2011 MAEA Summer Exhibition - "Artists Teaching in Massachusetts" *

The annual summer juried exhibit of the Massachusetts Art Education Association, "Artists Teaching in Massachusetts," is taking place from June 15 through September 16, 2011.

It is on view at the 2nd Floor Gallery located in the State Transportation Building, 10 Park Plaza, Boston.
While the exhibit space is not open weekends and holidays, the works are on display Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m.

A closing reception will take place from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Sept. 16.

For more information about this event see the zevent listed at Boston.com

* Works provided by Debby Kramer, Carolann Tebbets and Alaina Mahoney

2011 Barre Arts Festival - Call For Participants

Applications to participate in the 2011 Arts Festival in Barre, MA are now being accepted.
Applications due by October 14, 2011.

Arts Festival
Saturday, October 22, 2011
from 1PM-5PM
at the Barre Town Hall and Studio Vogue in Barre, MA 01005

The Arts Festival aims to foster community appreciation for the arts, including fine, dramatic, musical, and performance arts and to encourage local artists to showcase their art and become involved in the community. We are looking for artists, musicians, performers, and arts organizations who wish to take part in this Festival. Participants may display their work, promote their own upcoming events, demonstrate, and sell their work/recordings. Musicians/performers are welcome to a time slot on the stage (first-come-first-served, acoustic only). This Festival is family-friendly and free to the public.

Questions are welcome.

Contact Elizabeth Buck at artsfestival@verizon.net or 508.831.8935

Arts Festival Participation Form

MAEA 2011 Conference - Call For Workshop Proposals

July 15, 2011
Dear MAEA Members,

We hope you already know that the 2011 Massachusetts Art Education Association - Fall Conference will be held November 11 - 13, 2011 at the Resort and Conference Center at Hyannis. This property is former Sheraton Conference Center where we have had many excellent working weekends.

The conference title is "Creative Learning in the 21st Century". We look forward to an exciting in-service experience including on-site as well as off-site activities. We are also encouraging our participants to bring along their significant others and other family members. We will have "special" activities for our extended family guests!

This letter is written to you because we would like you to submit one or more workshop proposals for the conference. Last fall for Amherst?s conference we received a record number of proposals thanks to our members? interest and participation. We hope this year will have even higher levels of participation!

We want a majority of the workshops to be hands-on and participant active. We are looking for workshops with a broad appeal for teachers from elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, higher education institutions as well as supervisory/administration and museum education members.

We will reimburse up to $50 for materials/handouts for each workshop session.

The workshop proposal form is in printable form at : Workshop Print Form

Or fill out the Online Proposal Form

Workshop proposals are due by September 15th, and will be reviewed starting as soon as they are received. We want to notify presenters by September 20th. Registration information will be posted on the web after we have selected the workshops. We expect to have registration information available by early October. Participants will select their preferred workshops when they register. (This will help the presenters prepare and plan their materials based on registered numbers of participants. Some hands-on workshops are limited to a smaller number of people depending on cost of materials and/or size of room.) Presenters receive one free conference registration (sometimes people present in pairs or groups and split the cost of registration).

Registration fees will be as follows:

MAEA/NAEA Members (including NAEA members from other states) = $125
Non-Members Active Teachers = $160
MAEA/NAEA Student/Retired Members = $45
Non-Member Students/Retired Teachers= $55


The conference hotel room rate is $99.00 per room, per night, single or double occupancy. For triple occupancy, please add $20.00 per room/per night, quad occupancy $40.00 per room/per night to the above rate. Please note that MA occupancy tax is currently 11.7% which will apply. Children under the age of 16 stay free in the same room with parents utilizing existing bedding; cots are available at $15.00 plus 11.7% tax per night.

You can make hotel reservation at any time directly with the hotel: 508-775-7775. Be sure to identify yourself as a Massachusetts Art Education Association Conference participant.

Commercial exhibits of arts and crafts manufacturers, suppliers and schools will be with us on Saturday located in the Registration area.

On Saturday, there will be an Awards Luncheon for this year's award winning art teachers from all levels.

