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Art educators face a serious challenge preparing students for the future with rigorous art education tied to their lives, cultures and experiences. The NAEA knows how hard this is, which is why it offers a wide range of resources so that art educators can keep abreast of current trends, topics and legislation as well as educational resources for art educators to use in the classroom.

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National Arts Education Association National Visual Arts Standards

The National Visual Arts Standards by the National Art Education Association are part of the National Core Arts Standard first formally released in 2014. It intends to create educational standards and guidelines of what students K-12 should know and be able to do at each grade. The first voluntary national standards for the visual arts, music, theater, dance, media arts and others were developed in 1994. You can see the National Visual Arts Standards at http://nationalartsstandards.org/ .

States may have their own visual arts standards or adopt a national one like the National Core Arts Standard. ArtScan, a project from the Arts Education Partnership, is a searchable educational policy database for the whole United States. You can find information on ArtScan about the arts education policies, educational standards, state level surveys of art education and education indicators for your state. The database only lists policies that have the weight of law, not recommendations. This site lets you see the high school requirements for art education, art educator licensing, art education instructional requirements and art accreditation.

You can find more recent policy updates through the ECS State Policy Database. This includes legislative changes that have not yet flowed down to state level art education standards. Federal level rules, regulations and executive orders are included in this database.

The NAEA offers training for its members on the National Core Arts Standard. Its Learn + Tools has links to the policy databases referenced above. The National Art Education Association created the Art Standards Toolbox, a free app for NAEA members containing many tools for National Visual Arts Standards based lesson planning, student assessments, schedule planning and archiving student data in the cloud. You can find the app on the Learn + Tools website or get it by going to http://naeaapp.com/.

Educational Opportunities for Art Educators

The National Art Education Association has a number of resources specifically for art educators. The group holds live learning opportunities that are simultaneously broadcast as webinars. Many of these webinars are saved to the NAEA site in webinar archives. Webinar archives are updated on a monthly basis.

One of the biggest educational opportunities for art educators take place at the NAEA convention held each March. While the NAEA doesn’t offer formal continuing education units for teacher certification, it offers certificates to attendees they can request be counted as such by their accrediting organization. National convention presentations are recorded and saved to the NAEA Learn+Tools page. It has presentations going back to 2009. Registration is required to see everything from the general session presentations to specific lessons like “New Forms of Engagement with Museums”. After you view all of the sessions for a particular NAEA national convention online, you can print off the certificate of participation and present it to your school or accrediting organization for continuing education credits.

Live events broadcast as webinars require the same registration to view content and opportunity to print a certificate for CEU credit. While the National Art Education Association convention content is equal to ten to fifteen CEU, each live event is worth one to two credits by most accrediting organizations. Live events cover topics like how to teach art to special education students or an overview of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math).

The NAEA periodically holds virtual only conferences, most of the recent ones being held in September during Arts in Education Week. The 2014 presentation was on the new visual arts standard while teaching in a visual age was the 2015 topic. Both of these presentations are worth six credits if you need them for CEU.

One of the benefits of National Art Education Association membership is that these presentations may be free or offered at a much lower cost than if you were not an NAEA member. You do not always have to be a National Art Education Association member to pay to watch and print off the continuing education certificates for these online presentations. Colleges like California State University, Chico offer university level credit for professional learning via the NAEA virtual sessions.

Some virtual sessions don’t rise to the level of professional continuing education content but are useful for some art instructors, such as the NAEA Museum Education division’s monthly hangouts to discuss public education through museum tours and exhibits. The related Viewfinder journal contains dialogues about museum education for the visual arts.

NAEA Monthly Mentor Blog

The Monthly Mentor blog of the NAEA shares advice from experienced art educators to new teachers. A different mentor or group of mentors is featured each month. The blog is curated by Reta Rickmers, an art teacher with almost thirty years of experience and who didn’t take the standard route to becoming an art teacher. You can visit the latest Monthly Mentor blog post at http://naea.typepad.com/naea/.

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2023 NAEA National Convention April 13-15, 2023 San Antonio, TX

A three-day in-person convention bringing together visual arts, design, and media arts educators from around the world to take part in hundreds of sessions, workshops, and learning opportunities designed to inform, inquire, inspire, and create connections.

To obtain a certificate of participation and record 15 PD hours on your Virtual Art Educators Transcript, click the green “Register” button at the top of this page. To complete the process, you’ll be required to enter the verification code provided to you at the conclusion of the in-person experience.

If you also wish to obtain University Credit for the 15 PD hours, after completing the step above, register at  https://rce.csuchico.edu/naea  using the information below: Course: EDUC 812 – Art Education Cost: $85 (15 hours) = 1-unit PD Registration Deadline: May 1, 2023 

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The Moscow Metro Museum of Art: 10 Must-See Stations

There are few times one can claim having been on the subway all afternoon and loving it, but the Moscow Metro provides just that opportunity.  While many cities boast famous public transport systems—New York’s subway, London’s underground, San Salvador’s chicken buses—few warrant hours of exploration.  Moscow is different: Take one ride on the Metro, and you’ll find out that this network of railways can be so much more than point A to B drudgery.

