BDK Association for Art Education
The BDK eV professional association for art education is a professional association for art education with its seat and office in Hanover , a federal executive board, connected specialist units and regional associations in all federal states.
history
The association was founded in 1950 as the Association of German Art Teachers and renamed the BDK eV Association for Art Education in 2005.
The BDK eV Association for Art Education advocates the subject of fine arts in all types of schools and supports cooperation with extracurricular institutions. Through its activities, the BDK promotes aesthetic and cultural education, in particular dealing with art and the designed environment. As an association, the BDK networks its members with each other and the fine arts internationally.
The BDK is a member of the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) and is represented on the German Cultural Council. He works actively in the Socioculture Fund and in the Federal Association for Cultural Children and Youth Education (BKJ) and cooperates with the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft eV
organization
Members are primarily art educators at schools, universities and cultural institutions outside of school. In 2018, the professional organization had around 3900 members. Sara Burkhardt was elected as the first chairwoman of the executive board in 2019. The executive board is expanded to include the departments “BDK Mitteilungen”, “Elementary School”, “University”, “International Affairs” and “Cultural Education”. There are also the national working groups “Elementary School” and “Art History”. The BDK is organized in 16 regional associations, the respective regional boards structure the representation of interests on site as the basis of the association's work. The trade journal BDK Mitteilungen appears quarterly. The specialist journals and websites of the BDK represent further ongoing publications at the state level.
Exhibitions and prizes
In 1976, an exhibition of schoolchildren's drawings from the period 1870–1970 was shown in several cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland under the title “Kind und Kunst”. The initiator of the exhibition was Diethart Kerbs / Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, who worked with his students for the BDK. The collection on which the exhibition is based was given to the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF) in 2000 .
Web links
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- ↑ Transfer of the collection to student drawings from the Association of German Art Teachers. Retrieved March 5, 2009 .