There will NOT be evening meals so participants are free to make their own decisions about where to dine on Cape Cod!

The conference schedule outline is attached. On Friday, we will offer visits to arts resources on Cape Cod and Job-A-Like Lesson Sharing Sessions. On Saturday, we will offer over 25 individual sessions, the Awards Luncheon, Commercial Exhibits and a General Session. On Sunday, we will have diverse hands-on Studio Workshops for art media and technique investigation.

We hope many of you will join us in Hyannis as presenters and participants!

Questions: 617-973-7290 or massartedassn@aol.com

Tentative Conference Schedule

MASSACHUSETTS STUDENTS RECEIVE NATIONAL ART & WRITING AWARDS AND WILL BE CELEBRATED AT CARNEGIE HALL IN NEW YORK CITY

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2011 Honor the Nation's Most Talented Young Artists and Writers

[BOSTON,MA] April 25, 2011
Seventy students from Massachusetts have received 73 prestigious national Awards for their outstanding art work and writing through The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the 88 year-old national program that recognizes outstanding creative teenagers and offers scholarship opportunities for graduating high school seniors.

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APRIL OPEN HOUSE + INFORMATION SESSION


PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR SUMMER ACADEMY 2011

WEDNESDAY APRIL 20 1-3pm

1:00 - 2:00 Summer Academy Program Overview
2:00 - 3:00 BAC Gallery Tour & Gallery Talk with the Architects

This is a great opportunity to experience the work of an international architecture firm and a climate engineering firm in the BAC's interactive exhibition. The firms are acclaimed for working collaboratively on vibrant, environmentally responsible, sustainable designs. Learn More ...

Boston's T3 Initiative Is Now Seeking Great Art Teachers


Do you want to be a part of a teacher team and lead from the classroom? Teach Plus is looking for an arts teacher leader (art, music, or drama) to join the T3 Initiative UP Academy, Boston's first in-district charter school. Apply today at www.t3teachers.org.

The T3 Initiative, a partnership of Teach Plus, the Boston Public Schools, and Unlocking Potential, was created to recruit and support cohorts of effective teachers to serve in Boston's lowest-performing schools. Originally outlined in a proposal written by Boston teachers, T3 is a team-based turnaround strategy that ensures strong colleagues for teachers and better teaching for urban students. T3 teachers have leadership responsibilities in addition to teaching and will be compensated accordingly. Principals in T3 schools are highly effective, experienced school leaders committed to teacher leadership. To learn more please visit www.t3teachers.org.

Teacher Workshop in conjunction with El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa

El Anatsui, Three Continents, 2009 | Aluminum and copper wire, 98 x 191 in. | Photo courtesy: Jack Shainman Gallery

Grant Opportunity for Surface Artists



The Surface Design Association, is offering grants for 10 k-12 teachers toward attending the Confluence Conference in Minneapolis this June. The SDA is an organization that supports anyone working in surface design such as dyeing, encaustic, silkscreening, etc.

Website: http://dev.surfacedesign.org/SDA-Scholar.html

Application

Student Researcher Looking for Youth Artwork

My name is Jessica Prichett and I am a Junior at Springfield College. I am a part of a Research class with Prof. Simone Alter-Muri and we are trying to see if we would be able to post a call for data for art educators who are interested in submitting data for the research project. The research project is to collect art from typical children in the Springfield area. Attached is everything about the study, and also Prof. Alter-Muri is a member of the Mass Art Ed association and is the one conducting the research. If you have any further questions or information for me or my professor please contact me, my email is jprichett@aol.com or jprichett@spfldcol.edu. Thank you so much and I hope to hear from you soon!

Sincerely,
Jessica Prichett

Project Overview

Project Description

Student Consent Form

Maureen Kelly Named Interim Senior Vice President at Massachusetts College of Art and Design

BOSTON, MA July 28, 2010?Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) announces that Dr. Maureen Kelly, professor of art education, has begun a new role as the interim senior vice president for academic affairs. Kelly has been appointed by the MassArt Board of Trustees to replace longtime senior vice president Johanna Branson, who retired at the end of June after a long and distinguished professional career at the college.

