Membership
Join the largest creative community established exclusively for visual arts educators, university professors, researchers and scholars, teaching artists, administrators, and art museum educators.
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NAEA's Conversation
For the last year, NAEA has engaged in ongoing discussions about the future of the visual arts, leading to a meeting of scholars, important stakeholders and friends of arts education at the Aspen Institute last summer.
Learn about how to continue the conversation in your own communities.
See What Happened in Aspen 
Aspen Summit Highlights
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Why Do We Want More Visual Arts?
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What Education Can Learn from the Arts By Elliot Eisner
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Analyze and Discuss Critical Topics for the Field
The Intrinsic and Extrinsic Values for the Arts
Visions of Excellent Teaching
Infusing the Arts throughout Schools and Communities
Promoting the Arts
Other Ongoing Concerns
Hear From Individual Summit Participants
NAEA brought together scholars, leaders in visual arts education, music educators, advocates for the arts, and former Clinton and Bush administration officials. There also were experts on learning and cognition and education association executives. Hear from them about critical issues in the field today. View all participants.
BECOME A LEADER
Host an Aspen-like discussion in your community. Get started by reading NAEA's Guide for Community Conversations in a Visual Age
PREPARE FOR TRANSFORMATION
Read NAEA's New White Paper on Learning in a Visual Age
HONOR TRADITION
Read NAEA's classic 1977 statement on "What We Believe and Why"
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
View all Calls for Submissions, Papers, Abstracts, and Nominations.