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

Middle-school students create illustrated dictionary pages to share with the community, exercising their literacy, language, and communication skills.

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.

Elementary students transform their school walls through collaborative art projects that celebrate individuality and bring their community together.

An art educator designs an inclusive curriculum where students with disabilities and their non-disabled peers collaborate as equals.

Students research, draw, and embroider constellations onto painted mixed-media backgrounds.

Young students shape clay and imprint textures using various objects to create fossil designs.

Interdisciplinary artist Jeffrey Gibson creates vibrant works that fuse Indigenous cultural traditions with contemporary global practices.

Elementary students explore color, texture, and shape through a nature-based lesson inspired by contemporary artist Melissa Scherrer Paré.

Young students collaborate on a large-scale painting of an imaginary heroine, adding nontraditional materials to bring their ideas to life.

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