Invitation to Participate in Echoes Across the Line / Au fil des échos

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Hello,

We are pleased to invite CSEA/SCÉA members to participate in Echoes Across the Line / Ligne d’échos, a collaborative photographic project connecting art educators across Canada.

The concept is simple: each participant receives a photograph and creates a new image in response to any of its elements—colour, form, composition, mood, gesture, texture, or concept. Your completed image is then passed to the next educator, forming a coast-tocoast visual chain.

The creation period (photographic responses) will take place between February and April 2026. All works will be included in a national exhibition and published in a collective book.

If you would like to take part, please complete the registration form here:
👉🏽 https://forms.office.com/r/WQY1WAmsEM 👈🏽

The deadline to sign up is January 10, 2026.

We hope you will join us for this creative and inspiring project!

Warm regards,
Emma June Huebner
Director of Special Projects, CSEA/SCÉA

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Bonjour,

Nous avons le plaisir d’inviter les membres de la SCÉA/CSEA à participer à Ligne d’échos / Echoes Across the Line, un projet photographique collaboratif réunissant des enseignant·e·s en arts visuels et médiatiques de partout au Canada.

Le principe est simple : chaque participant·e reçoit une photographie et crée une nouvelle image en réponse à l’un de ses éléments — couleur, forme, composition, atmosphère, geste, texture ou concept. L’image créée est ensuite transmise à la personne suivante, formant une grande chaîne visuelle d’un océan à l’autre.

Le cycle de création (les réponses photographiques) se déroulera entre février et avril 2026. Toutes les œuvres produites seront présentées dans une exposition nationale et publiées dans un livre collectif.

Si vous souhaitez participer, veuillez remplir le formulaire d’inscription ici :
👉🏽 https://forms.office.com/r/WQY1WAmsEM 👈🏽

La date limite pour s’inscrire est le 10 janvier 2026.

Nous espérons vivement compter sur votre participation à ce projet créatif et rassembleur!

Cordialement,
Emma June Huebner
Directrice des projets spéciaux, SCÉA/CSEA

For seventy years, the Canadian Society for Education through the Art (CSEA/SCÉA) has been a space of gathering for artists, educators, and scholars committed to the transformative potential of art in teaching-learning. From coast to coast to coast, across the vast and complex lands of Turtle Island, CSEA/SCÉA has supported and promoted vibrant dialogues, experimental practices, and enduring relationships in the field of art education.

As we approach our 70th anniversary, we invite you to be part of this momentous occasion by contributing to a 70-day countdown celebration—a living archive of collective memory, artistic inquiry, and pedagogical reflection. This time capsule is not only a retrospective but also a gesture toward the future, honouring the past while imagining what lies ahead for art education throughout the country.

Submission Details

We welcome contributions that embody creative, poetic, scholarly, and pedagogical engagements with CSEA/SCÉA’s ongoing history and impact. Submissions may take a variety of forms, including but not limited to:

• Images: Photographs, artworks, visual artifacts, or personal archival materials that capture meaningful moments within CSEA/SCÉA’s history.
• Text: Poetic reflections, personal narratives, theoretical propositions, or scholarly essays that explore CSEA/SCÉA’s influence on art education, pedagogical experimentation, or professional growth.
• Interdisciplinary Contributions: Hybrid forms that weave together image and text, material traces, sound, or other sensory engagements with the past and present of CSEA/SCÉA.

If you have attended a CSEA/SCÉA event, symposium, or conference, we encourage you to share your reflections and creative responses. Whether it is a pivotal conversation, a collaborative project, a moment of transformation in your making-researching-teaching practice, or an artistic inquiry sparked by CSEA/SCÉA, your perspective is part of the fabric of this evolving community.

Submission Guidelines

• Each submission may include a written component (up to 200 words) and 1–3 images (if applicable).
• Contributions will be featured as part of a publicly shared 70-day countdown leading up to the anniversary on CSEA/SCÉA social media platforms and the official website.
• All submissions will also be archived on the CSEA/SCÉA website and may be considered for inclusion in future CSEA/SCÉA publications.
• Please submit your work via this Google Form for easy collection.

Deadline: May 15th, 2025

This call is more than an invitation to look back; it is a recognition of the ways in which art education has been shaped and (re)shaped through dialogue, experimentation, and collective care. It is an opportunity to honour the relationships and practices that have emerged through CSEA/SCÉA and to weave new connections as we step forward into the next seventy years.

In care and connection,
Marzieh Mosavarzadeh, PhD (she/her)
Director of Communications–CSEA/SCÉA