Where creative minds meet to shape the future of art education.
Driven by curiosity and built on collaboration, our symposium unites experts to explore innovative practices and creative solutions for a more sustainable and peaceful society.
Connecting Minds, Cultivating Futures
Our Symposiums offer a dynamic platform for art educators, researchers, and practitioners to come together, explore innovative teaching practices, and exchange ideas on the evolving role of art in education. The event fosters meaningful connections and inspires creative solutions to challenges in art education by featuring expert-led presentations, collaborative workshops, and engaging discussions. In addition, explorations will be beyond traditional art education spaces to foster creativity, empowerment and human well-being for all in society.
Furthermore, we aim to provide an open space for communication that bridges generations—from early-career to seasoned professionals—and facilitates the global sharing of diverse regional initiatives to cultivate a truly connected international community.
Upcoming Event
International Symposium on Art Education in Higher & Vocational Teaching 2026
Saturday, 12 September 2026
17:00 pm – 19:30 pm (GMT+9) | Online via Zoom
Overview
The International Symposium on Art Education in Higher & Vocational Teaching 2026 brings together educators, artists, researchers, students, and community practitioners from around the world to share and discuss emerging practices, research, and perspectives in art education.
While the symposium title highlights higher and vocational teaching, presentations are welcomed from a wide range of educational and community contexts, including early childhood education, primary and secondary education, higher education, teacher education, lifelong learning, museums, galleries, community arts initiatives, and other informal learning environments.
The symposium provides an open international forum for exchanging ideas, experiences, and knowledge about the evolving possibilities of art education. Through dialogue across diverse cultural, social, and educational settings, participants will explore how art education can contribute to creativity, inclusion, well-being, social engagement, and innovation in contemporary society.
We particularly welcome presentations that address current opportunities and challenges in the field, including inclusive and disability-related art education, community-based practice, intercultural learning, arts-based research, digital technologies, AI-supported learning, and other emerging approaches. Most importantly, the symposium seeks to create a space where participants can collectively reflect on the future of art education and learn from one another's experiences and insights.
Topics and approaches may include
We invite proposals from educators, researchers, artists, students, and community practitioners whose work engages with any aspect of art education, creative learning, or arts-based practice.
Presentations may report on:
・Educational practice and teaching innovations
・Research projects and findings
・Arts-based research and creative inquiry
・Community and socially engaged art initiatives
・Inclusive and disability-related art education
・Digital, online, and AI-supported learning environments
・Cross-cultural and international collaborations
・Other topics relevant to art education and creative learning
Contributors from all educational sectors and professional backgrounds are warmly encouraged to participate.
Registration
• Presentation can be registered at this site.
• Details of the presentation schedule and zoom link will be sent via email after all presentations have registered.
Registration Fee
• Professional ticket with presentation: 6000JPY
• Student ticket with presentation: 4000JPY
• Viewer/audience without presentation: Free
Deadline
Presenter Registration：Tuesday, 8 September 2026, 23:59 JST (GMT+9)
Abstract Submission：Thursday, 10 September 2026, 23:59 JST (GMT+9)
Auditor Registration：Friday, 11 September 2026, 23:59 JST (GMT+9)
Presentation Guidelines
・15-minute presentation, 5-minute Q&A
・English-language delivery
・Presentations will be delivered online
・Presenters may optionally consent to the recording of their presentation for post-event educational sharing
Download/Upload Conference Materials
Programme (coming soon)
Zoom Link and ID/PSW
Presenters will receive detailed information about the presentation schedule and Zoom link once submissions have been finalised.
Keynote Guest Presenter
"Learning to Curate" to "Curating to Learn": Curatorial Education in Taiwan
Hsin-Yi Chao, Ph.D, Associate Professor, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Hsin-Yi Chao, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Program of Digital Humanities and Creative Industries at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. She has been the chairperson of the Asian Regional Council since 2025. Her research focuses on curatorial education, museum studies, digital humanities, inclusive art education, and multisensory accessibility. Drawing on her professional experience at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, she explores how project/problem-based learning, digital technologies, and generative AI can transform curating from exhibition-making into an interdisciplinary and socially engaged learning practice.