Published on 1 November 2022
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Art teachers encourage students to tell stories through their art. Young students listen to a read-aloud and create clay creatures inspired by the book, elementary students illustrate influential figures in art history, middle-school students juxtapose natural and human-made elements through narrative compositions, high-school students manipulate images to create imagined landscapes, and more.
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Early ChildhoodElementaryMiddle SchoolHigh SchoolK-12AdvocacyAssessmentChoice-BasedContemporary ArtCritique/DiscussionEquity, Diversity, and InclusionIdeationManaging The Art RoomMedia ArtsCelebrationCollaborationCommunicationCommunityHistoryIdentityImaginationMessagesNatureObservationPlayStoriesSustainabilityTransformationCollageDrawingFiber ArtMixed-MediaMuralsPaintingPerformance ArtPhotographySculptureCharcoalClayColored PencilsCrayonsDigitalGraphiteInk MarkersPaintPastelsTapeTextilesMedia ArtsLanguageSketchbook / Visual Journal35 articles from this collection:
The Story Issue, November 2022
The Story Issue, November 2022
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 art-making and see themselves as part of the learning process.
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Editor's Letter: Story
Editor-in-Chief, Nancy Walkup, discusses how stories enrich art education. She shares examples of storytelling in Native American art through pottery, petroglyphs, and more. "Telling stories is how we understand our lives. What stories will your students tell through art?"
Professional Development from Davis
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Table of Contents
The Story Issue, November 2022
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.
Advocacy: A Community Book Collaboration
Students are introduced to the process of publishing a book. They learn the importance of working as a team, of being consistent, and how illustrators must meet the requirements of an authors.
ClipCard: Lines and Shapes Collage
Early childhood students investigate the work of Reggie Laurent and use lines and shapes to create a mixed-media collage.
ClipCard: Fifty Faces
Elementary students create numerous portraits using a variety of drawing methods to create one continuous drawing of different types of faces.
ClipCard: Perspective Drawing
Middle school students create a unique perspective drawing of a pet or animal.
ClipCard: The Art of Storytelling
High-school students create create a digital illustration that depicts a scene from a story.
Point of View: Honoring the Osage
Students collaborate with an artist to create a mural that honors the Osage Nation and the Osage land where their school sits.
Managing the Art Room: Risky Business
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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.
Mixed-Media Marionettes
Students are presented problem-based learning opportunities with puppetry. Collaborative learning and teaching along with narrative play brought their mixed-media marionettes to life!
Inspirational Creatures
Young students listen to a book, identify the work of sculptor Petra Lloyd, and create colorful clay creatures and share their stories.
Manipulative Photomontage
High-school students investigate the darkroom photography of Jerry Uelsmann and create their own surreal, imagined landscapes.
Contemporary Art in Context: Hangama Amiri
Textile artist Hangama Amiri shares stories of childhood and of migrant experiences in Afghanistan through narrative tapestries.
Seven-Minute Masters
Elementary students take a crash course in art history while drawing caricature portraits of artists well-known and unfamiliar to them.
Juxtaposition Watercolors
Middle-school students combine natural and human-made elements to create interesting, juxtaposed compositions that tell a story.
Silhouette Storytelling
Students tell stories using techniques inspired by Béatrice Coron to create engaging cut paper silhouettes.
Storyteller Drawings
Students create unique nontraditional storyteller drawings inspired by Native American figures.
Focus In: Protecting the Planet through Art
Discover how EarthX, a nonprofit organization, empowers young artists to protect the planet through art. Learn about their global competition promoting environmental advocacy.
NAEA: Virtual Art Educators
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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.
Tape Art Showcase
Student artwork examples using Piktotape™. Get a box of PiktoTape™ and find lesson plans and more resources at DavisArt.com/PiktoTape.
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Art Education in Practice Series from Davis
The Art Education in Practice Series is the single most comprehensive source for superior content in teacher education and professional development. Each contributor to this series is a nationally known expert on theory and practice in art education.
AMACO Classroom
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