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.
The Latest in School Arts
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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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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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 Beverly 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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2024/25 Davis Catalog
The 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!
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Curator's Corner
Artist Birthday: Cy Twombly
Forming his aesthetic during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, Cy Twombly pioneered his own unique brand of modernism. Rather than emphasizing process, he was inspired by art history past, particu...
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Curator's Corner
Artist Birthday: Liubov Popova
Liubov Popova was one of the many women artists active in the avant garde art during the period of the Russian Revolution (1917). Not only did she experiment in all of the most recent modernist styles...
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Curator's Corner
Lost Dog Awareness Day: Giacometti
On April 23, 2014, Lost Dogs of America created and launched the first National Lost Dog Awareness Day (NLDAD), a canine-focused day aimed to bring attention to all dogs that are lost each year, while...
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