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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.

11/07/2024

In EP. 196 & ’s Connected Arts Networks () explore the power of storytelling

Guests:
Connected Arts Networks (CAN) Series
Dr Mi'Jan Celie Tho-Biaz
CAN member Kimberly Olson
CAN member Kyla Davis.

Visit https://hubs.ly/Q02XpQKG0 for link & resources.

10/31/2024

In K12ArtChat episode 195, and ’ Connected Arts Networks explore the benefits of student feedback.

Guests:
Dr Mi'Jan Celie Tho-Biaz
CAN member Meghan Wlodarczyk
CAN member Martin Rodriguez@martinr1221

Visit https://hubs.ly/Q02WwVG80 for the full episode and resources!

One person's trash is another person's treasure—that's the premise of art teacher Kathleen Sneed Petka's high-school art...
10/30/2024

One person's trash is another person's treasure—that's the premise of art teacher Kathleen Sneed Petka's high-school art lesson, "Trash to Treasure," in our November issue.

Kathleen writes: "I created this activity to inspire students to reuse materials and to find the beauty in everyday items. There were little to no limitations on what students could use or how they could execute their works. Some created sculptures and lighting fixtures; others made objects from deconstructed egg cartons and used dryer sheets."

Get inspired by the full lesson now in November 2024: Nature. https://hubs.ly/Q02WlPLj0

😻 Happy National Cat Day to the furry friends that rule our homes and hearts! 🐈‍⬛🐈Student artwork credit:“Paw Plate” by ...
10/29/2024

😻 Happy National Cat Day to the furry friends that rule our homes and hearts! 🐈‍⬛🐈

Student artwork credit:
“Paw Plate” by Will. Will says, “This is for special occasions! Maybe it’s for cupcakes or cookies. I love all cats.” Read more from Sue Liedke’s early childhood lesson, “Fit for Service,” in the May 2023 issue: https://hubs.ly/Q02Wc6b30

There's still time, but the clock is ticking...🌠 Submit your student art for a chance to win a $100 gift certificate fro...
10/25/2024

There's still time, but the clock is ticking...

🌠 Submit your student art for a chance to win a $100 gift certificate from Blick Art Materials for yourself AND your student, and front or back cover placement in the 2025–2026 Art Advocacy Planner!

🏆 PRIZES:
- Front cover artwork: Teacher and student each receive $100 Blick gift certificates, plus 10 planners
- Back cover artworks (several will be selected): Teachers and students each receive $25 Blick gift certificates, plus 10 planners

📌 The deadline for the contest is December 20 (less than TWO MONTHS away!). Find out more details on the submission page at https://hubs.ly/Q02VVwT40

10/24/2024

K12AtChat episode 194 is live! In this episode, Raine Valentine () joins to explore spirituality as the expression of self and discuss how that manifests in the art we make.

Listen and find resources: https://hubs.ly/Q02VM29K0

🌟 Article preview from SchoolArts November 2024: Nature 🌟In this elementary art lesson by Jeff Broome, students discuss ...
10/22/2024

🌟 Article preview from SchoolArts November 2024: Nature 🌟

In this elementary art lesson by Jeff Broome, students discuss the devastation of natural disasters, then explore how emotions like fear and courage are portrayed through facial expressions and body language in artwork. Inspired by their findings, they create their own artistic interpretations of natural disasters, using visual elements to invoke empathy.

Read the full lesson in our November issue: https://hubs.ly/Q02VkgKN0

Student artwork credit (first slide): Visual response from fifth-grade student, Tania A.

10/21/2024

Your classroom is a dynamic space for inquiry and meaningful art making. It’s where students deeply engage in the process of learning which means your needs go beyond supplies and isolated learning activities. Our mission is to provide you with materials that will not only inspire students to think deeply about their art but also empower you to help them become independent learners! From curriculum planning to assessment, you require resources that help you empower student learning and showcase the value of art education. Go to https://hubs.ly/Q02VcPnG0 to take a closer look!

