Our goal as art educators is to bring quality standards-based art programs to our schools. We invite you to join this outstanding organization of educators:

 

    * To broaden and enrich your own professional expertise

    * To network with other art educators.

    * To enhance art education in the schools of South Dakota.

 

Art Education Advocacy

 

Supporting the arts and art educators is of utmost importance. SDAEA is striving to protect the creative spirit of today's children and to develop networks with other art organizations in the State with the same goal.

Involvement

If you are an art educator or involved in art education in South Dakota. Sign up on our state list serve to receive send and messages involving art in South Dakota. The listserv is provided for us on this website http://www.k12.sd.us click on “K-12 Listservs”  then select “Art Educators List” scroll down to the bottom to put in your name and email address.

Promote art from your classroom by sending digital .jpgs of your students work to our Youth Art

Month regional representative.

 

If you live north of I-90 and east of the James river your representative is Barbara Miller, barbara.miller@k13.sd.us.

 

Our regional representative for the South East is Midge Zimmerman Marjorie.Zimmerman@k12.sd.us.

 

We don’t have regional representatives for the North West or the South West of our state. So your entries go directly to our State Chariperson, Lois Beckner. Lois.Beckner@aberdeen.sd.us.

 

Interested in being a regional prepresentative for YAM contact Lois.Beckner@aberdeen.sd.us. We’ld love to have you involved.