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!
Showcasing students’ creative process from planning through development illustrates the value of art education. Using high-quality instructional materials makes this easy!
You, your methods, ideas, and strategies are the best contemporary resource available to your fellow art educators. Share your expertise and get published in SchoolArts!
A podcast for K–12 art educators interested in the latest education innovations and resources. You’ll find tips, tools, and inspiration to keep you connected and moving forward.
Written by and for art educators. This trusted resource promotes excellence and innovation, art advocacy, and professional support for K–12 art educators.
Online and in-print resources and curriculum that encourage students to stretch beyond a single idea and keep creation and exploration at the center of art class.
Whether you need a complete curriculum or are looking for resources to supplement your existing program—turn to Davis. You face new demands every year. Our materials are specifically designed to support you and your increasingly diverse needs.
Flexible art education resources to meet the needs of every art teacher.
Check out Explorations in Art for an exemplary foundation in the visual arts, Creative Minds for innovative K–5 afterschool programs, and Resource Books to inspire teachers and support emerging artists.
Browse CurriculumLearn about our two core programs that support Middle School students: Experience Art and Exploring Visual Design. Add to your professional development with our award-winning Resource Books.
Browse CurriculumLearn about The Visual Experience or Exploring Visual Design for Art I, and the Davis Studio Series, along with our Resource Books designed for the high-school art educator.
Browse CurriculumFind state-specific adoption resources and information, including state correlations to our textbooks and evaluation resources. Information is included on each program in both print and digital formats.
View ResourcesDavis 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!
Wondering about the technical requirements? Consult our technical information page.
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!
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!
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.
Choose from more than 35,000 fine art images! Search by artist, culture, medium, element or principle, art movement, theme, and more. Easily compare and contrast any two images.
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.
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.
Art teachers use nature to inspire students to 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.
Browse This IssueLooking for a place to showcase your student art? We have it. Wondering what new resources are available? It’s here. Be the first to know about what we’re planning—there’s always something new happening at Davis!
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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.
More DetailsThe Davis Catalog is packed with resources to help you draw attention to your students’ learning process and celebrate their creative work! Explore everything Davis provides and discover a wide variety of digital and print instructional materials that support creative processes and student development. Request a print copy or browse through it online today!
More DetailsComing soon! As part of the NEW Engaging with Art series, Engaging with Public Art is designed to help students and their teachers explore contemporary artists and their work. Each set in the series focuses on an art practice that reflects ways in which artists of today work. Engaging with Public Art addresses the art form recognized as street art. Delve into art displayed on publicly viewed surfaces and explore how these artists express their feelings about issues or personal experiences.
More DetailsGain a deeper understanding of how beliefs, values, and morals form the cornerstone of ethical decision-making practice in Art Educator’s professional lives. Grounded in ethics research, this book will help readers develop ethical decision-making strategies that are crucial for practitioners.
More DetailsUkiyo-e was a woodblock print aesthetic that was popular from the late 1600s to the mid 1800s. The genre developed a visual vocabulary that documented the entertainments of Japanese urban centers, par...
Read MoreEver since the Crimean War (1853–1856) between Russia, the Ottoman Empire (Turkey), Britain, and France and the American Civil War (1861–1865)—the first wars to be extensively docume...
Read MoreIn case you have any doubt that the heritage of ancient cultures from Central and South American has endured to the present day, all one has to do is look at the influences of ancient art on contempor...
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