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The Award Goes To....
PAEA
Awards
Deadline Extended
Nominations are still being accepted for Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Special Needs, Museum, and Higher Ed Art Educators.
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Spring Calendar 2011
Exhibits, Events, and Workshops during April, May and June
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Looking ahead to summer...
Kutztown University
The Dinner Party Institute
July 10 - 15, 2011
also, look for the PAEA
Summer Newsletter, coming
out in early July.
Have an event or
news from your region to share in our next edition?
Contact the
PAEA Newsletter Committee,
Amy Anderson, aaandersonart@gmail.com
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Your Regional Representative?
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Did you know that PAEA has it's own social network?
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Best of the Web
Christine Besack
PAEA past-president
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Educators can apply for a free Animoto Plus account for use in the classroom. its powerful features can be used to create stunning presentations incorporating images, videoclips, music and text. www.animoto.com
Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. It is dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. www.artsusa.org |
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PAEA members honored at NAEA in Seattle
Mary Elizabeth Meier,
PAEA President Elect
Six Pennsylvania art educators were honored at the National Art Education Association Convention in Seattle in March. Among the award recipients were three outstanding thinkers in art education whose service to the field is valued by PAEA.
Dr. Yvonne Gaudelius (The Pennsylvania State University) received two awards: The June King McFee award and the invited Studies in Art Education Lecture. As part of her acceptance of the McFee award, presented by the Women's Caucus, Gaudelius, shared her story growing up and becoming an art teacher, scholar, and university administrator. Tweets filled the #naea11 "Twittersphere" during her Studies lecture, on Saturday evening, a sign of how the audience was stimulated by her thought provoking ideas.
Dr. Patricia Amburgy (The Pennsylvania State University) was honored with the Kathy Connors Teaching Award. The Kathy Connors Teaching Award honors an outstanding art educator who is recognized by students, colleagues, and supervisors as someone who consistently inspires and mentors students in a cooperative, collegial, collaborative and nurturing manner. Dr. Amburgy has been a mentor to many art teachers and professors in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and across the nation.
Ms. Kris Fontes
(Union City Middle/High School) was honored as the 2011 Pennsylvania Art Educator of the year at the annual Eastern Region awards. Kris also represented PAEA at the Eastern Region Leadership meeting and delegates assembly. Kris is widely known by art educators all over the world for her innovative ideas published in School Arts and Arts and Activities. Her collaborations with colleagues via the ArtEducator2.0 ning Web site help her to bring the world to her students. Kris is is a frequent presenter at state and national conferences and received National Board Certification in 2006..
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September 12, 2011
" Interdependence Day 2011" celebration will take place on Monday, Sept 12, 2011 at the Scranton Cultural Center The speaker for the event will be Patrice Broudeur, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair on Islam, Pluralism, and Globalization at the Faculty of Theology and the Science of Religions at the University of Montreal, Canada.
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Greetings from PAEA president, Kris Fontes
Last week Mary Elizabeth Meier, our PAEA president-elect and I attended the National Art Education Convention in Seattle. If you ever have the opportunity to visit the city, I'm sure you will be as captivated by it's beauty and charm as we were.
Did you know that this annual conference is the largest gathering of art educators in the world! Next year the convention will be held March 1-4, in New York City. With over 900 presentations, hands-on workshops, hundreds of vendors, and inspiring speakers, it is the best professional development you will ever receive.
With the proposed budget cuts from our new governor, it is now, more than ever, vitally important that you are a strong and visible advocate for your art program. The arts are essential to every child's education, which is why the arts are one of the core academic subjects in the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).
PAEA is here to help if you need assistance in any way. Contact your region representative by going to http://www.paea.org/; call or email. We are your professional community, ready to serve!
