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A ccording to Lawton (2010), art educators should be concerned with teaching their students to make critical connections between the classroom and the outside world. one eff ective way to make these critical connections is to provide students with the opportunity to engage in community-based art endeavors (Bolin, 2000;Gude, 2007). In this article, three university art educators discuss engaging preservice art teachers in community arts events. The fi rst author reviews a collaborative mural project as a meaning-making process that fostered a constructive partnership between the university and the local public school and promoted preservice art teachers' positive attitudes toward community service-learning art projects. The second author examines the Pecan Festival as a community service-learning activity for preservice art teachers. She emphasizes the importance of studying the local community and environment while connecting the art education course curriculum to a community art event. The third author refl ects on the signifi cant benefi ts preservice art teachers achieved through community involvement and outreach with the Youth Art Festival.

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In this article, we discuss our struggles and efforts to respond to Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) hate crimes and anti-Asian racism, as well as explore ways to address the issues of anti-Asian racism, violence, myths, and stereotypes in the art classroom. We researched and learned from contemporary Asian American artists, attended anti-racism virtual talks, and examined various anti-racism pedagogical approaches. As an outcome of our research to confront anti-racism, we developed S-R-C strategies to engage students with art-based anti-racism, which include facilitating a sense of belonging (S), resisting anti-Asian racism (R), and coalescing with other minority groups and allies (C). These strategies were developed to fully embrace the equity, diversity, and inclusivity of AAPI sequentially and holistically. This article also reports how we use the S-R-C strategies to guide our preservice art teachers to confront anti-Asian racism and advocate for anti-racism teaching practices.