Explore Membership in
the Collective for Art & Design Education
Good company. Useful tools. A little chalk dust.
Join the Chalk and Compass Collective for Art & Design Education member community: a place for people working in art and design higher education to exchange ideas, find practical resources, and connect with others who understand the work.
Keep the heart. Expand the possibilities.
Art and design education holds much worth carrying forward: experimentation, close mentorship, critical dialogue, and the space to develop a creative voice.
Its future also asks something of us. How can our teaching, structures, and opportunities respond to the lives students lead today? What can we learn across campuses and across the roles that too often keep us apart?
The Collective for Art & Design Education makes space for that work, grounded in care for creative education and curiosity about what it can become.
Creative education moves forward through its people.
Join a membership community for the people who teach, learn, work, and lead in art and design higher education.
Your community beyond campus.
You might be developing a course, finding your footing as a new faculty member, navigating an institutional challenge, or imagining a different future for creative education. Somewhere, someone is asking similar questions and someone else has experience that could help.
The Collective for Art & Design Education brings faculty, students, staff, and administrators together across institutions, disciplines, and career stages. It is a place to build relationships, exchange practical knowledge, and turn shared questions into possibilities.
What we can build together.
Meaningful connections
Meet peers, mentors, and collaborators who understand the particular rewards and challenges of art and design education.
Practical support
Exchange ideas, explore resources, and learn from how others approach teaching, creative practice, research, careers, and institutional life.
Conversations that move us forward
Make room for honest questions about what creative education makes possible, whom it serves, and how it needs to evolve.
Opportunities to contribute
Share your work, offer your experience, bring forward a challenge, or help someone take their next step. Every member has something to contribute.
Different roles. A shared investment.
For department chairs
Find colleagues beyond your department. Exchange teaching approaches, explore collaborations, and support the relationship between your academic work and creative practice.
For faculty
Build connections beyond your school. Bring your perspective into conversations about education, explore possible pathways, and meet people you can learn alongside.
For staff and administrators
Connect with peers who understand your work. Share approaches, consider challenges together, and stay connected to the experiences of the people your decisions affect.
Help shape our Collective from the beginning.
We’re gathering a founding community of people who want to connect, contribute, and help build a useful home for exchange in art and design higher education.
Bring your experience, your questions, and your ideas for what’s missing.
Teach. Learn. Connect. Shape what comes next.
Our Memberships
Founding rates only available until December 1, 2026
As a founding member, you gain access to reports, accompanying worksheets, sharable PDFs, member meet-ups (virtual and in-person), course discounts, weekly community topics, and a Chalk and Compass swag kit.
Unlock a higher level of access by upgrading to our founding VIP membership. Enjoy all the perks of a club member, plus additional content and 1-1 access with a member of the Chalk and Compass Consulting Team 1 hour per month (typical cost $750 each).