This year, I challenged my middle-school students with a conceptual assignment that I hope would test their abstract thinking skills. For the project, Collage for a Cause, students were asked to think beyond themselves by representing a cause they are passionate about. I asked to visually communicate an idea while considering the color, texture, and implications of the material they chose through various collage techniques.
Art teachers use the engaging nature and visual language of the arts to foster compassion and empathy. Students combine photography with digital storytelling to narrate their experiences living in America, create mixed-media artworks to represent a cause or issue they are passionate about, design headdresses inspired by local bird species, and more.
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