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New Visual Arts Standards
October 16, 2014Opportunity for professional development from National Art Education Association
Implementing the New Visual Arts Standards: A Resource to Support Instruction Aligned with State Standards
Tuesday, October 21, 2014 | 7pm ET
Complimentary to NAEA members; $49/non-members
Presenters: Dennis Inhulsen, NAEA President and Chair of the Visual Arts Writing Team; Scott Russell, Elementary Art Teacher and Writing Team Member; Cory Wilkerson, Communications Chair, National Coalition of Core Arts Standards
The new standards provide opportunities for art educators to look at instruction and student growth through an aspirational lens. Learn how art educators are connecting the new voluntary standards with their own state and district standards. See how the new standards framework can be aligned with state standards to support student learning by embedding Enduring Understandings for instruction.
To register, please click here.
Maine Art Education Association
July 12, 2013Team East
Thank you to the new president, Heidi O’Donnell, of the Maine Art Education Association for contributing this blog post on her recent trip to Team East.
MAEA president, Heidi O’Donnell, past president Sandy Brennan, Treasurer Suzanne Goulet
The Eastern Region Leadership Retreat was recently held in New Bedford, MA and I was able to enjoy the experience with Sandy Brennan and Suzanne Goulet. Vibrant discussions around community building, advocacy, research and knowledge, learning, and organizational vibrancy intermingled with local gallery tours, a private viewing of the New Bedford Art Museum, wine and chocolate tasting, a dinner train event, and a guided downtown walk lead by docents affiliated with the New Bedford Whaling Museum made this a most enjoyable experience!
We were able to connect with other leaders, share highlights and frustrations, discuss important topics such as teacher evaluations, supporting state association members, document reviews, and general association issues. The National Art Education Association has decided that the Regional retreats will be held only in odd numbered years and that National Leadership Retreats will be held in even numbered years. Next year we will be traveling to Santa Fe, New Mexico (July 24-27)!
Please contact me at heidiaemaine@gmail.com if you are interested in joining us and learning more about being involved with the Maine Art Education Association. If Santa Fe doesn’t work for you, I am excited to announce that in 2015, Maine will host Team East! We will be looking for members to help with the planning of this exciting event! Again, please contact me if you are interested about Team East or any other topics related to Maine’s visual art professional organization.
Back From Texas
March 11, 2013National Art Education Association
Yes, that is hats
The trip to the National Art Education Association conference in Texas was a fabulous opportunity to join 5000 art educators in Fort Worth, Texas. I was surprised about Fort Worth, population about 750,000. The streets are wide, it was easy walking from downtown to the conference center, and the people are friendly. And, yes the temperature did get to 70 degrees one day.
It was a little touch and go leaving Maine in questionable weather. Our flying plan was to go to Fort Worth via LaGuardia which was changed. We left Portland 2 hours late and went through Detroit and landed in Texas an hour earlier. Go figure!
It was great to see the Maine art teachers in Texas and have a chance to get together with all of them in between sessions.
One of the highlights of the conference was attending a session with Jay McTighe whose work along with Grant Wiggins, Understanding by Design has been used as the basis for the National Core Arts Standards work. Jay went over the components of the Framework that provides a clearer picture of the work that is underway.
I also attended a session with Lois Hetland the author of Studio Thinking. During the conference the latest edition of the book was released.
It was great having the opportunity to share the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative with Catherine Ring and Bronwyn Sale during a session at the conference.
If you’ve attended a large conference you know what it is like to go through the exhibition hall and have the opportunity to speak to the 100’s of vendors and learn about their products and programs. I met Jessica Balsley from The Art of Education. If you aren’t familiar with AOE I recommend you go to the site.
And, as you can see here we also had a lot of fun at the conference, even getting to a genuine rodeo!
Off to Texas!
March 6, 2013Catherine, Bronwyn, Argy and others
Fort Worth, Texas is the location of the National Art Education conference this year and starts on Thursday morning. There are several Maine art teachers traveling west to attend the conference that offers over 1000 workshops during a four day period.
On Friday I will be joining Maine Arts Assessment Initiative leadership team members Bronwyn Sale and Catherine Ring to present a session Friday morning on the MAAI. The session is called Maine Arts Teachers Lead the Way: Toward Exemplary Teaching and Learning in the Arts. The description: Explore a grass-roots, collaborative professional development model that has led to exciting growth in teaching and learning, fosters reflection, and bridges the gap between theory and practice in arts classrooms.
