ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that students' engagement with the visual arts as creators, viewers, and responders providing opportunities for students to think about and engage in conversations about participation, including issues of access and voice. It also provides a fourth-grade teacher carefully guiding her students through the process of creating an artistic response to a socially engaged piece of art. Miss Shaw, a fourth-grade teacher, creates a space for students to reflect about the purpose of art, to think about what it means to respond to a work of art, and to begin to create an artistic response. Throughout the learning activity the teacher and students engage in important discussions about issues of access and voice as they select a location for their artistic response. Creating an artistic response to Candy Chang's socially engaged artwork required the students to develop and use literacies that provided them with greater access to the world.
