Students, teachers, family members and neighbors created an Art Garden at La Escuela Fratney Elementary School. The Art Garden Project originated with a collaboration that Arts @ Large has formed with the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Department of Emergency Medicine. The initiative is designed to help students identify social and environmental health issues that they and their families face in their neighborhoods, and utilize the arts to bring attention to issues while seeking positive solutions that they can implement in their own communities. Chief of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Steven Hargarten helped to identify three primary emergency room admissions: obesity-related illnesses, asthma and gun violence. With these in mind, a team of teachers, parents, educators and landscape architects from the Urban Ecology Center created the Art Garden project to help students develop environmental responsibility, while adapting healthy eating habits into their daily lives. The new garden will be used as an outdoor classroom and performance space. Fratney teachers collaborate with educators from the Urban Ecology Center to create grade level specific curriculum that merges the arts with environmental learning.