interdisciplinary artist Sharon Norwood uses line as a powerful symbol to explore perceptions of hair in history and the present.
AI-Generated Laughs
High-school students explore the emerging world of artificial intelligence while experimenting with two compositions based on visual puns.
Redesigning Chess
Elementary students design a unique chess piece using 3D modeling software and 3D printing.
Woven Optical Illusions
Middle-school students take ownership over their learning while gaining familiarity with digital tools and creating a woven optical illusion.
Focus In: Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass
A glass art museum offers a two-part program in which high-school students learn glass art techniques and create works for exhibition.
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Making Artists by Davis
A comprehensive look at how and why a student-directed classroom is essential for the development of the student artist in the 21st century. Covering issues and situations choice teachers encounter as they design their program, this text provides tested methods for working through specific.
Ethical Decision-Making in Art Education by Davis
Gain a deeper understanding of how beliefs, values, and morals form the cornerstone of ethical decision-making practice in Art Educator’s professional lives. Grounded in ethics research, this book will help readers develop ethical decision-making strategies that are crucial for practitioners.
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Art Career: Sculptor
Sculptors work with a wide variety of materials, such as metal, stone, wood, clay, wire, found objects, plastic—even ice and butter. They can weld or carve materials into freestanding statues or create relief sculpture, which is flat on one side and hangs on a wall.
Teaching tip: Developing Studio Rules
Developing Studio Rules focuses on creating a clean, orderly, and considerate art studio environment. Learn about assigning rotating tasks, proper labeling, and recycling procedures to ensure a smooth, respectful workspace.
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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 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.
Restorative Practices in Education through the Arts from Davis
Restorative Practices in Education through the Arts presents essays from experts in the field that explore the restorative qualities of the arts.
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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.
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