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2015-16 MLTI Artwork Challenge

December 14, 2014

Student Opportunity

Over the last six years, the MLTI device has featured screen savers featuring outstanding student works of art (twenty each year). To date, there have been well over two thousand pieces of artwork submitted. WOWZER! Currently images are made available as a screensaver download on the following MLTI Devices: HP ProBooks & Apple MacBooks.

"Eye in Triangle", by Dominick Bernard, Deering High School, Grade 10

“Eye in Triangle”, by Dominick Bernard, Deering High School, Grade 10

The opportunity to submit artwork is available to Maine students in grades K-12. MLTI asks that students submit only ONE piece of artwork to be considered for 2015-2016 MLTI devices. Please take careful note of the sizing and labeling requirements. Submissions not meeting these requirements or students submitting multiple works will not have their artwork reviewed. The deadline to submit artwork for this challenge is January 2, 2015. Works of art submitted will be scored by an independent review committee using a rubric.

The students whose artwork is selected will have their artwork on 2015-2016 MLTI Devices, receive free Student Conference registration (May 21, 2015) and also have their artwork printed and displayed at the Department of Education in the spring.

"Holograms", by Elana Bolles, Yarmouth High School, Grade 11

“Holograms”, by Elana Bolles, Yarmouth High School, Grade 11

Please submit your artwork to Juanita Dickson. Anyone can submit the artwork (guardian, teacher, student, etc), but please be sure to include the following information in the email:

  • Student name
  • School name
  • Grade
  • Teacher (Adult) name & email address (this is who we’ll contact with result)
  • Artwork title

Don’t forget to read the guidelines! If your picture is not properly sized/submitted, it can not be considered for the challenge.

For the artwork submission guidelines (.pdf) please click here.

"Striations", by Matthew Lambert, Mount Desert Island High School, Grade 10

“Striations”, by Matthew Lambert, Mount Desert Island High School, Grade 10

MLTI Artwork Challenge Timeline

  • January 2, 2015 – Submissions due.
    Please email your submission to Juanita Dickson at juanita.dickson@maine.gov. Confirmation of receipt will be emailed to you.
  • January 3 – January 20, 2015 – Selection committee reviews submissions using a rubric.
  • January 25, 2015 – Teachers of the students with selected pieces will be notified by this date. A release form will need to be signed by parents and sent back to MLTI before any names are released to the public.
  • February 15, 2015 – Release forms due to back to the MLTI Project Office
  • Late February 2015 – Selected artwork information released to the public.
  • May 21, 2015 – Student Conference. Selected students will be invited to join us at the Student Conference free of charge (students will need to complete online registration)

Please contact Juanita Dickson at juanita.dickson@maine.gov with any questions.

To view all of the past screen saver images please click here.

 

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Omari Rush

December 6, 2012

Walking the walk

imagesOmari Rush is the education manager for University Musical Society but that is not all he does. He serves in an advisory role for numerous organizations of varying cultural and geographic scopes: as a governor-appointed Council member for the State of Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, as a member of the Kennedy Center Partners in Education National Advisory Committee, and as chair of the board of directors for the Ann Arbor Public Schools Educational Foundation.

Omari earned degrees in music from the University of Michigan and Florida State University, and while his concert performances as a clarinetist are now infrequent, Omari fills his downtime with running, watching the Cartoon Network, and reading (especially American Revolution literature).

Omari has been committed to creating rich arts education opportunities and experiences for many years. In a recent blog post for a blog in Ann Arbor, Michigan Omari articulated that commitment. He reminds the reader why the arts belong in the K-12 education. He sites 4 research reports that support the topic.

  1. A study about Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit clearly connects arts participation and increased graduation rates and optimism about life potential
  2. MSU researchers Robert Root-Bernstein and Rex LaMore have found that high achievers in engineering and the sciences commonly possess a trait of sustained arts engagement. (This one is especially interested in connection with the conversations around STEAM).
  3. The National Endowment for the Arts demonstrates that arts participation enhances civic engagement, empathy, and tolerance/cooperation.
  4. In addition to research telling us the arts belong, so are Fortune 500 CEOs who are craving a creative workforce.

Please take a few minutes and click on this link to the blog post so you can read about his beliefs on the topic!

Please note: some of the information for this post is taken directly from the blog post that you can link to which was written and put together by Tanya Muzumdar and published in “concentrate”.

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