Published on 1 December 2022
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Art teachers foster a collaborative environment through group projects. Young students use a sewing machine and join their individual fabric squares into a class quilt, elementary students participate in a school-wide effort to learn about biodiversity protection efforts, middle-school students connect to real-world scenarios and interdisciplinary problem-solving to collaboratively design games, and high-school students team up with a former art student to create a mural.
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The Collaboration Issue,December 2022
The Collaboration Issue,December 2022
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Nancy Walkup, SchoolArts editor-in-chief, emphasizes “As an art teacher, you are in an excellent position to develop collaborative projects for your students. On a practical level, you can have students work in pairs or small groups, correlate lessons with classroom or other specialist teachers, or work with an artist. How will you and your students collaborate through art?”
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The Collaboration Issue, December 2022
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Meeting Individual Needs: Mindfulness Murals
Teens in a residential treatment program participate in mural projects that foster collaboration and highlight the value of working towards a common goal.
ClipCard: Improvised Drape Painting
Early childhood students respond to music through mark-making and create a mixed-media drape painting.
ClipCard: New Student Postcards
Elementary students design postcards with positive, welcoming messages for students who will take art class the following school year.
ClipCard: A Spot of Color
Middle school students take photographs and print them as grayscale images, then determine and color the focal point in their image.
ClipCard: Collaborative Dragon
High-school students work collaboratively to create a hanging dragon sculpture using recycled materials.
Museum Musings: New Ideas for Museum Outreach
Discover new strategies for art museum outreach, focusing on community partnerships and creative solutions like the Carpenter Art Garden initiative.
Managing the Art Room: Cultivating Good Habits
Explore effective strategies for managing the art room while cultivating good habits. Learn how assignments enhance creativity and critical thinking.
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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.
A Cozy Collaboration
Young students learn about the improvisational, abstract quilts of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, and create their own quilt squares to join together.
Collaborative Site Sculpture
Discover how a high school art lesson in sculpture design can transform into a collaborative community project. Learn the steps from finding artists to creating themes and building with sustainable materials. Follow the journey of students designing an outdoor sculpture in memory of a beloved community member.
Puzzle Piece Mural
Middle-school students share their memories and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic through a symbolic, ceramic mural installation.
Contemporary Art in Context: Cressa Maeve Beer
Stop-motion artist Cressa Maeve Beer shares animated works that celebrate transformation, individuality, and overcoming obstacles.
Mother Nature as Inspiration
High-school students collaborate with a former art student to develop a mural that celebrates the creative nature of all subjects and disciplines.
Bioko Breezeway Mural
Elementary students participate in a schoolwide effort to increase awareness of the endangered flora and fauna of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea.
Sustainable City Games
Explore how middle school students create board games using art to promote interdisciplinary learning, creativity, and environmental awareness.
Connecting with Chromesthesia
Discover how elementary students connect with chromesthesia through music and visual arts. This interdisciplinary lesson enhances imagination and collaboration.
Focus In: The Picasso Project
The Picasso Project is a nonprofit initiative providing arts instruction to over 60,000 K-12 Philadelphia students since 2002, transforming education by fostering creativity and collaboration.
NAEA National Convention 2023
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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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