In Perspective August 2015

AAEA

. . . reaching the most pow erful or successful.

40 th Anniversary 1975-2015 Ba ck to School Annual Conference Issue 20 15

All across the state we celebrate and savor the finale of each school year and look forward to the family and fun times in store.

And then...the day arrives when it's time to return; refreshed and revitalized with the charge of inspiring and welcoming students of all ages. Our classrooms and offices transform from the empty storage of desks and shelves to the 21st century learning laboratories of best practices and purposeful planning for the new academic year. Along with many Art Educators across Arizona and colleagues around the globe, I reflect and dig deep into the past where I might find “pearls of wisdom” to carry me into the new term. My present challenges of administrative expectations, advocacy and engagement are greeted with fortitude as I find solutions and good attitude. Energized this summer by visiting fellow artists’ studios, I improve my current practices and pass along, what I intend, offers momentum for my student’s future.

As an artist my reflections include cooler climates and collections of ephemera, photos, and special vintage boxes of memories. Layers of paint have become conversation starters for my new appreciation of the past. I visited an historical artist’s studio and the architecture inspired me to capture shapes and textures of sustainable fixtures in my classroom environment. Wooden bowls, woven baskets and cases with doorknob handles ground my classroom studio practices in old reliable ways. Less plastic. More meaning. The pristine organization of fellow artists encouraged me to clean out, clean up and showcase my studio in more order to demonstrate presentation of preferred qualities as an artist. Racks and holders serving as function and fun added clarity to my classroom assisting in behavior management and respect of materials. We all love that. The aesthetics of a broom, dustpan and a Chinese fan on a blue wall conveyed a message of intrigue and delight in me. The simplest materials; held in high regard. All of these may sound minor, but when the pressure's on to meet deadlines and new initiatives, I find that these adjustments keep the wheels rolling smoothly.

We all value the art room as a sacred space and everyone who enters is regarded as an artist. I am inspired to elaborate on the pure imagination of every learner; encouraging them to draw their own conclusions about what they see and how it functions in their artistic expressions. Displaying materials, tools and techniques as works of art makes use of every interaction. Writing into my curriculum the traditional still life observational drawing for reverent contemplation, mixed with the contemporary practices of

architectural stencils and straightedges, lay in my hands of instructional practices like the complimentary white drapery of the classical art making of masters. Remembering that the softness and comfort of culture, tradition and humanities offer learners, young and old alike, nurturing moments to relate and connect. Bringing in personal archives, photos and fixtures, share vulnerability as an artist with artists who are finding “place” as they gather insight into their own endeavors. I adjust my curriculum for the younger artists to offer structure in repetition to strengthen and improve their confidence. This is grassroots advocacy, when we send a student home beaming, with such a personal position of artistry. I brought in a new plant to my classroom. I build relationships through caring for these and other natural found objects and treasures. My students stop at the door before leaving and ask about the mini Djembe drum and the polished tiger’s eye stones in the nature table. We tell stories and share memory and meaning. I played all summer through professional development opportunities. It reminded me that the students in my classroom are not interested in how smart I am or how many books I can recite, but more importantly, where we relate; through playing, creating and connecting… these are engaging strategies. I have developed a “play day” for artistic behavior practice. This is not a reward day but an imagination building day.

We converse, laugh, compare, challenge and celebrate together.

I wake in the morning new every day and wonder what it will be like, sometimes with more energy than others! Now adorned with these new “pearls,” through reflection; a summer well spent, my past is the present; a gift & I am prepared for the future.

Michelle Lindsay I wish you the best year ever.

I look forward to seeing you all At the 40th Anniversary Conference in Prescott

Back to the Future: Celebrating the Past, Present and Future of AAEA The 2015 conference marks the 40th anniversary of AAEA an affiliate of NAEA. Learning from the past helps us build a better future. This conference will allow us to reflect on the changes in "technology", "art-making", "advocacy", "teaching methodology" and "assessment" and how it affects us as art educators today and moving forward.

Set in beautiful, cool pines of Prescott, Arizona Pinerock Camp and Retreat Center is the perfect setting for our conference. Pinerock will change the way you view “Camp”. Comfortable lodging, home cooked meals and spacious meeting rooms are just some of the amenities you find at Pinerock.

