NAEA Position Statements: Relationships

Internal Relationships

NAEA members serve in a variety of capacities including visual art teachers, curriculum specialists, administrators, professors, students, art museum educators, artists, and researchers. NAEA’s structure includes individual state associations that enable members to have a connection with their colleagues at the district, state, region, division, as well as at the national level.

External Relationships

NAEA provides leadership for both state associations and other groups as the primary voice and advocate for visual art education. NAEA cultivates and values its relationships with a variety of associations and organizations, including the media, that have the potential to share NAEA’s interest in the advancement of arts education. These organizations include other entities, both nonprofit and for profit, that advocate for the arts in the schools. They have shared values with NAEA members and the potential to collaborate with NAEA, including the capacity to provide additional services and resources to its members.

NAEA is empowered by developing its current and potential relationships, which further the association’s leadership role in service to its members and their students.

NAEA Position Statements in this Category:

• Community Collaborations including those with Cultural Organizations [Adopted March 2011; Reviewed and Revised April 2014; Reviewed and Revised March 2019]
• Deaccessioning Objects in Art Museum Collections [Adopted March 2013; Reviewed March 2016; Reviewed and Revised in February 2021]
• Diversity and Inclusion in Visual Arts Education [Adopted April 2014; Reviewed and Revised March 2017; Reviewed and Revised March 2022]
• Freedom of Speech Through Visual Expression [Adopted July 2011; Update of 1991 Statement on Censorship and the Arts Reviewed and Revised April 2014; Reviewed and Revised March 2019]
• Importance of State or Province Level Agency Directors of Arts Education [Adopted March 2018; Reviewed and Revised February 2021]
• Regarding the Use of American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian Mascots in Educational Settings [Adopted April 2010; Reviewed March 2013 and March 2016]
  
• Relationship of Visual Art Educators to Decision-makers [Adopted March 2012; Reviewed and Revised March 2015; Reviewed and Revised March 2020]
• Student Art Contests and Competitions [Adopted March 2016; Reviewed and Revised March 2019; Consolidation and Update of these two statements: NAEA Policy Statement on Involvement in Art Contests and Competitions for Students at the Secondary Level Adopted April 1998 and NAEA Policy on Contests And Competitions Adopted March 2001]
• Supporting, Sustaining and Retaining Art Education Programs in Colleges and Universities [Adopted March 2017; Reviewed and Revised March 2020; Reviewed and Revised February 2021]
• Value of Collaborative Research [Adopted March 2015; Reviewed and Revised March 2018]

View all NAEA Position Statements here.