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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.

An all-new webinar is now available for FREE on our website!With "Feelings Reboot: Utilizing the Arts to Help Students R...
12/19/2025

An all-new webinar is now available for FREE on our website!

With "Feelings Reboot: Utilizing the Arts to Help Students Regulate Emotions," experts on emotional regulation discuss effective strategies art educators can use to help their students channel their feelings positively and creatively.

This webinar features Dr. Jenalee Hinds (Clinical assistant professor, University of Kentucky), Dr. Harlie Blauw (Nationally certified school psychologist, Mississippi School of the Arts, and Beverley Johns (President, Learning Disabilities Association of Illinois + Davis author).

Watch it now: https://www.davisart.com/art-education-webinars/feelings-reboot-utilizing-the-arts-to-help-students-regulate-emotions/

12/18/2025

🎙️ We’re discussing art advocacy in episode 240! welcomes NAEA Division Directors Yichien Cooper & Reilly Powers on to talk about practical strategies and big-picture ideas for advocating with clarity, confidence, and purpose.

Head to http://davisart.com/k12artchat or your favorite podcast app!

12/13/2025

Our friend and author of Therapeutic Approaches in Art Education was recently on the Classroom Narratives podcast! Available now, wherever you listen to podcasts.

🚨 Only a little over a week left. Deadline is December 20!Get your student art submissions in NOW for the 2026–2027 Art ...
12/11/2025

🚨 Only a little over a week left. Deadline is December 20!

Get your student art submissions in NOW for the 2026–2027 Art Advocacy Planner contest!

🏆 The prize for the front cover winner will include $100 gift certificates, and back cover winners (4–10 will be selected) will receive $25 Blick gift certificates, for each teacher and student! All winners will receive 10 Monthly Planners.

For more info, visit http://davisart.com/plannerart

12/11/2025

Rethink tool and material uses while listening to Episode 238! , , Marta Cabral, and discuss multi-modal learning and reimagining the art room with a material inquiry lens.

Tune in: http://DavisArt.com/K12ArtChat

It's here: The Mindfulness issue, December 2025!"Mindfulness is essential to our well-being. Whether we are walking thro...
12/10/2025

It's here: The Mindfulness issue, December 2025!

"Mindfulness is essential to our well-being. Whether we are walking through nature, turning off our phones, making a creative mess in the studio, and trusting our hand to make a mark on paper, we find ways to become joyfully lost in our thoughts. Enjoying the process defines the experience we will have."
—, Editor-in-Chief

In this issue:

🍃 Art teachers support students in slowing down, enjoying the creative process, and grounding themselves in the present.

🍃 Young learners apply self- and social-awareness skills as they depict emotions through portraiture.

🍃 Elementary students explore watercolor techniques without the pressure of perfection.

🍃 Middle-school students create mixed-media landscapes that connect art with Indigenous botany.

🍃 High-school students engage in the meditative practice of knitting.

🍃 And more!

Read the full issue now: https://magazine.davisart.com/collections/mindfulness-schoolarts-december-2025

On the cover: Sierra and Adrianna, collaborative earth art installation. See "The Mindful Studio: Earth Art Installations" by Jane E. Dalton ().

🚨 Only a little over a week left - deadline is December 20!Get your student art submissions in NOW for the 2026–2027 Art...
12/10/2025

🚨 Only a little over a week left - deadline is December 20!

Get your student art submissions in NOW for the 2026–2027 Art Advocacy Planner contest!

For more info, visit http://davisart.com/plannerart

Eric Gibbons (), art teacher from North Carolina and SchoolArts contributing editor, created a fun lesson involving old ...
12/08/2025

Eric Gibbons (), art teacher from North Carolina and SchoolArts contributing editor, created a fun lesson involving old electronics parts! In "Sci-Fi/Steampunk Wearables," high-school students disassembled computer parts and other technology into freestanding or wearable futuristic inventions. ⚙️⚡️💡

He writes, "Students could make wearable mechanisms or freestanding sculptures. One student brought in a garden work glove and turned it into a futuristic Molecular HyperSonic Pulse Gauntlet."

Read the full lesson in the Transformation issue, November 2025: https://magazine.davisart.com/articles/high-school-art-lesson-found-objects-1125

12/04/2025

is revisiting Episode 108 today! In this episode, the talks with Bryan Benedict, lead designer at Hot Wheels. Listen in to hear about his work in automotive and toy design. Get inspiration and info for students interested in a career as a designer!

Visit DavisArt.com/K12ArtChat or listen on your favorite podcast app.

Michigan visual arts educator Janine Campbell strives to introduce her middle-school students to art forms that don't re...
11/28/2025

Michigan visual arts educator Janine Campbell strives to introduce her middle-school students to art forms that don't require paint, clay, or pencil. For her lesson, "Recycled Wearables," she asked students to focus their energy on creating something to be worn, using materials and methods that are reused, recycled, or presented in an alternative way from how they might normally be used.

Read the full lesson in the Transformation issue, November 2025! https://magazine.davisart.com/articles/middle-school-art-lesson-recycled-fashion-1125

Happy Thanksgiving from your hosts, ! The podcast will return next Thursday with a new episode!In the meantime, catch ...
11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from your hosts, ! The podcast will return next Thursday with a new episode!

In the meantime, catch up on our recent episodes at http://davisart.com/k12artchat.

In honor of the turkey: Art by John James Audubon (1785–1851, US—born in Haiti)There’s a popular myth that Benjamin Fran...
11/26/2025

In honor of the turkey: Art by John James Audubon (1785–1851, US—born in Haiti)

There’s a popular myth that Benjamin Franklin wanted the wild turkey to be the national bird of the United States. In truth, he simply wrote in a 1784 letter to his daughter that the turkey was a “more respectable bird” than the bald eagle.

The wild turkey was also Audubon’s favorite species to illustrate—something made clear by the extensive notes in his first edition of The Birds of America. It was the largest bird featured in the publication, reproduced on double elephant folio paper, the biggest printing paper available at the time.

Read the full write-up on our blog: curatorscorner.com

Image Credit:
John James Audubon, Wild Turkey, Male, engraved by Robert Havell, Jr. (1793–1878), Volume I, plate 1 of The Birds of America, 1835, hand-colored engraving on paper, 101.6 × 68.6 cm. © 2025 Brooklyn Museum (BMA-1334)

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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/.