This study examines curriculum framework and lesson models for visual culture art education (VCAE) as art in life. First, this study examines various developing concepts of visual culture and VCAE as a new paradigm of 21st century art education. Also, this study presents characteristics and framework of VCAE curriculum based upon Freed man (2003)'s recent work. Finally, this study suggests a VCAE lesson model focusing on our personal, cultural identity shaped by visual culture such as objects in a memory house. Visual culture art education is a contemporary trend of art education in Western post modern societies, where visual culture is currently a hot issue for academic exploration in various disciplines. Although visual culture is a global phenomenon for its great influences upon our daily life, part of art education world in Korea has expressed their concern about and fear of implementing VCAE. It appears that this is due to their misunderstanding or narrow interpretations of VCAE. Therefore, this paper provides answers of the following questions: 1) What is the concept of visual culture and what is relationship between art and visual culture from the perspective of postmodern art education? 2) What is rationale of VCAE? What are the aims and pedagogy of visual culture? What are different approaches to VCAE? 3) What are characteristics and framework of VCAE curriculum? 4) What is a model for art lessons based on VCAE? After examining these questions thoroughly, we should have richer understanding in embracing and adopting VCAE.