Published on 1 March 2025
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This issue introduces various ways to address advocacy through different lenses, ranging from cultural perspectives to embracing mistakes and self-expression. Young students use creative thinking skills to connect with themselves and the world around them, elementary students turn mistakes into works of art, middle-school students make clay puzzle pieces with symbolic objects representing their interests, high-school students create detailed fabric portraits, and more.
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Early ChildhoodElementaryMiddle SchoolHigh SchoolK-12AdvocacyAssessmentChoice-BasedClassroom PracticeContemporary ArtCritique/DiscussionEquity, Diversity, and InclusionIdeationInterdisciplinary ConnectionsMedia ArtsSocial Emotional LearningCelebrationCollaborationCommunicationCommunityDesignHistoryIdentityImaginationMessagesObservationPlacePlayStoriesTransformationAssemblageCeramicsCollageDrawingFiber ArtInstallationMixed-MediaPaintingPerformance ArtPhotographySculptureStreet/Public ArtClayColored PencilsCrayonsDigitalGraphiteInk MarkersPaintPaperTextilesMedia ArtsProfessional DevelopmentSketchbook / Visual Journal42 articles from this collection:
The Advocacy Issue, March 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: Advocacy
SchoolArts editor-in-chief Frank Juárez discusses the importance of advocacy and how this issue approaches the theme from various perspectives.
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The Advocacy Issue, March 2025
Mayco
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Advocacy: An Art Exchange with Ukraine
Students in America and Ukraine participate in an art exchange to learn about their peers through their artwork.
ClipCard: Dream Houses
Young students use shapes, lines, and colors to design their ideal dream homes.
ClipCard: Dalí-Inspired Collage
Elementary students make collage portraits inspired by Salvador Dalí.
ClipCard: Digital Onomatopoeia
Middle-school students create digital artworks based on onomatopoeias.
ClipCard: Mixed-Media Vinyl Portraits
High-school students use various media to create abstract or Pop Art–style portraits.
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.
Point of View: Making Art to Learn
A survey reveals that having a creative practice contributes to art teachers’ pedagogical knowledge.
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Advocacy: NAEA and Advocacy
The National Art Education Association shares a variety of advocacy resources and supporting position statements for art teachers to utilize.
NAEA National Convention 2025
National Art Education Association Convention, Louisville, KY, March 20-22, 2025. Join us in Louisville alongside thousands of visual arts, design, and media arts educators from around the world at this epic event! Register now!
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.
Abstract Modernism: Inspired by Elizabeth Murray
Middle-school students assemble vibrant and colorful cut-paper collages inspired by the work of Elizabeth Murray.
The Geniuses Behind the Scribbles
Young students use art and creative thinking skills to connect with learning, themselves, and the world around them.
Personal Heroes
High-school students learn about contemporary textile artist Bisa Butler and create detailed fabric portraits of someone they look up to.
Contemporary Art in Context: Shinique Smith
This month’s contemporary art feature highlights Shinique Smith’s monumental clothing sculptures and abstract paintings.
What Is Luminous
High-school students capture unique perspectives around their school and transform their photographs into abstract emulsions.
Remembrance and Community
Elementary students collaborate with an artist and community volunteers to create a memorial commemorating loved ones.
Puzzle It Out
Middle-school students make clay puzzle piece portraits with symbolic objects representing their interests.
Masterpieces from Mistakes
Elementary students learn that art-related mistakes can turn into wonderful opportunities when they use their imaginations.
Focus In: Connected Arts Networks
A national network discusses how practicing art educators can use the advocacy resources they have developed.
Bard College at Simon's Rock
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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.
Kutztown University
Kutztown University’s nationally recognized programs lead the field in art education.
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.
Collaborative Tape Art by Davis
Discover the fun and engaging process of drawing together with tape. Rooted in the power of collaboration, the PiktoTape™ Method (developed by the street artists of the Tape Art Crew) motivates students to develop innovative solutions to design challenges. Build confidence and create new and uniquely inclusive ways for your class to work together creating artwork that explores image-making at its most epic.
Art Career: Art Therapist
Art therapists create safe environments for students to examine interpersonal problems and strengths through individual and group art processes.
Teaching Suggestion—Mindful Moment: Five Senses Awareness
This mindfulness practice connects students to the world around them using all their senses. The exercise can help them become aware of the present moment whenever a formal mindfulness practice might not be practical.
Kiss-Off® Stain Remover
Kiss-Off® Stain Remover is unique because it needs just water to remove stains. No harmful fumes, no liquid to spill, so it is safe to use at home, office, school, traveling, etc. Its convenient size makes it handy to take along anywhere a stain might find you.
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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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.
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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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