Whether referring to psychologist Stanley Milgram's intriguing theory, John Guare's successful play and film, or Kevin Bacon's party game, six degrees of separation may also be used as a way to help students make visual connections. The six degrees of separation is the concept that everyone is connected to everyone else in the world by only six sets of acquaintances. Here, the author describes how she introduced the students to the concept of six degrees of separation with a "visual connections" version. Students selected three art images and three non-art images to use in their six degrees of separation. Following a written format, students began with one of their selected artworks and wrote an aesthetic statement about it, describing their reactions to the subject matter, formal qualities or expressive appeal. At the end of the project, the students were evaluated both on their writing and their art project.