This article intends to encourage teachers to explore ways "social and emotional learning" (SEL) and art education can enhance each other. Service-learning art projects were presented as one example, employing collaborate-and-create, asset-based methods integrated with SEL instruction. Advantages anticipated from combining these methods result from students confronting social-emotional issues within community art tasks over an extended period of time (several-week unit). Because SEL skills to be developed in the unit are made explicit, they can be intentionally practiced and reflected on by the students in real time, authenticated by real situations, and purposely explored-expressed through artistic form. Social-emotional learning during this process may, in turn, increase the sophistication of content given from in the collaborative artworks. These dynamic circumstances would seem to be optimal for rich, long-lasting, and, perhaps, life-changing learning. (Contains 2 figures.)