AAEC 2018 Summer Arts Institutes

70 Educators Attended AAEC 2018 Summer Institutes
40 Educators Participated in In-service Programs

Bering Straits Working Weekend in Unalakleet

13 teachers worked with M.K. McNaughton
on Visual Arts for All Students

2018 Stepping it Up with the Arts Institute

20 teachers attended this four-day Mat-Su Academy

2018 Anchorage Arts are Exceptional Institute

25 teachers attended the four-day special-education focused Institute

2018 Bethel Multicultural Arts Institute

24 Educators Attended this One-week Institute

Administrators Academy - Juneau - 2017

Over 40 School Administrators met in Juneau in September 2017.

About AAEC

The Alaska Arts Education Consortium (AAEC) is an affiliation of school districts, organizations and individuals committed to preparing and supporting educators so that they can teach the arts across the curriculum. Our mission is to advance teaching and learning in and through the arts across Alaska by:

Prepares and supports educators to teach the arts across the curriculum
Promotes the awareness of the importance of teaching and learning in and through the arts
Expands the opportunities to fulfill its mission through meaningful and ongoing relationships with partners,grantors, donors and alumni

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Latest News from AAEC

AAEC Arts Institute Teacher-leader applications open

Nov 27, 2018

AAEC is eliciting teacher-leader applications for 2019 Summer Arts Institutes. If you are an experienced teaching arts and/or culture teacher to children and adults, please read the following information. Our 2019 Arts Institutes include: Summer Academy at Mat-Su is a...

AAEC Board of Directors meets in Wasilla

Sep 29, 2018

For the second year the AAEC Board is meeting at an Airbnb house in Wasilla. This retreat is the only time in 12 months that the board gets to meet face-to-face. We welcome new members, review our mission and make a plan for the coming year....

AAEC Board members attend Statewide Conference

Sep 8, 2018

The Alaska State Council on the Arts recently held the 2018 Alaska Arts Convergence conference in Fairbanks. Five members of the Alaska Arts Education Consortium board attended the Interconnect Conference as pictured below. AAEC has been a leader in actively...

AAEC 2018 Summer Arts Institutes

Aug 20, 2018

During this past summer, AAEC worked with three school districts to host Arts Institutes: In chronological order: • Mat-su "Steppin it up with the Arts" Institute. Lead by Donna Breeden, Allison Little and Nita Rearden the 20 participants studied drama, visual art...

2018 LKSD 2018 Festival of Arts website…a great way to organize and celebrate your students art!

Apr 19, 2018

The Lower Kuskokwim School District is holding it's Festival of Arts in Bethel during April. This year all visual art was photographed and is on a website. You can scan through and sort by grade, media, or even by school where the art was made. And you can, until...

Honoring our 2018 Champions of Arts in Education

Mar 10, 2018

Every year AAEC solicits nominations from across Alaska to honor ‘Alaska’s Champions of Arts in Education’ in four categories. There were many nominees this year and they are all worthy, but there are only four categories. This year’s honorees are Ginger Crockett, Sally Grimsrud, Lake Argus Siner, and Miah Lager.