![One of Marc Nelson's pieces featuring the White Helmet rescue workers.](https://will.illinois.edu/images/uploads/43108/nelson-06__medium.jpg)
The Art of Touching Lives
Marc Nelson's goal is to teach his students at Central Junior High School in Kewanee that there is more to art than paintings hanging from a gallery wall. The students are learning that lesson by creating images of the civil war and humanitarian crisis in Syria -- artwork that is shared on Twitter via the hashtag #StandWithAleppo.