Calendar of Upcoming Programs

Short Film Screening and Online Discussion: How Creative Workers are Impacted by AI
Tuesday, September 22, 2026, 12:00 p.m. ET / 6:00 p.m. CEST

Drawing on SNAAP’s 2025 Pulse Survey on AI and Work, the 19-minute film shares candid perspectives from artists across a wide swath of concentrations navigating the opportunities, pressures, and ethical questions surrounding AI. The survey gathered responses from more than 2,000 arts and design alumni representing over 100 colleges and universities.

Following the screening, organization leaders will discuss what these perspectives and findings reveal about the future of creative work, unequal access to AI’s potential benefits, and how AI is being addressed and embedded in higher arts education.

The conversation will feature Lee Ann Scotto Adams, SNAAP Executive Director; Doug Dempster, SNAAP Board President; Christian Folk, SNAAP Assistant Director, Research Services; Rob Sabal, SNAAP Board Member and President-Elect; Joanna Woronkowicz, SNAAP Senior Research Fellow; and Abid Qayum, Chair, ELIA's New Technologies Working Group & Head of Technical Services at University of East London, UK.

Registration is free and open to all.

Learn more before the event by watching the film, exploring SNAAP’s AI and Work Data Dashboard, or reading “GenAI and Creative Labor: New Evidence on Valuation, Inequality, and Adoption.”

This online discussion is offered collaboratively with colleagues from Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP), European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA), and the ELIA New Technologies Working Group.

62nd Annual Conference
Tuesday, October 6 - Thursday, October 8, 2026
Detroit, Michigan

ICfAD's International Symposium

Johannesburg, South Africa | Sunday, May 30 – Thursday, June 3, 2027
Join colleagues and friends on the campuses of the University of Johannesburg (UJ) and the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), offering ICfAD delegates a rare comparative view of how the creative disciplines operate within major public institutions in the Global South

Cape Town, South Africa | Friday, 4 – Monday, June 7, 2027
After the intensity of Johannesburg, an optional Cape Town extension offers a complementary chapter in South Africa’s cultural story: one shaped by landscape, architecture, colonial and post-colonial memory, wine, design and global artistic exchange

More information can be found here.

63rd Annual Conference
Tuesday, October 5 - Thursday, October 7, 2027
Nashville, Tennessee
A printable Save the Date flyer can be found here.

Communications Professionals Online Programs
All programs will be hosted online the third Thursdays of January, February, March, and April. 
Dates: TBD for 2027
Time: 1:00 Eastern / 12:00 Central / 11:00 Mountain / 10:00 Pacific. Online programs are 60 minutes.
Programs may include topics such as Marketing the Arts in a Changing Technological Environment, The Increasing Importance of Authentic Branding, How Generative AI is Shaping Marketing Communications, User Generated Content to Build Trust and Engagement, Short Form Video Content, Data-Driven Marketing Strategies in Higher Ed and other topics to be determined with member input. Invitations for each meeting will be sent. Registration is free for members of each affinity group or $80 per session for non-members. Join this affinity group now.

Advancement Officers Online Programs
All programs will be hosted online the last Tuesdays of January, February, March and April.
Dates: TBD for 2027
Time: 4:00 Eastern / 3:00 Central / 2:00 Mountain / 1:00 Pacific. Online programs are 60 minutes.
Programs may include topics such as Gift Planning, Capital Campaign Success Stories, Building Team Culture, and other topics to be determined with member input. Invitations for each meeting will be sent. Registration is free for members of each affinity group or $80 per session for non-members. Join this affinity group now.