Check out the opportunities page for recent job postings – High School Visual Art, Framingham Public Schools.
Email webmaster@massarted.com to post opportunities. Please include a link to the job posting
Summer PD with MAEA
Details are almost all finalized for the summer professional development.
Register now for Collaborating on Curriculum, which starts on June 30. This course features synchronous and asynchronous meeting times on Zoom and participants will earn 25 PDPs at completion. All of the details, including the course syllabus can be found here.
We will also be offering the SEI for Art Educators course again June 24-26. This course features synchronous meetings on Zoom and participants will earn 15 PDPs at completion. All of the details, including the course syllabus can be found here.
Our Wicked BooksmART book group focus on the book Guerilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly and will run throughout the summer. Details are still being finalized – email pd@massarted.com to be notified when registration opens!
Hands – On Workshops – May & June offerings
Our PD Committee Chair Margaurita Spear has been working hard to put together more hands-on workshop offerings for this spring. Check out the May and June offerings and register today.
MAEA and NAEA members can register at a discounted price of $12 for each workshop. Learn more and register here.
Each registrant will receive a certificate of attendance upon completion of the individual workshop. If you attend a total of 5 unique workshops (10 hours), you can submit a request for a PDP certificate.
Have an idea for your own hands-on offering? Reach out to Margaurita (pd@massarted.com) or submit a proposal today.
Margaurita is also interested in co-chairing the PD Committee – connect with her today to learn more about how that might work. Or visit our Join the Board page website to learn a bit more about the position.
Visual Arts MTEL Objective Review Committee Members Needed
The Department and the Evaluation Systems Group of Pearson are seeking Massachusetts educators who hold a provisional, initial or professional Dance or Visual Arts license or educator preparation faculty with expertise in these content areas to participate in an upcoming Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure (MTEL) Objective Review Committees.
- 5/20/25 – Dance Objective Review Committee
- 5/21/25 – Visual Arts Objective Review Committee
These committees meet in person from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. over the course of one day. The Department is committed to centering the voices of people who have been historically marginalized in public education, and DESE strongly encourages Black, Indigenous, Hispanic and Latino, Asian, other educators of color, and members of other historically marginalized groups to apply.
Interested educators are asked to please complete an application online.
Anyone with questions about this opportunity can email Robyn Kaczowka at evaluationsystemscrg@
Congratulations – MAEA Recognitions Exhibit
Congratulations to all of the high school students with work accepted into the 2025 Massachusetts Amazing Emerging Artists Recognitions exhibit.
Thank you to all the teachers who supported their students so they were able to participate in the exhibit and to all the art educators who worked to put this exhibit together.
YAM Poster Design Contest
Thank you to everyone who submitted work to the YAM Poster/Flag Design Contest.
Congratulations to our Grand Prize Winner
Shu-Ning H., 5th grade artist from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in Cambridge, MA. Shu-Ning’s art teacher is Sara Engel.
The winning flag will be hung as part of the NAEA Convention Youth Art Month exhibit in Louisville, KY later this month.
Check out the website to see all the winners and honorable mentions.
Urgent Need – President-elect
The next term for the MAEA Executive Committee position of President-elect started January 1, 2024. This position is a two-year term, that transitions into the role of President, and Past President, which are also two-year terms.
Please submit a letter of intent, resume/CV, short biography (250 word), and head shot for the election process to info@massarted.com asap.
For additional information about responsibilities and descriptions please refer to the MAEA website. Serving in this role includes paid membership for MAEA and NAEA, as MAEA is a state affiliate of NAEA.
Happy Youth Art Month – Ways to Use the Virtual Statewide Exhibit
Happy Youth Art Month! Looking for some ways to incorporate this year’s YAM exhibit into your classroom? So often we use artwork created by professional artists to teach anything from elements of art to inspiration for skill building projects or exemplars, but why not use student work for the same purpose? Read on for some practical ways to share the YAM virtual exhibit with your students:
- Use student works from the exhibit to highlight technical skills.
- Use this ready-to-go Scavenger Hunt to focus observation while students peruse the galleries.
- Have student pairs go on an Elements of Art or Principles of Design “Scavenger Hunt” in the galleries and share their findings.
- Encourage students to leave an Artist Fan Letter (link attached in each gallery) for the creator of an artwork they especially like.
- Select a piece to use with Visual Thinking Strategies. Read more about VTS here.
- Use work from the galleries to play a game of Art Bingo. Check out the Bingo Baker here for some ready made boards. Assign student pairs to different sections of galleries (ex. Slides 1-50 in gallery 3) to search for artworks on their board.
Use any of these free and Ready-to-use focus sheets from Cindy Ingram at the Art Class Curator to help students connect deeply with a piece of self-selected artwork from the galleries.
Hands – On Workshops – Spring 2025
Our PD Committee Chair Margaurita Spear has been working hard to put together more hands-on workshop offerings for this spring.
The April offering has just been finalized! Puppet Palooza on April 12 at 9:00 am on Zoom with Ali Boudreau.
MAEA and NAEA members can register at a discounted price of $12 for each workshop. Learn more and register here. You can also register now for the May offering, Comics as Reflective Practice on May 10 with Rachel Branham. The June offering will be shared soon!
Each registrant will receive a certificate of attendance upon completion of the individual workshop. If you attend a total of 5 unique workshops (10 hours), you can submit a request for a PDP certificate.
Have an idea for your own hands-on offering? Reach out to Margaurita (pd@massarted.com) or submit a proposal today.
Margaurita is also interested in co-chairing the PD Committee – connect with her today to learn more about how that might work. Or visit our Join the Board page website to learn a bit more about the position.
Job Posting – Berkshire School & Shrewsbury Public
Check out the opportunities page for a recent job postings – Arts Department Chair/Visual Art Teacher, Berkshire School and Grades 5-6 Long Term Visual Art Teacher, Shrewsbury Public Schools.
Email webmaster@massarted.com to post opportunities. Please include a link to the job posting