EIU Art Education & Community Arts

09/08/2025

EIU Art Ed is excited to announce that enrollment is still open for this year's *FREE* Art Mix after-school program for students in grades 6-12. Please share with any eager young artists who are looking to learn some fun new things and sharpen their skills! The program will run on Tuesday afternoons (9/23 - 10/21) from 3:45 - 5:30pm. Please reach out if you have any questions, and share with any young artists you may know!

Thank you for your interest in joining Art Mix, and exciting after-school art experience for artists in grades 6-12 this fall at Tarble Arts Center. Registration is completely free, but please answer some questions for us if you wish to attend. If you have any questions about the program, feel free....

10/02/2024

Hope you'll join us this March for the 38th annual Media & Methods conference!

10/02/2024

We're proud to annouce that the 2025 Media & Methods conference is on its' way! We'd love for you to join us on March 8th, 2025 for a day full of artmaking and networking with art educators across our region and beyond. If you're interested in attending, please mark your calendar and our registration page will be open soon!

If you'd like to submit a workshop proposal, please fill out this simple form. We'd love for you to share what amazing things you've been up to in your classroom!

EIU's Art Education program and the School of Extended Learning is proud to announce the 38th Annual Media & Methods Conference, to be hosted on Saturday, March 8th, 2025! Media & Methods is proud to highlight the exciting art lessons and learning activities being put into practice by teachers acros...

08/26/2024

Excited to announce that registration for Art Mix, our annual after-school program hosted at Tarble Arts Center is back for another year this October! If you have a student who is interested in art and would love to spend some time in the museum, we'd love to have them join!

Feel free to reach out to Dr. Brad Olson ([email protected]) for any questions, and definitely share if you can!

Registration form:
https://forms.gle/F1jCzrzMuzG936k1A

03/06/2024

Shout out to Senior Art Ed student, Isabella Gullotta, for putting together a phenomenal showcase of her work in our Glenn Hild Student Gallery this week! Isabella is planning to student teach in the fall, and no doubt has a bright future as an art educator ahead!

10/09/2023

We are excited to announce the return of Media & Methods! Please save the date to join us on Saturday, March 9th, 2024 for an exciting and enlightening day of art-making and networking with teachers across our state and beyond!

Enrollment to attend will be open soon! In the meantime, we are still accepting proposals for sessions, which come with some added perks. If you have a great art lesson you'd love to share with other art educators, please take a few minutes and fill out our proposal form:

https://forms.gle/kEbXAarPhKpi29QN6

Looking forward to seeing many friendly faces at IAEA - Illinois Art Education Association's 75th Annual State Conference next week!

09/21/2023

Our biggest congratulations to EIU MA in Art Education alum and talented teacher Merry Lanker for being named IAEA - Illinois Art Education Association’s Junior High/Middle Level Art Educator of the Year! Merry is beyond talented and has such a positive impact on her students at Stephen Decatur Middle School, and this honor is well deserved!

08/17/2023

Excited to announce the third year of our Art Mix afterschool art experience, hosted by Tarble Arts Center and instructed by EIU Art Education majors! If you know an aspiring young artist in Grades 6-12 in the Charleston area, please pass along!

Follow this link for easy enrollment, open now: https://forms.gle/HQ8BLtwUD78XE2zm7