We’re all looking forward to sharing the outstanding work that Maine arts teachers have been involved with during the last 2 years.
You can follow the events and happenings a the conference on Twitter at NAEAartmatters. If I can get online while in Fort Worth I will post information on the meartsed blog. If not, I will certainly provide an update when we return.
Thoughtful Question
May 7, 2012All this talk about proficiency based education
With all these conversations at the local level, state level, and national level about competency based, standards based, and/or students centered learning I turn to you… the experts on arts education in the classroom. And, I have one single question that I hope you will take a few minutes to answer. Answer it for yourselves or perhaps pose the question at a teachers meeting in your school or district. Or take a few minutes and answer it at the bottom of this blog post….
What do you want ALL students to know about arts education when they complete their PK-High School learning?
And while you are thinking about that go one step further… I saw this one on a blog post written by Marilyn Stewart on the National Art Education Association Monthly Mentor blog. Marilyn calls it the “20 year test”. This is how it goes (feel free to change ‘art’ to arts’)….
Imagine that you are in the produce section of your local market, twenty years from now. Another shopper sees you and comes over to speak, saying, “I remember you! You were my art teacher twenty years ago.”
Marilyn goes on… I want you think about what you want to know—when you smile back at this student of yours from long ago—what you want to know that this now-adult-person understands as a result of her or his time with you and your art program.
This adult shopper—your ex-student—is not likely to be working as an artist when you meet. However, regardless of what your student from the past is doing with her or his life, think about what you would want this person to understand—deeply—about art and our experiences with art.
If you have a minute to do this, write it down: Twenty years from now, I want my students to understand _____________________.
This happens to me almost every time I go to the grocery store or in almost any other store near my home. I am guessing if you’ve taught a while that it happens to you if you live in the town where you teach/taught. It’s a wonderful feeling to bump into these students, as I fumble around for their name. After leaving the store I get into my car and wonder what do they remember from being in my class?! Take a few minutes and write down what you want them to know and integrate that into your teaching. It could be one way to insure that it is taught and a better chance of them knowing it in 20 years!
Maine Art Educator of the Year: Linda Stanley
March 28, 2012Linda speaks at the Youth Art Month Opening, Portland Museum of Art
Linda Stanley retired from teaching art but not before she was recognized for her contributions to teaching by the Maine Art Education Association. On March 10th Linda spoke at the opening for the Youth Art Month exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art. Below you will find her message. The student exhibit remains at the museum until March 31st.
Last week I had the honor of representing the art teachers of Maine at the National Art Education Association Conference in New York City. With five thousand registered attendees and an expected two thousand walk-in registrations, I had the chance to meet and discuss art with many creative artists and teachers.
One of the artists I had a chance to meet and hear was Peter Max. He quoted Isaac Newton who said, “I have not come far without having stood on the shoulders of giants.” Peter Max then said, “My art teachers have all been great giants to me, ever since I was a young boy who was fascinated with art, imagination and creativity.” As I walk through the halls of this museum I hear the footsteps of giants urging all of you to create and work as artists throughout the state of Maine.
Peter Max was raised in Shanghai, China and would spend hours with a calligraphy brush in his hand. His Chinese nanny encouraged him to “just draw”. He developed his muscles in his hands and wrists. He would go through stacks of paper each day. The skills he built early as a child would later help him as an artist.
I would encourage you to draw everyday. Just as a successful athlete or musician makes their art appear to flow from them and seem easy…they practice everyday. Peter Max’s work may appear easy but his practice as a child helped him build a repertoire of images in his mind and skilled hands to work from.
Chuck Close was another artist I had a chance to listen to at the convention. He said, “inspiration is for amateurs – the rest of us just show up and work. If you go to work – everything comes out of the work itself. I’ve never had an artistic block – inspiration is overrated.”
Each of you is already an artist so please continue to work, create and most of all enjoy what you are doing. I agree with most of what Chuck Close had to say. However, your works hanging in this museum are an inspiration to all of us. An inspiration to get out our sketch books and practice, practice, practice as Peter Max said.
Linda Stanley who is the Maine Art Education Association teacher of the year shared these thoughtst at the opening for the state Youth Art Month opening at the Portland Museum of Art on March 10th.
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