Greetings! Art Educators of Iowa members and board wish you and yours a happy, healthy holiday season and creative New Year! Art Hall of Pride All-State Artists are your students who have worked to earn the recognition. Help them to gain the recognition that basketball players, wrestlers, and football players receive at the Hall of Pride at the Wells-Fargo Center in Des Moines! Read more... Lesson Plans Tired of the same old symmetry (or snowflake, or art history) lesson that you've been doing with your students for 25 years? Get a couple of new ideas from the  Artedia website. Lessons that were presented at the Fall Conference are now online.  We have space for your lesson plans that you would like to share, too. Read more... Advocacy "Making a list, checking it twice!" "You get what you ask for!" This page on Artedia will supply you with some facts that may help YOU ask. Do you know 10 Lessons that the Arts Teach? Read more... If you have not subscribed to the monthly newsletter from the Iowa Arts Council, Iowa Arts News, now is the time. Art Educator of the Year Pat Grubb is featured in this month's issue. It is easy--send a blank email to join-IowaArtsNews@lists.ia.gov or go to their website and click. On December 14, 2007, the hosting organization for artedia.org is going to be transfering our website to a new server. They have assured us that the transition is going smoothly and there shouldn't be any problem. If you do encounter problems with links on the site or have trouble accessing the website, please contact me at the address below.   Happy Holiday and a Wonderful New Year,   Nancy Sojka AEI Webmaster

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