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11th Annual AERI Symposium

School of Art | University of Arkansas

1-3 October 2026

Fayetteville, Arkansas

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS for the 11th Annual Symposium

Please download the CFP for the AERI Symposium here.

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AERI Proposal Development Webinar

For information on developing your proposal for the AERI symposium, please watch this webinar.​

About AERI

The Art Education Research Institute (AERI) supports critical, systematic, empirical, and theoretical research and scholarship, which addresses key intellectual and practical issues in the field of art education.  AERI seeks to promote a broad range of rigorous research practices and methodologies drawn from the arts, humanities, and social sciences to improve inquiry related to teaching and learning in and through the visual arts.

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The Art Education Research Institute (AERI), an autonomous, non-profit, and virtual institute comprised of higher educators actively involved in the production of research and scholarship in visual arts education that takes a position against racism, sexism, classism, ableism, and other systems of oppression. AERI is committed to examining and actively challenging the many socio-cultural, institutional, and interpersonal ways that discrimination occurs. Moreover, AERI is committed to continuous reflection on inclusive practices in the design, implementation, presentation of research, participation in programs, symposia or in the publication and distribution of materials associated with AERI’s mission.