The purpose of the present chapter is to add to the body of knowledge about what aesthetic learning encounters might be and become by investigating local events of learning in a Swedish higher education visual art course. By making visible how aesthetic learning encounters unfold in an educational practice, the aim is to improve understandings of what learning in open-ended and experimental processes might mean for a learner and for visual art education. The research material consists of one student’s portfolio from a visual art course at the teacher training programe. To create a sustainable and ethical visual art education, it seems necessary to collaborate with the students on their learning processes, and being sensitive to the student’s expectations. At the same time, the collectively shared image of thoughtregarding what visual art learning should be and look like needs to be challenged. Doing so allows student subjectivity to expand beyond the academic fields of knowledge, which in turn helps students to access the power of being heard and trusting their own abilities to change and make changes as a collaborate process.