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

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

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

Students use simple lines and shapes to create expressive floral compositions.

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

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

High-school students transform traditional portraits into imaginative compositions inspired by surrealism and contemporary art.

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

Middle-school students practice “the art of seeing,” exploring various locations for photographic potential and turning their images into digital art.

Elementary students explore space, emotion, and identity while building digital fluency in this flexible digital landscape lesson.

Jane E. Dalton, professor and author, guides students through mindful walking and careful observation to create radial designs in nature.

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