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The North Carolina Art Education Association (NCAEA) is an active advocate for promoting visual arts education in K-12 public and private schools, higher education, museums, arts centers, and arts councils across the state. It is affiliated with the National Art Education Association.
To promote and improve the quality of visual arts education in the state of North Carolina. The North Carolina Art Education Association will focus on three broad categories to accomplish its goals: leadership, service, and advocacy.
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Happy summer, everyone!
The conference committee and NCAEA board are working hard on your fall professional development conference. We recently posted the accepted proposals on social media and our website. We will be contacting presenters personally with details of what day and time they’re presenting.
We have a huge range of presentations and workshops not to mention wonderful pre-conference sessions. The Asheville Art Museum, https://www.ashevilleart.org/, is working with Davis Publications and Cheryl Maney in creating a preservice session on Thursday November 14. The price is $50 per person. Please read the description below:
“Art Education 101 is primarily designed for pre-service teachers; teachers with less than 5 years of experience; teachers with teaching experience, but not an art background; and teachers with an art background, but without teaching experience. This daylong interactive pre-conference will include classroom management; designing lessons to align with state and national standards; increasing student engagement using inquiry method; facilitating students responding to art; and assessment for K-12 art education. Attendees should come prepared to be hands-on with different materials and to walk away with lessons to use immediately in the classroom. Bonus: We will be using art in the museum for some of our activities.”
Spread the word to your principals, superintendent, and administrators about this wonderful opportunity. Please know that Blick Art Materials has already committed to sponsoring three beginning teachers again this year. Please stay tuned for more information on signing up for a free conference registration. Like to raku? If yes, stay tuned for more information on a four hour pre-conference raku workshop at Odyssey Clayworks. The price is $60 per person, limited number of spots. You will get to walk away with raku fired pieces! Visit their website for more information about the facility, https://www.odysseyclayworks.com/. We cannot wait to tell you more about the upcoming pre-conference sessions. We hope to release registration and access in June. Stay tuned to our social media and website for the most up to date information. Reminder that you can book your hotel room at the Crowne Plaza now. We have a discount that ends in October. Book now for the NCAEA discount rate.
Registration Fees:
To get the early bird specials- registration and payments must be received before October 1, 2024.
○ Early Bird $165
○ Registration $190
○ Early Bird Non-Member $230
○ Non-Member $255
Congratulations to Amanda Gordon for her artwork being chosen for the conference. We cannot wait to put it on the conference companion, t-shirts, and merchandise!
Thank you again to everyone on the conference committee and the NCAEA board. I could not do this without you.
breathed in the smell of the trees, watched the rhythmic motion of the sprinkler watering my roses, and listened to the squeals of my boys as they rode their bikes through the cool droplets. It was at that point that I decided it was completely unacceptable to do this so rarely.
Why do we work, but for the chance to indulge in our own joys, in the service of our chosen spiritual path, in an effort to improve the quality of life for ourselves and our loved ones?
As a teacher and supporter of the arts, it is invaluable for you to spend time in pursuit of those
things that recharge you spiritually - enabling you to pour into those around you.
The Board is hard at work putting things in place to serve you - the membership. As opportunities arise for you to join in, please do so. Take time to connect with
Being part of the Presidential Trio™ comes with many demands, one being that we maintain the organization’s Constitution and By-Laws. This is our main governing document which outlines who we (NCAEA) are, the services we provide, and the roles of the board. During board meetings, board members occasionally make motions to revise items in the Constitution. Some of these changes can be passed during a board meeting, while others must be presented to you, the members of NCAEA, for approval during Conference. These motions and amendments are essential, because NCAEA cannot function properly with outdated or inadequate governing documents. While our board has made many motions and improvements over the years, we find ourselves still with a Constitution which is largely out-of-date, wordy, and in need of many alterations.
