Arts programming helps students connect with history, develop emotional skills, and grow creatively outside of the classroom. In an essay from the Fall issue of Carnegie Magazine, our museum educators and local students discuss their experiences. . The image above comes from a short video from Avonworth junior Emelia Houser, which contains black-and-white clips of life in Egypt in 1882 that Houser slowly covers in black paint. "It’s showing what the British invasion took from the people of Egypt, in trade, in freedom of religion, to devastating effect," she says. . Houser's integrated art, world history, and language arts class at Avonworth visited the museum to take inspiration from the collection and exhibitions and investigate connections between the art on view and their study of imperialism. Her project took inspiration from artist Alex Da Corte's work, Rubber Pencil Devil, from the 2018 #CarnegieInternational. . Read the full essay, "Thinkng and Feeling Through Art," at carnegiem...