The Journal Fodder Junkies will be our keynotes this year. Be prepared to be bombarded with ideas, techniques, and suggestions as you allow your creativity to take hold. The Journal Fodder Junkies keynote address tactics and targets: what are we aiming for? will address classroom methodology while their hands-on session visual journals will fuel your reflective side giving you techniques and tools for visual journaling.

Throughout the weekend we will reflect on our past as an organization sharing memories and highlighting those who paved the way. We will honor our current innovators during our Awards ceremony on Friday evening and indulge in a “Desserts of the Decades” bar. And we look towards our future as they lead hands-on sessions or lectures inspiring us to go back to classrooms and try new things.

Join us as we come together to share memories, create new ones and shape our future as art educators.

We look forward to seeing in you in November!

Tracy Perry and Sara Daffe 2015 AAEA Conference Chairs

THURSDAY EVENING EVENTS

Visual Journal Station will be open 24 hours in the 80’s cafe

HANDS ON WORKSHOP #1 friday no v 6, 2015

9:00-10:50

you will learn how to accommodate for the special needs students in your classroom. You will learn how to make adaptive tools and create meaningful lessons

Silent Storyteller with Michelle Lindsay: Participants will look at Beth Cavener Stichter's work and create a clay relief sculpture that communicates life's sometimes hardest emotions to share; hardship, vulnerability, loss, grief, and loneliness. Through texture, scale, proportion and contortion, Stichter translates her self Portraits through emotive expression.

Adaptive Art Lessons with Jessica Soifer: Come play and learn! In this workshop you will learn how to accommodate for the special needs students in your classroom. You will learn how to make adaptive tools and create meaningful lessons.

Grow a Mandala with Kelsey Mapston: Mandalas The Blau Reiter (Blue Rider) for Elementary with originated as a Buddhist practice to quiet the mind, Beth Olsen: This workshop moves through the artists symbolize unity with the world and focus intention. This workshop is an introduction to a meditative, inexpensive of the Blau Reiter: Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, and Paul Klee, and their abstract art styles filled with drawing project that teaches spacing and radial symmetry. Use any drawing medium and a concentric pure, expressive color, fantasy, and symbols, with circle template to “grow” a mandala. influence from music and children’s art. In this multimedia workshop, we will focus on using the art element color to express emotions, fantasy, motion, stillness, energy, and temperature.

New Century Tools with Mary E Odom: Utilizing apps on tablets/iPads and GIMP or Photoshop to create mix media pieces. Students take what they've learned when using technology and work with recycled materials to tell visual stories.

Mission Impossible - Vintage Polaroid Transfers with Jessalyn Carpino & Julia Miller: Thanks to the Impossible Project, we can now bring back instant film and the beauty of Polaroid transfers. Through this workshop we will teach you how to use your smart Visit the Vendors: Each attendee will choose one "visit phones to print and transfer your instant film to create the vendor session" during sessions #1, 2, 4 or 5. Most a beautiful vintage image which could then be altered of our vendors also have hands-on activities at their in a variety of ways. A great project for both tables. This is an opportunity for you to sample new photography and visual arts classes. materials, meet the vendors personally and discuss any particular needs you may have in your schools.

Meaningful Art Activities on a Shoestring Budget with Pam Stephens with Janay Wiggins, and Elisa Wiedeman: Come play and learn! In this workshop

BEST PRACTICE LECTURE #2 friday no v 6, 2015 Teaching Students the "Art" of Following Directions, the FIRST Time! with Veronica Vasquez: Special area teachers are pressed for instructional time and long to maximize their instructional time. If classroom behavior management is not in place- the learning will not take place. Creating a classroom environment that reinforces positive behavior, stimulates attention and imagination and makes teacher expectations clear to the students is the key to learning. Imagine a high functioning classroom that runs itself! When students are actively engaged and structures are in place the rest falls into place.

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recognition of its kind for junior high and high school students.

Living Top 20 with Camille Goralski: Since 2000, Top 20 Training has been empowering youth and adults to make a positive difference in the quality of their lives, relationships and experiences. Our training and materials provide easily understood and immediately applicable concepts that help individuals, families, teams and organizations develop their potential. Camille Obert-Goralski is an art teacher Observational Drawing: Figure Drawing from 6th to who lives in Phoenix, She brought Top 20 to her art 12th Grades with Brighton Smith: Observational classroom and it has become a game changer on drawing of the human figure is the basis of nearly the how she organizes her professional and personal life. entire western tradition of art. 6-12 art curriculum can She will talk to you about the basic concepts of Top and should incorporate practical drawing and painting 20 and how to integrate them to become a more exercises that prepare a student's mind and eye to effective and powerful teacher. encounter figure drawing and painting in more advanced studio art classes.