This summer, your Presidents and an Ad Hoc Committee, lead by our Historian MaryLu Flowers-Schoen, met to begin work on a re-write of our Constitution. Our goal in this task is to create a document which is clear, consistent, and truly reflects the NCAEA as it is now and as it will be. This committee is dedicated to transparency, so while our work is not yet finished, I share this news with you anyway: As our committee concludes the rewrite of our Constitution, we will be sharing both old and new documents and hosting a town hall to receive your questions and concerns. Stay tuned for further announcements.
In your service,
Greetings District Leaders, Lead Teachers and anyone else who is reading this article!
NAME: LeighAnn Little
Email: admindivision @ncaea.org
I was able to attend the National Art Education Association Convention in Minneapolis this past April, and wanted to share with you all updates, resources and ask you all to fill out a survey that was also shared in the latest Drip.
The Preconvention session consisted of time to network, interactive panel discussions and mindfulness. The first interactive panel discussion was with Livya Doman - NBCT, and Arts & Cultural Responsiveness Facilitator with Disrupting Norms, Dr. Susan Magsamen - Co-Author of Your Brain on Art: How to Transform Us, Dr. Catherine Rosamond - Department chair at the School for Visual Arts and serves on the DEI Task Force, and Dr. Karen Salvadore - Associate professor of Music Education at Michigan State University's College of Music.
Topics discussed with the panelists included how to look at data, advocacy, working with new and non-licensed teachers, school building specifications, advocacy and how to navigate divisive concepts laws.
The second part of the day was spent with Dr. Jane E. Dalton, where we experienced mindfulness and expressive arts practices to strengthen creativity and well-being. We did a blind contour body scan meditation, listened with our heart and drew what we heard, discussed how to help students in the process of becoming, and the connection between creativity renewal, cognitive flexibility and mindfulness. Dr. Jane E. Dalton is the author of The Mindful Studio: Cultivating Creativity & Well-Being in the Art Classroom.
We wrapped up our time together with a panel discussion: The Power of Partnering with Community Artists, where we heard from Alice Mizrachi, Marlena Myles and Peyton Scott Russell.
At the Supervision and Administration business meeting, we participated in an ice breaker to identify where we are as leaders as well as a pulse check with the emotional color wheel. Trinity Villanueva is the Division Chair and Sarah Ackerman is the Chair-Elect. Discussions included how to increase attendance in this division, best ways to communicate and looking for regional elects.
Did you know that Laura Mitchell, Arts Education Specialist in Buncombe County is our Southeastern Supervision/Administration representative? At our December quarterly NCAEA Supervision/Administration meeting, she shared with us the NAEA Position Statement on the Importance of Visual Arts Supervisors/Administrators in PreK-12 Education. You can find that statement by clicking here.
Updates from NCAEA Admin/Supervision chair, Leigh Ann Little:
Please fill out this survey if you would like to be included in our NCAEA quarterly meetings. Share this survey with your district arts leader.
I will send out an email in June, after the end of the school year to figure out the best dates for the 2024-25 school year.
Please let me know if you have anything you would like to share at upcoming meetings.
Hang in there!
NAME: LeighAnn Little Email: admindivision @ncaea
Holding and perusing a handmade zine in the palm of your hand is an intimate experience, it’s special, for an audience of one at a time. Slowly looking through this mini art narrative held in your hands is the opposite of so many art experiences. It’s not a quick scroll in an overwhelming glowing instagram format with barely a glance, details lost, artist forgotten. Or a quick stroll through the hallowed halls of an art museum full of security guards. Instead, it’s reminiscent of an old family photo album, or a comic book; flipping pages and finding treasures. Zines have a preciousness about them. Handmade and YET you can touch. This art form has a cool history stemming back to 1920’s black literary writings in the Harlem Renaissance and 1930’s science fiction, it’s not quite a comic book, it’s not traditional “high art”, but somewhere in between.
For our zine lesson we chose the theme What does America mean to you? Our school is very diverse, 47 languages are represented and
so this prompt is going to be explored in a variety of ways. We were incredibly curious to learn what this prompt would reveal about our student body. Most artists chose an angle or sub theme within the prompt; East to West, Urban vs. Rural, American Conspiracy Theories, Personal journey, American Pop Culture, and American Road Trip to name a few.
