Presented here are two examples of student artwork that accompany "To Search for Enlightenment: Responding to Siddhartha through Paint and Poetry." To encourage creative thinking, high school teacher Kelly Courtney-Smith asked her students for creative responses to Hesse's novel, using a technique she learned from coauthor Michael Angelotti. Students painted or wrote poems interpreting their reading, then responded to the creations of their classmates. The students found that these “collaborative activities provided insights into the novel, their classmates, and their paintings and poems.”

"Om" by Caroline

"Let Your Lights Shine" by Maggie