2024-2025
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WAEA Presents...
Crossing the Threshold: The Hero in You Saturday, Sept. 20th, 2025 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (PST) 1.5 CLOCK HOURS AVAILABLE for WAEA members Zoom Link HERE! Use this Link here to apply for WAEA Clock Hours AFTER THE ZOOM WORKSHOP This workshop guides you through an abbreviated Hero’s Journey using storytelling, reflection, and simple drawing. Through four key stages—Ordinary World, Threshold, Cave, and Golden Lesson—you’ll explore your own story of transformation in a safe, supportive space. We blend live story sharing with gentle creative prompts to help you reframe challenges as meaningful growth. Leave with fresh insight, renewed connection, and a golden takeaway to carry forward. No experience necessary—just bring paper, a pen, and your willingness to explore. Materials: paper, pens - your favorite color set, paints if you desire. |
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Diana Carson-Walker, WAEA member, has approached story from many directions in life including: computer programming (stories of how people use their computer), natural resources (stories are where change and education happen), acting (stage and film), and writing. She currently lives in Spokane, WA, bringing stories into community for healing and reconnection as co-founder of The Finding Human Project nonprofit. She has explored the natural world through a BS and an MS in Environmental Science, and Story through an MA in Professional Acting. In the UK, she worked on multiple projects and formats for story: community-created theatre, professionally written theatre, original films, and apps/games. She has presented to academic audiences, taught several years of movement in martial arts, and taught story and embodiment techniques workshops for workers in high-burnout positions. With Finding Human Project, she served as Artists in Residence at West Central Abbey (Spokane, WA), co-wrote and directed a community theatre piece ("Hope in River City"), collaborated to create a Hero's Journey training for educators, and worked to discover and record stories of people served at a local food bank, to inform a local mural creation.
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Unlocking Funding for Your Visual Arts Program: Leveraging Federal and State Resources to Enhance Arts Education
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 | 7–8pm ET (4:00-5:00 PST) FREE for WAEA/NAEA members; $49 for nonmembers In response to the U.S. Department of Education’s renewed commitment to arts education, this informative webinar will provide public school visual arts educators with strategies to unlock federal and state funding sources for enhancing their arts programs. Join us to explore how federal provisions under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), IDEA, and Perkins V can support well-rounded, equity-focused arts education in your school.
Participants will learn how Title I, Title II, and Title IV funds can be allocated to strengthen arts programming, from integrating arts with core subjects to providing dedicated resources for English learners and students with disabilities. The webinar will also cover the new Assistance for Arts Education (AAE) discretionary grant program, which offers opportunities to fund professional development, instructional materials, and arts-based educational programming. Free for WAEA members! Register here. You can also watch online once posted for pd credit and apply for WAEA Clock Hours with Completion Certificate from NAEA. Use this Link here to apply for WAEA Clock Hours (up to 30 a year from NAEA Virtual events) |
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Every Month the NAEA
offers Virtual Workshops. The WAEA offers WA State Clock hours for these workshops. *There is a maximum of 30 NAEA Virtual Workshop hours WAEA will honor per year (Oct-Oct is our clock hour year) Please see the NAEA list of Virtual Workshops. You can watch them live or they are viewable after. Use the clock hour request form above to request clock hours for these NEAE workshops (up to 30 per year). You will need to upload the NAEA transcript provided as a certificate of completion for each session. See form for details. *note: Open Studio Sessions are not available for Clock Hours. Tons of Professional Development Learning for WAEA members to access! |
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