82nd Annual Conference for Community Arts Education

Join us in Austin, TX, October 30-November 2, 2019 for our national conference!

Here’s what we’ll be doing together at the conference:

Sharing practical tools for measurable success in the many facets of arts education, from teaching artistry, to creative youth development and youth-led activism, to creative aging, to documenting and communicating impact, to board development, to organizational structure, to cross-sector partnerships, and much, much more.

Lifting up groups from across the country that are dismantling and reimagining oppressive systems through their practice of arts education, so that the arts ed community can learn from and apply these strategies in their own work.

Providing a space for the arts education community to come together and be vulnerable, grapple with challenges and things that we are trying to understand, and having real, transparent conversations―all while being surrounded with a supportive network of peers sharing their own successes and challenges.

Exploring the past, present, and future of arts education – providing a place where we can dream up what the arts ed world will look like in 20 years and begin to work towards it, while being grounded in a wealth of collective experience and expertise.