Join us Thursday, June 6, 1:00PM-2:00PM EDT, for the Guild Member Benefits Webinar and learn how you and your team can make the most of your organization's affiliation with the National Guild.

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded the Guild a $55,000 Art Works grant in support of professional development and leadership programs.

The Music Institute of Chicago will honor National Guild Trustee Kay Mabie at their annual gala on May 13.

Join us April 26 for a webcast of More Than the Sum of Its Parts: Collaboration & Sustainability in Arts Education, live from the National Opera Center in New York City.

Propose a session, topic, speaker, or site visit for the 76th annual Conference for Community Arts Education. Deadline: May 22, 2013.

April 9 is Arts Advocacy Day 2013! Even if you can't make it to Washington D.C., you can still make an impact.

Join us Friday, April 12, for Left Brain/Right Brain - One Brain/Whole Brain, a dynamic presentation by Don Marinelli at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago

We’ve launched our 2013 Benchmarking Survey and invite all Full members of the Guild to participate. We conduct this critical survey every two to three years for the benefit of our members and the field as a whole.

The board of trustees of the Incredible Children's Art Network (iCAN) announced last week that National Guild Trustee Jeffry Walker has been named executive director.

MetLife Foundation and the National Guild announce funding and training opportunities in support of arts education partnerships between community arts education providers and public schools.

Many arts education organizations rely on part-time teaching artists, but are these artist-educators employees or independent contractors? Join us for this interactive webinar to get answers!

Grants totaling more than $125,000 have been awarded to eleven nonprofit arts education organizations that will deepen and expand professionally-led arts education programs for older adults.

Strengthen your creative aging programs! Register for our Creative Aging webinars, Recruiting Older Adults and Sustaining and Deepening Your Creative Aging Programs, featuring Susan Perlstein.

Inspired by our newly released publication, Guild Associate Director Ken Cole and Big Thought President & CEO Gigi Antoni will present strategies for reaching marginalized students at several national conferences this spring.

This short video by student artist César Martinez features the perspectives of students, educators, and arts and social justice experts on the key topic of creating equitable access to arts education.

The National Guild is pleased to announce the 2013 Community Arts Education Leadership Institute (CAELI). Applications are due April 11, 2013.

Videos of sessions from the 75th annual Conference for Community Arts Education (Nov. 14-17, 2012, Dallas, TX) are now available online.

We are pleased to recognize six outstanding community arts education leaders with the National Guild's 2012 Milestone Certificate of Appreciation.

The National Guild joins other leading national associations as a founding partner of SphinxCon! Empowering Ideas for Diversity in the Arts, to be presented by The Sphinx Organization Feb 14-17, 2013 in Detroit, MI.

Kathy Davis Studios and American Greetings have chosen the National Guild as the sole recipient of royalties from a new line of cards developed to support the arts.

This December, Carol Ross, chair of the National Guild’s board of trustees, was recognized with the C. Newton Schenck Award for Lifetime Achievement in and Contribution to the Arts by The Arts Council of Greater New Haven.

The Members Council of the National Guild for Community Arts Education is pleased to welcome ten new representatives.

Our Full membership elected two new Guild trustees at our Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX  on November 13, 2012. We are pleased to welcome Jon Hinojosa and Kay Mabie.

The National Guild and Big Thought just released, "More than the Sum of Its Parts: Collaboration & Sustainability in Arts Education," written by the seasoned practitioners Thomas Wolf and Gigi Antoni.
 

Guild members Arts Corps and DreamYard Project were among this year's 12 recipients of the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards.

The Guild's 2012 Annual Meeting is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 16 in Dallas, TX. This meeting's agenda includes a vote on our 2012 board slate. Proxy forms must be received by Nov. 15.

The Guild is now accepting applications for the 2013 MetLife Foundation Creative Aging Program.

We encourage those of you whose organizations have been most affected by the storm to reach out to us so that we may determine how best to offer you our help and support.

On October 15 and 16, Guild associate director Ken Cole presented two sessions at the Grantmakers in the Arts 2012 Conference. His sessions focused on valuing nonprofit leadership in the arts and engaging adolescents.

This February, Sphinx will launch their inaugural international gathering on diversity, SphinxCon. The National Guild is pleased to be a founding partner in this historic undertaking.

On Oct. 11, for one day only, register online for the Conference for Community Arts Education at the regular registration rate! Sale will close at midnight ET.

The Guild is pleased to welcome James C. Horton as our new program director.

National Guild Executive Director Jonathan Herman has been appointed to represent the National Guild on the newly established Boys & Girls Club of America (BGCA)’s National Advisory Council for the Arts.

This week, September 9-15, is national Arts in Education Week. What are you doing to celebrate?

MetLife Foundation and the National Guild announce the 12 recipients of the MetLife Foundation Partners in Arts Education Program.
 

The National Guild will honor Marc Bamuthi Joseph with the Leadership Award at the 75th annual Conference for Community Arts Education in Dallas, TX (November 14-17, 2012).

The Community Arts Education Leadership Institute (CAELI) class of 2012 convened July 17 - 21 for an intensive, leadership development seminar at Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia, PA.

