FORT WAYNE, Ind. – The National Art Education Association has selected Jody Nix to receive the 2019 Indiana Art Educator award.
Nix is the University of Saint Francis Program Director of Art Education and Pre-Art Therapy, and serves as an assistant professor.
The award honors an outstanding member from each state or province association whose service and contribution to art education merits recognition and acclaim. The award will be presented at the NAEA National Convention March 14-16 in Boston, Mass.
“This award is being given to recognize excellence in professional accomplishment and service by a dedicated art educator,” NAEA Present Kim Huyler Defibaugh said. “Jody Nix exemplifies the highly qualified art educators active in education today: leaders, teachers, students, scholars, and advocated who give their best to their students and the profession.”
NAEA is the professional association for art educators. Members include elementary, secondary, middle level and high school art educators; university and college professors; education directors who oversee education in our nation’s fine art museums, administrators and supervisors who oversee art education in school districts, state departments of education, art councils; and teaching artists throughout the United States and many foreign countries.
For more information, about the association and its awards program, visit the NAEA website at www.arteducators.org.
Founded in 1890 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition, the University of Saint Francis offers more than 70 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs through the School of Health Sciences, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Keith Busse School of Business and Entrepreneurial Leadership and School of Creative Arts. In addition to its traditional programs, USF designs focused curricula for working adults in Fort Wayne, Crown Point and online. USF Downtown houses the university’s business and music technology programs while offering enhanced internship and networking opportunities for students. The University of Saint Francis campus experience includes 16 athletic programs boasting two individual and four team NAIA national championships, and is recognized as an NAIA Five-Star Champion of Character institution. Approximately 2,200 students from a broad geographic region attend USF.