SchoolArts and Davis

05/30/2025

Limited quantities ⏳ Plan early for the next school year! Have you requested your FREE 2025–26 Monthly Planner & Art Advocacy Guide? 📒 ✏️ ⁠
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From , this planner is emblazoned with student artwork on the front and back covers and contains articles on advocacy; guides to resources for lessons, PD, and more; artist birthdays to inspire your classroom; sections for notes and to-do lists; and more!⁠
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🖼️ Front cover artwork: Self-portrait by Felix F., grade ten, submitted by SchoolArts author Cristina Pinton of !⁠
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Request yours now: https://www.davisart.com/art-advocacy/art-advocacy-planning-guide/

05/29/2025

In K12ArtChat Ep. 212, hosts Dr. Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz and welcome Connected Arts Networks (CAN) members Elizabeth Zwierzynski and Leslie Grace to share how they close out the year with intention, reflection, and a strong sense of community among their students. Together, they explore strategies for sustaining creative momentum in the final weeks of school. From an end-of-year art show to one large collaborative project, Leslie and Elizabeth offer insight into how they celebrate their students’ progress!

Listen now: https://www.davisart.com/free-resources/k12-artchat/episode-218/related-content/listen-now-episode-218/

05/29/2025

Artist birthday for May 29th: Marlow Moss (Marjorie Jewel, 1890–1958, Britain)
�A major figure in interwar abstraction, Moss was a key force in the Abstraction-Création group in Paris and helped shape Constructivist and Neo-Plasticist approaches. Moss broke from Mondrian’s grid and primary colors to explore tension through texture and monochrome. Her bold all-white reliefs pushed abstraction in new directions.⁠

Shown here: White with Rope, 1940, oil on canvas with rope, 54 × 54 cm. The Museum of Modern Art, New York © 2025 Artist or Estate of Artist (MOMA-P3175)

Read the full blog post by art our curator and art historian Karl Cole at CuratorsCorner.com.

05/23/2025

✨💬 Let’s kick the weekend off with a quick QOTD! Tell us the last 3 unconventional materials you used with your students. How did that turn out? What did your students do with them?

Photos from "Eco Art: Fostering Environmental Advocacy" by Gregg Stevens in Kalamazoo, MI. Gregg designed an Eco Art curriculum for his high school students. Through this, students used natural materials in an interdisciplinary manner and learned about environmental advocacy, social issues, and the history of the Potawatomi. He designed a permanent outdoor learning space to serve as a classroom, which integrated the natural environment with the school grounds.

Read more in the Summer 2025 issue: Innovation: https://lsc-pagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=846244&p=20&view=issueViewer

05/22/2025

Today we're looking back to K12ArtChat #169, featuring Ami Kantawala, adjunct associate professor for art education at Teacher’s College.

Kantawala challenges us to reconsider research as a vibrant extension of the creative process in order to change the dynamic of how we teach and learn.

Listen now: https://www.davisart.com/art-education-resources/learning-through-research/

05/21/2025

Plan early for the next school year! Have you requested your FREE 2025–26 Monthly Planner & Art Advocacy Guide? 📒 ✏️

This planner is emblazoned with student artwork on the front and back covers and contains articles on advocacy; guides to resources for lessons, PD, and more; artist birthdays to inspire your classroom; sections for notes and to-do lists; and more!

🖼️ Front cover artwork: Self-portrait by Felix F., grade ten, submitted by SchoolArts author Cristina Pinton of Avon Old Farms School!

Request yours now: https://www.davisart.com/art-advocacy/art-advocacy-planning-guide/

05/20/2025

☀️ Capping off your school year, it's here, the SchoolArts Summer 2025 issue: Innovation! ☀️

In this issue, art teachers share new and exciting art-making experiences in and outside the art room. Young students collaborate to paint a hanging cardboard butterfly installation, elementary students use everyday objects to create illuminating bookshelf dioramas, middle-school students use 3D-scanning technology to print lifelike portraits, high-school students address contemporary issues while creating in an outdoor classroom, and more!

Check it out now: https://lsc-pagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=846244&p=1&view=issueViewer

📸 On the cover:
Calgary Girls Charter School students activate the play areas outside their school with painted plywood fence panels. From this issue's Advocacy article, "Creative Dreams and Community Connections," by Zoey Graf.

05/16/2025

The end of the school year is ripe with opportunities for mini-lessons! Enter ClipCards: quick, easy-to-follow lessons for every grade level, included in every issue of SchoolArts. Also perfect for busy days and substitute teachers! 📚✨

Find this Elementary ClipCard by Sue Liedke in the Process issue, May 2025: https://lsc-pagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=844010&p=11&view=issueViewer

We are always accepting submissions for ClipCards, and we are especially looking for mini-lessons tailored to high-school learners. Find out more info on submitting on our website!

05/15/2025

How could teaching art be dangerous? ⚡️ Well, we all know a kiln is no simple piece of equipment, but we are not talking about dangerous in the traditional sense...

In this episode, we’re discussing how dangerous teaching art is because it promotes creativity, critical thinking, emotional intelligence, and is an overall transformative force in students’ lives. sat down with Connie Stewart, author of Cultivating Critical Conversations in Art Education (Teachers College Press) and professor of art education at the University of Northern Colorado.

Connie shares how melding creativity into the classroom empowers students, as well as provides new insight into the importance of arts education.

Listen to the podcast and explore what students are missing cognitively, culturally, and emotionally when the arts are cut from their curriculum.

Episode and resources: https://www.davisart.com/art-education-resources/dangerous-power-of-teaching-art/

Also available on all podcast platforms!

05/14/2025

We love seeing our friends, the Tape Art artists, in action! 🎨 Check out this inspiring collaboration between Holy Cross students and Worcester sixth graders as they team up to create meaningful public art with tape.

Read the full story: https://magazine.holycross.edu/stories/holy-cross-students-worcester-sixth-graders-team-make-tape-art?utm_source=The016&utm_medium=social

Holy Cross Students, Worcester Sixth Graders Team to Make Tape Art Video by Avanell Chang Read Time 1 Minute Videos Arts Worcester Academics First-year Holy Cross students in the Global Society Montserrat cluster, sixth graders from Worcester's Rice Square School and artists partnered to celebrate a...

05/12/2025

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🚨 LAST CALL for our Teacher Appreciation Week giveaway! 🎨 Ends TODAY at 5pm EST!

Thank you for creating wonderful learning environments where children feel safe, supported, and inspired. To show you our appreciation, we're raffling off two digital downloads of newest book, Restorative Practices in Education through the Arts!

🌟 Enter to win by filling out the form in the link below. Plus, get a FREE self-portrait mind map lesson for your classroom! Winners will be contacted through email.

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➡️ Contest terms & conditions: https://www.davisart.com/about-us/contest-terms-and-conditions

05/09/2025

How can we use art to help students build resilience, find their voice, and turn mistakes into growth?

👐 Restorative practice is having the ability to bring back health, strength, or a feeling of well-being. It can be defined as actions we put into place that support, encourage, and build relationships.

Learn more on our blog: https://www.davisart.com/blogs/davis-desk/what-is-restorative-practice/

🚨 Don't forget to enter our giveaway for a FREE digital copy of new book, Restorative Practices, and receive a FREE self-portrait mind map lesson with your entry! Ends Monday, May 12. 🚨