There's No Crying in the Classroom - Rediscover Your Joy of Teaching with Sharon Ackerman: Equipping teachers with the necessary tools to Using ‘if’ Questions to overcome low to mid level nagging discipline issues Release Museum Visitors’ that stop learning in its tracks. Based on 5 core Imagination with TingFang components: Self-control, Classroom Arrangement, Chien: The inventive strategy Teach-tos, Refocus and Unconditional Positive is developed based on the Regard - these tested and proven strategies and theories of Abigail Housen’s techniques allow the teacher to eliminate repeated (1983) Visual Thinking warnings and reduce the number of unresponsive Strategy (VTS) and Ruth 1,2,3 Magic: Getting Rid of Gimmicks and Giving and non-compliant students. Easy to learn and Byrne’s (2005) rational implement into the classroom on Monday morning.

Hours Back to Instruction with Jessica Alessio: imagination. This interpretive Tired of classroom management gimmicks that just strategy provides museum don’t work? Exhausted from dumping hours into a tour-guides to use ‘if ’ curriculum that you can’t find time to teach? Let's face questions, which start with ‘if,’ ‘even if,’ ‘what if,’ ‘only it - art classrooms are messy, but if it’s not fixed, because,’ to guide visitors to make personal break it! This session gives you hours back to interpretations from their prior knowledge. Through instruction and allows you to communicate artistically guiding visitors by asking ‘if’ questions, the tour-guides by saying less. We make between 3,000 and 4,500 in museums could help visitors discover more decisions a day as art educators. This one can possibilities to make their interpretations about artworks change your classroom and, consequently, your from the their own experiences. career!

How To Get Your Students To Talk About Art with When Does Art Education Nancy Feiring: Participants will learn structures and Begin? An Exploration with scaffolds that support students as they learn to talk Infants and Toddlers about art and use evidence to justify their ideas.

Bridget Longoria Teachers will participate in a demonstration lesson The lecture will focus on that shows three structures that insure student infants and toddler and how accountability and use of content vocabulary. brain development and the How Can Your Students Win a Gold Key for Art? visual arts link together. We Visit the Vendors: Each attendee will choose one With Jon Jeffery: What are the benefits for art will explore the questions, "visit the vendor session" during sessions #1, 2, 4 or teachers and their students to take part in the when does art and visual literacy begin in child 5.

Most of our vendors also have hands-on activities Scholastic Art Awards? This year was the first time development and what are appropriate activities for a at their tables. This is an opportunity for you to that Arizona had its own region for the awards. The young child to develop in the visual arts. sample new materials, meet the vendors personally benefits and possibilities for students are extensive and discuss any particular needs you may have in both at the state and national level. The Scholastic your schools.

Art Awards (also known as the Gold Key) is the largest and longest running national competition and

KEYNOTE ADDRESS friday no v 6, 2015

12:00-12:50

Tactics and Targets: What Are We Aiming For? The Journal Fodder Junkies Are you looking to shift from teacher-directed projects to more open-ended and student-driven processes? Are you wanting to implement creative safe spaces that invite students to fully engage in authentic art making? Do you want to honor your students as artists and allow room for their ideas and input?

Eric and David share the journey from a project-based, teacher-dictated classroom to a skills-based, student-directed studio.

Discover simple ideas on how to shift from recipe, cookie-cutter projects to a self-directed curriculum and open your practice so students are finding their own direction instead of simply following yours. Practical experiences and concrete examples will be shared.

This talk will focus on the following topics: • Standardization vs. Individualization • Student as Artist • Using the Visual Journal as a Spring Board • Giving up Control • Creating the Conditions for Authentic Experiences

ABOUT THE JOURNAL FODDER JUNKIES David R. Modler and Eric M. Scott are the Journal Fodder Junkies. This dynamic duo are artists, researchers, educators, authors, and internationally recognized experts on the visual journal and mixed media art. They have provided workshops, presentations, and seminars to teachers, students, and artists at conferences, conventions, artist retreats, and other venues across North America.

