Published on 1 February 2022
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Art teachers offer studio lessons that utilize unexpected mark-making materials. Young students draw large-scale insects with chalk, elementary students and adults collaborate in a virtual drawing activity to celebrate Black historical figures, middle-school students discover upcycled Haitian metal art and create ink-embellished designs on metal tooling, high-school students combine digital photography and illustration to render thought-provoking compositions, and more.
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The Mark Making Issue, February 2022
The Mark Making Issue, February 2022
Art Education in Practice Series from Davis
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Editor's Letter: Mark Making
Mark making is a universal experience, practiced by people across time and around the world. Whether marks appear as lines pressed into wet clay, crayon scribbles on a wall, drawings in sand with a stick, handprints etched or stamped into stone, or fingerprints on paper, they represent a common human impulse to leave evidence of their existence.
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The Mark Making Issue, February 2022
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Advocacy: The Written Advocacy Plan and Tool Kit
Effective advocacy in art education should be focused on a specific issue, targeted to a specific audience, and planned to include a thorough understanding of the issues being advocated, the targeted audience, and the activities and tools needed to accomplish the goals.
Early Childhood ClipCard: Clay Sunflowers
Early childhood students create a clay sunflower based on observation.
Elementary ClipCard: Dream Worlds
Elementary students create a drawing inspired by surrealism and the book Dalí and the Path of Dreams by Anna Obiols and Joan Subirana (Lincoln Childrenʼs Books, 2007).
Middle School ClipCard: Sentimental Foods
Middle school students use found objects and recycled items to make a collagraph print of a special food.
High School ClipCard: Ethical Additions
High-school students research and choose a side for an ethical position, then create a hand sculpture with found objects that communicate their ethical position.
Managing the Art Room: Thinking Like an Artist
By following a simple scope and sequence, art teachers can eliminate teacher-designed projects from their curriculums and encourage their students to start thinking like artists.
Honoring Laura Chapman
Many lives have been changed by Laura Chapman, a pioneer in art education whose legacy continues to inspire educators and students. Learn about her impact in this inspiring tribute.
Advocacy: The Art of Advocacy
Breaking down the research into the three components of “opinion, fact, quote” revolving around the question of “Why is art important?” turned out to be the structure needed for students to get enough information together for the formation of a powerful work of art.
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The 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.
Between Two Worlds
High-school students combine digital photography and analog mark-making methods to create thought-provoking compositions.
Expressive Stick Drawings
Middle school students experiment with an unexpected method of stick drawing. Exploring expressive mark making and drawing from observation.
Metallic Imprints
Middle-school students investigate traditional upcycled Haitian metal art and create their own ink-embellished designs on metal tooling.
Out on the Town
Italian physician Maria Montessori wrote, “Education is a natural process carried out by the child and is not acquired by listening to words but by experiences in the environment.” Embracing these words as an art educator, I used this quote as a catalyst in planning an enriching summer art camp week for lower elementary students at St. Joseph Montessori School.
Contemporary Art in Context: Natalie Baxter
Sculptor and textile artist Natalie Baxter uses sewing and quilting to explore perceptions of place identity, gender roles, and more.
It's All About the Tubmans
Elementary students and adult participants collaborate in a virtual drawing activity to learn about and honor Black historical figures.
Beyond the Shape of the Spoon
Teaching basic drawing skills is important but giving students the opportunity to independently and freely apply those skills is crucial to learning and growth.
Fingerprint Portraits
High-school students embrace the challenge of only using their fingers and black paint to create realistic, nontraditional self-portraits.
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.
Kindergarten Marks
Young students exercise their imaginations and draw make-believe worlds and large-scale insects during two mark making sessions.
The University of Texas at Austin
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Focus In: Students Rebuild
Throughout human history, the arts have been used to inspire action, share ideas, stir emotions, and build community. Those are only a few of the reasons why art is at the core of everything Students Rebuild does.
Mayco Colors
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Tape Art Showcase
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Kutztown University
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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.
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