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Marilyn Stewart Receives NAEA Art Educator of Year Award
Sandy Wood, PAEA Retired Division Director
Pennsylvania Art Educators congratulate Dr. Marilyn Stewart on receiving NAEA's most prestigious award, presented by Al Hurwitz and Elliot Eisner at the NAEA Convention in Seattle. Dr. Stewart, professor of art at Kutztown University, is a frequent guest speaker, consultant for staff development institutes, and workshop presenter throughout our state and nation. She is editor of the Art Education in Practice series, author of Thinking Through Aesthetics, and co-author with Dr. Stanley Walker of Rethinking Curriculum in Art. Additionally she co-authored with Dr. Eldon Katter, a three volume middle school art curriculum entitled Art: A Global Perspective, Art: A Community Connection, and Art: A Personal Journey. She is also senior author of the new Davis Publications elementary textbook series, Explorations in Art and has recently developed a popular game called QuestionArte for Crizmac. Previous recognition for her contributions to the art education field include NAEA Eastern Region Higher Education Art Educator of the Year in 1998, PAEA Art Educator of the Year 2006, and NAEA Distinguished Fellow in 2010.
In her honor, Kutztown University and Davis Publications co-hosted a wine and cheese soirée at the Hyatt Olive Street Urban Café during the NAEA conference in Seattle. The event was attended by many Kutztown University professors, graduates, and friends of Marilyn from across the country. During this event, Davis Publications presented a generous check to NAEA in Dr. Stewart's name.
Dr. Stewart's next project will occur this summer when Kutztown University will co-sponsor along with NAEA, The Dinner Party Institute, July 10 - 15. Judy Chicago in partnership with Through the Flower, a non-profit feminist art organization, will also be part of this unique opportunity. Teachers interested in attending can get more information at www.thedinnerpartyinstitute.com or contact Dr. Stewart at stewart@kutztown.edu. |
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Museum Muse - Museums The Arts and
Education Initiative
Wendy Pires, Curator of Education, The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College
Representatives from a broad range of arts organizations in Central Pennsylvania, including PAEA Board representative Wendy Pires, convened for a meeting of the Arts and Education Initiative (AEI) in Harrisburg on February 9 to discuss the common needs of regional arts and the education communities, ways to develop effective partnerships between them, and to identify "big questions" for the AEI Study Group. As one outcome of the meeting, AEI is beginning the process of collecting data on the contributions of art museums to arts education in Pennsylvania. PAEA members may expect to see a survey relating to this project in the coming months.
The goal of the Arts and Education Initiative (AEI) is to increase access to the arts for all Pennsylvanians, to support the Commonwealth's educational objectives and nurture an educated and successful citizenry. Working with regional, statewide, and national partners, AEI will strengthen partnerships between the arts and the education communities, increase public and policymaker awareness of key arts issues, develop recommendations for public policy and its implementation. In light of the current funding crisis for education in Pennsylvania, the need for effective advocacy at the state and local levels has never been more urgent. As a member organization, PAEA hopes to play and important role in this initiative. Stay tuned for the first report of the AEI Study Group, expected later this month.
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 Leslie Gates, PAEA Professional Concerns Chair Conference 2011 The 2011 PAEA conference is fast approaching, and I hope this update helps your efforts to make it to this year's conference. I am working with a top-notch group of people helping to bring you a fantastic conference in 2011 and I know you will not want to miss it! As we approach the conference, you can expect to hear more details about the conference through the PAEA newsletter, conference website, and the PAEA listserve. For now, here is some information about Lee Sandstead, who will be our Keynote Speaker on Friday, October 21st at 1 PM.
Lee Sandstead is -- without a doubt -- the world's most fired-up art historian. And of all the things that you can say about him, the most important is that he loves art. With "the help of a beautiful French woman," he discovered art in his early 20s, and ever since, he has been on one amazing art adventure after another. From 2007-2009, he was host of Travel Channel's "Art Attack with Lee Sandstead," which secured a Daytime Emmy nomination in 2009. For the past decade, he has developed a national reputation as an exciting and dramatic speaker and has expressed his passion for art at over 100 major institutions, including: Harvard, Yale, New York University, The Smithsonian Institution, The Walters Art Museum, The Chrysler Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is also one of America's most celebrated photographers of art, and his photography has been published in countless books and publications, including: "The New York Times," "Fortune," "Ms.," "Preservation Magazine," and "Style 1900." Lee taught art history at Montclair State University from 2001-2007. He recently lead a team to establish art-history and fine-arts programs for a small college in southern Virginia. In 2008, Lee was nominated for the prestigious Virginia Governor's Arts Award. He is the author of the forthcoming book on art appreciation entitled, "In Pursuit of Art: Lessons from the World's Most Fired-Up Art Historian.
