2025/26 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!
Wondering about the technical requirements? Consult our technical information page.
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!
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.
Translation Functionality
Built-in translation tools support inclusive classrooms and enhance communication, providing all learners equal access for artistic expression and creativity.
Lessons
From downloadable ready-made lesson plans to tools for customizing and presenting your own lessons. There’s a variety of ways to use and organize instructional content.
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!
Davis Art Images
Choose from thousands of fine art images! Search by artist, culture, medium, element or principle, art movement, theme, and more. Easily compare and contrast any two images.
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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Media Arts
Art teachers integrate media arts to amplify student voice and foster connection. Young students build emotional literacy through stop-motion animations, elementary students use Adobe Express to create narrated stories expressing their perspectives on winter, middle-school art and STEM students collaborate on animated public service announcements, high-school Digital Design and Illustration students partner with Fashion Design students to develop custom garments, and more.
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What’s New
Looking 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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Media Arts Essentials
NEW! Explore tools, techniques, and practices that fuse traditional art principles with emerging technologies. Our new comprehensive, ready-to-use digital resource bundles Davis’s Media Arts materials with instruction on how to facilitate successful implementation. Designed specifically for art educators who are ready to dive into or level up their media arts curriculum, this all-in-one package provides everything you need to start strong, stay inspired, and teach with confidence.
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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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Curator's Corner
National Hat Day: Art by Tom Price
Since at least 1983, schools, libraries, and museums have observed National Hat Day has been observed. People are invited to wear their favorite type of hat. The date also commemorates the day in 1797...
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Davis Desk
The Benefits of a K–12 Visual Arts Education
What are the benefits of a visual arts education? This is a topic that has been debated among various K–12 stakeholders for years. This article addresses the question from various perspectives t...
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Design and Stitch
One of the most rewarding aspects of the project was how it mirrored the workflow of professional design studios. Students gained firsthand experience in creative communication, timeline management, a...
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