2026 MAEA Fall Conference Proposal Form

MAEA invites you to share your expertise with your fellow visual art educators at the 2026 Fall Conference by submitting a workshop proposal.  The fall conference is October 22-24th, 2026 in Jackson, MS.

This year's fall conference theme is Our Stories. Our Art. Our Legacy

The 2026 MAEA Fall Conference invites visual art educators, artists, administrators, teaching artists, and creative educators to gather around the theme Our Stories. Our Art. Our Legacy.

This year's conference celebrates the power of “storytelling through the arts”, focusing on the stories we inherit, the stories we create, the stories our students carry, and the stories we leave behind. We invite presenters to explore how art can serve as a vehicle for identity, memory, culture, connection, reflection, and change. We are seeking conference presentations, workshops, demonstrations, and hands-on sessions that inspire educators to help students discover, explore, interpret, and communicate stories through artistic practice.

Presentation topics may include:

  • Narrative storytelling through the visual arts
  • Using art to explore personal identity, family history, heritage, and lived experiences
  • Storytelling through painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, digital art, design, and media arts
  • Exploring living traditions, folklore, community stories, and cultural heritage through art
  • Connecting personal narratives to place, community, and sense of belonging
  • Incorporating oral histories, family stories, interviews, artifacts, and archival materials into artmaking
  • Helping students transform memories, experiences, and emotions into meaningful works of art by honoring students' cultural stories and traditions
  • Contemporary artists who use storytelling, identity, history, or social commentary in their work
  • Hands-on processes, techniques, and projects that encourage students to communicate meaningful ideas through art

Whether your expertise lies in visual art, design, photography, digital media, arts leadership, curriculum, teaching practice, or another creative discipline, we want to hear what you have learned and what you have to share. We are looking for presentations that are practical, engaging, thought-provoking, and rooted in authentic experiences. Share a lesson that transformed your classroom. Introduce us to an artist or artistic process that changed the way you teach. Demonstrate a technique that gives students a new way to communicate. Tell us about a project that connected students to their families, cultures, communities, or histories.

Most importantly, share your story!

Our classrooms are filled with stories waiting to be discovered. Our students use art to make meaning of the world around them. And every lesson and creative experience contributes to the legacy we leave with the next generation. MAEA invites you to bring your story, your expertise, and your creative practice to the 2026 Fall Conference. Our Stories. Our Art. Our Legacy.

What stories will you share? What art will you create? What legacy will you leave?


Fill out the following information and submit the form by September 15, 2026.  If you have any questions, send them to msarted@gmail.com before the deadline.

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Name: First and Last Name of Presenter(s): *
Title of Presentation: *
Description of Presentation (2 to 3 sentences as it should appear in the conference program): *
Max. Number of participants: (All workshops will need to have a minimum of 25 participants) *
Please mark the minimum time required for workshop:

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Please mark what type of workshop you would like to present: *
Email Address: *
Phone (Your Personal #): *
List your degrees and the institutions attended *
Address (Personal Mailing Address): *
Job Title (What do you do and where do you work): *
The Best way to contact me is: *
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School/ Business/Organization: *
School/ Business/Organization Mailing Address: *
NAEA Member # (if a member):
If you are traveling into Jackson to present, pleas let me know if you need any considerations on times (example: if you have to leave early on Saturday, let me know if you cannot present the last session). I will do my best to work with these requests. 
Would you be interested in repeating your workshop more than once during the conference (if needed) *
Will you need a data projector? *
Will you need a laptop for your presentation? *
Will you need a sink for this workshop? *
Please check the appropriate box. *
If you need MAEA to provide supplies for your presentation, please list supplies below.
Which of the following National Arts Standards apply to your lesson?            https://nationalartsstandards.org/
 
Please use this space for any questions or if there is anything you need to tell MAEA about your presentation.
Presenter:  I understand that should my proposal be accepted that the registration fee would not be waived. I also understand that in order to be reimbursed for materials I must present receipts.  I agree to make my presentation as accepted. Any changes or cancellations will be presented in writing by October 1st.  Thank you for your proposal! Please verify your proposal by typing your name and date in the boxes below. *
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