"I feel confident that this transition will serve our faculty and students well," said President Kay Sloan. Maureen is widely respected in the field of art education and her expertise will enable us to move forward on a number of academic initiatives currently underway.

Professor Kelly has been a member of the art education faculty at MassArt since 1988 and was chair of the department from 2003-2008. Along with teaching, she has worked as a thesis and clinical advisor in the graduate program, as internship placement coordinator, and as co-director of Saturday Studios, a youth art education program at MassArt that serves 200 students annually. She has also been a member of numerous college committees including diversity leadership, tenure and curriculum.

Kelly's many achievements during her tenure at the college include restructuring the art education department and its advising systems, growing enrollment in the program, creating curricular changes and subsequent necessary studio space, and integrating technology as a departmental communication vehicle.

"As incoming senior vice president of academic affairs, I look forward to working with my colleagues, both within and outside the college, in continuing to offer MassArt students an unparalleled educational experience in the visual arts," said Kelly. Additionally, I am very pleased to look to the future of visual arts education and facilitate the work of our students and faculty as they make significant creative contributions to local, national and international initiatives.

Prior to joining the faculty at MassArt, Professor Kelly worked as an art specialist in the Brockton, Chelsea and Weymouth public schools. She was also employed as an art therapist at the Judge Baker Children's Center, Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, MA, as a guidance counselor at the Carroll School in Lincoln, MA, and as a therapist at the Brandon School in Natick, MA.

Kelly holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art, with a minor concentration in English, from Regis College. She also holds a Master of Education in Art Therapy from Lesley University and a Doctorate in Education from UMass Boston.

She is a former trustee of the Montessori School in Scituate, MA. She currently serves as an Overseer of the South Shore Conservatory in Hingham, MA, and on the Board of Trustees for the Walker Home and School in Needham, MA.

EMERGING ARTISTS IN MASSACHUSETTS

July 12 - September 3, 2010
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Mon. - Fri. (except holidays)
2nd Floor Balcony Gallery
Massachusetts State Transportation Building
10 Park Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts 02116

July 9, Friday: Artist Reception, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Current students and recent graduates of the Massachusetts College of Art & Design present their current work.

Adam D. Bullock, Katrine Burkitt, Ana Rita Ferreira, Tabitha Fitzsimmons, Joshua Gale, Matt King, Jon Koppel, Kevin Long, Peter Long, Cailigh MacDonald, Alaina Mahoney, Leah Meleski, Destiny Palmer, Hamideh Rezaei-Kamalabad, Yuri Tozuka, Jon Verney, Emily White, Katia Wish

New England Art Education Conference, Inc. 617- 973-7290 - neartedconf@aol.com

See invitation

Legislature Approves Cultural Districts, Index to Measure Creativity in Schools

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 9, 2010 Contact: Gregory Liakos, Communications Director 617-727-3668 x343 (Boston, MA)?The Massachusetts House of Representatives joined the Senate on Wednesday in passing measures to establish state-sponsored cultural districts and explore ways to measure how schools foster student creativity. The provisions were part of broader legislation designed to advance economic development in Massachusetts and reorganize state government agencies. Differences remain between the House and Senate versions of the bill that must be reconciled through a conference committee before it goes to the Governor for his approval. The legislative session ends July 31.

The House bill would establish a program to create state-sponsored cultural districts, distinctive areas of a community in which a high concentration of cultural facilities and programs serve as an anchor for activity and commerce. The Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) would manage the program and set guidelines with input from the public and other state agencies. Read More...

Clarke Buchanan Named Honorary Chair of 25th Anniversary TD Bank Pops by the Sea

Centerville, MA, June 7, 2010 - The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod and the Hyannis Area Chamber of Commerce are pleased to announce that Clarke Buchanan has been named Honorary Chair of the 25th Anniversary TD Bank Pops by the Sea concert. The annual concert features the only Cape Cod appearance of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and conductor Keith Lockhart.

