Physical Space

Check Out These Elementary Art Room Zones for Organizational Inspiration

| July 9, 2026

Do you love a good storage moment? Step inside Susie Belzer’s elementary art room to see how she organizes her space into helpful zones to store art supplies and student artwork!

Here are some of the zones Susie shares that you can implement in your own classroom:

  • Daily drawing supplies
  • Fiber arts
  • Crafting materials
  • Drawing paper
  • Bulletin board tools
  • Teacher prep
  • Painting
  • Construction paper
  • Early finisher gallery 
  • Art smocks
  • Scrap paper

Keep watching to tour other areas, like the iconic art teacher storage closets and kiln room. Susie also gives you a sneak peek inside her wall cabinets, which are an organizer’s dream. Replicate her student artwork storage system with class bins for current work (including sketchbooks) that slide out to bring to tables.

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Magazine articles and podcasts are opinions of professional education contributors and do not necessarily represent the position of the Art of Education University (AOEU) or its academic offerings. Contributors use terms in the way they are most often talked about in the scope of their educational experiences.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lindsey McGinnis

Lindsey McGinnis is AOE’s Media Content Manager and a former high school art educator. She is passionate about equipping art teachers to be successful in their classrooms and firmly believes that art is the best place for students to explore and process the challenging topics and concepts around them.

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