School reform initiatives designed to improve school quality require strong leadership, strategic planning, data analysis, and systemized performance accountability. Utilizing school reforms includes rethinking curriculum and instruction to improve quality and promote equality, restructuring school operations with a focus on both the students and the faculty, collaborating through partnerships with community agencies, and inviting school community involvement to gain a competitive edge in today's educational climate. Additionally, advocacy for the arts often relies on many of the same practices of successful business including visibility, competition, presentation, creative financing, partnerships, and flexibility. Thus, the business of art education is multifaceted and complex. Through fairy tale adventure, the authors creatively share the impact each has had on the arts and student learning within their communities and further articulate how contemporary theories and pedagogies are interwoven to place the visual arts at the core of curriculum. They share how they have positioned the arts in a place of power within their community while uncovering various aspects of how they have flexibly adapted to address the ever-changing demands of dealing with the business of art education.