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A PUBLICATION OF THE ALABAMA ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: Spring 2018

Officers President Tammie Clark

Past President/Awards Connie Deal

President-elect Tricia Oliver

Treasurer Phyllis Horne

Secretary Sally Chambliss Supervison/Adm Paige Vitulli

Higher Ed Lindsay Parris

Secondary Evelyn Shoults

Elementary Linda Miller

Museum Kim Vice Mitchell

Retired Sharon Christman

Pre-Service/Mentoring Anna Nichols

Newsletter Abby Kuhn

President’s Letter Tammie Clark, AAEA President

Hello to all my Art Peeps!

I am fresh off the plane from NAEA National Convention in Seattle, WA where the buzz word was STEAM and we celebrated Mary Jane Coker, Alabama’s Art Educator of the year! We’re so proud of you MJ! Don’t forget to let Kelly Berwager, past president know if you have a terrific colleague that needs to be recognized. It starts with you! So nominate a friend! Get us the name and we will guide you from there!

We had 35 Alabama art teachers in Seattle and we took a group photo with all those who showed

up to Opening Night Arty Party (including the Rain-bow Trout, “aRTy”, that I thought was a Salmon when I bought it…oh well!). My goal as president is to improve COMMUNICATION, so here is what you missed!

(See President’s Letter Part II on following page.)


President’s Letter Part II

We had five members who presented sessions at the convention: Kelly Berwager, Sharon Christman, and Gaile Randall shared their trips to archaeological digs in Bulgaria and Israel and the connections they made to artmaking in their class-rooms. I presented in an Elementary Carousel of Learning on PreK to First grade lessons and Paige Wyatt Smith, adjunct professor at Troy, presented FOUR sessions focusing on self-care for art teachers using drawing journals. I am so excited to see so many of us presenting at the National level. Consider submitting a proposal for next year in Boston or dip your toes in slowly by submitting a proposal to present at state conference in Tuscaloosa, November 1-3, 2018. If not you, WHO?

At Delegate’s Assembly, we passed three new position statements and passed four out five position statements up for revision after three years, one was retired for a complete rewrite. NEW: (Students) A Position Statement on Workforce Develop-ment, (Instruction) Position Statement on Digital Citizenship and (Relationships) Position Statement on the Importance of State Agency Directors of Arts Education. Position Statements adopted in 2015 and up for review after three years: (Art Educators) Position Statement on Importance of Visual Arts Supervisors/Admin-istrators in PreK-12 Education, (Relationships) Position Statement on the Value of Collaborative Research, (Curriculum) Position Statement on Art Education and Social Justice and (Instruction) Position Statement on Instruction, Assessment and Student Learning in the Visual Arts. Retired and up for a complete rewrite: (Curriculum) Position Statement on Media Arts. Position statements are issues submitted by members for members to use in their advocacy efforts and can be found at arteducators.org under the Advocacy tab, NAEA Platform and Position Statements. We listened to our executive director, Deborah Reeve, talk about Seeing Beyond Bias and our President, Kim Defibaugh, talk about the new National Task Force on Equity, Diversity & Inclusion. It was really inspiring!

(See President’s Letter Part III on following page.)


President’s Letter Part III

I want you all to be looking out for a new AAEA virtual student art show coming this fall! You will be able to submit student art if you are a current member of AAEA. The art will be juried and winning artwork will be printed, matted and hung at the National Convention YAM exhibition area. We, as a board, have felt that art hanging at National Convention should be an honor. A letter of commendation and a certificate will be given to the winning students for their portfolios. Mary Jane has offered to flesh out the details for us BUT you can go ahead and start taking some quality digital photos of your students’ spring 2018 artwork for submission. I hope you all are as excited about this opportunity as the board!

