Welcome to the National Art Education Association Women’s Caucus Voices Project! We are excited to share this venture with you and look forward to the dialogue we hope to create about issues in gender equity and social justice in the context of the art classroom and beyond.
“Wait,” you may be saying, “Who is we, what is this venture, and just what is all of this about?”
Fair enough.
We are Caryl and Jen. We are feminists who are in the art education field and find our community in the National Art Education Association’s Women’s Caucus. Caryl is a K-6 art teacher (and a national award winner) and Jen is a recent art ed grad that works in the non-profit sector (and is a state winner). Jen is also seeking a full-time art teaching job – hint, hint.
Together, we serve as Outreach Coordinators for the NAEA Women’s Caucus. Our role is to reach out to a greater population outside of our membership to hold the important gender and social justice discussions that affect our every day. It is hard in today’s material, popular, and connected world to not avoid issues of gender and gender identity – especially as art teachers. It is in the art we teach, the art forms we come across in our visual and popular culture, the messages our students receive from their media-infused world, and the lifestyles we lead as women and men educators.
It is our hope that this blog will serve as your connection spot to discuss about these issues and others you may come across with a greater community of art teachers, feminists, educators, like-minded, and other-minded people. Have something you want to talk about? Contact us about contributing an article, a picture, a movie, audio, or anything else you want to share. If you ever need to contact us outside of posting to this site, feel free to email us at naeawcoutreach[at]gmail[dot]com.
Your voice can lead feminism into the 21st century and contribute in defining what a “third wave” feminist actually is. So, let’s talk.
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