"As the founding organization of Pops by the Sea, it has been our privilege and pleasure each year to select an Honorary Chair of Pops by the Sea," said Deborah Converse, President and CEO of the Hyannis Area Chamber of Commerce. Read More...

USSEA Regional Conference

The Regional Conference of the United States Society for Education through Art (USSEA), "Youth and Community Development: How the Arts Serve Economically Impoverished Communities" is quickly approaching. Don?t miss this opportunity to participate in an inspiring, motivating, summer event that addresses a timely concern.

The conference features panel presentations by experts in the field of community art and art education, interactive workshops and working groups. Keynote speakers will be Shirley Brice Heath (Stanford University), Glen Coutts (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland), and Elizabeth Delacruz (University of Illinois). Come away with resources for enacting positive change in your classroom and community. The conference will be held at the State University of New York at New Paltz New Paltz, in beautiful upstate New York from June 11-13.

Pre-registration for the full conference can be completed through Paypal at the USSEA website until June 7. Registration at the door will be $100 for adults ($25 for students). Those who wish to attend for one day only may register for $40. 00 per day ($15.00 for students).

USSEA is an affiliate of the National Art Education Association (NAEA) and the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA). Further information about the conference is available at the USSEA website ussea.sdstate.org

Marjorie Cohee Manifold
President, United States Society for Education through Art
Associate Professor Art Education & Curriculum Studies
Affiliate Faculty, The Center for the Study of Global Change
Indiana University, School of Education

Arts Foundation of Cape Cod Announces Comcast Art Scholarship T-Shirt Design Competition Winning Design to Appear on Pops by the Sea T-Shirts

Centerville, MA, March 9, 2010 ? Submissions are now being accepted in the Seventh Annual Comcast Art Scholarship T-Shirt Design Competition. The winning design will be featured on the official T-shirt for the 25th Anniversary TD Bank Pops by the Sea concert, the main fundraiser for the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod.

Contest winners and their sponsoring high school art departments will each receive art scholarships in the amount of $500 for first prize, $250 each for second prize, and $100 each for third prize. All entrants will receive two general admission lawn tickets to the TD Bank Pops by the Sea Concert. Read More...

Idina Menzel to Perform at 25th Anniversary TD Bank Pops by the Sea

Centerville, MA, March 3, 2010 ? Idina Menzel will join the Boston Pops at the 25th Anniversary TD Bank Pops by the Sea concert on Sunday, August 1, 2010, on the Hyannis Village Green. This marks the Tony award winner?s first appearance on Cape Cod. The 25th Anniversary TD Bank Pops by the Sea, presented by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, features the only Cape Cod appearance of Keith Lockhart, the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and a yet-to-be announced celebrity guest conductor.

Idina's career began as a teenager on her native Long Island, New York where she sang at weddings and bar mitzvahs which required learning a huge repertoire of songs from classic rock to Motown to jazz to the latest hit single from Madonna. While working toward her bachelor's degree in drama from New York University, Idina performed with rock bands in downtown clubs in New York City during the week and continued her wedding gigs on the weekend. In the winter of l995, Idina auditioned for the Broadway bound "Rent" and won the part of Maureen. The role earned Menzel her first Tony nomination and the musical went on to win four Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize. Read More...

Royston Nash receives Lifetime Achievement award Arts Foundation of Cape Cod presents awards to local arts luminaries Centerville, MA, February 9 2010 -

The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod has announced the winners of the Third Annual Creative Community Awards. The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod Lifetime Achievement award recipient is Maestro Royston Nash. Royston Nash was born in England . At sixteen he joined the Royal Marines School of Music where he gained his L.R.A.M. in conducting. H e was then awarded the Certificate of Merit for Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music. In September 1970, following an illustrious career in the Royal Marines, Nash joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in London, England spending nine years as the Company musical director, overseeing dozens of productions of works by Gilbert and Sullivan. Read More...

Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School teacher receives Arts Educator of the Year award Arts Foundation of Cape Cod presents four awards to local arts luminaries

Centerville, MA, February 9 2010 - The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod has announced the winners of the Third Annual Creative Community Awards. Arts Foundation of Cape Cod Arts Educator of the Year is Daniel Springer of Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School . After receiving his MA in English from Northeastern University , Springer received a BFA from Parsons School of Design in NYC. H e also studied performance and theater design at Syracuse University . Springer has been teaching the arts at D-Y Regional H igh School for more than 15 years. H e currently chairs the Fine & Performing Arts Department at D-Y. H e also teaches a variety of classes including writing, drama, acting, digital art, drawing, printmaking, advertising and humanities. H e sits on the Advisory Board of the Cape Cod & Islands Art Educators Association and teaches at the Cape Cod Museum of Art (CCMA). Daniel has also presented Read More...

Falmouth Artists Guild receives Collaborative Arts Project award Arts Foundation of Cape Cod presents four awards to local arts luminaries

Centerville, MA, February 9 2010 - The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod has announced the winners of the Third Annual Creative Community Awards. The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod Collaborative Arts Project award recipient is the Falmouth Artists Guild. Created more than fifty years ago, the Falmouth Artists Guild is a non-profit organization providing a year-round roster of visual arts education and exhibition opportunities for students of all ages and abilities. The Guild collaborates with Falmouth Volunteers in Public Schools and the art department at Lawrence Junior H igh to offer an art mentor program for at-risk students at the school. Read More...

Senator Robert O?Leary receives award for Community Leadership in Support of the Arts Arts Foundation of Cape Cod presents awards to local arts luminaries

Centerville, MA, February 9 2010 - The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod has announced the winners of the Third Annual Creative Community Awards. The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod Community Leadership in Support of the Arts recipient is Senator Robert O?Leary. Senator O?Leary served as a Barnstable County Commissioner from 1987 through 2001. H e has represented Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket in the Massachusetts State Senate since 2000. H e currently chairs the Joint Committee on Education. Senator O?Leary is also a tenured professor of history and politics at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and an adjunct professor at Cape Cod Community College . Read More...

Acclaimed Artist Robert Douglas Hunter Named 2010 TD Bank Pops by the Sea Artist

Centerville MA, January 27, 2010: The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod has named Robert Douglas Hunter guest artist of the 25th Anniversary TD Bank Pops by the Sea concert. Hunter has been commissioned to create this year?s commemorative painting and limited edition lithograph, which will be unveiled at a reception in his honor on May 25, 2010 in Osterville. The original painting will also be on display at TD Bank on Main Street in Hyannis from June 1, 2010 until July 31, 2010, when it will be auctioned at a special VIP reception on the Hyannis Village Green. Read More...

Congratulations to the Oakmont Visual Arts Students who participated in the Anna Maria College High School Art Competition!

Several Oakmont senior artists received awards! For the category of Painting, the 3rd place and 2nd place award was received by Meghan Perkins, and the 1st place award was received by Laurel Durkan. For the category of Drawing, 2nd place was awarded to John Dwelly, and 1st place was awarded to Amanda Daigle. For the category of Graphics, 3rd place was awarded to John Dwelly. Also, Best of Show which included a cash award of $200.00 and a scholarship of $2,500.00 was awarded to Amanda Daigle! And Best of Show Runner Up with a cash award of $100.00 and a $1,000.00 scholarship was awarded to John Dwelly! Lastly, the Oakmont Visual Art Department received the Most Winning Entries Awards trophy as best high school! The eight exhibited senior artists include: Jenn Carroll, Amanda Daigle, Laurel Durkan, John Dwelly, Noelle Landry, Morgan Mitchell, Meghan Perkins, and Maegan Porpora. Congratulations to the award winners and all the student art work being showcased in the Anna Maria College Miriam Hall Art Gallery through November 4, 2009.

