Illinois Art Education Association

Experience the Exhibition - Denise Treizman: In Between Living
2022-07-20 12:00 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | University Galleries, 11 Uptown Circle, Suite 103, Normal, IL, 61761, United States
Experience the Exhibition – Denise Treizman: In Between Living
Meet the artist, create collaborative artwork, and develop lesson ideas.Artist Denise Treizman will be joining virtually from Miami for a guided tour of the exhibition. Collaborate with fellow educators to create a found-object fiber sculpture inspired by Treizman’s practice, followed by a lesson planning session using provided resources.
12 – 1pm: Tour the exhibition with Denise and University Galleries staff
1-2pm: Artmaking and reflection. Collaborative project using found objects.
2-2:30pm: Lesson plan brainstorming workshop

2.5. PDH eligible

Free for members, $8 for non-members. Space is limited.

BIPOC Creatives Matter Resource Development Meeting
2022-06-07 13:30 - 14:00 | Illinois
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DIG Chat April: Rich Stachon
2022-05-12 19:15 - 20:30 | ONLINE
Welcome Design Educators to our Next Online Event:
The Design Interest Group invites you to join us for our upcoming DIG Chat virtual event. The focus in this first of our DIG Chat series is, “How Might We elevate the elementary Art + Design experience?” Come join this bimonthly virtual meeting as we explore how design and design thinking methodologies are being applied in education and industry from multiple perspectives.
No PD hours are available. Just a great chance to learn!
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Questions? Contact dig@ilaea.org

Skill Share: Loom Weaving with Annie Zirin
2022-05-07 13:00 - 15:30 | Garfield Park Conservatory, 300 N. Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL, 60624, United States
Come to the Garfield Park Conservatory, make and take a loom weaving example guided by teaching artist, Annie Zirin, and enjoy the company of artfully planted fragrant foliage and fellow art educators. $20 Registration is required. Seats are limited to 10, so register now!

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Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement
2022-05-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Illinois Holocaust Museum, 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie, IL, 60077, United States
10am -12pm

The event will consist of a tour of the exhibition with guiding questions, followed by a group discussion. Attendees will have the opportunity to collaboratively develop draft lesson plans based on the exhibitions.

LINK: https://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/exhibitions/rise-up-stonewall-and-the-lgbtq-movement/

The exhibition documents the fifty years since the Stonewall Uprising, America’s LGBTQ population has struggled for equal rights and representation under the law. Rise Up shares the voices and tells the stories of this movement using imagery and cultural artifacts. Attendees will engage in learning how the visual artifacts relate to the societal, cultural, and historical contexts and issues in the exhibition.

Hosted by the IAEA Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee

2.0. PDH eligible

Free for members, $5 for non-members. Space is limited.

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IAEA Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee Meeting
2022-04-21 18:00 - 19:00 | ONLINE
Hello, Amazing Educators!

Please join us for our next IAEA Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee meeting on Thursday, 04/21 at 6pm.

Look for an agenda early next week, and of course let us know if there is something you’d like addressed in our conversation. In the meantime, please mark your calendars and spread the word to interested colleagues.

Sign up below for the Zoom link!
Questions? Contact pastpresident@ilaea.org.

Eco-Art Conference and Symposium
2022-04-08 08:00 | Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1400 Arena Drive, Carbondale, IL, 62901, United States
The South Council in partnership with SIUC and ISTA present the Southern Illinois Art Education Conference is titled “Eco-Art Conference and Symposium”
It will offer workshops
ECO-ART: where art is the lead supported by science
ECO-ART: where science is the lead supported by art
ECO-ART: as creative activism
SUSTAINABILITY practices in art and science
These workshops will be followed up with a panel discussion and include Keynote Speaker: Dr. Hilary Inwood of the University of Toronto.
Click here for our Call for Proposals!
Workshop descriptions can be found here:
Eco-Art Conference and Symposium | Conference and Scheduling Services | SIU
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DIG Chat March: Jody Simmons
2022-03-24 19:15 - 20:30 | ONLINE

Curation Focus: Staging and Exhibition
2022-03-05 08:30 - 16:30 | Bridgeport Art Center, 1200 West 35th Street, Chicago, IL, 60609, United States
Teachers will work in teams to curate and install artworks for the Illinois High School Art Exhibition. Teachers will collaboratively analyze, select, and curate artworks on multiple gallery walls with the intent to create a balanced show of works of diverse media, scale, and content.
Sign-up for one of two 4-hour PD sessions here!
8:30: Lead Presenter presents information on the process, a demonstration of tools and equipment, and an overview of the curatorial goals.
9: Teachers break into groups, select works for a wall, and make preliminary arrangements.
10:30 Teachers finalize selected works & install wall
10:30-12:30 Team continues the process for 2 more walls
Repeat 12:30-4:30

Illinois Art Teacher Happy Hour Meetup
2022-03-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Illinois
We had a great turn out at this year’s Happy Hour at Connolly’s! A Big thank you to NIU & ISU for partnering with us to host this Happy Hour.

