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. […]
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 […]
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.
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. 8:30: Lead Presenter presents information on the process, a demonstration […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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! Click here to Register!
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 […]