[November 16, 2023] Join us for the first National Art Honor Society Connections: Open Studio Conversations with vanessa german. This event offers a unique opportunity to gain valuable insights, connect with the renowned artist vanessa german, and ignite students’ creative passion. The session will begin with an engaging presentation by vanessa german followed by an interactive Q&A session facilitated by National Art Honor Society (NAHS) and National Junior Art Honor Society (NJAHS) students.

[October 26, 2023] Are you inspired to share an article on topics like creative pedagogy, authentic art learning, effective teaching methods, community-based art education, museum education, equity, diversity, and inclusion, or any other subject that directly enriches classroom practices? Perhaps you have a unique teaching concept inspired by an artwork, ready to be transformed into an instructional resource? Whether you have a budding idea or a polished paper, we invite you to submit it to Art Education. As the official journal of NAEA, Art Education explores diverse professional themes relevant to art educators, spanning from preK to university levels—including preservice educators, researchers, scholars, and many more. Join us in shaping the future of art education and be a reflexive practitioner!

Stellantis is a leading global automaker in charge of brands including Jeep, Fiat, and Dodge. Join with Alex McGowen, Jeep Design Manager and Carly Edgemon, Stellantis Design Student Relations Coordinator to learn about what automotive designers do and how you can access insight and resources to spark the interest of your learners about this special niche of design.

At a moment when equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives are being challenged in education (including studio art classrooms), this timely webinar features a panel of art education scholars who will share research catalyzed by EDI issues—including race, class, sexuality and gender, ability, poverty, and first-generation experiences. The panelists, who are all members of the College Teaching of Art Working Group, conduct research in a wide range of contexts and places. Each member will highlight how they attend to equity, diversity, and inclusion in their research practice, and how this impacts their teaching. For these panelists, “research” is understood as something learned by art education researchers in their efforts to grow and contribute to the work of unmaking oppressive structures in higher education art and design.

The NAEA Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Commission aims to center perspectives and amplify voices of historically minoritized and/or underserved art educators and learners. The ED&I Commission has been committed to this work since its inception in 2019. In this webcast, members of the ED&I Commission will provide an overview of the important work of the Commission, and share exciting news on upcoming projects and initiatives. Over the past several years, the Commission has created scholarship opportunities for the NAEA Convention and NAEA programming, as well as presented at National Conventions. In doing so, the Commission has continued to address and adhere to recommendations created by the NAEA ED&I Task Force. Learn more about tools and resources developed by the Commission, such as an online network connecting members with NAEA’s affinity and identity groups, and download the Commission’s past and most recent columns and writings. Webcast participants can also email questions to the Commission prior to the live webcast at edi@arteducators.org, and we will also open the floor to questions during the live session.

At NAEA, we embrace the truth that to be an art teacher is to be a researcher. All education is research—and, indeed, all forms of teaching, assessment, and reflection are integral parts of that research. The presenters of this webinar, who are three members of the Professional Learning through Research Working Group, will share examples of preservice, early service, and higher education art educators who use research as an embodied practice inherent to their roles as artists and educators. To strengthen art education as a field, we strive to enlarge who is perceived as “researcher” and how “research” takes place, while simultaneously building stronger bridges between K–12 art classrooms and higher education. In this webinar, the presenters will situate the relationship of research within a conceptual framework that is centered on artmaking and teaching as an embedded practice of research as opposed to an additional task or role one must adopt. They will also share various hands-on exemplar projects that effectively integrate research and teaching practices. This research-based approach can lead teacher–researchers to revisit their educator identities and reconstruct their teaching philosophies in order to deepen their practice and find renewed passion and joy as art educators.

Calling all middle and secondary visual arts, design, and media arts educators! Do you have a chapter of the National Art Honor Society (NAHS)/National Junior Art Honor Society (NJAHS) at your school? Have you ever wondered what the program is or how you can start a chapter? Don’t miss this live webcast where NAEA staff, Board Members, and established sponsors will discuss how to run a successful chapter. They will explain how to bring the idea to your administration, how to foster student leaders, and even how to incorporate fundraisers and activities. There’s something for every step of the NAHS/NJAHS journey in this info-packed hour. Bring your questions!

Have you ever had an amazing idea for a classroom project or larger program, but then realized your vision and budget didn’t quite match up? You either had to pay out of your own pocket, scale back your idea, or even postpone the project indefinitely. Join NAEA and Wacom as expert grant writer Matthew Waynee of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) shows us the steps to take, the materials to create, and valuable grant-writing tips from the fundamentals to fine points. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn how to make your grant applications and proposals stand out, and reel in the financial support needed to create new opportunities for your students!

No one else has a voice exactly like yours! Your words, your perspective, your insight, and your inquiry matter to the field of visual arts, design, and media arts education. Join us as we unpack opportunities and guidance for you to contribute to NAEA’s flagship journal, Art Education. The idea that we can improve our teaching practice through research, action, and reflection is not novel. However, with the current challenges of relaxing standards and teacher education programs as an industry of mediocrity, there is an urgent need for teacher voices to be heard. Teacher research remains a systematic and intentional inquiry carried out by all teachers unleashing their power to author powerful manuscripts through a mentoring journal like Art Education. Art Education journal invites a range of submissions in the form of articles and instructional resources from both established and novice authors. So don’t be afraid to take that first step toward becoming a writer or continuing your journey as a writer. Every educator should have the opportunity to share their unique ideas in print! As educators, we have a lot to say to extend our reach through our ideas—please join us because we want to hear YOUR voice through our publication.

This is an opportunity for educators interested in early childhood or early elementary art education to come together and discuss specific aspects that are crucial to classroom practices: space and materials. Four panelists will respond to a set of preset questions, followed by a group discussion and Q and A. Join us to discuss how art materials and the curation/design of studio space play a role in our own teaching and research with young children and art teachers. If you’re curious to learn more, come engage in conversations with our panelists/interest group members! This webinar is open to all NAEA members regardless of interest group affiliation.