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SAS: An Evolving Resource for Arts Educators
Meg Barney, Ed. D., Rose Tree Media School District, Region 12
Once in a while, a new resource comes along to support teachers in the classroom. The Standards Aligned System or SAS website is one such resource. Located at http://www.pdesas.org/, SAS takes the work of the past nine years of academic standards development and combines it with research on student achievement, assessment, PSSA, and instructional practice. The result is a rich evolving website developed over the past three years by the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) with some additional funding from the Verizon Foundation and Thinkfinity that provides pages and pages of information through hands-on interaction.
The SAS site addresses all the academic standards, including the Arts and Humanities. It presents information through six lenses: Clear Standards, Fair Assessments, Curriculum Framework, Instruction, Materials & Resources, and Interventions. By navigating through the pages, a viewer can locate standards, match them to eligible content, assessment anchors, sample lesson plans, and materials. The viewer can also customize assessments for use in the classroom. The website can be viewed in both a linear and non-linear approach, allowing for ease in moving from topic to topic in the site.
The website is evolving as educators from across the state keep adding their favorite lessons, assessments or instructional components. The viewer can also register on the site to activate an account, allowing the viewer to participate in forums with other educators to discuss a variety of educational topics. Think of it as a social network for educators! Just imagine, a site where people "get it", understand what it means to be an educator, and are willing to share information and ideas.
So how do I come to be writing about this resource? In December of 2010, PDE offered workshops for various educational sectors, providing instruction in using the new resource. Fortunately, I got wind of this initiative and was able to secure a seat in one of the training sessions (no easy feat - a story for another day). As a result, I participated in two days of training which synthesized academic standards, instructional practice, content knowledge and assessment implementation. Bottom line, I went, I saw, I learned. In the past month, I was invited by my building principal to share this information district wide with elementary classroom teachers as well as my arts and humanities colleagues. Imagine, the art teacher being one of the keynotes for a district wide inservice day! Yes, it is true!
I highly encourage you to take a few moments to visit the site (again, it is located at http://www.pdesas.org/) and see what is there. The site keeps having items added often, so keep checking back to see what is new. Consider signing on to join in a forum, and connect with your fellow educators across the state. And by all means, consider adding a lesson, resource or other item to the website too.
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Using Flip Cameras in the Elementary Art Room
Marcy Bogdanich, PAEA Region 5 Representative
Central Elementary, Hampton Township School District
 The administrative decision to schedule 4th and 5th grade instrumental and string lessons during art, physical education and music has impacted the special areas in several ways. For music and PE it has meant not seeing students for several classes in a row. Since art is 55 minutes I have students in and out of class all period. I couldn't change this scheduling nightmare so I decided to work around it by forming collaborative working groups in my 4th and 5th grade classes.
Each of my 5th grade collaborative groups were challenged to take a shoebox, (a parent donated 35 of them) make up a rock band name, plan and create a stage and add 3-D figures made out of plaster craft over tin foil. As the students collaborated on project ideas and worked together to complete the stage and figures, the idea of videoing their rock groups evolved. Our school had purchased 6 Flip cameras, which would make videoing an easy, student friendly experience. With a camera and minimal instructions; turn it on, press record, turn it off, the kids began planning and practicing their rock shows. They brought in iPods and other hand helds which provided music for the performance.
