Utopias in the TeenAge (Macateer High School and Artists and Writers Out Loud (AWOL) at Capp St. Projects); Projects with Hope Haven Homeless Shelter; Visual culture puppet shows; Tents of Hope (creation of painted classroom tent for Darfuri refugee children with Northern Illinois University (NIU) future art teachers, Hope Haven and Middle School children); Social activist currency with pre-service elementary teachers; Creating organic community art gardens; Immigrant cartoon narratives; nature mandalas; Random Acts of Kindness in response to the NIU shootings at the Altgelt Museum; Future sustainable farm animals.