📣 CALL FOR ADVOCACY ARTICLES! 📣SchoolArts is looking for articles and lessons (early childhood through high school) them...
10/18/2024

📣 CALL FOR ADVOCACY ARTICLES! 📣

SchoolArts is looking for articles and lessons (early childhood through high school) themed around Art Advocacy!

How do you advocate for art, your students, and your art program? School murals, community-based projects, special events? Share your experiences with SchoolArts!

Submit your article: https://hubs.ly/Q02TZ3lP0

International Leggings Day: October 18th👖featuring iconic fashion by Kansai Yamamoto (1944-2020, Japan). While this migh...
10/18/2024

International Leggings Day: October 18th👖featuring iconic fashion by Kansai Yamamoto (1944-2020, Japan). While this might not be the usual leggings style, it’s a bold, boundary-pushing look by a true pioneer! Yamamoto was famous for his avant-garde designs, blending traditional Japanese elements fused with glam rock and Pop Art energy.

This playsuit, inspired by Kabuki theater and traditional firefighters' uniforms, is made from indigo-printed cotton used in summer kimonos (yukata). The hood reflects jingasa helmets worn by samurai. His use of brilliant color, which he called "like oxygen," and his signature oversized silhouettes embraced freedom, gender fluidity, and self-expression.

David Bowie even wore a similar Yamamoto look in 1971! Yamamoto’s work paved the way for designers like Issey Miyake, helping redefine fashion on a global stage.

Shown here: Woman’s Playsuit, 1971, felted wool Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, © 2024 Artist or Estate of
Artist (DAI # PMA-9489)

10/17/2024

K12ArtChat episode 193 is here! Author and art educator, Dan Ryder (), joins to discuss strategies and tools for guiding students to find balance between their academic careers and personal lives. Visit https://hubs.ly/Q02TSRkK0 to listen and find resources! Also available on your favorite podcast platform.

National Sports Day - October 16th!🏅Celebrate the love of sports with ancient Mayan art! The obsession with sports and t...
10/16/2024

National Sports Day - October 16th!🏅
Celebrate the love of sports with ancient Mayan art!

The obsession with sports and the concept of “star” athletes isn’t a modern phenomenon—it existed even in ancient times.

Scholars are unsure if the ball games played on Mayan ball courts were purely athletic competitions or politically charged displays of power. However, it's clear these games held great symbolic significance. Ball courts, found in almost every ancient Mesoamerican city (dating back to the Olmecs, ca. 1500 BCE–100 CE), were likely associated with the sun's journey across the sky, as most courts were aligned east-west. The objective was to keep the ball moving, possibly symbolizing the sun's path through the sky and into the underworld.

The ballplayers, like this figure depicted here, wore protective gear such as leather knee pads and a large yoke around the waist. The yoke, made of cloth and wood, protected players from the hard, skull-decorated balls, which were struck using the torso or hips, but never the hands. In ceremonies, heavier stone yokes were worn to signify status. Even in ancient times, there were ballplayer "stars," and many were buried with these symbolic yokes.

Shown here: Ancient Mexico, Mayan Ballplayer with Bird Headdress, ca. 600-900 CE, ceramic with paint traces. Image © 2024 Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC (Davis -72)

Artist Birthday – October 11th: George Ault (1891-1948, US) 🎂George Ault was an American modernist whose work combined P...
10/11/2024

Artist Birthday – October 11th: George Ault (1891-1948, US) 🎂

George Ault was an American modernist whose work combined Precisionism and Magic Realism. His paintings from the 1940s reflect the isolation, melancholy, and uncertainty of World War II, often featuring stark geometric buildings, sharp contrasts of light and dark, and an eerie absence of people. Ault’s portrayal of New York as “an inferno” contrasted with the more optimistic views of urban growth celebrated by artists like Georgia O’Keeffe and Charles Sheeler.

Born in Cleveland OH but raised in England, Ault was trained in British art schools, initially influenced by Impressionism and the atmospheric works of J.M.W. Turner and James Whistler. After returning to the U.S. in 1911, he adopted a modernist style, focusing on New York cityscapes in the 1920s.