In 2010 their first book, The Journal Junkies Workshop, was released by North Light Books, and quickly became a bestseller in the mixed media community. Feeling like they had not exhausted their ideas on the visual journal, they wrote a follow up, Journal Fodder 365. Released at the end of July 2012, Journal Fodder 365 quickly became a bestseller as well.

Eric M. Scott lives in Purcellville, VA with wife Joanne and their numerous animals. He is a National Board Certified Teacher, and teaches art at Tolbert Elementary School in Leesburg, VA.David R. Modler earned a Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. David now lives in Shepherdstown, WV where he is an Assistant Professor of Art and Coordinator of Art Education at Shepherd University.

JOURNAL FODDER JUNKIES WORKSHOP friday no v 6, 2015 Visual Ammunition for the Art Addict Eric M. Scott with David R. Modler Based on their popular book The Journal Junkies Workshop, Dave and Eric bombard you with artistic possibilities for the visual journal. Explore a plethora of techniques and a variety of media that can be mixed and mingled, layered and built upon. See how easily the word and the image can be merged and manipulated.

Stock up on new ideas and add to your creative arsenal, and leave with the beginnings of visually loaded pages.

Bring watercolor paints, watercolor pencils, pens markers, scissors, a glue stick, and personal ephemera.

Every conference attendee will be provided the visual journal.

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HANDS ON WORKSHOP #4 friday no v 6, 2015

3:30- 5:20

Ball Point Engravings with Julie Davis, BLICK: Masque of the Red Death with Candace Greene: After reading Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan When we think of “engravings”, we tend to think of Tiki! Foam Carving with Emily Gabaldon: Create a Poe, students critique a piece of art related to the story carved stone, wood or etched metal plates. In this small subtractive sculpture of a Polynesian inspired Tiki. as well as compare and contrast The Bubonic Plague Blick Art Materials workshop, participants will learn a and critique a piece of art based on the plague. Finally low-tech method of pressing a design into a board through paper with a pen, then revealing it by students create their own masquerade masks that rubbing over the engraved surface with colorful art they would have worn if they were at the ball in The sticks.

Masque of the Red Death.

How to use a DSLR Camera and Basic Photo Editing with Amber Wallace: Attendants will be exposed to different photography programs from the free Pixlr to the Adobe Creative Cloud. We will explore the fundamentals of using a DSLR camera and experiment taking photos. They will then learn the basics of photo editing including image size adjustment, cropping, adjusting color, brightness, contrast and working with layers to create flyers, business cards, etc. Attendees need to bring a laptop and should bring a DSLR camera and card reader if they have one (might be on or in your laptop). If attendees do not have a camera yet, they can just follow along.

Texture Designs with Lonni Himmelstein: In preparation for the actual activity, students will examine different textures, do a series of rubbing and use textural vocabulary: rough smooth hard soft lumpy bumpy. Students will use a variety of materials to create a textural collage. When the collage is complete, we will cover the design with heavy-duty foil rub softly, then ink to show the various textures.

Literacy Draws Upon Art with Linda Parzych, CRAYOLA : Explore links between visual literacy & written literacy. See the parallels between how authors & illustrators convey meaning. Take VTS to the next step, using artists' vocabulary. Hands-on/Minds-on art making exercise deepens understanding of how art elements & principals of design convey meaning.

Visit the Vendors: Each attendee will choose one "visit the vendor session" during sessions #1, 2, 4 or 5. Most of our vendors also have hands-on activities at their tables. This is an opportunity for Raku Firing with Helen Dickerson: Need to add some you to sample new materials, meet the vendors "fire" under your students feet to get them excited??!!! personally and discuss any particular needs you may Do raku firing! Guaranteed to engage your ceramic & have in your schools. sculpture students. Come ready to glaze a bisqued fired raku clay body vessel and fire it in this ancient method.

Wear long sleeves, long pants and closed toe shoes. Be ready to smell like a campfire when you’re done!

FRIDAY EVENING EVENTS

Is your closet full of tie dye and bell bottoms?

Are you more neon and tulle? Did ripped jeans and flannel invade your closet? Or are you a fashion forward trendsetter? Friday night we invite you to "Dress for the Decades" in an outfit from AAEA’s four decades!