We started with a group brainstorming discussion and looked at A.J. Pratt’s work, a unique maximalist who raises the
bar on zines fusing in a tremendous amount of 3d pop outs. Our next step was recording our thoughts with a deep dive into our sketchbooks, creating a bank of images, thumbnail sketches, and writing ideas. Some students explored collage and ink work early on. Themes were flushed out, we discussed transformational stories or contrasting ideas. We are fortunate that we have an annual zine expo in Durham, NC and zine show at the North Carolina Museum of Art, great sources of inspiration. Next we practiced making paper pop outs and folding and cutting 11”x17” paper to create an 8 page zine (including front and back cover). Our next move was exploring inking techniques and creating drama with line weights. We emphasized not just how the work looks now, but how will it look after being run through a photocopier. Our final step in planning was Investigating storyboarding options for composition and discussing the narrative organization of images.
Before beginning the actual zine, we discussed using a ground (short for background). Some students created underpaintings and textures before they began working (example; red, white, and blue). Throughout drawing and inking the zine, students were able to work at their own pace and jump around from cover art
to interior drawings and experimentation. We looked at examples daily and discussed positive and negative space, pattern, and balance. At group tables there were frequent peer book reviews and impromptu critiques. Once completed, the zines were copied multiple times on 11”x17” paper, students could trade, gift, or sell their copies.
We recommend breaking the grading down to 4 parts; sketchbook planning, outlining, inking+finish work, and critique.
The final peer book review critique was an awesome reveal, it was harder to see other students’ WIP’s as the format was so small. Students loved seeing other interpretations of the America theme. Finished books were displayed in the hallway for a broader audience. This lesson
could also work as a future crosscurricular collaboration: library, history, or English classes.
Time management was an issue, getting started and organizing ideas into cohesive compositions. In theory, a zine seems small and simple but it is actually 8 different panels, 8 different compositions, plus the need to establish a narrative flow. We
learned that we needed to create borders so that things didn’t get cut off in the copying process.
We loved the ownership that students had! There was a thoughtfulness into personal aesthetics and storytelling with interpretation of personal symbols and definite cultural identity investigation through our diverse group of students. Students loved the preciousness of a pocket-sized book and the tactile analog nature of the format. This media allowed for drawing success and sculpture success, everyone was happy at some point! Students still talk about how hands-off remote learning during covid haunts them, zines are an antidote.
Trish Klenow and Slater Mapp are teachers at Green Level High School in Cary, NC. If you have questions, feel free to reach out to Trish at trish@trishklenow.com
Location: Charlotte Airport
Time: 10:00 AM
Description: Time to catch a flight! Our flight to Minneapolis took off at 11:20 AM. When we landed, we snagged a rental car and stopped for a late lunch before checking into an AirBnB.
Location: Minneapolis Airport
Time: 5:00 PM
Description: I forgot something at home! Just kidding... �� The rest of our group sharing the AirBnB was arriving! We scuttled off to pick them up and stopped at the grocery store for supplies to get us through the week. Whitney cooked for all of us! After dinner, everyone helped prep for tomorrow’s meeting.
APRIL 3
Location: Minneapolis Convention Center
Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Description: Delegates meeting! We had a break to do lunch on our own, but we were otherwise occupied in a business session. After the meeting, the Southeast Region met for a reception. The group I housed with broke off for dinner, a mental break, and an early bedtime.
DAY 3: THURSDAY, APRIL 4
Location: Minneapolis Convention Center
Time: 8:30 AM
Description: It’s the first General Session! Lynda Barry was amazing to listen to. After the session, I checked out the Exhibit Hall (overwhelming!) and then listened to artists Karen Ann Hoffman and Peyton Scott Russell speak. My schedule didn’t include a break for lunch, but Whitney and I worked in time to stop for a sandwich.