The Metro began operating in 1935 with just thirteen stations, covering less than seven miles, but it has since grown into the world’s third busiest transit system ( Tokyo is first ), spanning about 200 miles and offering over 180 stops along the way.  The construction of the Metro began under Joseph Stalin’s command, and being one of the USSR’s most ambitious building projects, the iron-fisted leader instructed designers to create a place full of svet (radiance) and svetloe budushchee (a radiant future), a palace for the people and a tribute to the Mother nation.

Consequently, the Metro is among the most memorable attractions in Moscow.  The stations provide a unique collection of public art, comparable to anything the city’s galleries have to offer and providing a sense of the Soviet era, which is absent from the State National History Museum.  Even better, touring the Metro delivers palpable, experiential moments, which many of us don’t get standing in front of painting or a case of coins.

Though tours are available , discovering the Moscow Metro on your own provides a much more comprehensive, truer experience, something much less sterile than following a guide.  What better place is there to see the “real” Moscow than on mass transit: A few hours will expose you to characters and caricatures you’ll be hard-pressed to find dining near the Bolshoi Theater.  You become part of the attraction, hear it in the screech of the train, feel it as hurried commuters brush by: The Metro sucks you beneath the city and churns you into the mix.

With the recommendations of our born-and-bred Muscovite students, my wife Emma and I have just taken a self-guided tour of what some locals consider the top ten stations of the Moscow Metro. What most satisfied me about our Metro tour was the sense of adventure .  I loved following our route on the maps of the wagon walls as we circled the city, plotting out the course to the subsequent stops; having the weird sensation of being underground for nearly four hours; and discovering the next cavern of treasures, playing Indiana Jones for the afternoon, piecing together fragments of Russia’s mysterious history.  It’s the ultimate interactive museum.

Top Ten Stations (In order of appearance)

Kievskaya station.

Kievskaya Station went public in March of 1937, the rails between it and Park Kultury Station being the first to cross the Moscow River.  Kievskaya is full of mosaics depicting aristocratic scenes of Russian life, with great cameo appearances by Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin.  Each work has a Cyrillic title/explanation etched in the marble beneath it; however, if your Russian is rusty, you can just appreciate seeing familiar revolutionary dates like 1905 ( the Russian Revolution ) and 1917 ( the October Revolution ).

Mayakovskaya Station

Mayakovskaya Station ranks in my top three most notable Metro stations. Mayakovskaya just feels right, done Art Deco but no sense of gaudiness or pretention.  The arches are adorned with rounded chrome piping and create feeling of being in a jukebox, but the roof’s expansive mosaics of the sky are the real showstopper.  Subjects cleverly range from looking up at a high jumper, workers atop a building, spires of Orthodox cathedrals, to nimble aircraft humming by, a fleet of prop planes spelling out CCCP in the bluest of skies.

Novoslobodskaya Station

Novoslobodskaya is the Metro’s unique stained glass station.  Each column has its own distinctive panels of colorful glass, most of them with a floral theme, some of them capturing the odd sailor, musician, artist, gardener, or stenographer in action.  The glass is framed in Art Deco metalwork, and there is the lovely aspect of discovering panels in the less frequented haunches of the hall (on the trackside, between the incoming staircases).  Novosblod is, I’ve been told, the favorite amongst out-of-town visitors.

Komsomolskaya Station

Komsomolskaya Station is one of palatial grandeur.  It seems both magnificent and obligatory, like the presidential palace of a colonial city.  The yellow ceiling has leafy, white concrete garland and a series of golden military mosaics accenting the tile mosaics of glorified Russian life.  Switching lines here, the hallway has an Alice-in-Wonderland feel, impossibly long with decorative tile walls, culminating in a very old station left in a remarkable state of disrepair, offering a really tangible glimpse behind the palace walls.

Dostoevskaya Station

Dostoevskaya is a tribute to the late, great hero of Russian literature .  The station at first glance seems bare and unimpressive, a stark marble platform without a whiff of reassembled chips of tile.  However, two columns have eerie stone inlay collages of scenes from Dostoevsky’s work, including The Idiot , The Brothers Karamazov , and Crime and Punishment.   Then, standing at the center of the platform, the marble creates a kaleidoscope of reflections.  At the entrance, there is a large, inlay portrait of the author.

Chkalovskaya Station

Chkalovskaya does space Art Deco style (yet again).  Chrome borders all.  Passageways with curvy overhangs create the illusion of walking through the belly of a chic, new-age spacecraft.  There are two (kos)mosaics, one at each end, with planetary subjects.  Transferring here brings you above ground, where some rather elaborate metalwork is on display.  By name similarity only, I’d expected Komsolskaya Station to deliver some kosmonaut décor; instead, it was Chkalovskaya that took us up to the space station.

