School Arts Magazine is an indispensible tool for teachers of the visual arts. It serves as a tool for the promotion of excellence, advocacy, and professional development for the arts classroom covering all grades from pre-K to 12.

Wikipedia.org: SchoolArts is the leading art education magazine for the K-12 art educator.

SchoolArts magazine originated in 1901 in Massachusetts when Henry Turner Bailey (state agent for the Promotion of Industrial Drawing), Fred Daniels (supervisor of drawing in the city of Worcester), James Hall (supervised drawing in Springfield), and Gilbert Gates Davis (a printer) collaborated to produce The Applied Arts Book, now known as SchoolArts. They believed art teachers needed a periodical to help them develop and use emerging art curricula. Ideas from many of the great minds of the twentieth century have appeared within the pages of SchoolArts, including Arthur Wesley Dow, Viktor Lowenfeld and John Dewey. SchoolArts articles planted some of the first seeds for movements such as Picture Study, the Arts and Crafts movement, and multiculturalism. SchoolArts grew and started publishing books. In 1958, Davis Publications was incorporated as a separate company that continued to publish SchoolArts. The publisher, Wyatt Wade, is married to Erika Davis Wade who is Gilbert Davis' great granddaughter. (Excerpted from “The Mission Continues” by Wyatt Wade, SchoolArts, September 2001, p 18).

SchoolArts helped to establish a community of art teachers and its articles continue to inspire art teachers with new ideas, industry trends, lesson plans, and ready-to-use classroom resources. Each year the magazine features fine art from museums, contemporary works from PBS's hit series Art:21 Art In the twenty-first century, guides for new or pre-service art teachers, lessons for early childhood, elementary, middle and high school, online art resources, and techniques for working with special needs in the classroom.

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Welcome to the newly updated Davis Web site! And if you’re just finding us for the first time, welcome to the online world of Davis. Here you’ll find all the resources you need to make your art teaching more satisfying.

Since 1901, Davis has held fast to its commitment to the arts and education. Our philosophy is simple: We believe in the abiding social value of art and art education and we advocate the role of the visual arts in a well-rounded education.

Other publishers offer programs for art education, but Davis is the only educational publisher solely dedicated to visual art in all its forms. We publish superior and innovative art education programs, studio activities, and a wealth of fine art resources, images, and multimedia support.

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