The best way to do this is through stories. Some of the stories the artists tell are about famous people, places, and events. Children discover the stories in the art by learning to look carefully and by answering questions asked of them in the labels around the artwork and in the exhibition catalogue. In every exhibit, artwork is included from many different cultures. The artwork may tell stories about how things began, or pay tribute to heroes and heroines.
Some artworks take viewers on great quests and journeys, to places real or imagined.
In finding the stories in the artwork, there are no wrong answers. When a child imagines a story, the artwork has come alive. I feel I have been successful as an educator when a child takes over the role of storyteller and finds his or her own ideas and ways of looking at art. The idea is not to create young artists, but to expand the possibilities and the imagination of the child. Art encourages new ways of thinking and new skills for creativity.