Webinar: Using Art to Teach Writing: The Sentence Fluency Trait
2022-02-24 19:00 - 20:00 | Illinois
Description:
Are you looking for ways to integrate literacy into your art room with purpose, while honoring the art making process? Join two NAEA co-authors as they share researched based Writing Traits with participants that improve literacy. Learn how to use art to teach these traits in a text-free environment prior to transferring them to text. Several ideas will be shared and we will delve into the Sentence Fluency Trait. Designed for both art and non-art teachers, participants will be able to use these ideas right away in their classroom. Come to this online workshop with a sketchbook/paper and colored pencils for some engaging drawing activities.

Presenters: Elizabeth Stuart Whitehead & Jennifer Klein
1 Professional Hour Available
Pre-registration Required
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Members and non-members are welcome to join us!
If you would like to earn Illinois PD hours for this webinar, please choose the PD option.
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An Evening With the Artist
2022-02-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Joliet Area Historical Museum, 204 N Ottawa st, Joliet, IL, 60432, United States
The Evening with the Artist event is the culmination of a two-week black history art exhibit at the Joliet Area Historical Museum. The purpose of the event is to showcase the black experience through art. The Artist featured in the event will be in attendance to explain the connection between their creation and their experience. The event is free, with food and drinks available for purchase at the event.
https://www.jolietblackhistory.org/events-1/an-evening-with-the-artist

Webinar: Creative Contour Creations!
2022-02-03 19:00 - 20:00 | Illinois
Description:
Participants will learn a variety of ways to teach about the power of contour lines in art and end up with a fabulous watercolor study that they can springboard from with their students!

Presenter: Debi West
1 Professional Hour Available
Pre-registration Required
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Members and non-members are welcome to join us!
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Webinar: Inquiry-based teaching in AP Art and Design
2022-01-22 11:00 | Illinois
Description:
Rebecca Stone-Danahy is the Director of AP Art and Design and a Clemson doctoral student in Education Systems Improvement Science. After creating the 2020 AP Art and Design Digital Exhibit, she realized that art educators across the country have created innovative strategies to cultivate and support high-achieving students in their quest to create personal and original artworks. Inquiry-based teaching is no easy feat, and it requires active student leadership and teacher facilitation in the process of thinking and making art. Join Rebecca in this informative webinar as she discusses preliminary findings from her research.
Presenter: Rebecca Stone-Danahy
1 Professional Hour Available
Pre-registration Required
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Members and non-members are welcome to join us!
If you would like to earn Illinois PD hours for this webinar, please choose the PD option.
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Dig Chat January
2022-01-20 19:15 - 20:30 | Illinois
Welcome Design Educators to our Next Online Event:
Join this bimonthly virtual zoom meeting as we explore how design & design thinking methodologies are being applied in education & industry from multiple perspectives.
No PD hours are available. Just a great chance to learn!
Sign UP!
Questions? Contact dig@ilaea.org

YAM Art Contest Deadline to Submit Entries
2022-01-07 | Illinois
The Youth Art Month theme this year is “Art in a Dream”. Open to IAEA Members, K-12 students are encouraged to create art featuring this theme. Artwork must be 2-D, vertical or horizontal format accepted.
The deadline is January 7th, 2022.
Prizes are sponsored by Blick Art Materials. The contest itself is sponsored by the Council for Art Education Association.
Grade Level Winners receive $100 worth of art supplies and their teacher receives $300 worth of art supplies from Blick Art Materials. Grand Prize Winner receives $500 worth of art supplies and their teacher receives $1,000 worth of art supplies. Artwork will be on display at NAEA for the Council of Art Education’s YAM Museum and IAEA’s Mosaic publication.
Learn more and enter:https://ilaea.org/yam/

Webinar: Cultivating Student Choice Through the Creative Process
2022-01-06 19:00 - 20:00 | Illinois
1PD Credit

Description:
Student- centered learning is not enough, students should be driving the curriculum for themselves in a full embrace of the creative process. This presentation provides specific and practical information, along with shared experiences that seek to teach students how to learn for themselves, to build meaning from their own lives and a curious culture, processed through imagination, metacognition, and the entire creative process. Creativity can be taught. Teachers of all content areas and students will come to view curriculum creation as an artwork in itself. We will work through the framework of the creative process, talk about priming your classroom culture for these experiences of meaning through curiosity, building domain skills, and then moving through the step by step processes and exploration I use in a collaborative environment built on trust, empathy, and excitement. How do we manifest metacognition? Why is creativity the Big Intelligence that is at the center of everything we say we want for students? Let’s answer these questions.