Elektrozavodskaya Station

Elektrozavodskaya is full of marble reliefs of workers, men and women, laboring through the different stages of industry.  The superhuman figures are round with muscles, Hollywood fit, and seemingly undeterred by each Herculean task they respectively perform.  The station is chocked with brass, from hammer and sickle light fixtures to beautiful, angular framework up the innards of the columns.  The station’s art pieces are less clever or extravagant than others, but identifying the different stages of industry is entertaining.

Baumanskaya Statio

Baumanskaya Station is the only stop that wasn’t suggested by the students.  Pulling in, the network of statues was just too enticing: Out of half-circle depressions in the platform’s columns, the USSR’s proud and powerful labor force again flaunts its success.  Pilots, blacksmiths, politicians, and artists have all congregated, posing amongst more Art Deco framing.  At the far end, a massive Soviet flag dons the face of Lenin and banners for ’05, ’17, and ‘45.  Standing in front of the flag, you can play with the echoing roof.

Ploshchad Revolutsii Station

Novokuznetskaya Station

Novokuznetskaya Station finishes off this tour, more or less, where it started: beautiful mosaics.  This station recalls the skyward-facing pieces from Mayakovskaya (Station #2), only with a little larger pictures in a more cramped, very trafficked area.  Due to a line of street lamps in the center of the platform, it has the atmosphere of a bustling market.  The more inventive sky scenes include a man on a ladder, women picking fruit, and a tank-dozer being craned in.  The station’s also has a handsome black-and-white stone mural.

Here is a map and a brief description of our route:

Start at (1)Kievskaya on the “ring line” (look for the squares at the bottom of the platform signs to help you navigate—the ring line is #5, brown line) and go north to Belorusskaya, make a quick switch to the Dark Green/#2 line, and go south one stop to (2)Mayakovskaya.  Backtrack to the ring line—Brown/#5—and continue north, getting off at (3)Novosblodskaya and (4)Komsolskaya.  At Komsolskaya Station, transfer to the Red/#1 line, go south for two stops to Chistye Prudy, and get on the Light Green/#10 line going north.  Take a look at (5)Dostoevskaya Station on the northern segment of Light Green/#10 line then change directions and head south to (6)Chkalovskaya, which offers a transfer to the Dark Blue/#3 line, going west, away from the city center.  Have a look (7)Elektroskaya Station before backtracking into the center of Moscow, stopping off at (8)Baumskaya, getting off the Dark Blue/#3 line at (9)Ploschad Revolyutsii.  Change to the Dark Green/#2 line and go south one stop to see (10)Novokuznetskaya Station.

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Jonathon Engels, formerly a patron saint of misadventure, has been stumbling his way across cultural borders since 2005 and is currently volunteering in the mountains outside of Antigua, Guatemala.  For more of his work, visit his website and blog .

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Treasures of the Moscow Metro: Orange Line stations that honor the Arctic and Baltic

Medvdedkovo.

The interior decoration of Medvedkovo station is devoted to the severe and unforgiving nature of the Russian North. On the walls one sees eight metallic bas-reliefs with a polar bear on an ice floe, the hunt for snow gooses, reindeer sledding and more.

This is one of the most lavishly decorated stations on the Orange Line. The walls have 48 mosaics devoted to Russian cities that surround Moscow, including their coats of arms. Near each mosaic stands the name of the city.

There’s a large colorful mosaic of girls in traditional Russian dresses above the entrance to the platform. The image on the opposite side depicts medieval Russian horsemen and a chronicler. This image is devoted to the ancient epic Slavic poem,   The Tale of Igor's Campaign .

Botanichesky Sad

This station brings one to the largest botanical garden in Europe, and the station’s interior decoration is devoted to the topic of natural beauty. On the walls, one sees metallic bas-reliefs with simple images of flowers, apples and grapes.

Rizhskiy Railway Station is located at this metro stop. From here, trains travel to the Latvian capital. No surprise that the station, which was designed by the Soviet Latvian architects, was dedicated to that Baltic country and its capital, Riga.

The yellow and brown colors epitomize different kinds of amber that is plentiful in the Baltic Sea region. On the columns one sees images related to Latvia: Riga’s port, the Latvian Academy of Science, the Central Market (one of the largest in Europe), Old Riga and more.

Tretyakovskaya

This station leads to the famous State Tretyakov Gallery, the foremost repository of Russian fine art anywhere in the world. The station walls are decorated with the bronze bas-reliefs of Russian artists, sculptors and icon painters. Above the portal on the way to the escalators one sees a large image of the Tretyakov Gallery.

This station brings you to the famous Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDNKH) – one of the world’s largest exhibition centers. During the Soviet period it represented the best industrial achievements of all Soviet Republics. Today, it offers visitors a wide range of activities, from shopping to shows and skating, and other sport activities.

Despite its name, the station is modestly decorated. At the exit one sees a huge modern (1997) ceramic image. Made according to traditions of the Old Russian style of Gzhel, the image depicts the 19 th   century market, as well as several Russian monasteries. 

Besides Moscow and St. Petersburg, several other Russian cities have metro systems, and most stations are masterpieces of art and architecture. Find out more about them.

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