By the 1930s, Ault worked on New Deal art projects and withdrew from the art market, moving to Woodstock, New York, in 1937. There, he found inspiration in rural scenes, especially a nearby barn, which he painted multiple times as a symbol of a vanishing agrarian life. His work echoed the preservationist themes of many New England artists, blending modernism with a nostalgic view of the American landscape.

🎨 Shown here:
New Moon, New York, 1945, oil on canvas, 71.1 x 50.8 cm Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, © 2024 Artist or Estate of Artist (DAI -P1147)

Study for New Moon, New York, 1944, pencil on paper, 35.3 x 25.3 cm Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, © 2024 Artist or Estate of Artist

10/10/2024

is back with a new episode! Today, the Grundlers are joined by Illinois Art Education Association Leadership () to explore the benefits of collaborative leadership, and what it means to facilitate peoples’ success.

Listen to the full episode and see resources: https://hubs.ly/Q02S-ZN-0

🍃 Just in time for World Mental Health Day, the November 2024 issue, Nature, is here! 🌻In this issue, art teachers use n...
10/10/2024

🍃 Just in time for World Mental Health Day, the November 2024 issue, Nature, is here! 🌻

In this issue, art teachers use nature to inspire students become more in tune with themselves and the world around them. Young students take a mindful approach as they collage an imaginary place in which they feel calm, elementary students create visual responses that evoke empathy for those experiencing environmental disasters, middle-school students collaborate to create a sustainable felted planter for a community garden, high-school students build custom birdhouses for residents at a local retirement village, and more.

🌊 On the cover:
Student artwork by Felipe C., grade six, from "Aquatic Communities in Clay" by Jessica Provow.

Read the digital edition now: https://hubs.ly/Q02S_k6F0

🌠 Want a chance to win a $100 gift certificate from Blick Art Materials for yourself AND your student? Submit your stude...
10/09/2024

🌠 Want a chance to win a $100 gift certificate from Blick Art Materials for yourself AND your student? Submit your student art for the 2025–2026 Art Advocacy Planner contest!

🏆 PRIZES:
- Front cover artwork: Teacher and student each receive $100 Blick gift certificates, plus 10 planners
- Back cover artworks (several will be selected): Teachers and students each receive $25 Blick gift certificates, plus 10 planners

📌 The deadline for the contest is December 20. Find out more details on the submission page at https://hubs.ly/Q02SP_fm0

🐟💦🐠 Our cover feature for October features student artwork from "Eco Punch Art" by middle-school art teacher, Jessica Pr...
10/04/2024

🐟💦🐠 Our cover feature for October features student artwork from "Eco Punch Art" by middle-school art teacher, Jessica Provow.

The lesson begins with a boat tour of Virginia Beach's waterways, which became a a floating classroom. Jessica writes: "Students collaborated as they net fished, crabbed, and learned about the unique fish and aquatic life in our local waterways. We discussed the positive and negative impact of humans in our area and how artists can create works, known as Eco Art, to inspire positive environmental change."

Students then began an Eco Art-inspired rug-hooking project using punch needles and, later in the lesson, a tufting gun.

"Connecting our work to Eco Art gave students the chance to use their designs to tackle important topics that concern our environment, such as the conservation and preservation of our waterways. Plastic bags and other materials were punched onto canvases to raise awareness about the negative impact of trash on the environment."

Read the full lesson in October 2024, the Connections issue!
https://hubs.ly/Q02S9RHS0

Student artwork credits:
🖼️ Images 1 and 4: Emily H., eco-inspired punch-needle canvas.
🖼️ Image 2: Students Drew J., Brayden H., and LeeʼAyla F. learn about local aquatic life from boat tour guide Josh Gilliland.
🖼️ Image 3: Kayla S., punch-needle canvas.

10/03/2024

Today we're featuring another K12ArtChat Flashback episode. Check out episode 95 with Dr. Cyndi Burnett!

Creativity has two perspectives: one is based on artistic expression and the other is scientific, focusing on improvement. In this episode, talks to Dr. Cyndi Burnett to discuss how these intersect. They explore creativity in the arts, modeling it for students, and how it extends to other fields.

Listen now: https://hubs.ly/Q02S2Cbw0

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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/.

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