Presenter: Chris Sykora

Members and non-members are welcome to join us!
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Virtual Event: Disabled Conceptual Artists
2021-12-18 11:00 - 11:40 | Illinois
Description:
This presentation will be focusing on intellectually compelling and engaging contemporary work by disabled artists, and suggesting ways to not only lead units with this artwork, but also to use these ideas and artworks to critically challenge ways in which schooling can marginalize disabled students.

Presenter Bio:

Bert Stabler was a full-time art teacher for ten years at a neighborhood high school on the south side of Chicago, in which many students received special education services. He also was an independent curator, critic, and artist during this time. Bert is severely nearsighted and has a strong interest in issues of contemporary art and institutionalization in relation to race and disability.

.5 PD Hour Credit Available

Members and non-members are welcome to join us!
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Elementary PLN Coffee Chat
2021-12-15 18:00 - 18:30 | Illinois
Elementary PLN Coffee Chat
Wednesday December 15, 2021 6:00 – 6:30 PM
Come meet other Elementary Art Educators and share experiences from the first half of the year. Bring a beverage of choice. Feel free to extend the invite to other Elementary Art Educators. Hope to see you there!
Join us via Google Meet Link HERE

Virtual Event: Let's Talk About Fake News
2021-12-03 19:00 - 20:00 | Illinois
Description:

This will be an overview of how to approach teaching fake news through the lens of media literacy. Helping students take on a media mindset means understanding the 5 core concepts of media literacy – AUTHORSHIP, FORMAT, AUDIENCE, CONTENT, PURPOSE – and their corresponding questions. Asking these questions can deepen your understanding of the messages and tools of all media.”

1PD Credit Available

Presenter Bio:

Josh Drews has been teaching visual art at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, SC since 2001. He has helped develop arts curriculum for South Carolina, including co-authoring the 2010 and 2017 SC Media Arts standards and he has written SC curriculum guides for Media Arts and Printmaking. He is the former president of the South Carolina Art Education Association and Secondary Director for the National Art Education Association. He is also an avid printmaker and working artist and has most recently been recognized as the 2020 National Secondary Art Educator of the year. He is proud to have a deep passion for teaching art, media literacy, students, comic books, video games, his super-talented art teacher wife, two amazing daughters, and battle cat Tobias.

Members and non-members are welcome to join us!
If you would like to earn Illinois PD hours for this webinar, please choose the PD option.
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Equity and Transformation Art Showcase
2021-11-20 19:00 - 22:00 | Equity Showcase, 550 w boughton, Bolingbrook, IL, 60432, United States
The purpose of the Equity and Transformation Art showcase is to empower disenfranchised individuals. This showcase is for the individuals who have been abandoned by society, left on the outside of the economy with no pathway in. This event intends to raise awareness and funds for the individuals that are in dire need of pathways toward just and equitable self-sustaining income. Having limited options for interventions to address this financial crisis- The Equity and Transformation Art showcase intends to provide funding for the members of society who need a source of guaranteed income.
Cost $20
Link to tickets:
https://www.thegalleriadearte.com/events/p/equity-transformation-art-showcase
Facebook
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Equity and Transformation Art showcase

7:00pm Art showcase starts

7-730pm Doors open greeting guest

7:30 pm -8pm Art viewing time.

8:00pm Guest speaker

8-8:30pm – Mr. Crim Speech

8:30-45 pm E.A.T Organization speech

8:45 9pm Art Video Presentation

9:00pm Closing

9-9:30pm Leisure art viewing time. Art purchase coordination

9:30-10pm Doors closing final guest leaving.
Questions? Contact: Qyjon Clark at qyjonc@gmail.com

Online Event: How might we use Design Thinking in the Classroom AND to Completely Reimagine the Classroom as we know it.
2021-11-18 19:15 - 20:30 | Illinois
Welcome Design Educators to our Next Online Event:
How might we use Design Thinking in the Classroom AND to Completely Reimagine the Classroom as we know it.
Presenter: Cindy Todd
No PD hours are available. Just a great chance to learn!
The focus in this first of our DIG Chat series is, How Might We reconnect & build a community of art + design-minded educators.
Come join this bimonthly virtual zoom meeting as we explore how design & design thinking methodologies are being applied in education & industry from multiple perspectives.
Sign UP!

