In this article, the author describes how high school and university students in Georgia and members of a small weaving pueblo in Oaxaca, Mexico, collaborated in designing and creating a mural in the central market ("mercado") of the pueblo. A number of lessons emerged from this multi-cultural collaboration. First they learned that using…

Every once in a while, stray fragments from art or popular culture spark one's imaginations and trigger an idea for developing an art curriculum project. In this article, the authors begin with the interior world of extraterrestrial aliens within the Grand Central Station locker from "Men in Black II," and led eventually to the authors' students…