b'EDITORIALStorytelling encompasses the exploration of memories, meaning, and making by drawing upon past, present, and future experiences over a continuum of time. Art plays a unique role in storytelling through its ability to transform the ways stories are told, interpreted, and shared across different spaces. When storytelling is situated within learner-centered pedagogies, students are authentically engaged in investigating, generating, and communicating their own stories and the stories of those around them. Students also meaningfully engage in reflecting, revising, and revisiting the stories they tell through a myriad of multifaceted decisions. As art educators, we must encourage and support students to engage in learning experiences that empower them to construct, respond to, and act upon visual stories that are relevant to their lives and experiences.The 2025 issue of TRENDS features collaborative and narrative inquiry approaches to visual storytelling in K-12 and higher education settings. The featured articles draw upon multiple modes of artmaking and highlight the important role art education plays in supporting students and educators in developing and expressing their stories in personal, communal, and digital spaces.The first article presents the framework of an interdisciplinary Interpretive Arts Show that blended visual literacy with English Language Arts to showcase diverse perspectives and shared stories among a community of middle school aged learners. Collaboration across disciplines was used to fuel the storytelling process, guiding students through a transformative journey of critical thinkingandvisualliteracythatculminatedinacampus-wideexhibition.Thesecondarticle presents a collaborative project that transformed the personal narratives and affirmations of high school students into a public mural. Students explored historical and contemporary artists while reimagining their own self-perceptions, memories, and identities by weaving together individual worksintoacollectivestory.Thethirdarticlepresentsaninnovativepartnershipbetween different age groups of students that fostered collaborative exchanges rooted in storytelling and shared values. Meaningful exchanges outside of the classroom space and collective artmaking resulted in a series of cross-generational murals that communicated values through art that were important to students and their community. The concluding article presents storytelling through an auto ethnographic visual narrative that explores personal experiences from adolescence to adulthood. Reimaging storytelling through a narrative lens with different forms of media supports students and educators in developing personal agency and a nuanced sense of self. As Co-Editors we hope this issue will inspire and challenge you to incorporate storytelling into your art education practices and to facilitate opportunities for your students to authentically share their stories and the stories of others.David Moya, TRENDS Co-Editor Keri Reynolds, TRENDS Co-Editor8TRENDS 2025'