Location: Minneapolis Convention Center
Time: 4:00 PM
Description: Division Awards Ceremony! It was wonderful to see our very own Leslie Burwell recognized on the big stage. After awards, we hurried to our house to get ready...
Location: Hilton Hotel
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Description: Purple Party and Artisans Market. We all dressed in Prince-inspired attire to celebrate. �� At the Artisans Market, our very own Frann Paige was selling beautiful earrings and accessories, while Deb Pylypiw was chatting with attendees. Deb was one of the planners for this national conference, after all! Shout out to Jamielle for being my beret twin.
DAY 4: FRIDAY, APRIL 5
Location: Minneapolis Convention Center
Time: 8:00 AM
Description: My first presentation began at 8 AM, followed quickly by JORDAN CASTEEL(!!!) at 9 AM.
Location: Minneapolis Convention Center
Time: 12:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Description: After sneaking off for the BEST sushi lunch I’ve ever had, I trudged back to the Convention Center to listen to artist Leslie Barlow speak. At 1 PM, Southeastern Leadership had a meeting, followed by a Southeastern Awards Ceremony at 4:30 PM. My day ended with a session led by UNCC’s Jane Dalton and some dinner/ice cream.
Location: Minneapolis Convention Center
Time: 9:00 AM
Description: RUTH E. CARTER, y’all. That’s all I gotta say. ��
Location: Minneapolis Convention Center
Time: 11:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Description: I broke away for a quick snack before listening to artist Marlena Myles speak and attending a few sessions. At 12:30, leadership had another meeting where we were grouped with other states of similar membership size. I took lots of pictures and made notes about some of the amazing things that other states are doing for their members.
Location: Paisley Park (!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Time: 3:30 PM
Description: Maria, Leslie, and I met up to tour Prince’s home at Paisley Park! This might be one of my favorite experiences from the whole trip. If I’m ever back in Minneapolis, I would love to take the VIP tour which shows more of the property.
Location: Walker Museum
Time: 9:00 AM
Description: The AirBnB was chaos as everyone struggled to pack their luggage with more than they had arrived with. We cleaned our rooms, stripped beds, wiped counters, and BARELY managed to fit into the car we rented. We left the AirBnB early with hopes of touring the Walker Museum in its entirety before our 3 PM flight home. Unfortunately, as we braved the freezing cold �� to tour the sculpture garden, we were getting texts from other NC attendees that the airport was swarmed. We agreed that we should leave earlier than planned and had to skip most of the museum.
Location: Minneapolis Airport
Time: 11:00 AM
Description: We walked right in and through TSA with no problem. By the time we arrived, the lines had all dissipated! Although we were all sad to have missed the art, we were glad to be in the airport able to grab lunch together and wait for our flight without stress. All of the Executive Board in attendance ended up being on the same flight home! ...A flight which was delayed by an hour. �� We were in good company and all made it home exhausted, but safe and sound!
Final takeaways: Conference is so busy that you don’t have the time (or energy) to do the tourist-y things. Build an extra day into your trip at the beginning so that you can casually see what the city has to offer.
There is no question that school and district budgets are tight everywhere Whether you work in a Title I school or not, funding can be an issue As art teachers, if you are like me, we are forever looking for the most engaging and coolest projects for each grade level taught. I love being able to utilize found materials but there are times when I want to use materials that are a little more costly. My humble budget (which I share with another teacher), will not allow me to purchase class sets of the biggest and best money can buy. So, when the opportunity presented itself to subsidize our budget, I jumped at the chance!
Our school cheer squad sponsor also ran our school snack stand at home basketball games. When she retired, the teacher who
replaced her wasn’t interested in running the stand I spoke to our Athletic Director and boom-there was a source of income for our art program! Not only was this an opportunity for us to source our programincluding the art club-but it was also a way to get our students involved. Every week about 4-5 students from our art club would volunteer to assist in running the stand with me. This also taught them how to deal with and communicate with the public and use soft skills that could help them as they prepare to get jobs in their later teen years. We would strategically plan what items we would offer, how long we worked, and determine who would do what job during the sale. I had one student take care of drinks, another would do chips, then candy, one
would take money, and another would be our merchandiser replacing the items we sold. This has proven to be our most dependable money maker, bringing in a little over $1,000.00 during last season.
