The Alabama Institute for Education in the Arts (AIEA) is a
nonprofit organization that offers summer sessions in comprehensive
Music Education, Theatre Education, Visual Arts Education, and
Dance Education. Administrators attend the Administrator's Institute
and then join faculty in the arts discipline. Students have attended
from Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, and from as far away as Tokyo,
Japan, and London, England. In the five years of AIEA's existence,
over 650 teachers, art specialists, docents, parents and artists have
been trained and impacted the lives of over 15,000 children.