I hope your school year ends with a BANG! Artfully yours, Tammie Clark, AAEA President


Visual Arts Achievement ProgramDiana Green, Alabama State Council on the Arts

The Alabama State Council on the Arts is preparing for its annual student exhibit for the Visual Arts Achievement Program. This is the only time stu-dent work is hung in the Georgine Clarke Alabama Artist’s Gallery. Surprisingly, or not so surprising, is that it is one of our most popular ex-hibits. This year we will be showcasing 99 adjudicated student works from middle and high schools statewide. All these works have already won awards in one of six districts. It is a short exhibit, opening April 2nd and closing April 27th. Please stop by during the month of April and take time to study each work. You will be amazed at the variety of media, techniques and concepts used. Our teachers are to be commended for nurturing such quality young artists. If you missed VAAP this year and want to make sure to participate next year, please contact us with an email address so you may get on our list to send out no-tifications: [email protected] Also, check our website at:http://www.arts.alabama.gov/programs/AIE/VAAP.aspx You may access all the archived work submitted to this statewide exhibit since 2001 from this site.

IMPORTANT REMINDER!

Canvasing Art in Alabama Painted Counties need to be mailed in May to

Tammie Clark 2510 Walker Rd. SE Decatur, AL 35603


Youth Art Month - Wiregrass Museum of ArtAmber Henson, AAEA Technology Chairman

The Youth Art Month exhibition at the Wiregrass Museum of Art in Dothan, AL featured work from over a hundred stu-dent artists from across the Wiregrass region. They also hosted the Out of the (Art) Box contest in which students were challenged to create an original art installation inside the museum.

The exhibition opening reception was March 1 (over 400 people attended). The merit award winners and the Out of the (Art) Box contest were recognized at the March Dothan City Commission meeting.


Youth Art Month at Northside Intermediate Abby Kuhn, AAEA Newsletter Editor

Youth Art Month is my favorite time of the school school year. Each year, I try to come up with a new school wide event or activity that will get my students, faculty, and community engaged with my school’s art program. I wanted to share some of the ways we celebrated YAM at Northside in 2018. In mid-February, I gave all of my students an opportunity to design a dress for me to wear to our annual school art show. I provided students a dress template from Picture This Clothing. They were allowed to create anything they wanted using any media. The winning design would be sent to Picture This Clothing and created into a REAL dress that I would wear to the show. The winning designer was announced at a school wide assemble. Avery Massey, a 4th grader, won and opened the package containing her dress on stage in front of the whole school. I am looking forward to wearing her creation at our art show on Monday, April 16th.

(See YAM at NS on following page.)

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YAM at NS

In addition to the dress design contest, every student at Northside Intermediate (3rd-5th) participated in Chalk the Walk. On the Friday before Spring Break, our whole school covered the walkways around our campus with drawing that celebrated the Arts. Students were so proud of their creations. Several car rider parents decided to park and take a stroll around our beautiful campus before leaving for their Spring Break destinations.



The Importance of Teaching Painting to Elementary Students Ahmad Austin, Elementary Chairman

Painting is very therapeutic. It relaxes you and calms your mind down a significant amount. Studies have shown that participating in activities that involve creativity such as painting, reduces stress and bring you to a more calming state. And I have to say, it’s one of the most satisfying thing to see as a teacher. Many of my students don’t like some of the lessons I teach in my class that involves different mediums, however, when it comes to painting many of those same student light up when we work on a project that involves painting. I don’t think it is so much about making a great piece of work, I think it’s mostly about the whole experience of painting; holding the brush, applying a wet medium onto a flat surface creating something that wasn’t there before. And for the most part, painting is not something many kids get to do everyday. It can be a novelty for many.

As an art teacher who’s has been teaching for a while now and a teacher who has taught students from diverse background, I have to say that allowing your students to paint on a consistent basis is very rewarding. I’ve seen how painting can calm a child down five minutes after having an all out temper tantrum, minutes before walking into my classroom. I absolutely love painting, simply because you can see how your students become calmer, focus and very engaged as they layer splats of paint on their paper one stroke at a time. It’s cool watch how students bright up or smile when they are introduce to painting. Painting can be a great way to help you get in touch with your feelings and use creative expression as an outlet.