Every year our school sponsors a talent show. This is a time for the community to come out and support our students as they bravely take the stage to perform. One year, the teacher who norma to step down from her d preparing to retire and When she shared this w the opportunity! Admis overhead equals PROFIT Department’s 5th year s Show and each year it h exponentially! Not only students and staff to pa invite community group This has helped us garn and help us meet the ne
Whether your school se suburbs, or in the city, u available to you to make robust and thriving one outside the box, and get ready to make profit!
Editors Note:
Do you have any other tried and true methods that you use to raise money for your art department? If so, we want to hear from you! Email Chynna Oaks at bydesign@ncaea.org with the subject line “Fundraising” and you could be featured in our next issue!
Asheville, NC November 14-17, 2024
Congratulations! These are your presenters and sessions for the 2024 NCAEA Fall Professional Development Conference. We will send out emails soon to all of the presenters in the next week on your date and time of your session.
Name of Presenter(s)
Amanda Aguayo
Amanda Aguayo
Jodi Aker, Kasey Vandenboom
Jill Ammons
Elizabeth Belois
Laura Bierer
Kaitlin Bumgarner, Ellen Loflin
Mary Jane Coker
Jane DaltonKerstin Davis
Presentation/Workshop Title
T.A.B. (Teaching for Artistic Behaviors)
Integrating Literacy in the Art Room
Aligning art curriculum to IB and AP studies
ROLL OUT the ART
Clay Koi Fish Sculptures
Digital Graphic Design projects
Choice and Assessment in the High School Art Room
The Power of Explosion Books: How to Make and Use Them
The Mindful Studio: Promoting Creativity and Well-Being through Expressive Arts
Coptic Stitch Journals
Hollis Dorafshar
Heather Ellington
Allison Ellis
Marylu Flowers-Schoen
Marylu Flowers-Schoen, Cheryl Maney, Barbi Bailey, Marjorie O'Shea
Amanda Gordon
Denise Gunter, Camille Tewell
Kody Hall
Highwater Clay Sponsored
Julia Hood
Hannah Jennings Murphy
Dean G Johns
Ann Jones
Kim Krausert
Christine Liao
Naomi Lifschitz-Grant
Maria Lim
Donna Link-Williams
Aurelis Lugo
Cheryl Maney and Davis Publications
Mayco Sponsored Workshop
Visual Arts: An Interdisciplinary Exchange
Digital Art in the Classroom
Bird Pillow Sculptures
Encore One Page Bookmaking with Paste Papers "Lightning Round" of Lesson Ideas
Arts Integration: A Hands-On Experience
NCMA Explore: Activate Your Maker Space and Engage Students with Museum Objects in 3D
LightScapes: Illuminating Art with LEDs
Coil Chickens
Going Beyond a Plane: Paper Sculpture Techniques
Choice-Based Teaching as an Equity Practice
Creating Surface Design in Paper
Fiber Arts in the Secondary Classroom
How to create a dynamic learning experience through visual art for the student with Autism.
Integrating Contemporary Art to Teach Critical Thinking Skills
Lesson Planning for Emotional Well-Being
Promoting Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in the Art TeacherPreparation
African Art-Kindly Kenya
Creating an Inviting Atmosphere at the Arts Studio
Pre ConFerence: Art Education 101 and Contemporary Conversations
Laura Mitchall, Tricia Harris
Monica Moore
Pooja Nair
Annie Pakes
Frann Paige
Heidi Pfirman
Robbie Quinn
Nica Rabinowitz, Kourtney Yelton
Scott Renk
Carrie Rivera
Luize Rodrigues
Sarah Schumacher
Kristin Smith
Cassie Stephens
Cassie Stephens
Lekia Thorpe, Kody Hall
Natasha Young
Autumn White
Kate Wurtzel, Laura Lee McCartney
Building Connection With the Heart: A Workshop in Curriculum Connections
Utilizing Artsonia to Upgrade the Art Room
Journey Within: Unveiling Your Inner Landscape
Desperately Seeking Sustainability: Ideas Worth Reusing, Recycling, and Repurposing
Colors in motion on silk
Oh, How Can You RESIST a Gelli Printing Workshop?
