Whois & Analysis for nafme.org

The National Association for Music Education (NAfME) is an organization of American music educators dedicated to advancing and preserving music education as part of the core curriculum of schools in the United States.

Founded in 1907 as the Music Supervisors National Conference (MSNC), the organization was known from 1934 to 1998 as the Music Educators National Conference (origin of the MENC acronym).

From 1998 to 2011 it was known as "MENC: The National Association for Music Education." On September 1, 2011, the organization changed its acronym from MENC to NAfME.

In March 2012, Professor Glenn Nierman was elected president-elect of NAfME.

On March 8, 2012, the organization's name legally became National Association for Music Education, using the acronym "NAfME".

It has more than 130,000 members, and NAfME's headquarters are located in Reston, Virginia.

Visual arts education is the area of learning that is based upon only the kind of art that one can see, visual arts—drawing, painting, sculpture, and design in jewelry, pottery, weaving, fabrics, etc.

and design applied to more practical fields such as commercial graphics and home furnishings.

Contemporary topics include photography, video, film, design, and computer art.

Art education may focus on students creating art, on learning to criticize or appreciate art, or some combination of the two.