Following the awards presentation we invite you to indulge in desserts from the 70's, 80's, 90's, & 2000's

HANDS ON WORKSHOP #5 saturday nov 7, 2015

9:00-10:50

onto a felt patch, using needle felting techniques with art history in mind. What artists are you highlighting this year? Patches can be stitched to any plain sweater, t-shirt or jacket for an artistic embellishment or decorative pocket! Bring your ideas and imagination to this fun filled, fast paced, fiber art workshop!

Clay Castles with Terrie Simmons: Members will learn how to make simple castles out of clay. This project is perfect for 5th through 8th grade students and can be completed in one class time period then set to dry. Bisque fired castles can be either glazed or painted for the finished product. Students love this project.

Sugar Skull Inspired Collage with Emily Gabaldon: A simple collage project to develop an artwork based on popular Sugar Skull designs. This project can easily be manipulated to work in lower level grades.

Spirit Trees with Julie Davis, BLICK: Stories, legends and allegories are plentiful regarding the connections between humans and trees. In this Blick Art Materials workshop, participants will create a sculptural “Tree of Life” that can be painted and personalized with objects and images suspended from the branches or gathered around the roots.

Graffiti: Legal or Illegal? With Jessica Soifer: Come and experience the many types of graffiti. You will observe, discuss, discover and create graffiti. I will cover multiple modes of creating graffiti in 2D and 3D. Pop Art Candy with Hailey Hatch: After studying the art of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein this lesson will introduce students to the bold style of pop-art. Students will design a personalized candy wrapper that incorporates bold color and clean graphics while A Stitch of Time with Margaret Gentry: Come back composing their artwork in an interesting manner. to the basics and learn how to embroider and teach it to children. Learn the basic care of using burlap and Visit the Vendors: Each attendee will choose one "visit the vendor session" during sessions #1, 2, 4 or 5. Most easy stitches to teach to children. of our vendors also have hands-on activities at their tables. This is an opportunity for you to sample new materials, meet the vendors personally and discuss any particular needs you may have in your schools.

Needle Felting Pocket Patches with Angie Watts with Joolz Fernandez-Yonge: Turn boring old clothes into art fashion! Participants will “paint” with fibers,

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STANDARDS PANEL #6 saturday nov 7, 2015

11:00-11:50

Decoding the Mysteries of Arizona’s New Visual Arts Standards Mary Erickson, with Nancy Feiring, Robert Panzer, and Liza Bergman We will start with an overview of the development and adoption of the standards and how ADE can support teachers in using them. Nancy Feiring decodes the new standards and proposes a transition for teachers responsible for testing students on an instrument aligned to the 2006 standards.

Robert Panzer offers an update on the standards from an administrator’s perspective. Mary Erickson shares a simple introduction to the art standards that she uses with pre-service art teachers. Liza Bergman discusses how student teachers can begin their careers with an understanding of standards as one of the pillars of their professional lives.

GENERAL SESSION saturday nov 7, 2015

12:00 - 1:10

We invite to you to consider sharing your voice and vision as a leader in AAEA as we are currently accepting nominations for the AAEA Executive Board 2016-2018. The Executive Board consists of the President, President Elect, Past President, Secretary, and Treasurer.

Michelle Lindsay will move into Past President, Tracy Perry will assume Presidency. You are welcome to nominate a member you feel would best serve these positions or nominate yourself if you are being called to be a leader for your fellow art educators. The nominees will then be placed on the Executive Board Ballot for a vote at the AAEA Conference November 6, 2015 in Prescott. Thank you for your consideration. Nominations can be made online at azarted.org.

EXECUTIVE BOARD – Elected

AAEA COUNCIL –Appointed

PRESIDENT-ELECT: • To be an alternate delegate to the NAEA Delegates Assembly and/or Pacific Conference when so designated by the President.

• Coordinate all actions with the AAEA President in order to obtain the goals of AAEA.

Regional Liaison Regional Chairs Elementary Division Chair Middle Division Chair Secondary Level Museum Education Division Chair Higher Education Division Chair Retired Art Educators Division Chair Pre- Service Division Chair Administration/Supervision Level Awards Committee Chair Conference Committee Chair Newsletter Editor Professional Development Scholarship Fund Chair Social Media Committee Chair State Department of Education Liaison VASA - Visual Arts Student Awards YAM - Youth Art Month Committee Chair

SECRETARY: • Record minutes of all business meetings of the Executive Board, Council and general AAEA membership meetings and send copies to council members.

• Present minutes at AAEA general meetings.

• Handle official correspondence through list serve.

