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The Summer 2025 issue is out now! Our new issue is out, and it's all about INNOVATION. Art teachers share new and exciting art-making experiences in and outside the art room.

Summer 2025 Innovation 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.

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Listen to the K12ArtChat podcast episode, Learning through Research, with Adjunct Associate Professor for Art Education at Teacher’s College Ami Kantawala. If you liked this podcast, pin it to Pinterest!

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 our newest book, Restorative Practices in Education through the Arts! Enter to win by filling out the form and get a FREE self-portrait mind map lesson for your classroom too!

Time after time, high-quality arts education has been shown to increase student engagement, strengthen critical-thinking skills, help build a greater ability to handle complexity, and encourage respect for alternative points of view. All of this is achieved through INQUIRY! At its most basic level, inquiry-based learning is an approach used to engage students in the investigation of open questions.

2025 Spring Forums Join NAEA Supervision and Administration Division members and leaders for an exciting and meaningful three-part webinar series starting January 2025. Using the NAEA core values of CREATIVITY, INGENUITY, and INTERCONNECTIVITY as our compass, we will be tackling big topics in our field while learning from amazing artists and practitioners. Join us for convenient, virtual professional development that you can squeeze into your day, over lunch or a planning period.

2024/25 Davis Catalog Art education is about more than the final product, it’s about thinking and exploration. It’s about the process students work through when creating and learning. Inspiration, Development, Creation, and Reflection are the foundation of every piece of instructional content Davis creates. Discover the wide variety of digital and print programs and tools created to help you guide students through each phase of the artistic process.

Curator's Corner intaglio printing mezzotint New Realism photo realism printmaking STEAM women artists By Karl Cole, posted on Apr 16, 2024 The recent eclipse gave me a hankering for some art that is space oriented. I naturally thought of these prints by Vija Celmins. I’ve always been amazed by the patience that her brand of realism must require to achieve such details. Having drawn science fiction comics, I know how hard it is to add a starfield with a brush and white gouache.