I was brainstorming ideas with my family for making their flip videos more interesting and my daughter and husband came up with the idea of using magnets on the figures feet and under the shoebox stages to add some motion. I rounded up a bunch of magnets and the show was on. Left to their own devices the 5th graders began planning other ways to move the figures including monofilament lines for flying figures above the stage. Each group planned the staging, the music and then recorded their own video on the flip cameras. Completed videos were easily downloaded on my computer via Flip Share then placed on my website. Some of the videos gave us all a good laugh and most groups voted to keep their silly ones on the website. Most of the students were familiar with flip cameras and one or two owned one. The cameras ease of use makes it possible for all students to create a successful video. We are in the process of making paper slide shows using the Flip Camera. Students created comic books. To make a paper slide show we had one student turn the pages while another student read the comic as a third ran the flip camera. The paper slide videos will be coming soon to my website. Hope you enjoy our performances! To view the rock band videos: Click here |
"Print Matters" workshop at The Trout Gallery
Wendy Pires, PAEA Region 7 Co-Representative
Dr. Eric Denker, Senior Lecturer at the Education Division of the National Gallery of Art, presented  a workshop this past September to art educators from Region 7 on the history and techniques of printmaking. The Saturday workshop was hosted by The Trout Gallery at Dickinson College. Using a diverse selection of woodblock prints, wood engravings, etchings, lithographs from The Trout Gallery's permanent collection of art, Dr. Denker instructed participants in the nuances of examining and indentifying prints, and provided advice on how to begin one's own print collection on a modest budget for enjoyment and for teaching. Over lunch, the group viewed and discussed the documentary film All About Prints, produced and directed by Christopher Noey, ( http://allaboutprints.net/about-the-film.htm), and concluded the workshop with an exploration of The Trout Gallery exhibition of early twentieth-century regionalist prints Associated American Artists: Art by Subscription. Participants took away concrete knowledge of printmaking materials, process, terminology, and, perhaps most importantly, inspiration to teach their own students about prints.
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Pennsylvania boasts long tradition of excellence in Art Education for special needs students
Beth Cornell, PAEA member at large
Two Pennsylvanians were honored at NAEA for their leadership in Special Education. Pennsylvania has a long tradition of Art in Special Education. This tradition is made even more rich by two outstanding art educators who were both recognized for their accomplishments.
 Ms. Lynda Abraham-Braff (Wesley Spectrum Highland School, Pittsburgh) was awarded another award of national prominence, the NAEA, CEC, VSA arts Special Needs Art Educator of the Year Award. Her leadership in classrooms, at museums and the community demonstrates her desire and ability to meet individual needs of students and to always expect quality arts projects from her students. Ms. Abraham-Braff has creatively worked with special needs students both inside and outside the classroom developing a school beautification project involving wall tiles and also producing a yearbook. "She has that natural ability that great teachers have to 'get the most' from students," shares Mary Ann Raymer, her Supervisor. Ms. Abraham-Braff was nominated for this award by Nicole Dezelon, Assistant Curator of Education at the Andy Warhol Museum, who shares that Lynda was 'instrumental in helping to field test curriculum for The Warhol's Online Curriculum website' and her students created a final multimedia exhibition for which they acted as tour guides at the museum.
 Ms. Mary Lou Ford-Dallam was awarded the 2011 National Art Education/Council for Exceptional Children/VAS Special Needs Breverly Levett Gerber Special Needs Lifetime Achievement Award. Mary Lou has been a lifetime member of PAEA and was one of the national leaders to create the Special Needs Issue Group for NAEA. She has always been an advocate for students with special needs since 1966. Her leadership in Pennsylvania led to the development of the PA Standards in Art Education and her leadership inclusion work for ten years with the PA Governor's Institute. She continued the work of PA The Arts in Special Education Program. This program and one from Kansas were models of similar programs across the country. Clyde McGeary, Retired Chief of the Division Arts and Sciences stated, "Her dedication and 'stick to it' attitude enabled many,many educators and parents to realize how important expressive arts programs art to all children, especially those with special needs." Even in retirement she continues her work with Higher Education, Susquehanna Art Museum and other organizations.
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