Adding Voices Conference - Reimagining the Field: Talking Back, Pouring In, & Bearing Witness

Adding Voices creates conferences and workshops that are intentionally committed to equity, social justice, and inclusion in teaching, learning, and building community for art educators who are Black, Brown, Indigenous, or part of the Global Majority. The purpose of these conferences is to provide a safe space for leadership, rejuvenation, and professional development for art educators, teaching artists, and arts professionals.

Adding Voices aims to equip art educators at every level--from pre-service teachers to higher ed, administrators to board members--with knowledge and skills in liberatory practices, centering anti-bias and anti-racist frameworks in art education.

While affinity spaces within larger art education conferences exist, Adding Voices is the only national event that explicitly centers the experiences and expertise of art educators who identify as Black, Brown, Indigenous, or part of the Global Majority, while prioritizing the need for anti-racist and culturally responsive practices at every level of education.