Published on 15 May 2024
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Art teachers encourage students to investigate their own ideas and make connections to the world around them. High-school students discover that the zine is a powerful medium for self-expression; middle-school students create symbolic artworks to honor teachers and staff members who inspired them; elementary students express solutions to community issues through printmaking; young students design a hat based on their friend’s preferences; and more.
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The Creativity Issue, Summer 2024
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Editor's Letter: Creativity
Georgia O’Keeffe believed that “To create one’s own world takes courage.” Through our roles as art teachers, we are in a position to help our students gather that courage to create.
Creativity takes many forms in this monthʼs issue.
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Table of Contents
The Creativity Issue, Summer 2024
Co-editors' Letter: Creativity
We were happy to recruit art educators to write for this issue of SchoolArts and to demonstrate that all educators are researchers, especially when it comes to creativity and art-making. These art instructors share their enthusiasm for learning and using their own ideas to explore the world while sparking their students’ imaginations. We extend our deepest gratitude to them for sharing their curriculum, lessons, and pedagogy.
The Mission Continues
Frank has more than two decades of art education and arts management experience, organizing local and regional art exhibitions and community art events and presenting on art education at the local and national levels. I can’t think of an art educator who is better qualified to become editor-in-chief of SchoolArts than Frank. I am eager to see his first issue, and I know heʼll continue our mission to inspire creativity in K–12 art educators and students!
Clipcards: Stuffed Monsters
How can we collaborate to create a large-scale artwork? Students will work together to create a 3D imaginary creature from paper.
Clipcards: One-Point Perspective Fields
How can we create a one-point perspective painting using primary colors, black, and white? Students will create a one-point perspective painting with a focus on color-mixing.
Clipcards: What's in a Name?
How can students use lettering to express identity? Students will create a design based on their names, with the letters representing their own visual culture.
Clipcards: Illustrated Quotes
How do artists interpret and illustrate meaning from text? Students will hand-letter a quote and use a variety of lettering styles and imagery to convey the meaning of the words.
Advocacy: Jackalope at the Beach
Last summer, Virginia Beach City Public Schools collaborated with the ViBe Creative District and the Canadian-based festival Jackalope to combine action sports with the visual arts.
Managing the Art Room: Research Is Elementary (Part 2)
I noticed that many students, especially post-pandemic, had difficulty choosing what they wanted to create when given the opportunity. I could see that they had very little choices to make in the traditional school environment. I asked myself how I could offer students more authentic choices to build both their art skills and decision-making confidence.
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.
Museum Musing: Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery
Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery is the first Native American community-curated exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. The exhibition gives voice to the Pueblo Pottery Collective, a group of sixty Native American curators who selected and wrote about works in clay from the School of Advanced Research’s (SAR) Indian Arts Research Center (IARC) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Vilcek Foundation in New York City.
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.
A Tribute To Wyatt Wade
It is fitting Wyatt will be remembered through the tales he starred in. I hope you enjoy reading about them. He was a force of nature and ensured there truly was never a dull day at Davis.
SchoolArts Collection: Contemporary Art
This book 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.
A Zinester’s Guide to Creativity
High-school students explore their own ideas and concepts through personal handmade zines.
Teacher-Inspired Artworks
Middle-school students create symbolic artworks to honor teachers and staff members who inspired them.
Contemporary Art in Context: Rosa Ibarra
Mixed-media painter Rosa Ibarra celebrates the inner strength of women through vibrantly colored and textured portraits.
Form and Function
This project allows students to think like problem-solvers and innovators. Students use clay to bring their solutions to life.
Community Advocate Printmaking
Elementary students express solutions to local and global issues via stenciled, silkscreened posters.
Digital Art Activism
Empowering students to interact with complicated social issues via the art-making process can unlock their creative potential, increase their engagement, and help them connect with the world around them. Students create digital collages that reflect a social, ecological, economic, religious, or political issue that interests them.
Unleashing Creativity
In this article, we’ll explore the idea of integrating wacky drawing challenges as a daily activity to motivate students to push their creative boundaries. “Foodles,” or food doodles are inspired by the drawing game Foodles from the Imagineering Company. By integrating foodles into the art curriculum, I provided students with a playful way to challenge themselves creatively.
Friendly Hats
Young students thoughtfully design a hat with a friend while considering their friend’s preferences.
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.
Focus In: DrawBridge’s Community Artist Program
DrawBridge has launched a community artist program that connects children in shelters and transitional housing with local artists.
The Mindful Studio from Davis
Throughout The Mindful Studio, you will discover centering practices to begin creative endeavors, mindfulness-based visual arts lessons with reflection questions, and lesson extensions to explore mindfulness in a variety of art modalities.
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