I shifted my goals of teaching to center students’ lived experience and provide a platform for them to express themselves. This art teaching approach needed the students to bring back their memories and their learned skills to be utilized. More importantly, my students had to essentially recognize their skills and cultural capital as assets, as valuable parts of funds of knowledge. Funds of knowledge are what “students bring with them every day, which extend beyond the context of the classroom and into the students’ homes and communities” (Moll, 1992, as cited in Constance, 2022). The students of Chicago Moms Art are mothers, daughters, and members of their communities. It was important for me to acknowledge the social connections and analysis that emerges from each class originally from the lives and routines of the students and their communities. Funds of knowledge can be a strategy to explore the homes and, therefore, the hearts and minds of the students. Storytelling was a normal part of my class but with the aspect of funds of knowledge, it became essential.