"ArtInSight" is a three-pronged constructivist education model for museum teaching. Utilizing (1) conversational tours, (2) mindfulness-based insight activities, and (3) art-making exercises, viewers develop critical and visual thinking skills and apply them to both arts-based experiences and to everyday life. This approach broadens viewers' capacity for sustained observation, particularly with art that is technically or emotionally complex. This article explores the model's insight activities, which focus on preparing K-12 students for engagement with art and to be cognizant of the thoughts, feelings, and knowledge they bring to the art-viewing experience. These techniques nurture a mental space for students to absorb, engage with, and react to the messages of the art and context in which they are viewing it. In other words, by giving students permission to focus on matters of the mind, insight activities create fertile ground for transformational experiences.