The TAG Awards seek to raise the visibility of teaching artists within the arts in education and community arts fields and in the organizations and institutions for which they work as well as honor innovation in teaching artistry. Nominations are made by peers in the teaching artistry field and winners are selected by panel review. Nominations for the 2023 Awards are closed. Please stay tuned for announcement of the winners.
Formerly known as and established in 2002, the Association of Teaching Artists (ATA) Awards were the first in the nation to recognize Teaching Artists. In 2019, the ATA Awards expanded to include two more awards, the Innovation in Teaching Artistry Award, and the Teaching Artist Ally Award (formerly the Golden Administrator Award), and opened a national nomination process–prior to that Teaching Artists in New York state were honored. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, the awards were held virtually in collaboration with Lincoln Center Activate through a pre-recorded video.
In 2022, the awards were rebranded as the TAG Awards after the Association of Teaching Artists (ATA) and Teaching Artists Guild (TAG) merged. They were held in conjunction with the “Our Shared Future” conference in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Education Partnership, the Department of Education, and the Hewlett Foundation on April 7th, 2022.