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2025 Champions of Arts in Education announced!
Since 2012, the Champions of Arts in Education Award has honored individuals or organizations who promote high quality learning in and through the arts.
This award highlights the positive impact of the arts on the lives of our children and youth.
Please join us in recognizing the 2025 Champions: Rita Christianson, Susan Malutin, Tom Heywood, and Sandy Fortier.
March Art Byte: An interaction with Northwest Coast Formline with Abel Ryan
...Seeking Teacher Leaders for June 2025 Institute
AAEC will partner with the Haines Borough School District to hold a Placed-Based Learning and the Arts Institute June 2-6, 2025. We are seeking Teacher Leader applicants to lead sessions for Alaskan educators. You will work in a team of three Teacher Leaders with a...Meet the AK Arts Education Data Project
In 2023 the National Endowment for the Arts and the Alaska State Council on the Arts awarded funds to the Alaska Arts Education Consortium (AAEC) to explore the current state of arts education in Alaska. To accomplish this task, the AAEC initiated the Alaska Arts...Beach Grass Art: Taperrnaq with Yurrliq Nita Rearden and Janet Johnson
In this pre-recorded Art Byte, learn from Yurrliq Nita Rearden and Janet Johnson about the cultural significance of beach grass while you learn drawing techniques to draw tanerrnat (beach grass). This session was provided by AAEC’s Rural Arts Initiative to the...Inside Out: Movement to Support SEL in Primary Classroom with Robyn Zinszer
2025 Rural Arts Initiative Update
While 2023 gave every RAI district team the opportunity to think about and discuss their needs and hopes, 2024 has been a real push forward. Thanks to more funding and a strong cohort of representatives, each district has been able to launch great partnerships within...2024 Rural Arts Initiative Recap
RAI 2024 recap final