Published on 1 May 2025
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Art teachers use a process-based approach to engage students in art-making. Young students apply color-mixing to create vibrant watercolor paintings, elementary students are introduced to the unique process of paper quilling, middle-school students use critical thinking and ideation skills while drawing meaningful self-portraits, high-school students use fused glass techniques to create functional works of art, and more.
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The Process Issue, May 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: Process
Frank Juárez, SchoolArts editor-in-chief, discusses the value of a process-oriented art curriculum and how it benefits students.
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Table of Contents
The Process Issue, May 2025
Mayco
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Advocacy: Advocating for My Art Program
A project resource teacher shares several processes she has used to advocate for her students, her school, and her art program.
ClipCard: Picasso Pirates
Young students explore Pablo Picasso’s artistic style and techniques to create unique pirate portraits.
ClipCard: Food Fascinators
Elementary students incorporate Pop art ideas to create a wearable, lifelike replica of a recognizable food item.
ClipCard: Rearranged Names
Middle-school students draw their names in a unique font then rearrange them to form an abstract composition.
ClipCard: Color Words to Heal
High-school students use upcycled materials to create a composition inspired by Pop artist Michael Albert.
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.
Meeting Individual Needs: Managing Sensory Processing Disorder in the Art Room
Art teacher, adaptive art consultant, and author Bette Naughton discusses strategies for making the classroom more accessible for students with sensory processing disorders.
Managing the Art Room: Intuitive Painting: Bridging Spirituality and Creativity
Raine Valentine shares a transformative painting practice that promotes self-discovery, emotional release, and spiritual alignment.
NAEA National Convention 2026
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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.
Pushing Our Practice with Fused Glass
High-school students use fused glass techniques to create functional works of art that showcase color, shape, and composition.
Scratching the Surface
Elementary students gain confidence as they use a new pottery technique to carve nature-inspired designs into clay bowls.
Process-Based Portraits
Middle-school students use critical thinking, ideation, and the power of process to create meaningful self-portraits.
Contemporary Art in Context: Saya Okayama
Origami artist Saya Okayama blends Japanese tradition and Western decorative aesthetics to create beautiful works from natural materials.
The Art of Quilling
Elementary students learn the process of paper quilling to create intricate art pieces based on their interests.
The 3D Mindset
High-school students focus on interior and exterior design while assembling three-dimensional paper structures.
Mixing Magic
Young students engage in a color-mixing demonstration and apply their knowledge to create vibrant watercolor paintings.
All the Skills Sketchbook
Middle-school students acquire a variety of life skills while assembling and personalizing bound sketchbooks.
Focus In: The Museum of Wisconsin Art Team Council
An art museum describes how its teen council impacts the museum’s programming by acting as innovators, leaders, and changemakers.
Square 1 Art
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The Masters Artist Soap
The Masters Artist Soap has been used by makers, painters, artists, and crafters since 1979.
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.
Amaco Brent
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.
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.
Student Activity: Mini Challenges
Mini challenges for students center around artists collecting and synthesizing and how artists tell stories from the book Making Artists.
Teaching Suggestion: Productive Struggle in the Student-Led Classroom
Let struggle happen as you increase the level of student responsibility and provide more support to those who can’t work through it on their own. This may look different for each student.
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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 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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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.
Get Published in SchoolArts!
SchoolArts articles are written by art educators just like you! Your ideas and advice are valuable to your peers around the world! Share your successful lessons, areas of concern, and approaches to teaching art.
AMACO brent
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.
Blick Art Materials
As a leading art supply company, we provide artists, educators, students, and our associates with the tools, assistance, and training needed to grow, innovate, and reach their creative potential. BLICK Art Materials is family-owned and serving artists since 1911.
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