Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This chapter explores the intersections of art and nonviolence as transformative forces in education. Building on the concept of the null curriculum, it considers how nonviolence, which is often absent from formal schooling, can be cultivated through aesthetic, embodied, and relational practices. Five portals—shape, transformation, interconnectedness, presence, and inwardness—are used to illuminate how art encourages nonviolence as a lived orientation rather than an abstract ideal. Together, art and nonviolence invite alternative ways of knowing, being, and becoming that nurture awareness, compassion, curiosity, healing, and ethical engagement. Rather than reactive responses to conflict or violence, they can be ongoing, everyday practices that deepen relationships with self, others, and the world.</jats:p>