TREASURER: Job Description • Keep financial records and pay all bills • Prepare and submit a financial status report at the Board, Council and general membership meetings and publish statements twice annually in AAEA Newsletter.

• Submit any statements subject to collection of monies when due to the AAEA· • Be present at all functions which require the collection of membership or registration fees

DIVISIONAL MEETINGS saturday nov 7, 2015 Last year we had greater turnout and feedback than ever. Thank you for your feedback and insight for our planning and creation of engaging professional development.

When YOU said “more local opportunities to meet and make art: We met you in your Regions for Events like the Fun Fibers in Flagstaff & Instruments of Art in Tempe, and the upcoming Western Region Event in Kingman When You said “online professional development” sessions to connect across the state We are listening and will offer the first Google “Hangout” TAB 4 FUN in Phoenix in October 2015 When you said you wanted more information on the new standards and ways to have access to them in your classrooms We brought you a panel of professionals to present at this conference AND a surprise gift for all of you!

Please meet us in the Prescott Pines for this years conference and attend the Division/Region Meetings to share your feedback and suggestions. We highly value your feedback and support in guiding our goals and strategic planning for the future.

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HANDS ON WORKSHOP #7 saturday nov 7, 2015

2:30- 4:20 a paper "rug" using scaling, measurement, and counting from x and y axes. Participants will learn about the history of Navajo weaving, Navajo mathematics, and math integration into the arts curriculum.

Embrace Clay with Jane Peterson: Clay is a universal language that students of all ages will fully engage in. If you have shied away from clay due lack of experience or are looking for easy lessons to get yourself started on a shoestring budget, this is the workshop for you. Come get ideas from a seasoned potter who has more than 20 years experience exposing students from preschool to adults to hand-building and wheel thrown clay projects. Walk away with projects to use with any age level and choose one lesson to make and take with you. Lesson plans and diagrams will be provided as well as material use and guidance to ensure success with your students.

Ikebana Paper Flowers with Debbie Hammer: Sculpture lesson that uses the basics of Japanese ikebana flower arrangements.

Students will create paper flowers and plan the arrangement using a scalene triangle. They can From Anatomy to Gesture; An Introduction to also apply personal symbolism to their Gestural Figure Drawing for High School arrangement.

Classrooms with Brighton Smith: An introduction to figure drawing in charcoal. This hands on workshop begins by studying the human skeleton and breaking down the skeleton into basic three dimensional solids; Egg, Rectangular prisms, spheres, and cylinders, that high school students can easily follow. Transitioning from the skeleton and anatomical rendering to gestural drawing of the human form. Students will learn to see the human form quickly and incorporate motion and force into their drawings.

Polynesian Art Motifs with Kristal Hoeh: In this workshop, we will look at art from the Polynesian island nations of Hawaii and Tonga.

Specifically we will use island motifs to create a tapa cloth and Hawaiian quilt using supplies you already have in your art room!

Gelli Arts Monoprinting with Pat Burdette: The Gelli Arts速 Gel Printing Plate looks and feels like gelatin, but is durable, reusable and stores at room temperature. It's easy to clean and always ready for printing. Monoprinting on a Gelli plate is simple and fun. This fun and easy hands on workshop will introduce all participants to basic monoprinting/printmaking techniques using the Navajo Style Rug Design with Beth Olsen: In Gelli Arts gel printing plates. These monoprints this workshop, participants will create a geometrical design for a Navajo style rug with can easily be incorporated your printmaking, both reflective and rotational symmetry collage, art journaling and mixed media lesson (reflective symmetry in two directions of both x plans! and y axes), and then transfer that design onto

BYOD in the Art Room with Connie Ferguson, Beth Rolfe, and Katie Giroux: Not all art rooms are equipped with the latest technology but most students have a device. Presenter will share ideas to get you started using technology the students have everyday in your classroom.

. . . . and remaining raffles We traditionally end our conference with a blast of Raffles. This year the raffles will also be spread throughout the conference, giving more chances to win. Our Vendor raffles, Artist Market donations, and the most prestigious and coveted PDSF baskets will be won at this time.

NEXT STEP...

As you walk away from the past and embark on a brighter future, I invite your next step to be a leader in YOUR Arizona Art Education Association. If you are looking to play, learn and grow with a team of dedicated members, AAEA leaders will become your tribe. Let Tracy Perry know if the leadership path is the one you want to take by emailing aaea.presidentelect@gmail.com.

