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Adaptive Art
A collection of tools and strategies to help art educators create adaptations for students with disabilities by capitalizing on their abilities. This practical resource will enable the educator to engage all students in a meaningful creative process of self-expression. The book includes a variety of instructional methods to adapt art activities, media, tools, and techniques to meet the needs of students with a wide range of abilities.
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Artmaking, Play, and Meaning Making
This title in the Art Education in Practice Series explores the use of play as a method for provoking new ways of thinking. While play is often considered in terms of young children or as a diversion for older students, author Sydney Walker invites us to consider play as a productive agent that works to evoke diverse thought and challenges students to move beyond traditional artmaking.
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Beautiful Stuff from Nature
This sequel to Beautiful Stuff takes found materials exploration outdoors. It is filled with diverse and inviting stories of real teachers challenged to explore their outdoor spaces with children. Discover ideas and suggestions for:
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Collaborative Tape Art: The PiktoTape Method
Discover the engaging process of drawing with tape! Create new and inclusive ways for your students to work together building art that explores image-making at its most epic. Rooted in the power of collaboration, the PiktoTape™ Method builds confidence and motivates students to develop innovative solutions to design challenges. Grades K–12.
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Communicating through Graphic Design, 2nd Edition
Explore what’s packed into the new edition of Communicating through Graphic Design! Highlighting the importance of idea generation and decision-making, the expanded second edition presents one of the leading art careers to high school students in an accessible and engaging format.
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Curator's Corner
Curator’s Corner, written by Davis Publications’ curator and art historian Karl Cole, provides fascinating weekly insights on art and artists from around the globe and across time, along with engaging, relevant studio activities based on each blog. Follow Karl and learn something new about art! Awarded a “Top 25 Art Teacher Blog on the Web” via Feedspot.
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Experience Clay, 3rd Edition
Encourage high-school students to discover their unique styles and interests while also learning about traditions and innovations in ceramics throughout history. This brand-new edition highlights a wide variety of processes including hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques, firing, and mixed media. Each chapter provides an opportunity to engage students with nontraditional approaches to ceramics in contemporary art and all-new Studio Experiences that feature opportunities for student choice.
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Explorations in Art, 2nd Edition, Grades K–6
The most comprehensive resource for K–6 art educators, with learning focused on Big Ideas and Essential Questions; brilliant fine art images, including some of the most exciting and innovative artists of the twenty-first century; engaging process-based studios; STEAM explorations and meaningful literacy and STEM connections that complement art instruction.
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Fashion Fundamentals
Immerse students in problem-solving and innovative thinking with fashion design! This book covers methods and approaches to teaching fashion, including fashion design history, foundations, cultural and personal influences, and materials and tools. Lesson activities guide students through the process of developing original ideas using the creative process and building fundamental skills in clothing creation with a variety of techniques and materials.
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The Mindful Studio: Cultivating Creativity and Well-Being in the Art Classroom
Bring mindfulness and expressive arts practices into the classroom. This book introduces mindfulness-based arts practices and provides tools for using them with students. You’ll find centering exercises to begin creative endeavors, visual arts lessons, reflection questions, and lesson extensions to explore mindfulness in a variety of art modalities. Enhance students’ creative process and encourage them to be open to their emotional life.
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The Open Art Room
Taking inspiration from a variety of contemporary approaches, this book presents a framework for Choice-Based instruction for grades 6–12. The Open Art Room provides a student-centered approach that is inspirational, and classroom-tested. This book offers flexible instructional frameworks, assessment for Choice-Based educators, unit plans, mini-lessons, classroom examples, connections to the National Core Art Standards, engaging stories of student struggles and successes, and more.