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Art educators face a serious challenge preparing students for the future with rigorous art education tied to their lives, cultures and experiences. The NAEA knows how hard this is, which is why it offers a wide range of resources so that art educators can keep abreast of current trends, topics and legislation as well as educational resources for art educators to use in the classroom.
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National Arts Education Association National Visual Arts Standards
The National Visual Arts Standards by the National Art Education Association are part of the National Core Arts Standard first formally released in 2014. It intends to create educational standards and guidelines of what students K-12 should know and be able to do at each grade. The first voluntary national standards for the visual arts, music, theater, dance, media arts and others were developed in 1994. You can see the National Visual Arts Standards at http://nationalartsstandards.org/ .
States may have their own visual arts standards or adopt a national one like the National Core Arts Standard. ArtScan, a project from the Arts Education Partnership, is a searchable educational policy database for the whole United States. You can find information on ArtScan about the arts education policies, educational standards, state level surveys of art education and education indicators for your state. The database only lists policies that have the weight of law, not recommendations. This site lets you see the high school requirements for art education, art educator licensing, art education instructional requirements and art accreditation.
You can find more recent policy updates through the ECS State Policy Database. This includes legislative changes that have not yet flowed down to state level art education standards. Federal level rules, regulations and executive orders are included in this database.
The NAEA offers training for its members on the National Core Arts Standard. Its Learn + Tools has links to the policy databases referenced above. The National Art Education Association created the Art Standards Toolbox, a free app for NAEA members containing many tools for National Visual Arts Standards based lesson planning, student assessments, schedule planning and archiving student data in the cloud. You can find the app on the Learn + Tools website or get it by going to http://naeaapp.com/.
Educational Opportunities for Art Educators
The National Art Education Association has a number of resources specifically for art educators. The group holds live learning opportunities that are simultaneously broadcast as webinars. Many of these webinars are saved to the NAEA site in webinar archives. Webinar archives are updated on a monthly basis.
One of the biggest educational opportunities for art educators take place at the NAEA convention held each March. While the NAEA doesn’t offer formal continuing education units for teacher certification, it offers certificates to attendees they can request be counted as such by their accrediting organization. National convention presentations are recorded and saved to the NAEA Learn+Tools page. It has presentations going back to 2009. Registration is required to see everything from the general session presentations to specific lessons like “New Forms of Engagement with Museums”. After you view all of the sessions for a particular NAEA national convention online, you can print off the certificate of participation and present it to your school or accrediting organization for continuing education credits.
Live events broadcast as webinars require the same registration to view content and opportunity to print a certificate for CEU credit. While the National Art Education Association convention content is equal to ten to fifteen CEU, each live event is worth one to two credits by most accrediting organizations. Live events cover topics like how to teach art to special education students or an overview of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math).
The NAEA periodically holds virtual only conferences, most of the recent ones being held in September during Arts in Education Week. The 2014 presentation was on the new visual arts standard while teaching in a visual age was the 2015 topic. Both of these presentations are worth six credits if you need them for CEU.
One of the benefits of National Art Education Association membership is that these presentations may be free or offered at a much lower cost than if you were not an NAEA member. You do not always have to be a National Art Education Association member to pay to watch and print off the continuing education certificates for these online presentations. Colleges like California State University, Chico offer university level credit for professional learning via the NAEA virtual sessions.
Some virtual sessions don’t rise to the level of professional continuing education content but are useful for some art instructors, such as the NAEA Museum Education division’s monthly hangouts to discuss public education through museum tours and exhibits. The related Viewfinder journal contains dialogues about museum education for the visual arts.
NAEA Monthly Mentor Blog
The Monthly Mentor blog of the NAEA shares advice from experienced art educators to new teachers. A different mentor or group of mentors is featured each month. The blog is curated by Reta Rickmers, an art teacher with almost thirty years of experience and who didn’t take the standard route to becoming an art teacher. You can visit the latest Monthly Mentor blog post at http://naea.typepad.com/naea/.
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About Us Founded in 1947, the National Art Education Association is the leading professional membership organization exclusively for visual arts, design, and media arts education professionals.
Vision. The National Art Education Association (NAEA) harnesses the power of the visual arts, design, and media arts to educate and enrich the lives of all learners and communities, especially those who are members of historically marginalized groups, and serves as a catalyst for developing creative and culturally competent future generations.
Why NAEA matters to Jessica: I appreciate and value the contributions of NAEA to my professional growth, guiding my career from a visual arts teacher to an arts administrator. NAEA has been instrumental in furnishing me with the necessary resources and references, serving as a guide in the pursuit of quality visual arts education.
