To advance education in the subject, discipline and practice of illustration by:

Working towards visibility, transparency and advocacy

Creating new and productive relationships, tools and infrastructures

Advancing academic scholarship, research and new knowledge about learning and teaching

We believe that supporting each other, building communities, establishing relationships and befriending issues, people and contexts is essential to all cultural and creative practice.

We are committed to equal and inclusive structures and practice; a breadth of voices and experiences are involved at every level enabling us to meet our aims with integrity, depth and relevance. 

We seek out new and emerging platforms, technologies and strategies; our activities are driven by a progressive ethos.

We learn from students and graduates, who help us shape and direct our agendas, discussion and direction. As educators we are learners. 

We aim to place care at the centre of what we do, recognising interdependencies and mutuality. We see care as a capacity and practice as cultivated, shared and resourced on an egalitarian basis.

Illustration educators is an organisation providing forums for the communal development of illustration practices and education. 

We’re a group of people in education who work and think together.

We will expand and involve more voices in the project by assembling an advisory board who can support and motivate our actions.

Illustration educators will open forums to members who will join in by sharing ideas, knowledges and experiences. 

We want to feed our subject by befriending new connections and ideas, making these public.

Sharing ideas and resources is key to achieving our aims and building a supportive and caring community. The illustration educators website is a publishing platform that builds connections between us and publicly advocates for our interests and concerns. 

Each year our advisory committee selects a provocation/theme which is then communicated via our newsletter and on the illustration educators website. 

In response to the provocation we will host a series of workshops, reading groups and seminars, which are open to all members, to generate resources which are then published on the illustration educators website. Members are also invited to submit resources that they have authored in response to the provocation. Authors will decide whether the resources are only available to members or published publicly.

A symposium held at the end of the year brings together presentations from membership events as well as introducing new voices via an open call for papers. Outputs from the symposium will be publicly available via the resources page of the illustration educators website. 

Visual essays based on practice-based research

Reviews on books, films, animations, museum and gallery exhibitions, conferences, performance, educational and research projects and events that relate to illustration education.

Teaching resources including project briefs, workshop plans, lectures…

Initial submissions should take the form of a PDF Document (72 dpi), with the file named as Name_Surname.doc. 

All contributions should be original and authors are responsible for copyright permissions. 

Authors will need to indicate whether their resource is to be only available to members or published publicly.

Submissions will be reviewed by 2 members before approving to publish on the ie website, at which point you will be asked to supply high resolution images, film and/or a text document. . 

Please include your name, any affiliated institution or organisation and contact details. 

If you would like to make a submission please send to (email address here i.e. mail@illustrationeducators.org)

Please ensure that you read our submission guidelines before sending.