Natalie C. Jones highlights how museums connect students, teachers, and preservice educators to hands-on arts experiences that foster advocacy.

Contemporary sculptor Tina Yu blends mythology, nature, and a playful “cute and creepy” aesthetic to create richly detailed fantasy sculptures.

Amanda Galbraith presents a project-based assignment introducing policy and advocacy concepts to preservice and early career students.

A high-school educator offers practical strategies for using student art to advocate for programs and inspire meaningful connections.

Frank Juárez, SchoolArts editor-in-chief, talks murals and more with one of NAEA26’s Artist Series speakers.

High-school students sell their work at art markets, gaining experience in branding, marketing, financial responsibility, and more.

High-school Digital Design and Illustration students collaborate with Fashion Design students to develop original custom garments.

The Center for Visual Arts collaborates with welding students to transform its outdoor courtyard into an accessible, community-driven art space.

A tuition-free mentorship supports high-school students with hands-on workshops and experiences that open doors to careers in theatrical design.

Middle-school students become stop-motion animators and storytellers while exploring CTE and audio-visual concepts.

Sculptors work with a wide variety of materials, such as metal, stone, wood, clay, wire, found objects, plastic—even ice and butter. They can weld or carve materials into freestanding statues or create relief sculpture, which is flat on one side and hangs on a wall.

An art museum describes how its teen council impacts the museum’s programming by acting as innovators, leaders, and changemakers.