This study explored the meaning of art environment in art education, which has been undermined in traditional art education. The trends of art education on today more likely tend to put an emphasis on academic aspect of art education in order to overcome the social bias on art education which has mainly focused on sense and practice rather than on knowledge and cognition. However, this study insists on the fact that the vitality of art education can only be accomplished thorough doing art and practicing art. And art environment should be one of the most significant factor to support ‘doing art’. Reggio Emilia school, known for internationally, considers ‘environment’ as the most critical element to influence the ‘quality’ on children's knowledge construction in art. Many scholars agree on that environment of Reggio Emilia school gives us a breathtaking feeling of beauty, and a sense of admiration because of the Reggio teachers' consistent efforts to make it the best condition. This study examined the characteristics of art environment of the Reggio Emilia, particularly focusing on the space for art, art material, and children's art works which are called a ‘symbolic language’. Based on this exploration, this study discussed the educational meanings derived from Reggio art environment, insisting the reconceptualization of the concept of traditional art environment. Namely, it suggests to integrate art environment with educational environment in order to overcome social bias of art education and to make art education more meaningful and academic.