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SchoolArts and Davis Share your lessons, ideas, and areas of concern with your fellow art educators. Get published in SchoolArts! Start here: SchoolArts.com/WritersGuidelines.

Since 1901, Davis Publications and SchoolArts magazine have been committed to providing superior art curriculum, lessons, and resources that support educators, inspire students, and elevate the importance of creativity! To submit your article, visit SchoolArts.com/Submission. To download permission forms (if showing images of students), visit SchoolArts.com/PermissionForm. Read our Digital Edition at SchoolArtsDigital.com.

With the new school year already kicking into full gear, what better way to celebrate than with a raffle? This time, we’...
08/29/2025

With the new school year already kicking into full gear, what better way to celebrate than with a raffle? This time, we’re selecting FOUR lucky winners!

🏆 Prizes:
All winners will receive a one-year digital subscription to SchoolArts, a 2025–2026 Monthly Planner & Advocacy Guide, and more! And as a special bonus, depending on grade level, winners will also receive either a STEAM Art Card Set, a Contemporary Art Card Set, or a Restorative Practices book.

➡️ To enter:
Visit https://www.davisart.com/back-to-school/raffle-2025 and fill out the short form. That’s it!

📆 Deadline:
All winners will be announced and contacted by email after Monday, September 8, 2025. One winner per grade level (Elementary, Middle School, High School, and K–12) will be chosen randomly.

08/28/2025

In the newest episode, dives into differentiated instruction with Dr. Heather Fountain, author of Differentiated Instruction in Art (Davis Publications). Discover practical approaches and actionable strategies to differentiate content and process, assess learners’ needs, and help showcase skills. Visit DavisArt.com/K12ArtChat or listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Kickstart your school year with September 2025: Connections, out now!While teaching students about new artists, processe...
08/28/2025

Kickstart your school year with September 2025: Connections, out now!

While teaching students about new artists, processes, and techniques, art teachers also prioritize building relationships and strong foundations. Young students transform the hallway bulletin board into a giant sheet music mural promoting kindness, elementary students develop fantastical illustrations, middle-school students embrace imperfections while making stained glass jewelry, high-school students work with limited materials to create balanced compositions, and more. Cover image by our featured Contemporary Art in Context artist, Katherine Duclos.

Read the new digital magazine now: https://magazine.davisart.com/collections/connections-schoolarts-september-2025

Sign up for a FREE 10-day trial and cancel any time. If you’re an active subscriber and did not receive an email with your log-in info, go to http://SchoolArts.com/DigitalAccess

08/21/2025

In ep. 228, welcomes Alicia Gray, Director of Art Education at Montserrat College of Art (), and author of a chapter in Restorative Practices in Education through the Arts, out now from .

Listen in to explore how restorative practices help create spaces where students feel safe and free to express themselves.

Visit http://DavisArt.com/K12ArtChat or listen anywhere you get your podcasts!

08/14/2025

🎙️ In our newest episode, welcomes Ray Yang () & Amanda Karhuse () of the Arts Education Alliance to talk about the work their organization does advocating for arts programs at the government level.

Head to http://DavisArt.com/K12ArtChat (or your podcast app of choice) for the full episode!

Happy National Lighthouse Day! August 7th�On this day in 1789, Congress established federal funding for the constructio...
08/07/2025

Happy National Lighthouse Day! August 7th�
On this day in 1789, Congress established federal funding for the construction of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers. Two hundred years later, in 1989, Congress officially designated August 7 as National Lighthouse Day.

Watercolor master D**g Kingman captures a moody lighthouse scene painted during the final year of World War II (1939–1945), rendered in rich, dark values. Read more about Kingman at curatorscorner.com.

Swipe to see an image from The Lighthouse as a Symbol, a middle school art lesson by David Anderson from the Summer 2024 issue of SchoolArts magazine. Read more at https://magazine.davisart.com/articles/middle-school-art-lesson-expression-drawing-424

Image One: D**g Kingman, Lighthouse, 1945, watercolor on paper, 46 × 74 cm. Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio. © 2025 Artist or Estate of Artist (BIAA‑372)

Image Two: Ben B., oil pastel drawing, grade eight.

