Art Education Journal

Art Education is the official journal of the National Art Education Association.

Art Education covers a diverse range of topics of professional interest to art educators and anyone whose interest is quality visual arts education. It is published bi-monthly in full color. Each issue features an editorial, six articles, and instructional resources, making Art Education a significant addition to every educators’ reference library. NAEA News, a digital-only publication, is automatically included with a subscription to Art Education.

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To submit an article to Art Education: Anyone may write for Art Education. Manuscripts for articles and instructional resources are welcome at all times and on any aspect of art education. Please follow the Instructions for Authors.

Call for Submissions

Art Education is now accepting manuscripts for a special issue publishing in July 2025, “A Call for Counteraction: Reclaiming Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in Art Education.”

Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts on the following topics:

  • Curriculum as an act of care for racial minority and LGBTQIA+ students and teachers
  • Finding alternative ways to teach about race, gender, sexuality, and intersectionality in schools amid the backlash
  • Challenging the idea of inclusion in art education curriculum that overemphasizes the experiences of a particular racial or ethnic group, which perpetuates racialization
  • School policy interventions by parents and/or students to advocate for DEI
  • Challenging recent rebranding of DEI offices and programs in higher education, such as “inclusive excellence,” “community, engagement and belonging,” and so on that dilutes the purpose of DEI initiatives
  • Art practices that help sustain the lives and well-being of minoritized students and faculty amid the DEI backlash
  • Art-based resistance to book bans that censor teaching about race and sexuality
  • Art-based resistance to Don’t Say Gay policies in schools

Submissions are due December 31, 2024. Download complete details here.

Latest Issue

Art Education journal - Volume 77, Issue 5

September 2024, Volume 77, Issue 5
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Sample Articles

Art Education Journal

Developing Divas: The Potential of “Artpreneurism” for Art and Design Education
July 2021, Volume 74, Issue 4
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Art Education Journal

Critical Arts Pedagogy: Nurturing Critical Consciousness and Self-Actualization Through Art Education
September 2021, Volume 74, Issue 5
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Sample Instructional Resources

Art Education Journal

I Believe in the Power Art”: vanessa german, Citizen Artist
May 2021, Volume 74, Issue 3
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Art Education Journal

(Com)postmodernity: Artists Cultivating a Lust for Mortality
July 2021, Volume 74, Issue 4
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Editorial Leadership

  • Michelle S. Bae-Dimitriadis

    Senior Editor, Art Education

    2024-2025

    The Pennsylvania State University

  • Amy Barnickel

    Assistant Editor, Art Education

    University of Central Florida

Ami Kantawala, Past Editor
Teachers College, Columbia University

Luke Meeken, Instructional Resource Editor
Miami University

Eunkyung Hwang, Social Media Editor
The Pennsylvania State University

Previous Editors

Editorial Review Board

Questions about the journal? Send an email to arteducationjournal@gmail.com.

NAEA Member Benefits

NAEA’s publishing partnership with educational publishers Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group offers enhanced benefits to NAEA members:

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