SchoolArts
educational magazine
SchoolArts is a magazine written by and for K–12 art educators. It is produced by Davis Publications, a family-owned publisher of pre-K–12 art curriculum. The publisher and president, Julian Davis Wade, is a fifth-generation member of the Davis family, who has published the magazine continuously 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 in the early 1900s.
History
SchoolArts magazine originated in 1901 in Worcester, 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. They were determined “to promote by every legitimate means the progress of sound art instruction and the development of public taste in all matters relating to the applied arts.
SchoolArts articles have been used for movements such as Picture Study, the Arts and Crafts movement, and multiculturalism. Contributing writers have included Arthur Wesley Dow, Viktor Lowenfeld and John Dewey. As SchoolArts grew, the publication moved to developing books.
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