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Mark your calendars!

“ART EVERYDAY: CONNECTING AND COLLABORATING”
MAEA Fall Conference 2010
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
September 17, 18, & 19
Information with be posted in the mid-may spring newsletter (will send out an e-mail blast to let members know) and on both the maea wiki http://mainearted.wikispaces.com/ and web site http://www.mainearted.org/. The registration form will be printable and will need to be filled out and postmarked no sooner than June 1st.

Help a colleague

Here is an opportunity for art teachers to help an art colleague on her thesis project that will only take you 20 minutes. Please read Jessica’s message and email her for the survey she needs you to fill out.

Jessica’s message…

My name is Jessica Andresen and I am an art teacher at Orono High School and currently a graduate student at the University of Maine in the Art Education program. For my thesis project I am collecting data about the role that censorship plays in K-12 public schools in Maine.

The benefits of this research are that data will be collected on the types of censorship that occur in public art classrooms in the state of Maine, and it will help educators self-reflect on censorship in their own professional lives, and learn from other educators who have had censorship issues in their schools. From these data, the nature of censorship in Maine art classrooms, and how censorship is represented in the public school setting can be analyzed. Possible ways of responding to a material challenge can be drawn. It is also important for post-secondary schools that are preparing art educators because it is important to make sure students are ready to address how censorship occurs and how to be ready when it does.

I would greatly appreciate it if K-12 art educators would take the time, approximately 20 minutes, to fill out the survey on censorship and email it to me at jessica.andresen@umit.maine.edu. It will only take a moment and all feedback would be greatly appreciated. After the survey is completed, you may be contacted to participate in an interview. Please note that no real names will be associated with the data collected, and pseudonyms will be provided for all who choose to participate. Once participants have returned the survey, the survey will be saved as a word document on the computer with a pseudonym attached and the email will be deleted. The pseudonym will only be linked to the real name by a key that will only be accessible to the PI and graduate advisor, Dr. Laurie E. Hicks. All interviews will be recorded and the interviews will be linked to the pseudonym given. Recordings will be transferred to the PI’s computer as an MP3 file as well as kept on tape in the PI’s home office. These data will be kept on the PI’s computer in her home office and will kept by the PI until research has been completed, no later than May, 2011. At this time all tapes will be destroyed.

PLEASE EMAIL JESSICA @ jessica.andresen@umit.maine.edu FOR THE SURVEY.

Music video by Hold Your Horses

This video features many paintings.

Thank you Stephanie for sending me this!