What is ED&I:
For the purposes of consistency and to align with NAEA's definitions so that our work will be fully supported by NAEA's ED&I's Commission, I will site their definitions:
Equity: Refers to conditions that support fairness and justness based on individual needs and circumstances whereas all members have opportunities to thrive and realize their best within the NAEA community (adopted December 2017).
Diversity: The term ‘diversity’ describes both observable and non-observable individual differences (life experiences, work context, learning and working styles, personality types among others) and group/social differences (race, gender identity and expression, age, social class, country of origin, ability, beliefs, intellectual and cultural perspectives, among others) that can contribute to organizational vibrancy and a dynamic professional community.
Inclusion: The term ‘inclusion’ describes proactive, intentional, and thoughtful engagement with diversity to the extent that all have the ability to contribute fully and effectively throughout the NAEA community."
For the purposes of consistency and to align with NAEA's definitions so that our work will be fully supported by NAEA's ED&I's Commission, I will site their definitions:
Equity: Refers to conditions that support fairness and justness based on individual needs and circumstances whereas all members have opportunities to thrive and realize their best within the NAEA community (adopted December 2017).
Diversity: The term ‘diversity’ describes both observable and non-observable individual differences (life experiences, work context, learning and working styles, personality types among others) and group/social differences (race, gender identity and expression, age, social class, country of origin, ability, beliefs, intellectual and cultural perspectives, among others) that can contribute to organizational vibrancy and a dynamic professional community.
Inclusion: The term ‘inclusion’ describes proactive, intentional, and thoughtful engagement with diversity to the extent that all have the ability to contribute fully and effectively throughout the NAEA community."
MAEA Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility (DEI&A) Mission Statement:
The Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility (DEI&A) Committee of the Montana Art Education Association is committed to ensuring that all students are heard, seen, and represented with full accessibility and a sense of belonging in our PreK through graduate-level art classrooms. Our purpose is to empower art learners through supporting practitioners with information and strategies to efficaciously develop student-relevant environments and engagements with equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.
MAEA Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility (DEI&A) Objectives:
As a committee dedicated to advocating for and supporting education in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, we commit to:
The Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility (DEI&A) Committee of the Montana Art Education Association is committed to ensuring that all students are heard, seen, and represented with full accessibility and a sense of belonging in our PreK through graduate-level art classrooms. Our purpose is to empower art learners through supporting practitioners with information and strategies to efficaciously develop student-relevant environments and engagements with equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.
MAEA Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility (DEI&A) Objectives:
As a committee dedicated to advocating for and supporting education in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, we commit to:
- Providing DEI&A resources for PreK-graduate-level art and art education instructors
- Offering trainings applicable to state-relevant cultural competency needs, including IEFA
- Effectuating policies and policy changes that will articulate the diversified perspectives, needs, and ideas of historically marginalized and silenced Montana students, staff, and faculty
State ED&I Committee Chair:
Mara Pierce, Billings State ED&I Committee Members: Michael Cassens, Missoula Jennifer Combe, Missoula Elizabeth Fisher, Billings Cortni Harant, Great Falls Tess Jacobs, Great Falls Casey O'Malley, Billings Caitlin Shelman, Missoula Want to learn more?
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Mara was born in Maine, but spent most of her life moving to diverse locations. She spent her first few years in California, then her school-age years in Texas. After finishing high school in Houston, she attended the University of Texas in Austin, TX for one year. However, she left school before finishing her first year and returned to work in Houston, then went to work behind the scenes in film in Hollywood, CA. She returned to school to earn her Associate of Fine Arts with a concentration in Photography and then began her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in Illustration and Design at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. Before graduating, She returned to Hollywood to continue to learn about filmmaking, but did so in front of the camera. Concurrently, she worked as an illustrator, graphic & website designer, winning the LA Times Best User Interface award for website design in 2002. In 2003, she moved to New Mexico and began teaching Art, English, and Adult Education at a Tribal college on the Navajo Nation Indian Reservation. In 2006, she finally completed her BFA. In 2007, she began her graduate work at the University of New Mexico where she focused on Art Education and American Indian Education, specifically culturally responsive inclusion in the art classroom, and earned an additional eighteen graduate credits in 2-dimensional studio art (printmaking and drawing). She graduated with her PhD from the University of Arizona in 2015 having focused on Art and Visual Culture Education, with a doctoral minor in American Indian Studies/Education. She continues to create intermedia printmaking artwork as a method for collecting data. For her most recent exhibition, she investigated how the Indian Education for All policy could be interpreted for better utilization by Montana's art teachers.
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NAEA has created a wide-ranging and flexible repository of multimedia resources, readings, and materials that support the commitment of visual arts education professionals in grappling with interpersonal and societal issues that still impact oppressed communities in the field. A key recommendation from the NAEA Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (ED&I) Task Force is to create space intended to support the ongoing learning of educators at all stages of their discovery of personal and collective agency to counter oppressive practices and structures in the art classroom and in the community, now and into the future.
This site is organized into four sections to facilitate the development of ED&I awareness, aptitudes, sense, and sensibilities, regardless of where you are on the journey. The nexus of offering a sequential and cumulative repository of resources is to self-gauge where you are in your journey of deep reflective work.
The NAEA ED&I Hub is open to everyone. We invite you to engage with your visual arts, design, and media arts education community and this growing collection of resources here!
Connect to the ED&I Hub Here and See the video from NAEA President, Wanda B. Knight,
This site is organized into four sections to facilitate the development of ED&I awareness, aptitudes, sense, and sensibilities, regardless of where you are on the journey. The nexus of offering a sequential and cumulative repository of resources is to self-gauge where you are in your journey of deep reflective work.
The NAEA ED&I Hub is open to everyone. We invite you to engage with your visual arts, design, and media arts education community and this growing collection of resources here!
Connect to the ED&I Hub Here and See the video from NAEA President, Wanda B. Knight,