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.
The Latest in School Arts
Place
Art teachers and their students learn from, transform, and reimagine the places and spaces around them. Young students connect personal growth to changes in nature, elementary students create abstract faces inspired by Detroit artist Tyree Guyton, middle school students design fantastical digital gardens featuring insects and flora, and high school students use yarn to illustrate cherished childhood memories.
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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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Engaging with Public Art
New! Engaging with Public Art is designed to help students and their teachers explore contemporary artists and their work. Focusing on ways in which artists of today work, this digital program 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.
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Curricular Considerations in Contemporary Art Education
The new self-paced course from Davis Professional Development explores strategies for keeping art content and assignments current and relevant. Receive ten hours of professional development with art educator Richard Kim as you rethink curriculum and develop new ways of encouraging students to make art that is authentic and truly their own. Dive into four modules that outline contemporary approaches for designing curricular components.
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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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Curator's Corner
Artist Birthday: John Koch (1909-1978 US)
Since the 1500s, genre paintings – scenes of everyday life – have become a standard part of fine art’s repertoire of subject matter. Genre painting is fascinating not just because it...
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Curator's Corner
Labors of the Month, August: Pieter Bruegel (ca. 1525-1569 Flanders)
Paintings or manuscript illustrations of the “labors of the months” is an art subject that is as old as the hills, both Western and non-Western art. These cycles were meant to remind peopl...
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Curator's Corner
Artist Birthday: Dwight Tryon (1849-1925 US)
The Tonalism movement in painting was a late 1800s style which approximated some of the goals of Impressionism, but was more about filmy form and atmospheric precision. Dwight Tryon’s misty land...
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