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The Message
May 2010
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Volunteers Needed
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The AEI Board is putting out a call for volunteers for two task forces. We need about 5-6 people for each.
The first would be a call for those wishing to work on the Fine Art Requirement for High School Graduation.
The second would be a call for those wishing to work on the task force to Establish a requirement to have all elementary art classes K-5 taught by a certified art instructor.
If you would like to be part of one of these important groups, please, contact Joel Franken as soon as possible. Joel, who is the Issues and Directions Chairman for the AEI Board, will not head these committees, so if you would lead one of the task forces, let him know!
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FaceBook Discussion
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AEI has a discussion about copyright and student art competitions that we invite you to join on our FaceBook page. Click on the image above to navigate to the page.
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Art Camp
| Art Educators of Iowa/ Des Moines Art Center
All-State Art Camp Deadline Extended to May 21, 2010
June 14 - 18, 2010
9 am - 5 pm
Des Moines Art Center
4700 Grand Avenue
Tuition $350 ($280 Art Center members)
Limit 15 students.
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Greetings!
Your students are gone on field trips every other day and you worry about whether they will finish their projects. There is still one more showing of student work that needs to be labeled and hung. Your list of supplies that needs to be ordered is buried somewhere on your desk.
Let us add a couple more "to do" items to your list...
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Professional Development
 There are several workshops available across the state this summer. We have put together a list of the ones that we know about on the Professional Development page on artedia.org. If you take part in one of the VSA Art on Fire Workshops, you will qualify to have a visiting artist come to your school for student workshops. |
Your Students in Des Moines
 Members of your school board and the other 390+ school boards across the state of Iowa will be attending the Iowa Association of School Board Convention next fall. Your students can be there...not their bodies, but their images. Photograph your students' 2-D or 3-D self-portraits and send three of them to IASB for inclusion on the stage, on the posters, and on the program for the IASB Convention. Submit to by May 15. For more information, go to the IASB page. |
Call for Presenters and Info About Award Winners
 The Sioux City area AEI members have been working on plans for ART is CORE, the AEI Fall Conference. The conference will be October 1-3, 2010. This will be the 60th state conference and the committee would like to honor former award winners. They have a list of those winners from the History of AEI by Elizabeth Craw.The committee needs mailing addresses for many of them. Please, help AEI contact these people by contacting Twyla Godberson. |
Nominate an Art Teacher for an Award
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President-Elect Election
Now is the time for all good art teachers to come to the aid of their organization! It is time to vote for President-Elect. This is the person who will follow Ronda Sternhagen (who takes office July 1) as President of AEI. Both people will serve for a two year term.
The candidate nominated at the Fall Conference for this position was Shanise Brockshus. Shanise is a 7-12 art teacher at Sibley-Ocheyedan in NW Iowa. See Shanise's resume.
Vote Now!... Results will be announced on the website and in the June Message.
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Advocate for the Arts in Iowa on the Pepsi Refresh site: vote 10 times a Day!
The Iowa Alliance for Arts Education has joined the Refresh Iowa group. The IAAE project has managed to stay in the top 100 vote-getters for two months. The idea of Refresh Iowa is to make sure that some of that Pepsi money ends up in Iowa by supporting the 44 projects this month that are tied to the state of Iowa.
As part of the Refresh Iowa group, you can vote for 10 different Iowa projects a day. Be sure to use your vote for the IAAE Model Arts Ed. Schools/Communities in the $50 K category and vote for 9 others in the other categories.
You can also find Refresh Iowa on Facebook and Twitter
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May is . . . . Better Sleep Month, National Good Car Care Month, National Photo Month, National Salad Month, National Egg Month, National Barbecue Month, Revise Your Work Schedule Month, National Hamburger Month, and Fungal Infection Awareness Month
And the National School Year is Almost Over Month! Enjoy!
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Each year AEI presents awards to teachers in all or most of these categories: Secondary, Middle, Elementary, Supervisory/Museum, Higher Education, Art Teacher of the Year, Friend of Art Education Outside the Profession. Nominate someone that goes above and beyond the daily grind! 