For eight Saturdays beginning on September 20th, 2025, and ending on November 8th, 2025. A group of my peers and I curated lessons for 2nd graders. The students explored the natural world while interacting with color and different art media. We wanted students to gain a deeper relationship with the world around them and how it can make its way into their art. In our unit students made art and designed with several materials and tools to connect to the natural world around them.  In the first activity of the unit students learned digital collage using pictures they took on campus. In the second, students learned how to engage with paint, using different objects as stamps to create different patterns and textures in stations. In the third activity, students sketched two or three animals, then engaged in conversation with their peers to decide which animal they would eventually sculpt in clay. For the next activity in the unit students learned how to apply glaze to their pre-fired clay animal sculptures, to add color, surface texture, and personality. Lastly, students brung their clay animal creations to life by designing a recycled box into a habitat that reflects where their clay animal would naturally live.  Students had a bonus lesson of a zentangle for our last project. We created this activity so students could work together to prepare for the exhibit. Students created their own artist statements and a custom name plates using Zentangle designs. 

On November 13th, I went with Professor Bert Stabler and a group of around 5 or 6 people.  We toured and talked about the student curated gallery named “Don’t Mind if I Do”. This gallery was made by and for people with disabilities. The exhibition had a conveyor belt that brought the art to you. Making art spaces more accessible to people who cannot see from far, who can not stand for long, and in case you need to feel, smell, and hear the art. Not just about physical disabilities, but for gender disabilities too. I thought it was cool to see someone use their creative abilities to navigate their disability. I did not take photos at this event. Next, we received a presentation and a tour of the school's Disability Cultural Center.  Our Final destination which was to observe a Senior cohort art education class.  We began the class listened to them speak about their weekly reading and they all collaborated to create a lesson plan to go with it. They asked questions like what questions do we want the students to have toward the material. Materials such as ceramics, sewing, photo, comics, etc. We brainstormed projects that could go with that material. We spoke about how to make anti racist lessons. How can we make this lesson more accessible to students with disabilities or esl students.