[August 21, 2025 | 7pm ET] Join us for this Open Studio Conversation focused on building a strong foundation for art instruction throughout the year. In this session, experienced art educators will share practical tools and strategies for curriculum planning—from mapping your scope and sequence, to aligning lessons with standards and setting up systems for reflection and assessment. Whether you're preparing for a new year or refining your current approach, you’ll gain ready-to-use ideas and resources to support your art curriculum planning process.

Join us for an insightful webinar on supporting dual-language literacy in art education practices. Gain innovative tools and strategies for effectively teaching visual arts while integrating literacy activities that support dual-language learners through artmaking. Explore culturally responsive teaching, emphasizing the integration of dual-language literacy into art education. Learn how to design creative and inclusive programs that foster language development, providing practical strategies for creating enriching learning environments that honor all students’ linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

[January 23, 2025] Are you getting ready to start your student teaching experience or looking for ways to navigate it successfully? Join us for "Student Teaching 101," an NAEA Open Studio Conversation designed specifically for preservice and early career art educators. This interactive webinar will explore essential strategies for a successful student teaching journey, including classroom management, lesson planning, and building a positive relationship with your mentor. You'll hear from experienced art educators, gain practical tips, and connect with peers in this supportive online space. Whether you are just beginning your teaching practice or seeking additional guidance, this session will help boost your confidence as an art educator. Bonus! We also encourage all preservice and early career art educators to join us for our follow-up "Preservice Reflections Meeting" on February 4! Preservice Reflections is a new program for members to meet online for collaborative discussions, offering insights and applications related to topics relevant to YOU! This is a great opportunity to connect with your peers, share experiences, and learn from one another. Visit the NAEA website for more information and click here to register for this exciting opportunity!

[October 2, 2024] Research in disability studies can help art educators reframe ways of engaging with disability issues. Learn about the use of disability arts to engage learners in critical visual literacy and imagery production focused on topics of disability. Discover critical approaches to language and decentering normalcy to create inclusive learning spaces for all.

[August 22, 2024] Join us for an engaging session designed to help you prepare for a successful school year! Our Art Room 101 Series kicks off with Studio Procedures–Tips and Tricks for Back to School, designed to streamline classroom management and enhance teaching strategies for emerging and experienced art educators.

[August 14, 2024] Join us for an exciting webinar that weaves traditional craftsmanship with contemporary creativity in fiber arts. We’ll explore innovative approaches for introducing new fiber arts projects to elementary, middle, and high school learners that are focused on accessible materials, diverse contemporary and traditional craft artists, and literacy. Come away with lesson inspiration; a better understanding of how you can explore fiber arts in your classroom; and information on where to find materials, recommended equipment, and tools, as well as overcoming budget constraints for fiber arts, storage options, and so much more!

[May 8, 2024] Documentation and portfolios are multifaceted visual records that track, analyze, and represent student growth. The depth of documentation is strengthened through photography, audio recordings, transcriptions of their language, and dedicated time for reflection (for students and teachers). Visual arts portfolios capture the imagination, wonderings, and artmaking actions nurtured through student-centered art education practices and offer connections across grade levels and disciplines. Additionally, student portfolios are an advocacy tool providing insight into student thinking. The webinar presenters will share pre-primary, primary, and preK–12 strategies for organizing and sharing student progress with the broader community. Philosophical influences of Reggio Emilia, TAB, IB, and AP will also be discussed.

[April 17, 2024] This webinar will focus on various ways choice can be implemented in the classroom through the structure of curriculum, digital spaces, physical environments, and classroom routines. We will share examples of skill builders, boot camps, and thematic-based challenges, and strategies to structure student-facing learning management systems and physical stations for different materials to engage students in their own learning journeys. You will also learn simple yet effective classroom routines to promote student autonomy and success.

[November 15, 2023] Join us as we explore ways of advancing and reshaping the museum space in praxis toward racial literacy, cultural humility, and radical equity and inclusion. How can museums take the lead in dismantling dominant narratives, removing real and perceived barriers to visitor participation, and learning new ways of being? This webinar examines both theory and practice in transcending traditional historical identities of museums and examines the potential for trust-based museum processes that are rooted in community and belonging. Drawing on decolonizing perspectives, as well as lived experience, we will examine art museum spaces and explore ways to develop more equitable narratives.

[November 8, 2023] The COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted learning of all kinds with our youngest students being affected greatly from the shift to remote learning. In this webinar we will explore how to incorporate social–emotional learning and culturally responsive attributes in your teaching practices to develop more inclusive and collaborative learning experiences that promote creativity and self-expression in a post-pandemic world. We will also examine the continuum of choice in the art room as a way to increase student agency, voice, and skill development, as well as how to address student needs and reinstill a love of learning within a positive, engaging, and supportive learning environment.