Oakmont Regional High School Visual Arts Teachers Mrs. Theresa Barry and Mr. Gregory Barry accept the Most Winning Entries trophy at the Anna Maria College 2009 High School Art Competition awards reception on October 27, 2009. Student participants and award winners are seen sitting left to right: Jenn Carroll, Amanda Daigle, Laurel Durkan. Standing left to right is Visual Arts Teacher Mrs. Theresa Barry, Maegan Porpora, Morgan Mitchell, John Dwelly,Meghan Perkins, Noelle Landry and Visual Arts Teacher Mr. Gregory J. Barry.

Hub schools get $750,000 arts grant.
Will help retain elementary and middle programs

By James Vaznis
Globe Staff / October 27, 2009

Boston public schools will announce today a major step toward offering arts instruction to all elementary and middle school students, even as the district must tighten its budget. Read More...

Creative Challenge Index Legislation Moves Forward: Recommended By Joint Committee on Education

Dear Friends,

Last week, the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Education released important legislation creating the Creative Challenge Index which will help to promote creativity in every Massachusetts public school. The Committee released HB 3547, with a favorable recommendation that it pass.

MAASH thanks House Chairwoman Rep. Marty Walz (D-Boston) and Senate Chair, Senator Robert O'Leary (D-Cape Cod) for their leadership on the vital issue of nurturing creativity in our school children. This is a significant victory for advocates for arts education: over 7000 bills are filed each session and very few make it out of committee.

MAASH also thanks Rep. Dan Bosley (D-N. Adams) and Senator Stan Rosenberg (D-Amherst) the lead sponsors as well as the 56 other co-sponsors of the bill. (A full list of legislative co-sponsors follows.)

Through the Creative Challenge Index, schools will be measured by how much opportunity they provide for creative and critical thinking. Currently, we use individual achievement (measured by the MCAS, a standardized test) to determine school-wide success. The Creative Challenge Index will measure the overall environment of a school. Although it's impossible to measure individual creativity, we must establish guidelines and tools to foster creative thinking and innovation for the 21st century.

The bill now moves forward in the legislative process and will proceed to the House Committee on Steering and Policy and then likely the House Committee on Ways and Means before it goes to the House floor for a vote.

MAASH thanks all of our persistent and creative advocates who support the Creative Challenge Index and wrote hundreds of thoughtful letters that made a significant impression on the Joint Committee on Education.

To learn more about the Creative Challenge Index, please click here:

http://www.maash.org/news/creative_challenge_index.htm

The Creative Challenge Index will be reviewed by the Joint Committee on Rules, pending a vote on the floor of the House.

Thank you,

Dan Hunter
Executive Director
Hathalee Higgs
Development Director
Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts, Sciences & Humanities (MAASH)
Creative Challenge Index
Legislative Sponsors

