A visual arts education promoted through a lens of visual culture fosters the idea that students can influence social change through their artmaking practices (K. Freedman, 2003a). Instructing through this lens is by far harder than teaching simple artmaking techniques. But Alison Aziz, similar to Kerry Freedman, became an art educator because they believe in the power art holds. The author wanted to take a look at the research on visual culture since K. Freedman's (2003a) article. They have broken this article up across two parts: (1) a discussion of what visual culture has meant in recent years and (2) the importance of teaching art through a visual culture lens. Art education is a rich discipline that simply cannot be overlooked for the importance that it serves to the curriculum. Ultimately, there are different reasons for becoming an art educator; however, the author's hope is that, in this article, an argument will have been made for instructing art through the lens of visual culture.