2024 Fall Conference

Nov. 1-2

Ellensburg, Washington

Central Washington University
The Washington Art Education Association’s Fall Conference is one of the largest professional development opportunities in the state of Washington that is exclusively developed for art educators and artists. Attendees participate in exemplary professional learning workshops and sessions with pK-12 art educators, museum educators, researchers, scholars/university professors, pre-service art educators, retired art educators, teaching artists, and administrators/supervisors. ​
Join us for the weekend of Nov 1st-2nd, 2024.
The 2024 Fall Conference is being held at
Central Washington University
in Ellensburg, WA
with additional events at
Gallery One on Friday and Saturday Night.

We are heading to the "Crossroads of the State" to pull the East and West (and all other areas) together to Be HERE for the ART !

We will be hosting workshops aligned with WAEA's vision for building connections, collaborating, learning together, and advocating for the Visual Arts in the state of Washington! Plus SO MUCH MORE!

Visual Arts Education: the Crossroads of Creativity!

Be sure to check out the Lodging and Travel page for Information about the WAEA DORM, Hotel Discounts, and Ride - Share / Room - Share Details!​

​Central Washington University
​400 E University Way
Ellensburg, WA 98926

​Gallery One
408 N Pearl St
​Ellensburg, WA 98926
WAEA Member
170
 
Conference Registration
​Update your WAEA membership today!
Workshops on Friday & Saturday with Sunday Site-Based Learning
Saturday Lunch, Art Gallery Show and Saturday Night Party Included.
Clock Hours Available for WAEA members.
WAEA Member (First Time Membership Only)
170
 

​Join WAEA today!
includes a $90 Dick Blick Gift Certificate when you join WAEA your first year.
Workshops on Friday & Saturday with Sunday Site-Based Learning
Saturday Lunch, Art Gallery Show and Saturday Night Party Included.
Clock Hours Available for WAEA members
Non-WAEA/NAEA
​Members
270
 

Why not just ​Join WAEA for $80-$95
and register as a member! 
​Pre-service member dues are $50!
Many benefits to being a member!
*Clock hours available for WAEA members ONLY.
Workshops on Friday & Saturday with Sunday Site-Based Learning
Saturday Lunch, Art Gallery Show and Saturday Night Party Included.
Friday, 11/01​​
Check-in at Central Washington University 

Some Friday Evening Workshops

First Friday Art Walk in Downtown Ellensburg

WAEA Scholarship Fund Event at the INK - Ticketed Event - 
Proceeds go to WAEA Scholarships
TBD fee (tax deductible donation) - limited to 40 WAEA members - 
More info soon!

Connections to Creativity Art Show Reception at Gallery One

​5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Saturday, 11/2​​
Check-in at Central Washington University

Workshops begin at 8:00 am

Vendor Fair 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Silent Auction 8:00 am - 5:15 pm
Student Art Gallery 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Art Supply SWAP 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Lunch provided

WAEA Annual Membership Meeting with Awards Ceremony

Art Party at Gallery One
6:30 - 9:30 pm

After hours Party at the Dorm.
Sunday, 11/3
Informal Site-based Learning at your own pace, or on a tour.



Some Tours have limited space. Details coming Soon.

We are accepting workshop proposals now for the WAEA Fall Conference Nov. 1-2 in Ellensburg, WA at Central Washington University!

​PLEASE SUBMIT 
Workshop Proposals
by Sept 21st!
 
The conference theme is Visual Arts Education: the Crossroads of Creativity.

*Have your initial proposal approved by August 17th, 2024 and receive a special coupon code for a $50 registration discount.
 
FALL CONFERENCE BREAKOUT SESSIONS INCLUDE:

  85 minute Sessions- 
  • Best for Hands-On Workshops or Longer Best Practice Workshops with Collaborative Work Time

  55 minute Sessions- 
  • Best for Demonstration or Best Practice Lectures, Panel Discussions or Short Hands-on Workshops 

   Local Tour and/or Offsite Art Making (at least 1 hour or up to 3 Hours)

We are not charging for Ticketed Sessions sessions this year.
If it is a Hand-On Workshop, the first 25 in the room will have supplies to participate, and any additional workshop attendees can watch demo. 

