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.

Young students explore community-centered art-making as they create a mandala display that fosters positivity and intergenerational connection.

Middle-school students use storytelling to connect personal experiences and create symbolic, relief-printed interpretations of monsters.

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

High-school students design quilt squares inspired by a historical figure, ancestor, or community.

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

Elementary students combine historical and contemporary artworks to create a new work of art in a mash-up of ideas.

Students in America and Ukraine participate in an art exchange to learn about their peers through their artwork.

Art educator Rama Hughes shares a fun and reliable activity in which students illustrate scenes from passages of text.

Elementary students create visual responses that evoke empathy for those experiencing weather-related catastrophes.

High-school students draw alongside Tibetan monks as they create a sand mandala symbolizing compassion.