The Guild’s community engagement ecosystem is designed to strengthen connections across the field while ensuring our work remains responsive to the people and organizations advancing community arts education every day.
Through a combination of Regional Networks and Practice-Based Networks, members have opportunities to connect through both place and practice—building relationships, sharing knowledge, and helping shape the future of the field.
Shaping the Future Together
Insights and priorities emerging from both Regional Networks and Practice-Based Networks help guide the Guild’s programming and engagement strategy. Together, these communities inform Guild Essentials, regional convenings, leadership development opportunities, and future resources designed to strengthen the field.
This work reflects our ongoing commitment to strengthening our infrastructure, aligning our practices with our values, and rebuilding trust across the field.
Whether through local conversations, peer learning, or leadership development, Guild Networks help ensure that our programming remains responsive to the realities, opportunities, and aspirations of the people and organizations we serve.
Guild Regional Networks
Guild Regional Networks are geographically connected, relationship-centered communities that foster regional dialogue, collaboration, and local engagement. Aligned with the U.S. Regional Arts Organizations framework, these networks create opportunities for members to build meaningful relationships, share resources, address regional challenges, and strengthen community arts education within their local ecosystems.
Regional Networks also play an important role in shaping the Guild’s regional convenings, helping identify local priorities, emerging opportunities, and the unique realities facing communities across the country.
Guild Practice-Based Networks
Guild Practice-Based Networks connect individuals across the country through shared areas of practice, lived experience, leadership roles, organizational contexts, and professional interests within the community arts education ecosystem.
These peer-centered communities create space for learning, resource sharing, professional growth, collaborative problem-solving, and leadership development. They also help surface emerging trends, challenges, and opportunities across the field, informing Guild Essentials online programming, resources, and future initiatives.
Practice-Based Networks may be organized around shared disciplines, institutional contexts, lived experiences, leadership roles, or areas of field practice.
Current Practice-Based Networks
- Creative Aging
- Creative Youth Development
- Community Art Schools & Centers
- Higher Education
- Teaching Artistry
- Performance-Based Organizations (Orchestras, Opera Companies, and Other Organizations with Education Programs)
Emerging Networks
- People of the Global Majority
- Arts & Health
Get Involved
Whether you’re looking to connect with peers in your region, deepen your practice, share your expertise, or help shape the future of community arts education, there is a place for you within the Guild Network ecosystem.
Join a Regional Network or Practice-Based Network and help build a stronger, more connected field.