About

Missouri Alliance for Arts Education

Statements of Mission • Vision • Diversity • Arts Integration

Board of Directors • Affiliated Organizations

MISSION

The Missouri Alliance for Arts Education supports, promotes, and advocates for fine arts education for the benefit of ALL Missourians.

VISION

We envision high quality fine arts education in all Missouri schools, ensuring that every student discovers and develops their fullest potential.

Every School • Every Child • Every Day

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

Everyone suffers in an environment of systemic racism and bias.

Through the work of the MAAE Committee on Racism, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity - MAAE pledges to:

Examine our organizational makeup, structural imbalances, and policy inadequacies in these areas and guide the implementation of specific plans to address issues of equity.
Develop and support initiatives that use the arts and teaching through the arts as tools to assist educators in leveraging positive, equity driven student outcomes across all subject areas
Recognize practices that create circumstances of exclusion and foster inclusive arts opportunities.

Learn more about our work! Join us! For more information, email director@moaae.org.

A FOCUS on ARTS INTEGRATION

MAAE is working to promote Arts integration involving the coordinated involvement of certified arts and non-arts educators, and professional and/or teaching artists where students engage in a creative process which connects arts and non-arts subject areas to meet evolving objectives in both.

We want to expand and transform the roles of the arts educator to become active participants and instructional leaders in STEAM and arts integration for all subjects, while simultaneously preserving arts education as an area of study worthwhile for it's own sake as a valued discipline of skill growth and academic study.

We promote this, have our cake and eat it too approach because we know through research evidence and in our hearts that students participating in an arts centered education will grow emotionally, socially, academically and academically. The arts are uniquely positioned to be at the pivot point of learning and understanding across all areas of the curriculum. For more information, email director@moaae.org.

MAAE Board of Directors

The governing body of the Missouri Alliance for Arts Education is comprised of a leadership team representing several of Missouri's statewide arts education organizations, and representatives from other entities with an interest in Arts Education. For more information about the board of directors or our affiliated organizations visit our website: www.moaae.org