2024 NCAEA Award Winners

NCAEA Art Educator of the Year

Dr. Maria Knuckley Robinson

Director of Studio Art and Pre-Art Therapy, Salem Academy and College, Winston-Salem, NC

NCAEA Elementary Art Educator of the Year  

  Sarah Brown-Schumacher

Visual Arts Teacher, Efland-Cheeks Global Elementary, Orange County Schools

NCAEA Middle Level Art Educator of the Year

Amanda Aguayo

Visual Arts Teacher, Gravelly Hill Middle School, Orange County Schools

NCAEA Secondary Art Educator of the Year  

Trish Klenow

Visual Arts Teacher, Green Level High School, Wake County Public Schools

NCAEA Higher Education Art Educator of the Year

Dr. Maria Knuckley Robinson

Director of Studio Art and Pre-Art Therapy, Salem Academy and College, Winston-Salem, NC

NCAEA Rookie Art Educator of the Year   

Kasey Vandenboom

Visual Arts Teacher, Broughton Magnet High School, Wake County Public Schools

NCAEA Supervision/Administration Art Educator of the Year 

Kelly Jones

Director of Arts Education, Columbus County Schools

NCAEA Museum Division Art Educator of the Year

Jill Taylor

Manager of Teacher Programs and Resources, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

NCAEA Emeritus Art Educator of the Year      

Marylu Flowers-Schoen

Retired K-5 Visual Arts Specialist, Durham, NC

NCAEA Pre-Service Sponsor of the Year

Dr. Mara K. Pierce

Graduate Faculty of Art Education, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington NC

NCAEA Pre-Service Art Educator of the Year

Jane Elizabeth Shaver Shue

Student Art Teacher, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington NC

Friends of the Arts I 

Dr. Cassandra Dobson

Principal, Diggs-Latham Elementary Visual & Performing Arts A+ Magnet School, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools

Friends of the Arts II

Bess Taylor

Artist, Chadbourn, NC

Stokes County Art Council

Stokes County, Danbury, NC

COMC's Ester Page Hill Award for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Teaching

Elaine Ramos Lamson

Executive Director, Mixxer Community Makerspace,Winston-Salem, NC