2026 Annual Meeting
Gather with AAHE colleagues in New Haven.
The 2026 AAHE Annual Meeting will be held June 10–13, 2026, in New Haven, Connecticut, hosted by Yale Schwarzman Center.
Meeting details
June 10–13, 2026 | New Haven, CT | Hosted by Yale Schwarzman Center
Connect with colleagues, exchange ideas, successes, and best practices, and experience art at Yale and in New Haven.
Registration
Register for the 2026 Annual Meeting.
Registration is open for the 2026 AAHE Annual Meeting. The registration fee is $100 per person.
Members who have not yet paid membership dues this year may add optional $300 organizational membership dues during registration. This add-on is not required to register.
Registration deadline: Wednesday, May 27, 2026. Early registration helps the host team fine-tune the event.
Hotel
Book your hotel room.
Schedule overview
Tentative schedule
Schedule details are subject to change.
Wednesday, June 10
- Afternoon: Optional activities
- Evening: Welcome Reception at BAR
Thursday, June 11
- Morning: Opening Session and Yale Schwarzman Center tour
- Morning: Session on Interdisciplinary Art and Cross-Collaboration with Yale Center for Collaborative Art and Media
- Afternoon: AAHE Business Meeting
- Afternoon: Student Programming session with Yale University Art Gallery
- Afternoon: Optional Yale University Art Gallery activity
- Evening: Summer at The Well Kickoff, with mingling and live performance in The Well
Friday, June 12
- Morning: Session on Community Engagement and Partnerships
- Afternoon: Keynote Lunch featuring David Dorfman
- Afternoon: Breakout Sessions
- Afternoon: Professional Development: Emerging, Established, and Evolving Career Paths
- Evening: David Dorfman Dance Company share-out
- Evening: Closing Reception with live performance art burst with Dahlak Brathwaite and Aaron Jafferis
Saturday, June 13
- All day: Free time and optional activities
Keynote
Keynote Lunch featuring David Dorfman
Friday’s schedule includes a keynote lunch with David Dorfman, choreographer and dance activist, artistic director and founder of David Dorfman Dance, and professor of dance at Connecticut College.
Friday, June 12
The keynote lunch is part of Friday’s afternoon programming, alongside breakout sessions and professional development conversations.
Past meetings
AAHE gathers on member campuses across the country.
Recent Annual Meetings have been hosted in Philadelphia, Boston, Palo Alto, Ann Arbor, and other cities, reflecting AAHE’s national network of campus arts leaders.