Meghan McFerrin joined NASAA in 2023. She coordinates NASAA’s professional development services for state and jurisdictional arts agency arts education staff. Working collaboratively with members and the National Endowment for the Arts, Meghan supports the annual Professional Development Institute and organizes NASAA’s peer networking programs for state arts agency arts education managers. She also directs the Creative Aging, Creative Futures project, NASAA’s public-private partnership with E.A. Michelson Philanthropy advancing lifelong learning in the arts in state arts agencies across the country
Meghan is an arts educator with experience teaching in K-12 classrooms and in higher education, museum and community arts settings. From 2017 to 2022, she worked for the Georgia Department of Education, where she oversaw the state’s STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) certification program and built a statewide community arts network to support arts integration in schools. As a museum educator at the High Museum of Art, she developed and facilitated programs for K-12 students and teachers, including overseeing a Kennedy Center Museum Access for Kids grant project focused on accessibility and differentiated instruction. Later, returning as a teaching artist at the museum, she expanded her work to include creative aging, designing programs for adult and older adult audiences. Meghan teaches preservice art educators as an adjunct instructor at Capital University and is a graduate associate and doctoral student in the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy at The Ohio State University. Meghan’s personal passion for the arts is evident in her work as a potter.
