January 15, 2009

Dear NAEA Members and Friends,

Welcome to the NAEA Aspen Summit Web Site!

We will soon be moving the materials from this site to the main NAEA site at www.arteducators.org.  At that time, we will be adding a range of exciting new materials to promote NAEA's ongoing conversation about the arts. 

Over this past year, the NAEA Board of Directors and other NAEA leaders have been engaged in strategic conversations in an effort to distill the collective voice and core messages for the field and the profession. In Aspen, visual arts leaders and critical friends of the arts convened for two days of discussion.  Now, we need you to participate!

The agenda, the reading materials, the biographies of participants and presentations from our Aspen meeting are still here for you to review. (Click on the Agenda and Session Materials button in the left-hand Navigation Bar.)  Again, we are at work now, preparing to post video and audio from the Aspen Summit addressing a range of important topics for the visual arts. We will use these to spark a number of discussions within the association in 2009.

We hope you will be interested in joining these important discussions.

Sincerely,

Bonnie Rushlow
President

Deborah Reeve
Executive Director