Questions? Contact dig@ilaea.org

Makers Meetup: Synesthetic Experiences
2021-11-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Illinois
Have you ever wondered what orange sounds like? What texture comes to mind when you imagine hot pink? What color is your name? Join us in learning about synesthetic experience and how it can be utilized in the art classroom. Ms. Rachel Angus (Tri-Valley High School) will share her experience living with synesthesia and how it has affected her art-making. Then, participants will have the opportunity to learn about and/or create their own Synesthetic Soundscape!
The first 15-20 minutes of the workshop will have time to meet and greet your fellow art educators, then the rest of the time will be spent learning/creating!
Join us ONLINE!
.75 PD available
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Chicagoland 4x5 Exhibition
2021-11-10 17:00 - 21:00 | Oswego High School, 4250 Route 71, Oswego, IL, 60543, United States
The Chicagoland 4×5 Art Exhibition is an art show that forces student artists to work within the parameters of no more and no less than 4” x 5”. The Art Exhibition has hosted over 50 schools from Lake Villa to the South Suburbs and Dekalb, Illinois. It is an exhibition that consistently showcased over 2000 pieces year after year, surpassing most Chicago galleries in quantity and grandeur. Learn more: https://www.chicagoland4x5.org/

2021 IAEA State Conference
2021-11-05 - 2021-11-13 | Marriott Conference Center, 201 Broadway, Normal, Illinois, United States
Conference registration is now live! Flexible pricing is available for in-person, virtual, or both. Secure your spot today!
IN-Person: November 5th & 6th 2021, Bloomington-Normal, IL
Virtual: November 13th, online
Learn more and register today: https://ilaea.org/conference-information/

Webinar: Critical Skills for Human-Centered Designers
2021-10-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Illinois
Date: October 21st, 2021 7:00 PM (Central Time)

1PD Credit available

Description:
Agncy is a human-centered design firm focused on design for equity. In this presentation, we will share how human-centered design methods and processes are being adapted and interrogated in contemporary equity design work. We’ll provide case studies that reflect how some core designer mindsets are being pushed by the demands of justice-driven work. We’ll then interpret this through the lens of the specific skill set that designers need to thrive and grow in these practices. We’ll make connections to the Illinois Art Standards to contextualize how skills come to life in the professional design environment. And we’ll discuss how we question some traditional design skills in the type of equity work that we do at Agncy.

Members and non-members are welcome to join us!
If you would like to earn Illinois PD hours for this webinar, please choose the PD option.
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Member Exhibition Entry Submission Deadline
2021-10-20 | Illinois
Learn more and enter here: https://ilaea.org/member-show/
Each year IAEA celebrates its artist-educators in a special exhibition at the state conference. All IAEA members will have the opportunity to display their own artwork in the IAEA Virtual Membership Exhibition.
As in years past, members may submit 1-3 pieces of original art, in any medium– completed within the past three years. Selected works will be presented at the in-person conference, throughout the online conference platform, on the IAEA webpage and social media outlets. There’s no fee to enter and juried prizes will be awarded!
All submissions are due by Oct. 20, 2021

Webinar: Equity Diversity & Inclusion: The Artura.org Database
2021-10-14 19:00 - 20:00 | Illinois
Presenter: Richard Siegesmund
1 Professional Hour Available
Pre-registration Required
Artura.org is a free online database of contemporary art from diverse artists from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, PA. This presentation will show how to draw on this material and access the expanding educational tools that the website provides.
Register for Recognizing and Countering Dominant Narratives in Art Education Webinar!
Members and non-members are welcome to join us!
If you would like to earn Illinois PD hours for this webinar, please choose the PD option.
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NAHS/NJAHS Conference
2021-10-02 09:00 - 12:30 | Illinois
Join us for our first annual NAHS/NJAHS Conference on October 2nd!
We have an awesome lineup of speakers but also want to hear success stories from NAHS/NJAHS chapters!

Can’t attend live? Don’t worry, the keynote speakers will be recorded and accessible later for registered participants!
DRAFT Conference Overview
NAHS/NJAHS Webpage
In addition to Jeff Poulin, our keynote speaker’s address on creativity, we have chapter project highlights, creative workshops, and art school and career insights. Cheryl Russell will also address your executive board on leadership in the arts, and each registered chapter will be able to have a member compete in a design throwdown in collaboration with ArtConnected. This is a great opportunity for your group to collaborate, ideate and set new goals for the 2021 school year.

Chicagoland 4x5 Registration Deadline
2021-10-01 | Illinois
Registration for Chicagoland 4×5 Art Exhibition is open! Public and private middle and high school students are welcome to participate by registering through their schools. The Chicagoland 4×5 Art Exhibition is an art show that forces student artists to work within the parameters of no more and no less than 4” x 5”. The Art Exhibition has hosted over 50 schools from Lake Villa to the South Suburbs and Dekalb, Illinois. It is an exhibition that consistently showcased over 2000 pieces year after year, surpassing most Chicago galleries in quantity and grandeur.
Link to register https://www.chicagoland4x5.org/register.html
Deadline to Register: October 1st
$40 per school (Open to all statewide)
