2025 SchoolArts Issues

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Transformation
November 2025

Transformation

This issue highlights various ways that transformation can inspire creativity and collaboration. Young students work together on a school-wide clay mosaic inspired by The Very Hungry Caterpillar, elementary students transform recycled cardboard by creating landscape-inspired low-reliefs, middle-school students demonstrate contrast and balance by turning recycled materials into wearable art, high-school students study the surrealist works of Giuseppe Arcimboldo and create their own inspired drawings from everyday objects, and more.

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Student Voice and Choice
October 2025

Student Voice and Choice

Art teachers foster student voice and choice, guiding them to become thoughtful artists and critical thinkers. Young students participate in a three-part insect-drawing unit that combines science and imagination, elementary students construct 3D miniature studios based on artist research, middle-school students use mapping to create conceptual self-portraits that express their identities, high-school students investigate the metal sculptures of Constructivist Naum Gabo and create their own sculptures based on personal interests, and more.

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Connections
September 2025

Connections

Our first issue of the volume year focuses on many aspects of connection. While teaching students about new artists, processes, and techniques, art teachers also prioritize building relationships and strong foundations. Young students transform the hallway bulletin board into a giant sheet music mural with lyrics promoting kindness, elementary students combine board games and fairy tales to develop fantastical illustrations, middle-school students embrace imperfections while making stained glass jewelry, high-school students work with limited materials to create balanced compositions, and more.

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Innovation
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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Process
May 2025

Process

Art teachers use a process-based approach to engage students in art-making. Young students apply color-mixing to create vibrant watercolor paintings, elementary students are introduced to the unique process of paper quilling, middle-school students use critical thinking and ideation skills while drawing meaningful self-portraits, high-school students use fused glass techniques to create functional works of art, and more.

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Contemporary Art
April 2025

Contemporary Art

This issue focuses on various interpretations of contemporary art and what art means for students today. Young students investigate their connection to the natural world and print with leaves, elementary students combine elements from historical and contemporary artworks to create a new work of art, middle-school students explore the large-scale sculptures of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, high-school students channel contemporary themes into a self-portrait photo composite, and more.

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Advocacy
March 2025

Advocacy

This issue introduces various ways to address advocacy through different lenses, ranging from cultural perspectives to embracing mistakes and self-expression. Young students use art and creative thinking skills to connect with themselves and the world around them, elementary students turn mistakes like rips and smudges into beautiful works of art, middle-school students make clay puzzle pieces with symbolic objects representing their interests, high-school students create detailed fabric portraits of someone they look up to, and more.

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Collaboration
Jan./Feb. 2025

Collaboration

This issue highlights several ways in which art teachers have integrated collaboration into their teaching practice, such as providing students with opportunities to problem-solve and work together throughout the year, learning about the Sustainable Development Goals and creating a tile installation symbolizing them, inviting a local florist to teach an art lesson, collaborating with an artist to create an outdoor installation using materials reclaimed from the ocean, and more.

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