Gamemaster: A digital fabrication summer camp project
Connecting Through Cloth: A County Wide Weaving Initiative
Urban Sketching
Arts Integration and Collaboration with the Core Curriculum
Exploring Brazilian Art: A Hands-On Workshop
Tied up in knots LETRS and Scarborough’s Rope in the Elementary Art Room
NCMA School Outreach: Let the museum visit you
Intro to Needle Felting
Weaving Workshop
Mastering Virtual Art Exhibits: Galleries of the future NOW
Intro. To Digital Drawing (workshop)
Needle Felting with Embroidered Embellishments
Rethinking Care at the Pre-service Level
SECRETARY Frann Paige secretary@ncaea.org
TREASURER Maria Robinson treasurer@ncaea.org
ADVOCACY Jamielle Orrell advocacy@ncaea org
ED&I Vacant Position edi@ncaea org
MEMBER AT LARGE 1 Jeannette Stevenson memberatlarge1@ncaea org
MEMBER AT LARGE 2 Shila Alexander memberatlarge2@ncaea.org
ELEMENTARY Suzanne Sload elementarydivision@ncaea.org
MIDDLE Natasha Young middledivision@ncaea.org
SECONDARY Vacant Position secondarydivision@ncaea.org
MUSEUM Michelle Harrell & Julia Hood museum@ncaea org
HIGHER ED Borim Song highereducation@ncaea org
SUPERVISION LeighAnn Little admindivision@ncaea org
RETIRED/EMERITUS Susan Hess & Sara Sagar retireddivision@ncaea.org
PRE-SERVICE Vacant Position preservicepresident@ncaea.org
PRESIDENT Whitney Hern president@ncaea.org
PRESIDENT ELECT Chynna Oaks presidentelect@ncaea.org
PAST PRESIDENT Melissa Poppe presidentelect@ncaea org
REGION 1 Crisianee Berry & Nancy Winn region1coordinator @ncaea org
REGION 2 Christine Liao & Heidi Pfirman region2coordinator @ncaea.org
REGION 3 Sarah Schumacher region3coordinator @ncaea.org
REGION 4 Allison Ellis & Theressa Lewis region4coordinator @ncaea org
REGION 5 Lyn Lambros region5coordinator @ncaea org
REGION 6 Pooja Nair region6coordinator @ncaea org
REGION 7 Genal West & Samantha Strathy region7coordinator @ncaea.org
REGION 8 Kourtney Yelton region8coordinator @ncaea.org
EDITOR Chynna Oaks bydesign@ncaea org
AWARDS Caitlyn Bachman awards@ncaea.org
WEBMASTER Jodi Aker webmaster@ncaea.org
SOCIAL MEDIA Amanda Gordon socialmedia@ncaea.org
SCHOLARSHIP Sara Sagar scholarship@ncaea.org
YOUTH ART MONTH Jana Farris yam@ncaea.org
HISTORIAN MaryLu Flowers-Schoen planning@ncaea org
ADAPTIVE ARTS Christina Bell adaptivearts@ncaea org
INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS Vacant Position independentschools@ncaea org
NAHS Vacant Position nahs@ncaea.org
NJAHS Vacant Position njahs@ncaea.org
PRESERVICE SPONSOR Emily J. Howard preservice@ncaea.org
GENERAL ASSEMBLY Anne CourieMeulink & Amanda Aguayo generalassemblyart@ncaea.org
DPI REPRESENTATIVE Vacant Position DPIrep@ncaea org
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Trace: Use tracing paper and pencil to copy hand pose. Clean off dry-erase lines and repeat with a new pose
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