2024/25 Catalog
Showcasing students’ creative process from planning through development illustrates the value of art education. Using high-quality instructional materials makes this easy!
Davis Digital
Davis Digital provides the K–12 Curriculum from Davis Publications online! It’s perfect for remote, traditional, and hybrid classroom environments. The Davis Digital platform allows students and teachers remote or in-class access to lessons, fine art images, videos, and Portfolios from any computer or tablet with an Internet connection. Easily work from home, the classroom, a computer lab, or any combination!
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eBooks
Zoom in on images; search for keywords, such as an artist, element, or principle; and share lessons with parents, colleagues, and supervisor; and much more!
Portfolios
Made for and by art educators, these easy-to-use, intuitive portfolios are perfect for beginners, students, and teachers who have been using portfolios for years!
Lessons
The Curriculum Builder helps you customize each lesson, with one convenient place for filing lessons from Davis eBooks, along with your own images, videos, links, and more.
Davis Art Images
Choose from more than 20,000 fine art images! Search by artist, culture, medium, element or principle, art movement, theme, and more. Easily compare and contrast any two images.
Student Accounts
Your students can search through their eBooks, create their own portfolios, check out images you’ve selected for them to review, or research the complete image library.
SchoolArts Magazine
The digital version of SchoolArts allows you to search current and past issues by keyword; to share articles and lessons with colleagues; and to easily zoom in on artworks.
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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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Teaching Digital Color: RGB/CMY Color Wheel
NEW! Digital media is changing how we teach color theory and design methods. The RGB/CMY digital color wheel poster and teaching guide is a tool based on the science of human vision. Developed to promote digital color understanding, and filled with engaging lessons and video content, this program is designed to encourage exploration of color in the context of media arts.
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Planner Cover Art Contest
The 2025/26 Advocacy Planner is now available. Get yours today!
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Restorative Practices in Education through the Arts
Discover practical examples and strategies that deal with the rise in stress and trauma in youth and adults across K16 classrooms and community settings. Through a collection of essays from experts in the field, this new title, edited by Lisa Kay, Donalyn Heise, and Beverley Johns, investigates the myriad of ways the arts address trauma-related issues with a particular focus on healing beyond adversity.
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Curriculum Implementation Support
Discover how Davis’s Professional Development team can ensure successful and meaningful use of your Davis instructional materials. Choose from three tiers of support to guarantee successful curriculum application. Session content is flexible and can be expanded or condensed based on the amount of time available.
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Curator's Corner
Artist Birthday: James M. Flagg
James Montgomery Flagg was an artist, illustrator, and comic book artist. He is perhaps best known for his poster designs for World War I (1914-1918) in which he created by far, the most iconic image ...
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Curator's Corner
Artist Birthday: Francisco Oller y Cestero
Like many of the countries colonized by the Spanish during the 1400s and 1500s, Puerto Rico has had a rich artistic culture. Spanish culture overran the native Taino culture, and established an artist...
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Davis Desk
10 Things Art Educators Should Do in the Summer
During the school year, art educators spend so much time and energy on lesson planning and student projects that their own artistic practice and inspiration often fall by the wayside. For art educator...
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