PARTNER WITH NAMAE!

The National Association for Media Arts Education

DO YOU SUPPORT ALL STUDENTS TO PRODUCE AND ANALYZE MEDIA ARTS? PLEASE JOIN OUR ALLIANCE!

Media Arts is an emergent K-12 arts content area, now initiated through standards in 40 states, which supports student production across photo, video, animation, sound, graphics, 3D design, AI, and XR, game design, web design, etc.  These powerful, relevant, and engaging forms are rarely taught in schools. Less than 2% of K-12 students nationally have access to media arts courses!

NAMAE intends to:

• Increase media arts programs across US K12 education 

• Support hundreds of existing and new media arts educators with vital professional development, collegial networks, innovative projects, and supporting resources

• Positively impact the lives of millions of students with engaging, interdisciplinary projects and progressive methods

• Develop high quality national standards, curricula, and instructional models

• Support states, districts and schools with resources, expertise, and advocacy

• Form an alliance of media art associated organizations (art, edu, industry, gaming, VR, etc.)

• Advance education into 21st century relevant, student-centered models

WHY? Media Arts is the basis of our society’s digital communications, designs, and social interactivity. They are how we know about, interact with, and design our world. These production skills and media literacies are essential to preparing all students for the 21st Century!

These forms are also creatively unlimited in capacity allowing students to design, construct, and simulate any product, presentation, or experience imaginable, and incorporate all arts and core contents in engaging and dynamic projects. Media arts is an exciting gateway to STEM!

BENEFITS FOR STUDENTS AND SCHOOLS INCLUDE:

• Creatively unlimited physical/virtual multimodal laboratories and tools – the ultimate makerspace

• A hub discipline that dissolves silos between subjects, for integrated, transdisciplinary learning

• Comprehensive range of 21st century skill sets and competencies

• Critical literacies across media, technology and digital culture

• Increased access for all learners to core academic content and processes (e.g. Special Education, English Language Learners, socio-economically disadvantaged)

• Increased outreach and interactions between learners, schools and communities

• Real world learning, school to work connections and pathways, and creative workforce preparation

• An accessible, democratizing art form that reflects contemporary ideas, capacities and culture

• Increased learner engagement, self-direction, deeper learning, and cultural empowerment

• Integrates and complements AI with embodied, project-based, social, ethical, contextually rich learning

Our History

• 1990’s - Media arts was initially developed in Minnesota’s Perpich Center

• 2006-10 - LAUSD established media arts through standards, curricula and 8 regional model middle and high school programs; 150 media arts teachers were identified

• 2010-14 - The Media Arts Committee oversaw development of National Media Arts Standards (NMAS) in collaboration with National Coalition for Core Arts Standards

• 2014 - Present - 39 states have adopted NMAS, and begun developing programs

• 2018 - 2024 - Media Arts Committee begins the National Initiative for Media Arts Education, connecting educators and supporters, initiating research, development

• 2024 - National Association for Media Arts Education is incorporated under fiscal sponsorship with Young Audiences, and the National Coalition for Arts Standards

Prioritized NAMAE Startup Components:

• Startup funding for basic organizational development - e.g. communications, financial, operations and project management - $15k

• 2 part-time employees - run the organization and advance systemic objectives - $20k

• Interns - $5k

• Media & Communications - $5k

• Website - $10k

• PD packages and online PLCs - $10k

• Development across content, curricula, courses, professional development, post-secondary 10k

• Branding marketing - $10k

• Fundraising - Grassroots, Crowdsourcing, Gala/Festival - $5k

• Scale-up - Development/lobbying across educational/state/community systems -  $10k

• Webcast production - $5k

• Host Online Convention 2025 - $15k 

• Research - what is out there that is working? Support, highlight and expand on - $5k

• National Media Arts Standards Development $20k

Proposed Annual Operational Budget – $100,000

PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

We are forming an Alliance of associated media arts organizations to support and advance this effort (edu, media, arts, industry, non-profit, civic and social). Do you support students to produce media arts? PLEASE JOIN OUR ALLIANCE!

The following example projects would recruit media arts educators to work with core subject teachers in collaborative, interdisciplinary projects:.

• Democracy & Journalism/Media Literacy - News video project and exhibition

• National Science Video Competition - “The Science of Climate Change”

• 3D Urban Sustainable Design - Utilize a game engine platform to redesign local environments based on UNESCO Principles and local planning guidelines 

• Transmedia Campaign for Mental Well Being - Create the variety of media to promote mental health, digital literacies, critical analysis and civic engagement and values

SPONSORING OPPORTUNITIES:

Any denomination is welcome to support, scale-up, develop and advance media arts education.

• GOLD SPONSOR - $20,000 - Logo on website, all communications, all events

• SILVER SPONSOR - $10,000 - Logo on website and all communications

• BRONZE SPONSOR $5,000 -  Logo on website

• SUPPORTING SPONSOR - $1,000 - Logo in a specific event, project, or communication - webinar, newsletter, fundraising campaign, exhibition, convention, video project

Contact:

Dain Olsen, President & CEO, NAMAE - admin@mediaartsedu.org