Arts Education Organizations and Associations
Many arts and educational organizations provide workshops and seminars for art educators. Such organizations include the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), museums, national and state teacher associations, state education agencies for fine arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and state commissions on the arts. You may also want to attend a conference that is focused on general education topics rather than specifically on art. One benefit to attending such a conference is that it affords educators a broader perspective. Curriculum and assessment, instructional strategies, and brain-based research, to name a few topics, are relevant to all fields of education.
Americans for the Arts - is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. With a 45-year record of service, Americans for the Arts is dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts.
Arts Education Partnership has become the primary forum and meeting ground for organizations to explore how the arts can transform American education. The Arts Education Partnership publishes research and advocacy materials supporting the role of arts education in schools. The Partnership maintains a listserv through which organizations share and receive timely information on issues relevant to arts education at the national and state levels. If you have further questions, please contact the Partnership at 202-326-8693, or send an e-mail message to aep@ccsso.org.
ARTSEDGE — the National Arts and Education Network of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts-empowers educators to teach in, through, and about the arts by providing the tools to develop interdisciplinary curricula that fully integrate the arts with other academic subjects. The site offers free, standards-based teaching materials for use in and out of the classroom, as well as professional development resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment.
National Art Education Association (NAEA) is a nonprofit, educational organization that promotes arts education through professional development, service, advancement of knowledge, and leadership.
National Arts and Disability Center has a mission to promote the full inclusion of audiences and artists with disabilities into all facets of the arts community.
National Arts & Learning Collaborative is a nonprofit organization with a mission to "transform schools by providing students with opportunities to learn in and through the arts." Some of their core beliefs are that education in and through the arts awakens the desire to learn more, and that the arts can actually help save education.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), an investment in America's living cultural heritage, serves the public good by nurturing the expression of human creativity, supporting the cultivation of community spirit, and fostering the recognition and appreciation of excellence and diversity of our nation's artistic accomplishments.
National Gallery of Art has a mission to serve the United States of America in a national role by preserving, collecting, exhibiting, and fostering the understanding of works of art at the highest possible museum and scholarly standards.