Community
NAEA is your connection to a vibrant professional community and all of the support and resources it holds. There are so many ways to connect! Collaborate with your division, region, and/or state association. Join an interest group, serve on a committee, establish a National Art Honor Society Chapter today, and more! Members receive exclusive access to the best community-building opportunities—created by art educators, for art educators.
Featured Community
-
June 19, 2017
external resource from Edutopia, Setting the Stage for Arts Integration
I was the founding school principal of an arts-based elementary school in Louisiana. Our mission was to get kids fired up about learning by integrating the visual and performing arts throughout the curriculum. To accomplish this, we replaced paraprofessionals and other non-instructional staff with working artists: dancers, actors, painters, photographers, graphic designers, and musicians. We did residencies and workshops and held regular exhibitions and performances. We named our classrooms after teachers’ favorite artists, and we started and ended every day with A.R.T., or Art Reflection Time.
Edutopia -
June 19, 2017
external resource from Talent Economy, When Leading a Business, When Does Creativity Matter?In this article, Americans for the Arts BCA Coordinator Jessica Gaines makes the case for creativity as a vital force in today’s business environment, especially as millennials makes up the largest generation in the workforce.
Talent Economy -
June 19, 2017
external resource from Artsy, How to Be an Artist, According to Wassily Kandinsky
He first developed many of the theories that shaped his practice in his seminal text, Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911), where he laid out his tenets for artistic creation as a spiritual act. Later, during his 11-year teaching stint at the Bauhaus, he expanded upon these ideas in Point and Line to Plane (1926). But Kandinsky did not intend for his theories to be prescriptive. Artmaking, he insisted, was about freedom. Nevertheless, there are several lessons that artists should heed if they are to meet Kandinsky’s requirements.
Artsy -
June 19, 2017
external resource from Artsy, The Children’s Art Pioneer You’ve Never Heard OfBrian Belott has some time-honored tactics for becoming childlike. One of them simply involves staying up in his studio until he’s so tired that he can’t help but “honor every small thought” that passes through his overstretched imagination. Another is “scaling a project so large that you’ve bitten off more than you can chew—you don’t have the time to fuss over stuff.”
Artsy -
-
May 19, 2017
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Announces the Windgate Educational Excellence through the Arts Endowed Fund
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Announces the Windgate Educational Excellence through the Arts Endowed Fund
-
May 11, 2017
external resource from Young Audiences Arts for Learning, Teaching Artists Guild (TAG) Quarterly
Stay up to date on the constant advancing wordl of Teaching Artistry. The Teaching Artist Guild (TAG) newsletter provides teaching artists with resources and tools for arts advocacy, building tools for the artist field, up-to-date information about artists who teach and work in your community, and much more! Download the FREE TAG Quarterly reading
Young Audiences Arts for Learning -
-
May 11, 2017
Supervision and Administration Division Report
Supervision and Administration Report - NAEA News - April/May 2017
