This article chronicles the development and implementation of a lesson sequence in a high school art course that utilized "Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed," a special exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute from December 6, 2001-March 17, 2002. This project took place over a 3-week period in the spring semester 2002 at The Heritage School, a public high school in New York City. As collaborators in this project, the authors each had their own objectives associated with their professional roles as school cultural visits coordinator (Lisa Hochtritt), art teacher (Kimberly Lane), and museum exhibition associate (Shannon Bell Price). They began planning for the project 3 months prior to its start and together developed a unit that exceeded their individual goals and met the four New York State Art Standards: (1) Creating, performing, and participating in the arts; (2) Knowing and using art materials and resources; (3) Responding to and analyzing works of art; and (4) Understanding the cultural dimensions and contributions of the arts. The process of bringing the Heritage students into the Extreme Beauty exhibition moved to the forefront an issue that had not been looked at for many years--that high-school groups were not permitted to tour in The Costume Institute galleries in any sort of organized way. Collectively, the collaborators of this project believe that their pedagogic goals were met through this collaborative, partnership approach. Furthermore, essential components of the success of this collaboration are mentioned. (Contains 2 notes.)