Published on 1 November 2024
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Art teachers use nature to inspire students become more in tune with themselves and their world around them. Young students take a mindful approach as they collage an place in which they feel calm, elementary students create drawings that evoke empathy for those experiencing environmental disasters, middle-school students collaborate to create a felted planter for a community garden, high-school students build birdhouses for residents at a retirement village, and more.
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Early ChildhoodElementaryMiddle SchoolHigh SchoolK-12AdvocacyAssessmentChoice-BasedClassroom PracticeContemporary ArtCritique/DiscussionIdeationInterdisciplinary ConnectionsManaging The Art RoomMeeting Individual NeedsSocial Emotional LearningSTEAMTherapeutic PracticesCommunicationCommunityDesignEmotionsHistoryIdentityImaginationMindfulnessNatureObservationPlacePlayStoriesTransformationAssemblageCeramicsCollageDrawingEnvironmental ArtFashion DesignFiber ArtInstallationMixed-MediaPaintingPhotographySculptureClayColored PencilsCrayonsDigitalGraphiteFound ObjectsInk MarkersNatural ObjectsNon-TraditionalPaintPaperPastelsRecycled ObjectsTextilesWoodCardboardSketchbook / Visual Journal40 articles from this collection:
The Nature Issue, November 2024
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: Nature
SchoolArts editor-in-chief Frank Juárez reflects on the healing power of nature and highlights this issue’s articles.
Professional Development from Davis
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Table of Contents
The Nature Issue, November 2024
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Managing the Art Room: The Importance of P Words
An art teacher shares how using positive words to describe artistic behaviors has helped her manage her studio effectively.
ClipCard: Paper Shape Design
Young students arrange geometric cut-paper shapes into a balanced composition.
ClipCard: Bugs on a Rug
Elementary students identify different types of lines while drawing a patterned rug design.
ClipCard: Mark-Making with Salt
Middle-school students use salt and variety of tools to explore temporary and playful mark-making.
ClipCard: Fashion Reimagined
High-school students explore cultural fashion motifs with a contemporary twist.
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.
Managing the Art Room: Communication for Success
A visual arts specialist discusses communication strategies for cultivating an environment in which students feel valued and respected.
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Advocacy: Nailed It! Successful Advocacy Approaches
In this article, adapted from a presentation at the 2024 NAEA National Convention, you’ll discover several ways to advocate for your art program.
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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.
Aquatic Communities in Clay
Middle-school students create mini coral sculptures and large slip-cast sculptures depicting underwater environments.
ARTiculture: Creativity’s Crop
A preservice art educator develops three interdisciplinary unites to engage students of all levels with the importance of agriculture.
Natural Disasters in Art
Elementary students create visual responses that evoke empathy for those experiencing weather-related catastrophes.
Contemporary Art in Context: Rebekah Flake
Contemporary photographer Rebekah Flake explores themes of identity, self-reflection, and history in this issue’s artist spotlight.
Trash to Treasure
High-school students reuse and repurpose found materials to create beautiful works of art.
The Wonders of Nature
Elementary students arrange natural materials to create delicate scenes and use photography to document their work.
Seeds of Change
Middle-school students collaborate during a meaningful design challenge in which they create a felted planter for a community garden.
Calm Landscapes
Young students use pastel textured tissue papers to collage an imaginary place in which they feel calm.
Geometry Is for the Birds
High-school students and math teachers collaborate to create custom-made birdhouses for residents at a local retirement village.
Focus In: Unsung Heroes Project
Middle- and high-school students celebrate the stories of individuals who have impacted our world for the better.
Art Career: Fashion Designer & Product Developer
Fashion designers and product developers are responsible for using analysis of current trends, their knowledge of design principles, and expertise in fabric and production techniques to create styles for a targeted market.
Student Activity: Create a Color Collage
In fashion, there is more to color than how it looks on us; color has a profound effect on how we feel too. Have students create color wheel collages using magazines.
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Spend a Week in Italy with Nancy Walkup
Travel to Venice, Florence, and Rome with Nancy Walkup. Whether you’re planning your first visit or coming back for a taste of new-to-you cities and regions, this weeklong tour will take you straight to the heart of Italy’s vibrant food, culture, and art. What’s more, this tour is an opportunity to travel with like-minded art lovers.
The Masters Artist Soap
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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.
Snapshots: Student Artwork from "Trash to Treasure"
In this issue, high-school art teacher Kathleen Sneed Petka shares her Trash to Treasure challenge, an activity to inspire students to reuse materials and to find the beauty in everyday items.
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Blick Art Materials
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