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    Art and Design Education-Resources


    American Center for Design Chicago, IL - The American Center for Design focuses on six areas of interest; each is relevant to all aspects of design. All ACD publications, conferences, member services and benefits address one or more of these six essential areas.

    American Institute of Architects Washington, DC - The AIA represents the architectural profession and can provide the resources and the tools to help you meet your professional challenges whether you are an intern or a firm principal, an architect working alone or in a large firm, a government employee, or a corporate architect. Your colleagues can help you access the information, knowledge, and experience you need to make your business decisions and set your professional agenda.

    Center for Understanding the Built Environment Prairie Village, KS - The Center for Understanding the Built Environment (CUBE) brings together educators with community partners to effect change which will lead to a quality built and natural environment, one and interdependent. This means cities which work for adults and children; buildings and spaces which are healthy and aesthetically pleasing; streetscapes and landscapes which reach to the future while celebrating the past.

    Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum New York, NY - Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution invites you to experience how design affects every aspect of your daily life.

    Through design we shape the material world. Our needs and desires are reflected in the design of our possessions, our homes, and our communities. Each of us is a designer, a consumer, and a critic. Design is a fundamental activity, responding to an infinite number of needs and desires. The designed object may be as common as a paper cup, as distinctive as a crystal goblet or as complex as a city. National Design Museum investigates the uses, structures, effects and meanings of these products of design and their roles as forces for communication and change in our daily lives

    Getty Center for Education in the Arts Los Angeles, CA -In collaboration with Davis Publications' School Arts magazine, the Getty presents this online version of the Looking/Learning and Gallery Card sections of School Arts magazine.

    Kennedy Center Arts Education Network Washington, DC - The mission of ARTSEDGE is to help artists, teachers, and students gain access to and/or share information, resources, and ideas that support the arts as a core subject area in the K-12 curriculum.

    National Art Education Association Reston, VA - Over 17,000 art educators from every level of instruction: early childhood, elementary, intermediate, secondary, college and university, administration, museum education, lifelong learning . . . also publishers, manufacturers and suppliers of art materials, parents, students, retired teachers, arts councils, schools . . . anyone and everyone concerned about quality art education in our schools

    National Endowment for the Arts Washington, DC - The arts reflect the past, enrich the present, and imagine the future. The National Endowment for the Arts, an investment in America's living cultural heritage, serves the public good by nurturing the expression of human creativity, supporting the cultivation of community spirit, and fostering the recognition and appreciation of the excellence and diversity of our nation's artistic accomplishments.

    Wisconsin Alliance for Arts Education, Madison, WI - 608/265-8041

    Wisconsin Art Education Association (WAEA), 1055 Quinn Drive, Waunakee, WI 53597
    WAEA is a professional membership organization with affiliation to the National Art Education Association. The mission is to promote excellence in visual art and design education for all students. Member art educators will become enriched and connected through an annual state fall conference as well as having an opportunity to volunteer for service on the Board. Membership offers your studetns exhibitions and creative competitions at all grade levels with their peers through regional and state programs. Exhibitions and competitions include Youth Art Month (K-12 exhibitions), Visual Arts Classics (9-12 creative problem solving), and Visioneers Design Challenge (7-12 design problem solving). Higher Education majors in Art Education are also represented and encouraged to become members.

    Wisconsin Arts Board Madison, WI - The Wisconsin Arts Board is the state agency responsible for the support and development of the arts throughout Wisconsin. Since 1973, the Arts Board has supported artists and arts organizations with funds from the state legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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