A Day of Clay!

16 Art Teachers participated in the Art PD opportunity Sponsored by KyAEA Caveland Region. Nine of the teachers were from Warren County schools. The Workshop was held at Mid-South Clay, Home of the wonderful Danielle McDaniel, The Clay Lady! Danielle did a fabulous job of guiding us through the process of Raku, Handbuilding, and Throwing on the Wheel. Yes! We did all 3! She also gave us a tour of Mid South Clay and told us all about the business of making glazes and selling clay and clay products. We also toured the Artists Co-op and were very impressed by all that we saw. We were given 3 choices of Raku processes; Horsehair, white porcelain glaze with cracks, or Copper glaze. During handbuilding we created woven clay baskets. Danielle taught us her tried and true "Squirrel Method" of throwing! Loved this super creative time with my fellow art teachers! Join us next year.....yep, we are already planning a repeat of this!!

SE Leadership Conference 2013 Nashville TN

Tennessee Art Education Association hosted NAEA's SE Leadership Conference July 11-13. Missi Carini and I attended the conference representing KyAEA. We stayed in the beautiful Hutton Hotel and had our meetings at the Frist Art Museum. Some of the fun activities of our Cultural day included a tour of the Nashville Parthenon and a visit with artist Alan LeQuire, creator of the Athena Statue. We also visited the Nashville Public Library where we viewed their Puppet collection and then heard from Puppet Master, . We were so impressed with his process of creating the puppets and puppet shows that we asked to come see the show the next day. I think it was a highlight for everyone! We ate lunch at Monell's Family style restaurant and then on to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. We had a private tour of the Hatch Show Print Shop then Dinner at the Sunset Grill. We topped it all off with a visit to the Cheekwood Museum and Gardens to see Bruce Monroe's Light exhibit....stunning! Friday we began our work on platform statements, wording, and new info presented by Deb Philypiw and Dennis Inhulsen. Saturday we continued our work and gave State Reports. I was able to report on some great things happening within KyAEA. We finished our weekend with a Night at the Grand Ole Opry.

NAEA Ft. Worth Texas March 6-10, 2013

Howdy Ya'll! NAEA in Ft. Worth was awesome as expected! Here's some of the highlights! Onmi hotel was great! So beautiful with very affordable and tasty food! One day we enjoyed a lovely lunch buffet of soup, salad and dessert for $10. So many choices and everything was great! Our room was spacious and very comfortable. Plenty of elevators and the wait was never very long. Loved the "Texas Art" featuring cowboys, horseshoes, horses etc. My presentation, "Barn Quilts" went great! I think about 75-80 people attended the session. I had them work in 6 different groups to draw and paint their own barn quilt. Some people were just observing and taking photos. The Quilts turned out awesome. A big Thank You to my wonderful friends (Missi, Jennifer, Shelly, and Marilyn) for assisting me in setting everything up and guiding the participants through the process. Attending Sessions is always so enriching. Here's a few of the ones I went to; Trash is the failure of imagination: Creative reuse Education, Needle Felting: Combining the unique art of needle felting with Portraiture, Beauty is Embarrassing (Wayne White- Artist), Pinterest in the art room, Artist- Elizabeth Delacruz, and Lights Camera, Learning! From Fugleflicks and Campbell Soup. Jennifer Sims and I went to the Kimbell art Museum and to the Modern art museum....such fun! Wonderful collections that inspired us both. We also snuck in a visit to Jack in the Box for tacos (my fav) and then went by my Mom's house and surprised her. Jen got a great deal on some new art books too. Eating out?? Oh Yes! Joe T Garcia's, The Corner Bakery, Pirana's (sushi), Coopers Old Time Pit BarBQue, and Ojos Locos. Our visits to Ft. Worth's Stockyards was really fun as we posed with a longhorn, watched a cattle drive, walked on old brick roads, watched Missi ride a bull, and shopped for Texas stuff. A highlight for me was my Niece, Jessie joining us. She is studying art at Texas A&M and we loved showing her how to navigate vendors and gather all those goodies. Missi was a great teacher for her! Who doesn't love vendors???!! They are very generous with all the goodies and I love to try all of the products. My personal favorite vendors are: Michaels, Blick, Crayola, Canson, General, Sargent Art, Staedtler, Sakura (I won a classpak of craypas oil pastels!), google and artsonia (I love blobby). We all went home with stuffed suitcases! Jesus Moralas, internationally known sculptor was very inspiring and Annette Lawrence, installation artist was highly interesting as we listened to her journey of creating....I just love listening to artists describe how they create. Also......Got to visit my mom!!

What is NAEA Delegates all About?

Several people saw my posts on our facebook page of the voting during delegates assembly for NAEA. Some asked, "What are you voting on?" So I want to share briefly what happens during the delegates assembly. This year in Ft. Worth we began on Thursday at 8:00 am and ended around 4:00 pm. During that time we focused on the 5 proposed position statements that were added to the NAEA Platform Document. These statements represent NAEA's official position on issues of importance to our field and to education in general. During the summer Leaders come together for summer leadership meetings in each region and work on the ideas for these statements. You can view the documents at the NAEA website www.arteducators.org in the "About us" section under "NAEA Platform and Position Statements. The Draft New Position Statements presented for Review and discussion by the delegates assembly, March 2013 are listed below. Platform Category: Art Educators * Position Statement on Teacher Evaluation and Student Growth * Position Statement on Visual Art and its relationship to CTE (Career Technical Education) Platform Category: Curriculum *Position Statement on Arts Integration Platform Category: Instruction *Position Statement on Distance Learning in Art Education Platform Category: Assessment * Position Statement on Student assessment in the visual arts classroom We also reviewed 5 Position statements adopted in 2010 On Thursday we met from 10-12 to review the statements with revisions from the day before and then we voted on each one. It is really awesome to work with other state leaders and really feel that you have made a difference.