IGAEA--International Graphic Arts Education Association

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Comment by A. Thomas Loch on May 23, 2011 at 12:18pm

The IGAEA is a great group for educators to join. You can connect with other graphic arts educators to learn and share, and become a better educator in your program.

The IGAEA has an Annual Conference, and in 2011, it is in Reno, Nevada.
Check out the website for this conference at:
http://www.igaea.org/conferences/2011

For more information on the IGAEA, visit:
http://www.igaea.org 

 

Comment by shaun dudek on February 16, 2010 at 11:19am

I logged in today and invited many new teachers to apply for the Paul Von-Holtz Incentive Award. If you become a new member in 2010 for IGAEA, and attend the 85th Annual Conference, I will personally reimburse you $5 for part of your IGAEA membership dues. I truly believe in this association, and there is nothing better than meeting with colleagues from across the country at our annual. I look forward to hearing from you!
Kindest regards,
Shaun Dudek, President IGAEA
www.IGAEA.org
Professor, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
www.cod.edu/gat

Comment by Jesus J. Rodriguez on March 7, 2009 at 10:52am

The International Graphic Arts Education Association has a rich and traditional history. It has played an important role over the years in the scope and direction that graphic arts education has taken to get here.

Today, the challenges are many, more complex and with possibly dire consequences. The economy today will impact in such a way that it will create issues that, although important, are being driven by the lack of funds and in some cases simply the easiest way to deal with reduced funding.

We find ourselves, as educators, at the end of a process that is very much driven by numbers [lack of students and lack of dollars] and at the end of the day, because of the perception that ours is an industry in decline, the existing programs will continue to decline.

Ours is not an industry in decline, ours is an industry in constant flux because of the technological changes impacting it. This can be a positive challenge and can be explored but the industry, the educators and the manufacturers and suppliers need to have a common voice to present one image of the industry and the potential that it has.

As for IGAEA it is a mirror of the current status of the industry, it is a mirror of the issues that administrators in education are having to deal with. IGAEA will survive, the industry will survive and graphic arts education will survive.

For all that I have mentioned there are exemptions.

What do you think?