March 26 - 30
Hilton New Orleans Riverside
2 Poydras Street
New Orleans, LA 70140
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
900 Convention Center Blvd.
New Orleans, LA 70130
Electronic registration is now closed, on-site enrollment will be available
Download Exhibitor Prospectus
Exhibitor Prospectus [PDF]
Download Encouragement Letter
Encouragement Letter
NAEA and e-Portfolios
This year we've invited a preview group of presenters to create e-Portfolios as a visual supplement to their session descriptions. You can find speaker bios, photos, handouts and other materials for these individuals. You can search all sessions via the "Speakers/Agenda" menu option above. If a presenter has uploaded additional information, you'll see a "View e-Portfolio" link next to his or her name. If you'd like to browse through just the e-Portfolios, please click here.
Please remember to check back here during and after the convention! We're offering support and training sessions for all speakers to upload materials that will remain available after the convention as a reference.
The NAEA Annual Convention
The NAEA annual convention provides substantive professional development services that include the advancement of knowledge in all sessions, events, and activities for the purpose of improving visual arts instruction in American schools. As such, it is the world's largest art education convention.
The five-day convention includes over 1,000 participatory workshops, panels, seminars for job-alike groups . . . research reports, discussions, exhibits, and tours . . . keynote addresses by world-acclaimed educators, artists, researchers, and scholars . . . a once-a-year opportunity to meet in a major American city and meet colleagues from all over the world.
Each year some 140 to 200 exhibitor booths displaying the latest art textbooks, high-tech software, prints, slides, curriculum materials, equipment, and programs, as well as the latest studio and art history media are made available for examination and review to art educator delegates. It is a professional development opportunity to update yourself on the vista of state-of-the-art materials to advance visual art instruction in your program.
All NAEA sessions and events are 100% content-oriented and substantively based. There are no NAEA non-content functions such as golf, sight-seeing, shopping tours and the like. Sessions are scheduled from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. every day.
How To Attend
NAEA convention planning starts several years out. The annual convention is always held in the spring, usually in late March to late April. Information about the site, hotels, etc., may be found in summer and fall issues of NAEA News.
If you wish to be a presenter at the convention, proposals can be submitted electronically via the proposal form above. Deadline for submitting is June 30th.
A preliminary convention schedule is published in a special edition of NAEA News and is usually circulated in November/December prior to the convention.