Past Events

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…

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…

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,…

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

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…

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…

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…