Artist Birthday August 1st: Oqwa Pi (Abel Sanchez, 1899–1971)�Oqwa Pi, a painter from San Ildefonso Pueblo, was part of ...
08/01/2025

Artist Birthday August 1st: Oqwa Pi (Abel Sanchez, 1899–1971)�

Oqwa Pi, a painter from San Ildefonso Pueblo, was part of the early 20th-century movement to preserve and share Pueblo life through art. Trained at the Santa Fe Indian School’s Studio Program, his work, like Snake Dance, reflects ceremonial traditions in a flat, stylized form rooted in Katsina symbolism and Pueblo culture.

Shown here: Oqwa Pi, Snake Dance, 1920–1935, tempera on wove paper, 28.6 x 36 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, © 2025 Artist or Estate of Artist (MFH-814)

Correlations to Davis programs:�Explorations in Art 2E, 6th Grade, 6.9; A Personal Journey 2E, 2.4; Davis Collections – First Nations Art, US and Canada

Read the full post on Curator’s Corner at https://www.davisart.com/blogs/curators-corner/artist-birthday-oqwa-pi/

07/31/2025

K12ArtChat #226 is a special episode with . Enjoy this episode of the TAB Storytellers podcast where were recently guests! Listen and explore the significance of art advocacy and being collaborative educators.

Listen to the TAB Storytellers podcast episode at http://DavisArt.com/K12ArtChat!

Summer is when the best ideas bubble up ☀️ That’s why we’ve put together a list of inspiring reads for art educators!Fue...
07/30/2025

Summer is when the best ideas bubble up ☀️ That’s why we’ve put together a list of inspiring reads for art educators!

Fuel your creativity with favorites like:

- Making Artists - Discover student-centered approaches to art.
- Restorative Practices - Encourage risk-taking in brave environments.
- The Mindful Studio - Cultivate creativity and well-being in the art room.

Learn more about our summer reading picks: https://www.davisart.com/summer-reading-picks-for-art-educators/

07/24/2025

episode 225 is live! welcomes Rachel McLaughlin of 10,000 Trees Music to explore the evolving role of AI-generated sound and music in visual arts and how technology can enhance artistic expression overall.

Listen to the full episode at DavisArt.com/K12ArtChat

07/17/2025

Dive into Ep. 224! talks with author & art educator, Trevor Bryan () about the connection between art & literacy as well as the distinction between comprehending a story & demonstrating that comprehension. Listen in DavisArt.com/K12ArtChat.

World Watercolor Month July 2025: Art by Donald Holden (1931–2017, US).World Watercolor Month began in 2016 to honor wat...
07/11/2025

World Watercolor Month July 2025: Art by Donald Holden (1931–2017, US).

World Watercolor Month began in 2016 to honor watercolor artists around the globe. The work of Donald Holden is a fitting tribute to this often unforgiving, yet deeply expressive medium.

Holden developed a spontaneous wet-on-wet technique, painting soft, dreamlike landscapes from memory using just four colors and two brushes. His scenes—from Lake Powell to the Hudson River Valley—capture atmosphere over detail, embracing subtle shifts in tone and light.
Go to curatorscorner.com to explore more about Holden’s process and legacy on our blog by our art historian and curator, Karl Cole.⁠

Shown here 🎨
Swamp, 1987, watercolor on paper, 18.4 x 27.2 cm Courtesy of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY, © 2025 Artist or Estate of Artist (AK-1237)

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Committed to Art Educators since 1901, SchoolArts features ready-to-use lessons, a contemporary art feature with fine art images and artist interviews, and more. Articles on Advocacy, STEAM, Choice-based art education, managing the artroom, and more offer ways for teachers to help students understand not just the “hows” to creating art, but the “whys.” SchoolArts is written by educators just like you. Share your lessons, ideas, and areas of concern with your fellow art educators. Get published with us! Start here: www.SchoolArts.com/WritersGuidelines To submit your article: www.SchoolArts.com/Submission To download Student Permission Forms (required if showing photos of students): www.SchoolArts.com/PermissionForm Read our Digital Edition at DavisArt.com/SchoolArts/Issues/.