Events

The annual Museum Education Division Preconference will take place at The Museum of Fine Arts and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Space is limited. Register now!

Screening Society, an international screening initiative, invites organizations to host free screenings of films from the upcoming season of thier award-winning series, “Art in the Twenty-First Century.”

This 4-week, fully-online interactive course explores American history through the music, art, and poetry of African American and Jewish immigrant artists in early 20th century New York City. Both life-long learners and classroom teachers will deepen their knowledge and love of the arts and history. Cost: $100. Earn 24 hours of professional development.

The AT&T Hello Sunshine Filmmaker Lab, produced by Fresh Films, will bring 20 teenage girls to Los Angeles for 8 days to learn the ins and outs of filmmaking. They‘ll have the chance to film a TV show under the guidance of mentors and professional creators, including some from AT&T and Hello Sunshine, Reese Witherspoon’s media company--maybe even Reese herself! This program is completely free and no experience is required. Apply now through June 10.

Do you create using recycled materials? Are you inspired by a pile of cans? Do automotive parts get your creative juices flowing? Does trash become something beautiful in your hands? Then American Craft Week is looking for you! American Craft Week is searching for 25 exceptional craft artists who make their art out of recycled materials. Entries accepted until midnight, Friday, June 22.

Learn how you can use the recently released Creative Youth Development (CYD) National Action Blueprint as a resource in your work to advance the role of creativity in youth development. Led by the CYD National Partnership and a cross-sector coalition, this one-hour, interactive forum is designed for CYD practitioners and alumni, funders, researchers, and allied youth sector leaders.

STEAM and project-based learning work together. From cross-curricular learning and the processes of inquiry and problem-solving to “the four C's,” our educator panel will showcase classroom-tested approaches. The creative economy is the future. Will your students be future ready? This is a FREE live event.

An arts education professor is working to remove barriers to participation and creation in visual arts for students who are blind or have low vision through the Sensory: Please Touch the Art workshop series. Launched in 2016, the workshop program engages teens and adults in visual arts instruction exploring different topics, including expressing emotion and approximate perspective, and allows them to create and exhibit their own artwork.

AEP Director Jane R. Best will join Joe Landon, executive director, and Laura Smyth, Title I program director, at CAAE for the Leveraging the Every Student Succeeds Act to Advocate for the Arts webinar at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, May 29. This webinar will provide an overview of ESSA and opportunities for the arts in education under this new law — including how states addressed the arts in their ESSA plans — and will explore CAAE’s Title I initiative.