Arts Education in Action

Share Your Action

We want to highlight YOUR art education in action! What are your students creating? What is happening in your museum? Do you have an NAEA Preservice Student Chapter that is doing cool stuff? Is your district getting creative? Send us photos so NAEA can share them and represent art education in action as it is really happening.

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Current images featured in the image carousel on the NAEA Homepage:

Elementary art educator and community leader Walter Lewandoski collaborated with sponsors, donors, and city agencies to support artist Michaela Levesque’s Infinite Hope mural, which depicts Martin Luther King, Maya Angelou, and Barbara Hudson, an African American art curator, historical society researcher, and Bristol, CT, resident.

Submitted by: Walter Lewandoski | Bristol Arts & Culture Commission | Bristol, CT

Students at Kennesaw State University have the chance to chisel marble and carve their own small plaster sculptures at the Zuckerman Museum of Art’s Celebration of Stone Carving. This event held every September 21 recognizes the birthday of the late sculptor Ruth Zuckerman.

Submitted by: Elizabeth Thomas | Kennesaw State University | Kennesaw, GA

Inspired by a session from the 2022 NAEA National Convention in New York, NY, a student creates an exploding book.

Submitted by: Sarah Swanson | Green Tree School and Services | Philadelphia, PA

Rowan University’s NAEA Student Chapter volunteers at Yale’s Tri-State DisAbility Art Show to show the art of origami.

Submitted by: Taylor Slade | Rowan University | Glassboro, NJ

While engaging in a lesson called, What Color Is Your Skin? students selected paper based on their skin tone and created self-portraits. From the educator: “I know a lesson is a huge success when students ask, ‘can I take it home?’”

Submitted by: Amy Molina | Pearls Hawthorne | Yonkers, New York