SchoolArts is a magazine written by and for K–12 art educators. It is a division of Davis Publications, a family-owned publisher of preK–12 art curriculum. The publisher and president, Julian Davis Wade, is a fifth-generation member of the Davis family. The Davis family has published the magazine continuously, including through World War I and World War II, since its origin in 1901. Julian is the great-great-grandson of Gilbert G. Davis, the founder of the magazine, along with three prominent art educators from Massachusetts.
Publication history
SchoolArts magazine originated in 1901 in Massachusetts when Henry Turner Bailey, Fred Daniels, James Hall, and Gilbert Gates Davis 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. Contributing writers have included Arthur Wesley Dow, Viktor Lowenfeld and John Dewey. SchoolArts articles have been used 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.
21st century
The company is located in the Printer's Building in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Editor, Nancy Walkup, is a full-time art teacher who lives and works in Denton, Texas. The magazine is published nine times per year with an August–September issue to begin the traditional school year, them monthly from October through April and ending with the May–June issue, omitting July. scholastic year, circulation of the print edition of SchoolArts was about 20,000. The publisher's media kit reports another 11,000 subscribers to the on-line digital edition. Its articles include ideas, industry trends, lesson plans, and classroom resources. Each year the magazine features fine art from museums, contemporary works from the PBS series 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.
