Kathryn D’Elia is Featured Artist in the National Art Education Association Exhibition

Kathryn D’Elia, Visual Arts Instructor and Gallery Coordinator

December 16, 2024

Kathryn D’Elia, Studio Arts Chair and Visual Arts Instructor, is a featured artist in the National Art Education Association (NAEA) Exhibition. NAEA is showcasing artwork from art educators throughout the world in an online, juried exhibition located on the Association’s website. The exhibit will run from November 19, 2024 through April 25, 2025.

The exhibit features artworks created by NAEA’s vibrant professional community of visual arts educators, highlighting a portion of the tremendous skill and vision of members worldwide. In addition to being art educators, many NAEA members are exhibiting artists as well. In its call for submissions, NAEA received 433 works from 29 states, Canada, South Korea, and Vietnam. Jurors selected 82 works for the virtual exhibition. Only two art educators from Minnesota, including D’Elia, were selected.

Kathryn D’Elia is a practicing local artist creating dramatic, semi-abstract oil paintings of manipulated biological forms. She is a champion for strong drawing and painting skills and conceptual thinking. She has been teaching for several years at The University of Washington, Artistry, and at Perpich, all while also supporting Minnesota non-profits. She earned her BFA from Flagler College in Florida and her MFA from The University of Washington. She is originally from Jacksonville, Florida. Kathryn is very excited to get to work with Perpich students to foster the creation of well thought-out and well realized 2-d projects.

Founded in 1947, NAEA is the leading professional membership organization exclusively for visual arts educators. Members include elementary, middle, and high school visual arts educators; college and university professors; university students preparing to be art educators; researchers and scholars; teaching artists; administrators and supervisors; and art museum educators—as well as more than 39,000 students who are members of the National Art Honor Society.