Young students create polar bears from basic shapes and add them to mixed-media backgrounds with oil pastel resist.

High-school students arrange and draw a still-life composition that communicates a self-portrait through symbolism.

Young students apply self- and social-awareness concepts by identifying, depicting, and responding to the emotions they see on their classmates’ faces.

High-school students practice patient observation, hand-eye coordination, empathy, and shared learning through blind contour drawing.

Elementary students use a variety of media to draw and paint patterned leaves.

Middle-school students use writing, drawing, and mapping to create conceptual self-portraits that express their identities.

Middle-school students discuss the human eye and use the grid method to draw and shade their own eyes.

Middle-school students make connections between the environment, artificial intelligence, and watercolor painting while participating in an art contest.

Middle-school students draw a cylinder, transform it into a common object, and add objects around it to make it look colossal.

Elementary students listen to the book Splatter by Diane Alber and create a garden of flowers using lines and shapes.

An art teacher begins her classes with a mindful art activity to ground students in the present and prepare them to learn.

Middle-school students use critical thinking, ideation, and the power of process to create meaningful self-portraits.