b'This article explores how students conveyed visual stories beyond classroom spaces through collaborative artmaking processes. Examples of visual storytelling in practice are presented within the context of a cross-generational mural project that involved collaboration between different age groups in a large urban school district. Incorporating collaborative exchanges into art curriculum supports student-driven outcomes that communicate values through art that are important to students and the community. Expanding the reach of students communicative capacities beyond the classroom TRENDS 202535'