Share your stories of Creative Resilience! The Teaching Artists Guild is taking submissions for stories of creative resilience in teaching artistry. TAG is sharing stories of teaching artists across the country who have embraced creative resiliency in different ways. If you have a story, photo, or want to highlight another teaching artist in your community, check out this opportunity.
Read moreJoin the Teaching Artists Guild (TAG)'s National Advisory Committee
Interested in joining the Teaching Artists Guild's National Advisory Committee? Fill out this form and tell us a little bit about yourself. TAG staff will contact all interested for an informal interview.
2023 TAG Awards Watch Parties
While the TAG Awards will be online, across the country our regional networks are hosting in-person watch parties and community gatherings for teaching artists in their area. These watch parties are a chance for teaching artists in the area to gather together in-person, watch the awards, celebrate the field, and build community. Join teaching artists across the country for these watch parties!
Read moreMeet & Greet Central Valley Teaching Artists
This is an informal opportunity to find out about teaching the arts in our region, and to connect and network with other teaching artists in all genres: visual arts, dance, music, drama, media arts, poetry and more.
Read moreTeaching Artist Mix Gathering
The Teaching Artist MIX is a convening BY teaching artists FOR teaching artists. Presented by the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area in partnership with the Teaching Artist Guild (TAG), the MIX is a convening space for Teaching Artists to share resources and practices.
Read moreSpring Forward Together
Join Teaching Artist Circle (TAC), for an event for Teaching Artists and Arts Administrators to connect, mix and mingle, plus learn more about Proposition 28. Prop 28 is an approved ballot measure that will provide additional funding for arts and music education in all California K‑12 public schools (including public charter schools) by annually allocating funds from the state General Fund.
Read more2023 TAG Awards: 25th Anniversary
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.
Read moreA Day of Purpose: Decolonizing Arts Education with Black Lives Matter at School
On April 1st, Black Lives Matter at School and the Teaching Artists Guild will partner on a special professional development opportunity for teaching artists that focuses on the ongoing activations and reflections from BLM at School’s Year of Purpose, which aims to uplift Black students and undo institutional racism. The centerpiece of the Year of Purpose is asking educators to reflect on their own work in relationship to antiracist pedagogy and abolitionist practice, persistently challenging themselves to center Black lives in their classrooms. Workshop facilitators from Black Lives Matter at School, Teaching Artists Guild, Zinn Education Project, and Creative Generation will partner on this event.
Read moreNominate a Teaching Artist for a TAG Award
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.
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