Patterns from Nature student art showcase is a collaboration among Asia Society, Studio in a School Corporation and New York City Public Schools based on the exhibition, The Native Born: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Ramingining, Australia. Artists from the Studio in a School Corp worked with teachers, who also attended a workshop at the Asia Society, then, with their students, visited The Native Born exhibition. The insight gained from their visit was then asserted in an art project using their own communities and imagination as subject. The final expression of the students' experience resulted in fantastic paintings, paper maché sculptures, and murals.

Special thanks to teachers as well as professional and student artists in the following schools for their contributions: PS. 67 Brooklyn Teacher: Colleen Cornwall; Lead artist: Nina Talbot PS 15 Queens Teacher: Patricia Munsch; Lead aritist: Kathy Creutzburg PS 154 Brooklyn Teacher: Stella Theogorakis; Lead artist: Susan Greenstein PS 192 Brooklyn Teacher: Cara DeSantis & Pamala Navarrete; Lead artist Alex Talavera. Asia Society project director: Nancy Blume.

The Native Born exhibition is organized and toured by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia. The Native Born is made possible with generous support from The Boeing Company and News Corporation. This project is also assisted by the Australia Council, the Commonwealth Government's arts funding and advisory body, through its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Board, Audience and Market Development Division and Visual Arts/Craft Board.