Open for Volunteers- If you are interested in filling the Advertising Coordinator position and being apart of IAEA leadership please contact Dorothy Bennett.
dorothybennett16@yahoo.com

Advertising Coordinator Description of Duties

The advertising editor solicits advertising from commercial entities with interest in art education through mailings, electronic communication, direct contact, and other means as appropriate. Read more…

Exciting Opportunities for middle level art educators through NAEA! Read more…

The Arts & Education Exchange Summit 2012 is a new event to connect educators with Chicago’s arts providers. Event is free and will take place February 4th. This is an exciting opportunity for Chicago-area educators affiliated with the Illinois Art Education Association!

For more information and details about the exchange click on the links below.

Arts & Education Exchange Summit Information

Arts & Education Exchange Summit Website

Conference presentation proposal forms are located in the Conference section or on the Forms section of the IAEA website. All forms must be submitted to Vicki Kanik by March 15.

Where the Wild things ART III: Create. Yourself. @ Fine Line – March 2

The Fine Line Creative Arts Center in St. Charles is offering the third annual Fine Line professional development day for art educators on Friday, March 2. Participants will earn CPDU credits and will work in two creative workshop Read more…

Award nomination forms and category descriptions are available now for viewing, downloading for mail in submissions and active for online submission. All nomination forms must be submitted by March 15. You can also access the information

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The 2012 conference planning committee will meet at 2 pm on Saturday, February 4 at the American Academy of Chicago. The Academy is located on the third floor of the 332 Building on south Michigan Avenue (about 3 blocks south of the Art Institute of Chicago).
This meeting follows the IAEA Board meeting (10 am – 2 pm) Read more…

Education through Art: Teaching for Global Understanding & Engagement Conference

Participants of the conference will explore ways education through art may address needs of 21st century learners and assist in preparing citizens who can function competently in local and global communities. Read more…

The winter issue of the Mosaic is looking for submissions. The issue will focus on forum topic “Standards in Art Education.”  Below are some questions to help get you started on sharing your point of view.

1.  Are standards good or bad, why?
2.  Does art really need standards?
3.  Do schools-based art programs rely on standards to prove worth?
4.  What are some of the benefits of standards (organization, colleagues on the    same page, lesson planning, etc.)?
5.  Does anyone have departmental standards that function better than state mandated standards?
6. What do standards look like at the elementary, middle, and high school level?

Submissions should be approximately 500 words in length and emailed to Keith Brown at Wkeithbrown.iaea@gmail.com no later then January 18th.

Make sure you check out this wonderful professional development opportunity through the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. How could you take back this amazing experience to your school and connect art & archaeology?

Exploring the Past: Archaeology in the Upper Mississippi River Valley

Walking beside thousand-year-old burial mounds, flaking raw stone into tools, learning how potsherds tell us about human behavior, and understanding how humans adapt to complex, ever-changing environments­our 2012 NEH Summer Institute features all this and more. Read more…