Telling Our Story: 2026 National Arts in Education Conference
March 25-27, 2026
Washington, D.C | The Westin Washington, D.C. City Center
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This spring, our flagship national conference lands in the nation’s capital. Telling Our Story will focus on the power of narrative: how we craft it, share it, and use it to deepen and expand arts learning. Together, we will explore how stories resonate across constituencies, build relationships, shape shared understandings, and reveal the true impact of our work.
Join us as we come together to write the next chapter of arts education, where policy meets purpose, and where every voice helps shape the story.
About Our National Conferences
Young Audiences Arts for Learning’s National Arts in Education Conference brings together arts education professionals and practitioners from around the country. Presented every other spring by Young Audiences Arts for Learning (YA) in partnership with a local YA affiliate, each conference explores a themed related to arts education through breakout sessions, keynote addresses, site visits, and other activities.
Our National Conferences aim to serve diverse constituents who are interested in the arts in education field the local, state, and national levels. Conference participants include nonprofit administrators and executive leadership, teaching artists, teachers, higher education faculty, and others from the field engaged in improving student access to the arts and arts learning.
Click here for a list of past YA National Conferences.
