How Do You Keep the Artist in Art Educator?  

Remember back when you were in college?  Maybe that was last year or maybe 20 or more years ago or somewhere in between.  Either way, I'm guessing you were an artist and an art major before you decided to become a teacher.  For many of us continuing to make art while also dedicating time to being an educator can be challenging.  For others making art is how we survive being an educator.  Regardless of where you land on this spectrum this page is devoted to pushing you in new directions with your own art-making.  The goal is to inform you of opportunities for exhibits, workshops, or challenges that will help keep your artist-educator tools creative and dripping with enthusiasm.  

If you know of a creative workshop, challenge or exhibit you think folks would be interested in fill in the form here and we will do our best to add it to this page.  Please include an image, a link to the details about the opportunities and any other pertinent information.  

WAEA Membership Fall Conference Exhibit

WAEA offers opportunities for you to exhibit your own artwork at the annual art exhibit that coincides with the Fall Conference.  

Artwork will be on display from
October 2 - 30th at
​Wine Guyz in La Crosse, WI.  

Work must be shipped or delivered in person to Quenten Brown, West Central Region Vice President by Friday, September 23, 2017.

All works submitted must be gallery quality and ready to hang.  Each member is allowed to submit a maximum of two works.  2Dimensional works must be smaller than 2 ft by 3 ft.

Send work to:  

Monthly Challenges on Social Media and the Internet: A Great Way to Make Art and Connect to New People for Your Personal Learning Network (PLN)

#k12artchallenge

The K-12 artchallenge was started by Arlene Shelton @smARTisteacher on Twitter.  It is a monthly challenge that asks the participants to post their art or their students' art for the daily prompts that occur.  It is a very popular challenge and often features guest hosts of the monthly challenges with crossover to some of Twitters most engaging art educators. 

Tim Needles
The Everyday Renaissance
​June Challenge

Here are details from Tim's challenge this past summer.  Visit his website for great inspiration. 
"Welcome to season two of the everyday renaissance projects or #TERPart!  This project is open to everyone and anyone and the focus is on connecting with your creativity, expressing yourself, and connecting and collaborating with each other in the process.   Throughout the month of June I'll share a prompt and you can use whichever media you want to create something in response then share it on social media by including the hashtags #TERPart and #K12artchallenge."

Follow Tim on Twitter @timneedles

Matt and Laura Grundler
#​k12artchat

Matt and Laura are so positive and supportive.  They host the weekly #k12artchat on Twitter and have numerous other projects they are in volved with.  During summer they hosted the August #k12artchallenge with their #Reflect31, 31 days of professional reflection and art related to that thought.  Check out their website and their Twitter page. You won't be disappointed.