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Contact

DIVISION CHAIR 
Grace Smith

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Message from the Division Chair

If you are posting your work for school, or if you are student teaching and you are posting your students' work - please share it using #vaarted! We would love to see it!

CONNECT AT VAEA 2026
Join fellow pre-service art educators and emerging professionals for the VAEA Pre-Service Educators Meeting. Connect with future colleagues, build your professional network, share ideas, and discover resources to support your journey from student to art educator. Get involved with VAEA and begin building connections that can grow throughout your career.
Saturday, October 24 · 11:30 AM–12:30 PM · Amethyst Room
Grace Smith, Pre-Service Educators Chair

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RESOURCES

VAEA Hotline

Artsonia

​VAEA Hotline - Any questions can come through here; they want to help us be our best! 
This button will send you directly to the form to fill out with your questions and someone will call or email you with support.
 
https://www.artsonia.com - You have to login to see the full lesson plans, but this is a great place to scroll pictures of students' work to get ideas for lesson plans! You can even search based on division (elementary, middle, or high) depending on your interests. ​

VAEA Newsletter
Please remember to submit student art to [email protected]
or submit via the googleform 

NAEA preservice Division
https://www.arteducators.org/community/divisions-and-regions/