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Maine Arts Assessment Initiative – NEW Website!

August 12, 2014

Created for you!

The crazy adventure/uncharted territory known as the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative (MAAI) is now 4 years old. During that time, over 1,000 Arts educators have participated in MAAI activities, including workshops, state Conferences, Webinars, courses, and on and on. One of the unforeseen benefits of all this professional development has been the excavation of vast amounts of materials and documents to further our understanding and our work. From rubric construction and advice on implementing standards, to blogs, publications, and web resources, it seems that there’s little out there that hasn’t been unearthed in the process of working as colleagues in this state. Along those lines, it has been a bit of a pipe dream to create a web site that actually stores all of these resources in a user friendly format; “one stop shopping” for all things Arts Assessment. Being unveiled here is the manifestation of that goal, maineartsassessment.com.

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The website is split into easily searchable topics: Assessment Documents, Helpful Videos, “tons” of Web Links and Advocacy. We also decided to make this site the home page for MAAI, so there is a link there giving the mission, history and present day activities for educators to plug themselves into. Also featured is a “Proficiency Toolkit”, providing a step-by-step process by which Arts educators can move forward in their work to meet local and state requirements, adopting standards work in their own programs/schools/classrooms in ways that make sense to them.

All of us in MAAI are extraordinarily proud of the work that’s going on across the state. But it’s all for naught unless the work continues. Here is a way to access all the amazing resources out there in the world that will help us do so. Take a peek at the website when you get a few minutes, and hop onto the areas that resonate the most with your own professional needs. We welcome feedback and suggestions as this site continues to spring to life, and hope you will utilize it as a favorite “go to” site in the months and years to come.

A GREAT big thank you to Rob Westerberg for his numerous hours of work bringing together all of the information and creating the new website!

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Monhegan Museum and Jame Fitzgerald Legacy

January 5, 2013

Monhegan Island

Trout Stream, Spring by James Fitzgerald watercolor, 19.5 x 24.5 in. All reproduction rights reserved.

Trout Stream, Spring by James Fitzgerald watercolor, 19.5 x 24.5 in. All reproduction rights reserved.

The Monhegan Museum and the James Fitzgerald Legacy are pleased to announce the launch of a new website, www.jamesfitzgerald.org where information and images of American artist James E. Fitzgerald (1899-1971) can be found.

Fitzgerald grew up in Boston, received his training at the Massachusetts School of Art (1919-1923) and the Boston Museum School (1923-24). He lived and painted in the Boston area for a number of years and first visited Monhegan Island, off the coast of Maine, in 1925. In 1928 he sailed to California and settled in Monterey where he built a studio-home.

Every few years, Fitzgerald would travel east, painting along the way and on Monhegan Island where he moved permanently in 1943. Eventually he purchased a house and a studio, both built by Rockwell Kent earlier in the century.  In 2004 these buildings became part of the Fitzgerald and Kent Legacy and now belong to the Monhegan Museum and are on the National Registry of Historic Places.

Fitzgerald exhibited extensively in California during the 1930s, in New York at several galleries, and at Vose Gallery in Boston in the 1940s, after which he gradually withdrew from the commercial art world. Today his work is in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Portland Museum of Art (Maine), Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, and the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. The James Fitzgerald Legacy continues to promote, preserve, and disseminate information about his work through scholarship, exhibitions, and now—this website. Please visit us at www.jamesfitzgerald.org or, for more information, call 207-615-8233.

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