The National Art Education Association (NAEA) is a non-profit professional association founded in 1947 in the United States, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. It is the world's largest professional art education association. The NAEA's annual convention attracts thousands of art educators and offers art educators a chance to network ...
The following NAEA Standards represent the professional judgment of the art education field about the characteristics of preparation programs that will enable all visual arts educators to provide high-quality art instruction for every student.
The National Visual Arts Standards by the National Art Education Association are part of the National Core Arts Standard first formally released in 2014. It intends to create educational standards and guidelines of what students K-12 should know and be able to do at each grade. The first voluntary national standards for the visual arts, music ...
Each Division is represented by a National Division Director, National Division Director-Elect, Regional Directors, and Regional Directors-Elect. The elected Director for each Division works with the membership at large to bring the voices of members to the forefront in advancing NAEA's mission and vision.
Art In Special Education (ASE)-Established 2001. Click here to join as an annual member. Click here to purchase a lifetime membership to ASE. Purpose: The purpose shall be to define and establish the role of the Art in Special Education Issues Group as a special interest group of NAEA and: Provide a voice and advocacy for all students with diverse needs and the K-12 art teachers, museum and ...
The National Art Education Association through its Constitution sets forth the means by which the responsible for programs of art education can be supported and extended.
Planning and Communication - Developing strategies to maximzie mission purpose objectives in all areas of the organization. Membership services - Individuals interested in, or engaged in activities concerned with, or related to art, art education, or education.
Core Values. NAEA Core Values. Working in tandem with NAEA's 2021-25 Mission, Vision, and Strategic Pillars (MVSP), the NAEA Board and Staff have developed a set of organizational values for the association. These values reflect core attributes and behaviors that the association uplifts and holds dear, in alignment with the MVSP.
We are a purpose-driven community of art educators fostering a greater understanding of the power of cultural diversity in art education and society. Interested in joining the community?
National Convention The NAEA National Convention is an annual event providing substantive professional development services that include the advancement of knowledge in all sessions, events, and activities for the purpose of improving visual arts instruction in American schools. As such, it is the world's largest art education convention. Thousands of members from the United States and ...
Purpose of the Foundation According to the NAEF Articles of Incorporation (1985; see Appendix 8A), the purpose of the Foundation is "to receive, administer, and dispurse [sic] funds, property, and gifts of any kind exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes"; to "direct some of its support through the National Art Education Association"; and
In 1967, the National Art Education Association published an official position statement, "The Essentials of a Quality School Art Program," intended for the use of individuals and groups responsible for elementary and secondary school art programs in the United States: school boards, administrators, curriculum specialists, supervisors, teachers, and parents. In 1978, the Professional ...
The Association purpose - integrating efforts and creative potential of members of higher educational institutions, research institutes, the enterprises and companies for solving the actual organizational, scientific and methodical, scientific and technical, economic and social problems connected with the improvement of the higher ...
National Defense Education Act NDEA was aimed at stimulating and strength-ening American education reform by providing $1 billion over 4 years to be infused into 40,000 loans, 40,000 scholar-ships, and 1,500 graduate fellow-ships (Fleming, 1960). The majority of NDEA funding was intended for those academically capable students (particularly in STEM areas) who did not have the financial means ...
Future Convention Dates / Locations 2024 NAEA National Convention: April 4 - 6 | Minneapolis, MN, USA 2025 NAEA National Convention: March 20-22 | Louisville, KY, USA 2026 NAEA National Convention: March 5 - 7 | Chicago, IL, USA 2027 NAEA National Convention: March 4 - 6 | New York, NY, USA
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Subscribe to Studies in Art Education, NAEA's quarterly research journal, as an NAEA member for only $20! This is a savings of $45 and includes print and digital delivery, as well as access to digital archives. Studies incorporates explorations of theory and practice in the areas of art production, art criticism, aesthetics, art history ...
This exhibition was the setting of the famous "kitchen debate" between then-Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. This was the first United States national exhibition mounted in the Soviet Union and proved to be a successful collaboration between several U.S. Government agencies and the private sector. American National Exhibition covered all aspects of American ...
For more than 40 years, the National Art Honor Society programs have provided national recognition and opportunities for students who exhibit outstanding scholarship in the visual arts, and for their teachers. Participation in NAHS provides your students, faculty, school, and community with invaluable benefits—including peer recognition, leadership growth opportunities, college and career ...