Calling all U.S.-based visual artists ages 16-25 with disabilities*! Applications are now open for the 2023-2024 VSA Emerging Young Artist Program.
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.
Call for participants for the 2023-2024 Young and Emerging Leaders Forum
Jointly hosted by Creative Generation and the International Teaching Artist Collaborative (ITAC), the Young & Emerging Leaders Forum - or YELF - builds from a pilot program launched in 2020. In its design, the program will recognize young teaching artists from across the fields and be responsive to the needs of the cohort fostering a collaborative learning environment based in critical reflection intended to interrogate, mutually share and learn, and radically reimagine future possibilities of one’s work.
Read moreLearn From Teaching Artists Around The World Through Think Tanks Hosted January-March 2023
ITAC hosts monthly Think Tanks, where a Host from a different part of the world shares insights about their work, and in discussion with attendees, digs deep about the ways this could help you develop your own practice. The Think Tanks are edited, archived, and connected to additional resources across the sector.
Read moreRegister for ITAC's May Think Tank
Join ITAC for this month's Think Tank with 2022-2023 ITAC Innovators Dr. Rachael Dwyer (Australia), Dr. Karla Estela Rivera (USA), and Dr. Rachael Jacobs (Australia) on Wednesday, May 24 at 9:30am Australian Eastern Standard Time (Tuesday, May 23 at 7:30pm Eastern Daylight Time). The Think Tank will be introduced by Professor Peter O’Connor, Director of the Centre for Arts and Social Transformation (ITAC New Zealand Hub) and convener for ITAC7, September 5-7 2024.
Read more2023 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 moreRegister for ITAC's April Think Tank, Hosted by ITAC Innovator Heather Marshall (Scotland)
Join ITAC for this month's Think Tank with 2022-2023 ITAC Innovator Heather Marshall (Scotland) on Tuesday, April 25 at 3:00pm UK time (10:00am New York time).
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 moreRegister for ITAC's March Think Tank, Hosted by ITAC Innovator Sangeeta Isvaran (India)
Join us for this month's Think Tank with 2022-2023 ITAC Innovator Sangeeta Isvaran (India) on Tuesday, March 28 at 5:00pm Paris time (4:00pm UK time / 11:00am New York time).
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 moreWorld Alliance for Arts Education - Survey on Culture and Arts Education
This online survey aims to seek the views of educators in culture and arts education. It was designed by the World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE), in consultation with UNESCO. The World Alliance for Arts Education is a network of four organizations: International Drama/Theatre and Education Association (IDEA), International Society for Education through Art (InSEA), International Society for Music Education (ISME) and World Dance Alliance (WDA).
Read moreAfrocentric Social Emotional Learning Through the Arts
The Afrocentric Social Emotional Learning Through the Arts framework aims to break new ground by leveraging arts education as a way to support Pan-Africanism, through the individual storytelling of Black teaching artists and the most relevant research-based pedagogical approaches.
Read moreJoin the EDEN Project: Call for Teaching Artists
ITAC’s EDEN Engagement Team is looking for recommendations for teaching artists (also called community artists, participatory artists, social practice artists, etc.) with a commitment to environmentalism to facilitate workshops in several cities between April-May 2023. The students we will be working with range in ages from 5-18 and we are looking for teaching artists of all artistic disciplines. Knowledge of the English language is a plus. If you have a teaching artist colleague or an arts education contact you can recommend in any of these cities, please help us out and complete the following form, and we will follow up with them.
Read moreDance A Difference Week
NDEO invites all individual participants and chapters of the National Honor Society for Dance Arts (NHSDA) to join us in celebrating "Dance A Difference Week" - A week dedicated to dance-based service in our communities.
Read moreNAEA Student Competition
Art in Embassies and the National Art Education Association are pleased to announce the call for artwork for the Democracy Collection Student Art Competition beginning on February 15, 2023. Showcasing the artwork of talented middle school and high school student artists ages 13-18, this competition provides an opportunity for students to explore democracy through the creation of art.
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.
Read moreLearn from Teaching Artists Around the World Through Think Tanks Hosted June - December 2022
From April 2020 – December 2021, Creative Generation was named an ITAC Innovator and focused on developing an infrastructure within the International Teaching Artist Collaborative (ITAC) to address the gap in research and resources produced by and for the field of teaching artistry. The project engaged volunteers in the teaching artist field from a cross-section of countries to collect, validate, and disseminate tools, resources, and creative/scholarly research in a number of capacities. These include retrofitting the existing knowledge shared through the 2019 Think Tanks, building each into a digital learning module; formulating a strategy to catalog, publish and disseminate research and resources shared through the 2018 and 2020 ITAC conferences; and researching and recommending a sustainable and scalable framework for a clearinghouse of new tools and resources created by and for the field of teaching artistry to be located within ITAC’s digital platform. Read more about this project there.
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