Rep. Daniel Bosley (D-N. Adams) sponsor
Sen. Stan Rosenberg (D-Amherst) sponsor

1. Sen. Stephen Brewer (D-Worcester)       2. Sen. Ben Downing (D-Pittsfield)
3. Sen. James Eldridge (D-Marlborough)      4. Sen. Anthony Galluccio (D-Cambridge)
5. Sen. Thomas McGee (D-Lynn)      6. Sen. Bruce Tarr (R-Gloucester)
7. Sen. James Timilty (D-Attleboro)      8. Rep. Cory Atkins (D-Concord)
9. Rep. Carlo Basile (D-E. Boston)      10. Rep. Bill Bowles (D-Attleboro)
11. Rep. Christine Canavan (D-Brockton)      12. Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Melrose)
13. Rep. Cheryl Coakley-Rivera (D-Springfield)      14. Rep. Thomas Conroy (D-Wayland)
15. Rep. Geraldine Creedon (D-Brockton)      16. Rep. Mark Falzone (D-Saugus)
17. Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante (D-Gloucester)      18. Rep. Sean Garballey (D-Arlington)
19. Rep. Mary Grant (D-Beverly)      20. Rep. Denis Guyer (D-Dalton)
21. Rep. Patricia Haddad (D-Somerset)      22. Rep. Jonathan Hecht (D-Watertown)
23. Rep. Bradford Hill (R-Ipswich)      24. Rep. Kate Hogan (D-Stow)
25. Rep. Louis Kafka (D-Stoughton)      26. Rep. Jay Kaufman (D-Lexington)
27. Rep. John Keenan (D-Salem)      28. Rep. Kay Khan (D-Newton)
29. Rep. Peter Kocot (D-Hatfield)      30. Rep. Stephen Kulik (D-Worthington)
31. Rep. David Linksy (D-Natick)      32. Rep. Timothy Madden (D-Nantucket)
33. Rep. Elizabeth Malia (D-Boston)      34. Rep. Paul McMurtry (D-Dedham)
35. Rep. James Miceli (D-Wilmington)      36. Rep. Harold Naughton (D-Clinton)
37. Rep. James O'Day (D-W. Boylston)      38. Rep. Matthew Patrick (D-Falmouth)
39. Rep. Sarah Peake (D-Provincetown)      40. Rep. Alice Peisch (D-Wellesley)
41. Rep. Smitty Pignatelli (D-Lenox)      42. Rep. Denise Provost (D-Somerville)
43. Rep. Robert Rice (D-Gardner)      44. Rep. Pam Richardson (D-Framingham)
45. Rep. Michael Rodrigues (D-Westport)      46. Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez (D-Brookline)
47. Rep. John Scibak (D-S. Hadley)      48. Rep. Carl Sciortino (D-Medford)
49. Rep. Frank Smizik (D-Brookline)      50. Rep. Thomas Stanley (D-Waltham)
51. Rep. Ellen Story (D-Amherst)      52. Rep. Walter Timilty (D-Milton)
53. Rep. Timothy Toomey (D-Cambridge)      54. Rep. Steve Walsh (D-Lynn)
55. Rep. Marty Walz (D-Boston)      56. Rep. Alice Wolf (D-Cambridge)

Use your imagination - How parents can fill the void when schools cut arts and music programs



Ihno Dietrich, 8, of Cambridge adds the finishing touches to a Grecian vessel made of clay during an art class at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. (Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff)

One day, when Barbara Martin was 11 years old and lounging around her Tennessee home with her three siblings, their mother returned from a backyard foray with some unexpected marching orders.

Everyone should spend five minutes in the hammock looking up at the blue sky through the yellow leaves, she told them. The children complied. ?It was an extraordinary visual effect, recalls Martin. The colors were so fabulous on that fall day, it had the power to feed your soul.

That maternal lesson on the importance of forging a connection to the visual world, of seeing the world as a work of art, evidently stuck with Martin: Today, she is the Alfond curator of education at the Museum of Fine Arts.

But what if you're an average parent? How do you instill an appreciation for the arts in your kids, thereby enlarging their creative and critical-thinking skills while deepening their enjoyment of life?

For the full article, please visit the Boston Globe Online

The Memory Project



The Memory Project is a unique initiative in which advanced high school art students create portraits for children in orphanages around the world. To do this, the art students receive pictures of children who are waiting for portraits, and then work in their art classrooms or outside of class to create the portraits. Next, we coordinate the delivery of the portraits to the children. The goal of the project is to inspire caring, friendship, and a positive sense of self. For more information, please visit www.thememoryproject.org

FUNDRED DOLLAR BILL PROJECT



Each year the New York State Art Teachers Association holds an annual conference. This year we are pleased to announce that the artist Mel Chin will be one of our keynote speakers. Mr. Chin is an accomplished artist that has been featured in the Art 21 Series on PBS. Most recently Mr. Chin has gained national attention for his FUNDRED DOLLAR BILL PROJECT.
NYSATA has partnered with Mel Chin to turn this project into a state wide initiative. The FUNDRED DOLLAR BILL PROJECT is an innovative artwork conceptualized by Mel Chin that is made of millions of drawings. Participation in the FUNDRED project is a simple and fun classroom project. Each student is given one blank FUNDRED DOLLAR BILL to create their own unique artwork that they then have the option to donate to the project. The New York State Art Teachers Association invites you and your students to participate in this exciting interdisciplinary art project. Additional information, lesson plans, videos, a power point presentation and other resources available for teachers free by going to the FUNDRED.org website. We hope to raise at least $500,000 FUNDRED DOLLARS to present to Mr. Chin at our conference at the Rye Town Hilton in Rye, New York next November. We are asking that every teacher complete this project between now and November 1st. Completed FUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS can be sent directly to me or to designated, regional BOCES collection sites. Further information will follow regarding the BOCES collection sites as they become available.