We are offering up to $75 reimbursement for 85 min hands on sessions (with receipts and the understanding that attendees leave with products). The reimbursement Google Form will be on the Conference Website.

Please complete the form below if you are interested in being a presenter at the 2024 Fall Conference.

Fill out with information that convinces the committee that your workshop presentations will speak to our WAEA members and align to the WAEA Pillars. 

We will be asking for more complete information once your presentation is approved.
If approved, You will receive an additional form to fill in additional information later this summer.
This will include:
  • Instructors headshot photo, 
  • Photos pertaining to presentation (sample of work or topic), 
  • Approval or Updated Session Title
  • Approval or Updated Session Description

​
​Once your Workshop is accepted, we will email you a Presenter Coupon code
along with a form for some additional information we will need.
​Code can only be used once.​

Conference 
​Schedule
WE NEED YOUR HELP!

Our organization is run by volunteers and this conference is made possible
by the collective force of US!

Please Sign up for a Volunteer Shift
to help us ensure the best experience for all!

Special SWAG for Volunteers!
​Crossroads of Creativity Educator Exhibition 
hosted by Gallery One Visual Arts Center & Washington Art Education Association

All current, preservice, and retired: classroom educators, museum professionals, teaching artists, and art education professionals are invited to submit artwork.

More information on our
Educator Art Show Page
Need help making your case to attend the WAEA Fall Conference?​
We have you covered!
We have created some materials to help you request funding from your administrator, or visual arts district supervisor.

Check out the how-to guide here.
​
Here is a sample letter to send to your admin ASAP.

Our WAEA 2024 Keynote Speaker...
​
Mike Mitchell

Mike Mitchell is the Art Education Professor/Coordinator at Tennessee State University, an HBCU in Nashville, Tennessee.

Also known as mikewindy, he is a 2020 Makey Makey Ambassador, has achieved the Tennessee Art Education Association Middle Region Art Educator of the Year award, and is Tennessee’s only Crayola Creativity Ambassador.

He sits on the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s rural, educational, arts, culture, and history committee. He earned a degree from the University of Memphis in 2004, where he investigated making art using a wide array of media, including video, sound, painting, printmaking, ceramics, metal casting, stop motion animation, collage, and performance.

He has continued those investigations over the past twenty years and exhibited his work in public spaces all over the world, including galleries, trains, street corners, and outside the grocery store where he has been shopping for forty years.
www.mikewindy.com
Though I have taught a wide variety of classes from 2-D Design, Digital Photography, Art History, 3-d Design, Sculpture 1/2, as well as, a Steampunk Sculpture a class I created, my mission in teaching is always the same; to impart to students the tools and permission to begin to navigate their immediate art community.

Connecting to what is going on outside of their classroom always reinforces and informs what they do inside of it. Students will buy into the research of contemporary practitioners when they feel they are becoming one. It’s easier to have a conversation about the craftsmanship of a piece of art when students have interaction with an audience about it in a public exhibit that they organize and publicize using social media, sending out a press release and securing the location for the exhibition.

​DISCOUNTS Available!

Preservice Educator 
​Discount
​is $120 off registration. 

If you are a Pre-service Educator...Use this survey to tell us what art education, art, technology or education program you are in, in addition to your Pre-service WAEA member number.
We will email you the Pre-service Coupon Code once verified.
WAEA Pre-service Discount is $100 off registration.
  • Joining WAEA as a Preservice Teacher is $50.
  • It counts as your first year in the WAEA and you are gifted a $90 Dick Blick Gift Certificate!
If joining WAEA for $50 is a deterrent for the pre service teacher, there is a Needs-Based Scholarship Option for Pre-Service w/o Membership on the Survey.

​Workshop Presenter Discount
is $75 off registration.