Join us for a summer MAEA Museum Meetup! Teachers will meet up at the Worcester Art Museum, exploring their collection and exhibitions, the latter including:
Jakob Fioole: The Sally Bishop Prize (through September 1)
John Vo /Central Massachusetts Artist Initiative (through November 3)
Advance registration required. Space is limited. Cost: FREE
When: Friday, July 19, 2024, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Where: Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury Street Worcester, MA
Cost: Free
Register here!
Check out the opportunities page for some recent job postings – Manager of Education at the Mead Art Museum and High School Visual Arts Teacher at Peabody Public Schools.
Email webmaster@massarted.com to post opportunities. Please include a link to the job posting.
The call for conference session proposals is now open.
We are looking for a variety of sessions for our 2 day conference held in Beverly, MA on November 9-10, 2024. Please consider submitting a proposal for a Best Practice Lecture, Demonstration, Research Lecture, Interactive Discussion, Studio Workshop, or other type of session offering not listed here. All presenters selected to present at the 2024 MAEA conference will receive complimentary tickets to attend the conference. We encourage new presenters! The deadline for session proposals is July 31, 2024.
More presenter information can be found on the session proposal form, linked here.
Check out the opportunities page for some recent job postings at Tufts University and Manchester-Essex Regional School District and student opportunities.
Email webmaster@massarted.com to post opportunities.
The MAEA Conference Committee is happy to share our 2024 annual conference keynotes are Dr. Melissa Leaym-Fernandez and Jarrett J. Krosoczka.
Read more about both keynotes here.
All presenters selected to present at the 2024 MAEA conference will receive complimentary tickets to attend the conference. We encourage new presenters! The deadline for session proposals is July 31, 2024. More presenter information can be found on the session proposal form, linked here.
The Conference Committee is working on getting all of the details finalized for the 2024 MAEA Conference, Art Connects Us at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly.
Save the date now and look for registration to open up in the fall! The call for session proposals is open now through July 31.
We look forward to sharing more information as details are finalized!
There are still a few more Hands-On Art Making offerings you can attend this spring!
The May and June offerings will focus on street art in May and teaching colored pencil in June. Starting in April, we also have been recording the sessions, for participants who are unable to attend live.
More information and the link to register can be found here.
The MAEA Board of Directors is happy to announce that there will be an Art Educators of Massachusetts exhibit in conjunction with the 2024 MAEA Awards Ceremony!
Active and retired art educators in Massachusetts are invited to submit their 2D artwork for the 2024 MAEA Art Educators exhibit at the Gallery at Villageworks.
The exhibit registration deadline is Sunday, March 10, 2024
The exhibit will be on view March 14 – April 16 and there will be an exhibit reception Thursday, April 11 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. in conjunction with the 2024 MAEA Awards Ceremony.
Join us for a special MAEA Museum Meetup in Western Mass! Teachers will meet up at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, the international champion for picture books for a tour and artmaking. After some mingling over coffee and cider donuts, MAEA teachers will take a guided tour of The Carle’s special exhibition Alphabet Soup: How Picture Books Are Made, From A to Z.
The exhibition mines The Carle’s permanent collection to uncover the processes that bring picture books to life. Each letter of the alphabet introduces a key concept in picture-book making, from the materials artists use, to changes in printing technology, and even the physical parts of books themselves. The visit will end with time in The Carle’s Art Studio, making an alphabet using simple shapes and printmaking techniques (and inspired by art on view in the galleries).
Advance registration required and space is limited.
When: Saturday, March 30 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Where: The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art,
125 West Bay Road Amherst, MA 01002
Cost: $10 (ticket covers reduced admission fee, group tour, and snacks.)
Get your ticket here.
Leading Ladies would like to invite your students to participate in the 2024 Art as Activism Poster Contest for high school students in northern Massachusetts, specifically in Middlesex and Essex Counties. This year’s theme is encouraging people to vote.
The contest is sponsored by Leading Ladies, a nonpartisan North Shore group dedicated to social justice and the importance of voting. We believe in art as activism and that art can be an especially effective way for students to find their voices.
Participation details can be found here on the Leading Ladies website, and downloadable guidelines to share with students can be found here.
More information can be found here: leadingladiesvote.org/art-is-power