Nate Morgan
NYSATA FUNDRED INITIATIVE COORDINATOR
56 Union ST.
Beacon, NY 12508

We look forward to seeing your student?s solutions to this innovative partnership between artist, art teachers, and students. For more information about this project, please contact Nate Morgan, NYSATA FUNDRED Initiative Coordinator, at morgann@hastings.k12.ny.us.
Sincerely,

Patricia H. Groves
President
New York State Art Teachers Association
Nate Morgan NYSATA FUNDRED Initiative Coordinator www.nysata.org

Art All-State Celebrates 22 Years




For twenty two years Art All-State has been providing intensive experiences in art for 145 of the most talented high school juniors from across the state. Begun through an off-hand suggestion of a retired art teacher almost 25 years ago, AAS has paired over 3,090 students with 350 artist/mentors through 655 hours of gallery and studio experiences that have inspired, challenged and engaged them all to think creatively about themselves and the role that are can play in life after high school.




Art All-State, a program of the Worcester Art Museum, co-sponsored by MAEA is funded in part through the generosity of the Freelander Education Fund, and this year through a gift from Fallon Community Health Plan and other private donors. Throughout its history AAS has relied on an important network of art education professionals throughout the state for both support and volunteering. The grass roots nature of the program where art teachers nominate students from their schools, are involved in the selection of student participants and assist at the event can be seen as key to its longevity and success.



This year on, May 29th and 30th, the 145 student participants from 103 Massachusetts high schools worked on 8 separate studio projects, each lead by 2 artist/mentors. The student driven and artist facilitated studio are group projects, which take their inspiration from works in the museum's collection. In this way Art All-State encourages these young artists to view museums as resources for their art and for life. The theme of the program for the last several years has been Limits-No-Limits. The limited materials, both traditional and non-traditional, are often recycled. For the past few years we have been grateful to the recycling center Extras for Creative Learning in Dorchester for their support of our efforts. This year at Art All-State the different groups worked with a variety of materials including carpet tubes, black ink, shoelaces, vinyl records, paint, Styrofoam, ribbon, balloons, calendar covers, hula hoops, muslin, orange construction fencing, old socks, shredded paper and laminate sample chips.



On Saturday afternoon their pride was palpable as the students toured the Final Exhibition of their work, families in tow. So much had been achieved in two short days. The students had come together with a group of strangers - albeit their peers, been inspired by art, brainstormed together and produced sophisticated finished group installations using "materials" that they never conceived could be made into art. The installations showed that the students had moved beyond individual ownership and pride to group ownership. The limited materials were challenging, but allowed them to stretch in their creativity and ultimately to achieve more. It was obvious that this freeing, out-of-the-box experience would be a pivotal one for many of the students involved. This coupled with the exposure to 16 art professional allowed them to see the breadth of creative opportunities available in art after high school and that these could be a reality for them. Another Art All-State was over.

Many thanks indeed to MAEA for its ongoing support and sponsorship of Art All-State, and to all the individual MAEA members who have given of their time and energies to ensure the continued success of our educational efforts and goals.
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Arts Education Partnership (AEP) Fall National Forum Cover Art Contest

The Arts Education Partnership is seeking submissions of art to be featured as the cover design for the program of the AEP Fall 2009 National Forum, ?Charting a Course for the Arts and 21st Century Learning? to be held in October 2-3, 2009 in Cambridge, MA. The winner will have his/her work displayed on the cover along with a brief biography in the program. The winner will also receive a monetary prize of $100. For more details about the contest, submission requirements, and submission forms, please click here.

Questions about the contest should be directed to Teka Phan, Program Assistant, at tekap@ccsso.org.