Founded in 1947, the National Art Education Association (NAEA) is the leading professional membership organization exclusively for visual arts, design, and media arts education professionals.

Mission
NAEA champions creative growth and innovation by equitably advancing the tools and resources for a high-quality visual arts, design, and media arts education throughout diverse populations and communities of practice.

Why Join NAEA?
NAEA is dedicated to providing educators with connectivity, resources, and opportunities to enrich classrooms, careers, and inspire creativity. Members are connected to a worldwide network of like-minded artists and educators representing K–12 visual arts, design, and media arts educators; administrators; college and university professors; preservice students; researchers and scholars; museum educators; teaching artists; and more. Not yet a member? We invite you to lend your unique vision to your vibrant professional community while taking advantage of all that a NAEA membership has to offer.

Member Benefits
Connectivity: Connect, virtually and in person, to thousands of visual arts educators who are actively engaged in visual arts, teaching, and learning.

Online Professional Learning: Choose from a growing number of live and archived webinars, sessions, workshops, and more to create your ideal experience. Earn professional learning or even university credit via this online space. This is a $588 value and free to NAEA members.

NAEA Collaborate: Have a question ranging from classroom management to research? You have an online network of thousands of visual arts educators to collaborate with at your fingertips—anytime, anywhere.

Subscriptions: Members receive a free subscription to Art Education, the premier professional journal for art educators, which includes timely articles, instructional resources, and more. You’ll also get access to NAEA News.

NAEA National Convention: Members receive exclusive discounts on NAEA National Convention registration, and can submit presentation proposals.

Membership in Your State Art
Education Association: If you live in a state listed below, your NAEA membership also includes membership to your state art education association and all of the benefits this membership has to offer: AK, AL, APO, AR, AZ, CA, CT, DC, DE, GA, HI, IA, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NM, NV, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY.

National Art Honor Societies: Opportunities for national recognition, scholarships, and connectivity to 58,000+ outstanding art students are available to your middleor high-school students.

Leadership: There are so many leadership opportunities for NAEA members! Be elected to serve on state and local boards of directors, apply to attend the School for Art Leaders, and more!

Gain National Recognition: The NAEA Awards Program recognizes outstanding art educators in each state, regionally, nationally, and by teaching level.

National Art Education Foundation Grants: NAEA members of one year or longer qualify to apply for grants from the National Art Education Foundation (NAEF).

Find out about these benefits and more at arteducators.org.