Learning in a Visual Age

Your voice counts!

Post your response to The Nation's Report Card: Arts 2008 released Monday, June 15th.

From Cleansing the Palette, June 2009

Dr. Deborah B. Reeve posed this question in her June 2009 column, "Cleansing the Palette," from NAEA News:

"I want to know how you see it. I want to know how art influences the way you see your life – as an individual, as a professional art educator. How do you see art “working” on you? How does art influence the way you take in, and respond to, the experiences in your life?"

Learning in a Visual Age Weblog

For the past year, NAEA has engaged in ongoing discussions about the future of visual arts education and implications for the profession and the field, leading to a meeting of scholars, important stakeholders, and friends of arts education, held at the Aspen Institute last summer.

From these discussions came the document Learning in a Visual Age: The Critical Importance of Visual Arts Education. This monograph raises awareness of the critical importance of visual arts education through the following topics:

• What High-Quality Arts Education Provides
• How High-Quality Arts Education Can Prepare Students for the Future
• What Excellent Visual Arts Teaching Looks Like
• How to Infuse the Arts Into Learning Environments
• Ensuring Excellent Visual Arts Education for Every Student
• Recommendations for the Federal Government