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NAEA Position Statement on Equity for All Learners
NAEA Position Statement on Equity for All Learners
Visual arts education is committed to goals that advocate excellence, equity and inclusivity for all learners through differentiated educational opportunities, resources, communities and systems of support. A successful art education program respects a range of diversity in the uniqueness of all learners, their similarities, differences, and learning characteristics. Included in the range of diversity are learners who are underserved, typically these include marginalized identities around race, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status/class, and disability/ability.
Art educators should incorporate learners’ prior knowledge and experience into practice by respecting and valuing their learners’ unique strengths through creating equitable learning environments. Instructional materials should present diverse populations as role models in various aspects of the visual arts. To this end, instruction and assessment should be designed so that all learners, based on their abilities and backgrounds, are afforded opportunities to communicate what they know, understand, and are able to do through the visual arts.
[Adopted March 2012; Reviewed 2015; Reviewed and Revised March 2020]
Upcoming Professional Development:
Upcoming Professional Development:
July 10, 2026 - 11:00am - 1:00pm (See flyer below!)
Build Community and Make Change: Fiber Art & Social Justice
Join us for this free, interactive Zoom session with Shannon Downey, author of "Moving the Needle". We will explore the intersection of social justice and fiber art. The session will include a presentation, discussion and an one hour of guided art making.
Participants will engage in meaningful conversation and hands-on creative experiences that can be brought directly into the classroom to help students better understand the power of fiber art as a tool for social change and community connection around the world.
Hosted and free for Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, & Ohio Art Education Association members.
Biography:
Shannon Downey aka Badass Cross Stitch is an artist, activist, craftivist, community builder, and general instigator. Shannon leverages craft-based art forms to bring people together and offers them opportunities to transition from makers to change makers. Her work is about telling the truth and confronting harsh realities while simultaneously inspiring radical hope and a vision for what is possible. Shannon has served as adjunct faculty at DePaul University, Columbia College Chicago, Salem College, and Mary Baldwin University. Her first book, Let’s Move the Needle, an activism handbook for artists, crafters, creatives, and makers who want to build community and make change, can be found anywhere books are sold.
Get Involved! Ongoing Opportunities:
Get Involved! Ongoing Opportunities:
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Sign up for our quarterly talks on Justice, Equity, Diversity, &. Inclusion in the art classroom. Get resources and earn 1 hour Professional Development. Certificates of Attendance will be sent after the talk.
Receive a Certificate of Professional Development (1 Hour) after each talk.
If you are interested in joining the MAEA ED&I Task Force or have questions, please contact equity.diversity.inclusion@maea.net.
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