This is where the term Art Therapy comes into play. Art therapy is treated as antidote to be used to identify and change the negative thoughts and emotions that are associated with depression. More and more people are looking into art therapy as means to helping people deal with emotional stresses. I think painting can be therapy for our students with obvious behavior problems as well as emotional states that are undetected. For me personally, painting has helped me deal with several things in my life over the past couple of years and I feel it can do the same for students who show up in our classrooms everyday.

I would encourage you to paint more and have your students paint more. Your students will love you for it. It’s therapeutic and allows your students to more engage in their work.


Pick Elementary SchoolAlicia Hames, AAEA Auburn Area Representative

Pick Elementary hosted an International Festival with our school’s families which included our annual art show. The theme for this art show was “Learning is an Adventure- Traveling the World in Art!”. I transformed each corner of the school’s main hallway with a different country: Africa, India, Mexico and China & Japan. Throughout the year each grade level explored the culture of these countries while creating a work of art. While on tour in Africa, the fifth grade made Kente paper weavings, Adrinkra stamp paper cloths and a mask. These were assembled on one sheet with a post card they wrote home about their “trip”. I got the post card idea from a workshop at the fall conference in Orange Beach! The fourth grade painted pictures of African animals and made a frame using a kente and/or Adrinkra patterns. The third grade made a simple paper weaving and cut a stencil map shape of Africa out and glued it over the weaving. The next class, they cut out a silhouette of an African animal and added gold paint details on their weaving to make it a Kente cloth. On their tour in India, fifth grade sketched the Taj Mahal, fourth grade made a wonderful collaged painted elephant for the Festival of Elephants and third grade used oil pastels to make a peacock, the national bird of India. They applied a wash of paint over this pastel and added jewels in the tail feathers. They also made a clay peacock tea light. In the tour of Mexico, fifth grade drew animals in the Oaxacan wood sculpture style, added tempera paint and pattern with texture plates. They also recreated these drawings out of clay and glazed them with many bright colors. The fourth grade ex-plored weaving with circle looms and traditional looms with yarn. They took their weavings and added lines and patterns into a drawing. Third grade made warm/cool Mexican guitar paintings. They also created beautiful watercolor cactus painting and Mexican folk art mirrors. On a quick stop in China and Japan, fifth grade painted pictures of Pandas and made Chinese lanterns, fourth grade made Chinese Ming vases with orchids, and third grade went on to Japan to enjoy Gyotaku fish prints. As the year closes down, we will finish our tour in Japan and return to enjoy some art from Sweet Home Alabama.


Clanton Elementary Youth Art Month (YAM) Decorating ContestJulie Harrison, Youth Art Month

Youth Art Month is a celebration of the visual arts! March is Youth Art Month!Youth Art Month exists to: Recognize art education as a viable factor in the total education curriculum that develops citizens of a global society. Recognize art is a necessity for the full de-velopment of better quality of life for all. Direct attention to the value of art education for di-vergent and critical thinking. Expand art programs in schools and stimulate new art programs.Encourage commitment to the arts by students, community organizations, and individuals everywhere.

Congratulations to the following students for their winners spuds. There were 37 participants. Mrs. Harrison is the art teacher at CES.

First Place: (Tie)Fitz Garrett with Porcupine in First Grade (Crimson shirt)Chris Oaks with Captain Underpants in Kindergarten (Navy blue shirt)Second Place:Colton Bice with Dinosaur in Second Grade (Red shirt)Third Place:Esme Crawford with Goose in Kinder-garten (Gray and white stripe shirt)Fourth Place:Blair Cameron with Mermaid in Kin-dergarten (Not pictured)Honorable Mention:Madisyn Hon with Smurf in PK (Black shirt)

Winners will receive a ribbon and egg coloring kit. and return to enjoy some art from Sweet Home Alabama.

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