Founded in 1937, the National Guild is celebrating its 75th year as the sole service organization for community arts education providers in the United States.

The Fundraising Lab is designed to help NYC's nonprofit arts education providers raise more money! Register by June 15.

This week it was announced that the National Guild, along with many of our member organizations, are among 928 grant recipients to receive awards totaling $77.17 million.

The National Guild is now on Facebook and Twitter! Follow us to keep your finger to the pulse of the community arts education movement!

This morning, the National Endowment for the Arts announced the appointment of CAELI alum, Ayanna Hudson, to the position of director of arts education.

The National Guild for Community Arts Education has received a $275,000 grant from MetLife Foundation to continue the MetLife Foundation Partners in Arts Education Program.  

The Guild is pleased to welcome Traci Horgen as our new business manager.

The National Guild has awarded technical assistance and grants totaling more than $90,000 to nine nonprofit arts education organizations.
 

On March 2, National Guild Marketing and Communications Manager, Heather Ikemire, will participate in a forum for thought leaders invested in social justice, social change, youth development, culture and community.

April 11 is the deadline to register for the Guild's two-day training institute, Powerful Partnerships: Increasing Access to Arts Education Through Collaboration in New York City.

The National Guild's 75th annual Conference for Community Arts Education will be presented November 14-17, 2012 in Dallas, TX, and hosted by Big Thought. Mark your calendar!

The National Guild is now accepting applications to the 2012 Community Arts Education Leadership Institute (CAELI). Application deadline: March 30, 2012.

Guild Associate Director Ken Cole will advise the development of a national Creative Aging Directory created by The National Center for Aging, in cooperative agreement with the National Endowment for the Arts.

In her recent arts education resources roundup on the AFTA blog, Jessica Wilt, AFTA Arts Education Council Member, named the Conference for Community Arts Education one of five must attend events of the year!

Join top youth arts leaders from across the country---as well as young artists---to learn how to increase teen participation in high-quality arts education programs at your organization.

Executive Director Jonathan Herman has been selected to serve on the advisory board for Arts Education Policy Review (AEPR).

The Guild is partnering with Art21 to present Access ’12, global campaign providing access to contemporary art and artists through hundreds of public screenings and events.

The Guild will represent the exemplary work of its membes across the country, and address some specific interests of the field, as a National Co-Sponsor of the 25th annual Arts Advocacy Day, April 16-17, 2012.

The Engaging Adolescents Institute will be presented Friday, February 17, 2012, at the Music Center of Los Angeles County. Space is limited! Register today.

Videos of keynote addresses by Will Power and Eric Booth from our 74th annual Conference for Community Arts Education are available online.

Tom DeCaigny, CAELI faculty member and former executive director of Performing Arts Workshop, has been named cultural affairs director of the San Francisco Arts Commission.

Through the National Guild’s 74th annual Conference for Community Arts Education, arts education providers had a renewed opportunity to think strategically about how to build a strong future for arts education in America.

The MetLife Creative Aging Program has been renewed for 2012. Grants of up to $10,000 are available to support exemplary creative aging programs in 2012.  Guidelines have been posted; the application deadline is December 16.

The Guild has received a grant from the William Penn Foundation to assess the organizational capacity needs of place-based, out-of-school, arts education providers in the Greater Philadelphia region.

On Saturday, November 11, Jane Golden and Michael Yaffe were honored at the Guild's Annual Awards Luncheon at the Conference for Community Arts Education in Boston.

Award-winning playwright and performer, Will Power, and arts education leader, Eric Booth, presented this year's keynote addresses at the Guild's 74th annual Conference for Community Arts Education in Boston.

Online registration is closed, but it's not too late! Register for the Conference for Community Arts Education onsite at the Sheraton Boston beginning November 9.

MetLife Foundation and the National Guild for Community Arts Education have awarded grants totaling $215,000 to 12 nonprofit arts education organizations that will partner with K-12 public schools.

This is your chance to share your students' work with hundreds of arts education leaders coming to Boston for the National Guild's 74th annual Conference for Community Arts Education.

Funds remain available and we will be accepting applications on a rolling basis until September 16th, or when funds become exhausted.  Don't miss this opportunity, apply now!

Guild Executive Director, Jonathan Herman, participates in America's Imagination Summit, the first national gathering on the place of imagination in education, at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Participants in the second annual Community Arts Education Leadership Institute (CAELI) convened July 12-16 at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Our new site combines enhanced information about current programs and services with new opportunities for networking and engagement.

The National Guild has joined with colleague national organizations to urge support of the 21st Century Readiness Act (S. 1175).

Registration is now open for our 74th annual conference, November 9-12, in Boston!

The National Guild has been awarded $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in the funding category "Access to Artistic Excellence."

The Guild has joined the Policy Council of the California Alliance for Arts Education, the leading policy and advocacy organization working to strengthen arts education in the state.

A new publication from the Guild, Engaging Adolescents: Building Youth Participation in the Arts--available free online--shares strategies for involving teens in your programs and organizations.