Middle-school students create collages from paper scraps to learn how to be resourceful and creative with art supplies.

High-school students collaborate with artist Bryant Holsenbeck to create an outdoor jellyfish installation from sustainable materials.

Middle-school students learn about narrative art and folk art, then create a woodblock painting depicting a significant family memory.

Elementary students learn about the origins of their food from local farmers and create a mural based on local food systems.

High-school students reuse and repurpose found materials to create beautiful works of art.

Middle-school students collaborate during a meaningful design challenge in which they create a felted planter for a community garden.

Artist Nnenna Okore addresses ecological concerns through sustainably made sculptures and installations.

Middle-school students explore rug-making through two unique assignments after taking a boat tour of the local waterways.

Multidisciplinary artist Jennifer Halli shares abstract and site-specific works that explore themes of travel, growth, and loss.

Morel Doucet is a Miami-based, Haitian-American multidisciplinary artist and arts educator who explores climate change, gentrification, and displacement among communities of the African diaspora through sculpture, printmaking, and illustration. He views his art as a celebration of nature within the Afrofuturism movement. Afrofuturist art incorporates futuristic and science-fiction themes with elements of black and African culture.

High school students begin with a project on poster design and then researched information on the intersection of environmental action and art which evolved into a mural project and then into paintings around storm drains in the community.

The Washed Ashore organization builds and exhibits aesthetically powerful art to educate a global audience about plastic pollution in the ocean and waterways and to spark positive changes in consumer habits. Learn how the Washed Ashore project served as a catalyst for students to use plastic trash to create works of art.