Submissions are due:

August 1, 2025 for the Fall issue

November 1, 2025 for the Winter issue

January 1, 2026 for the Spring issue

SHORT COLUMNS (500 words or less with an image or two)

CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER What are you investigating?

BALANCING ACT What are you doing to balance yourself as a person/artist/teacher?

ARTIST ON MY MIND What artist/artwork has inspired you this year? (We’ll need the artist’s permission to show an image.)

YOU GOTTA SEE THIS What podcast/YouTube/techy-tool has inspired you this year?

BOOK REVIEW What book has inspired you this year?

A PROJECT SLICE Share a lesson plan from your practice that generated creative thinking in your students.

IDEATION WORKOUT Describe an idea-building exercise you have used with your students.

THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE Share something physical from your classroom that improved students’ access, autonomy, collaboration, engagement, or craft. For example, a new way you organized tools, a table configuration, a gathering place, or a technology set-up.

RITUALS Share a ritual or protocol from your classroom that humanizes classroom culture. For example, table names, buddy critiques, conversation protocols, clean-up songs, etc.

DO-OVER What aspects of your practice are you going to revise next time?

SHOW AND TELL How do you share your students' thinking with the broader community? (Analog and/or digital?)

BOTH SIDES NOW A column from the point of view of a new teacher or a retired teacher. Pre-service/first-year teachers: What are you thinking about your first experience of teaching/your future career? Retiring educators, veteran teachers: What are you up to? How does your previous life as an art teacher affect what you are doing now?

THE WORKING ARTIST Share your personal art and studio practice. What are you currently doing in the studio? Do you have any upcoming projects/exhibitions? (Include links to artist website and/or social media.)

COMMUNITY PARTNERS SPOTLIGHT A column from the point of view of art institutions outside of traditional schools: What's happening in your space that connects to K-12 art classrooms?

ACCESS FOR ALL What are you doing to help all people access opportunities for thinking, making, and sharing creative work?

HOW TO Share step-by-step directions for how to do something. Keep it clear and simple. (Include resources and insider’s tips.)

LONGER COLUMN (500 - 2,000 words with many images)

THE PLOT THICKENS Share and explain documentation of student process through a long project.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions of text should be submitted as Word documents. Submitted items may be edited for clarity, length, and format. For articles and references, please follow the APA Style guidelines set forth in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition.

If possible, please accompany your article with photographs of student work or students at work. Images should be in .jpg format and submitted as separate attachments. If you include images within a Word document, please also attach the images in .jpg format. Whenever possible, include captions and, in the case of photos of original student or teacher artwork, include names of artists.

Please submit written permissions from artists and/or students when submitting photographs of them and their work. Ideal images are at least 4 x 6" at 300 ppi (pixels per inch). For an image to be considered for our cover, submit an image that is at least 9 x 12" at 300 ppi.

Email me at amyfelderartteacher@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.

Thank you,
Amy Felder, Editor of Collage

Keys:

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https://catalog.davisart.com/Products/677-5/the-open-art-room.aspx

https://www.davisart.com/student-led-classroom/

Quist Middle School (6th-8th)

13451 Yosemite St, Thornton, CO 80602

Kbeach@sd27j.net

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