SPECIAL THANKS Special Thanks to all those who shared their time and talents to make the 40th Anniversary AAEA Conference at Camp Pinerock a truly memorable one!

Tracy Perry Sara Daffe Lonnie Himmelstein Roxie May Pat Burdette Pam Stephens

Conference co-chair Conference co-chair Registrar Vendors Coordinator Presenter Coordinator & Name Tags Awards Coordinator

Tonia Easton Diane Stevens Angie Watts Jessica Hickey

PDSF Raffle Chair Artist’s Market Chair Volunteer Coordinator Communications

Michelle Lindsay Candace Greene Sara Sanchez Emily Gabaldon Devin Smith Beverly Olson

Centerpieces Centerpieces Folders Signage Visual Journaling Special Needs Coordinator

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHOLARSHIP RAFFLE Want to help fellow art educators enhance their leadership and teaching practices? Then support the Professional Development Scholarship Fund (PDSF) raffle!

Donate a basket to be raffled during the AAEA conference.

Choose from one of the following themes, add a tag that includes the theme and a description of contents, wrap it and bring it to the conference.

Basket Themes: Past- Themed: ideas include art period/timeframe, country/region, style of art, particular artist, art movement, or media Present- Include items needed to teach a great art lesson that could be used today with little preparation. Ideas include lesson plans, books, prints, power point, sample projects.

Future- classroom set of art supplies and/or tools to help a teacher build his/her arsenal.

Fun- Fill it with fun items any art teacher would love. Ideas include teacher survival kit, sticky notes, funny thoughts, pushpins, caffeine, chocolate, coffee, bubble bath, gift certificates for movies, dinner, massages or manicures.

Another way to support the PDSF is to come to the conference and buy raffle tickets with the chance to win one of the wonderful baskets.

Baskets will be raffled off throughout the AAEA conference.

You must be present to win!

Learn how to apply for a scholarship at azarted.org

CLAY BY THE FIRE

With marjon ceramics

Want to dress like Demi Moore in the 80’s movie “Ghost” and throw clay on the potter’s wheel? (Sorry, this time you will be throwing alone…)

Have a piece of bisqueware you just don’t know what to do with? Need to practice your clay handbuilding skills? Then you must come come to Camp Pinerock on Thursday, November 5th at 6pm and meet at the amphitheater! Marjon Ceramics is sponsoring a “Clay By The Fire” event where you are invited to bring a non-functional pot for the pit firing, throw clay on the wheel like Demi AND practice your handbuilding skills! J us as we have a BLAST in front of the campfire, first with clay then with s’mores and song!

Want to dress like Demi Moore in the 80’s movie “Ghost” and throw clay on the potter’s wheel? (Sorry, this time you will be throwing alone…)

Have a piece of bisqueware you just don’t know what to do with? Need to practice your clay handbuilding skills? Then you must come come to Camp Pinerock on Thursday, November 5th at 6pm and meet at the amphitheater! Marjon Ceramics is sponsoring a “Clay By The Fire” event where you are invited to bring a non-functional pot for the pit firing, throw clay on the wheel like Demi AND practice your handbuilding skills! J us as we have a BLAST in front of the campfire, first with clay then with s’mores and song!

ARTIST MARKET Calling all artists! Sell your artwork during the Back to the Future 2015 Conference on Friday after the Awards Ceremony and during the Decade Dessert Bar. AAEA members may sell with no fee, non-members pay a nominal fee of $20.00. Large tables will be provided but we recommend participants bring a small table as well as their own coverings. Participants are asked to donate a piece to the Professional Development Scholarship Raffle. If you want to sell your work, at the end of your registration “add on” “participate in Artist’s Market. Contact Diane Stevens at DStevens@tesd.k12.az.us with any questions.

VISUAL JOURNALS

It’s almost time for AAEA’s annual conference, which means that it’s almost time for making some awesome artwork with your peers! Typically AAEA hosts an artist trading card center at the conference, but this year we decided to switch it up and have a visual journal station instead. Visual journals, like artist trading cards, are an opportunity to create a unique work of art using a variety of different media. They can combine writing, lists, dreams, word associations, etc. with art making such as collage, drawing, painting, old photos, rubber stamping, and other materials to create a work of selfexpression. As the theme of our conference is Back to the Future, making a visual journal is an opportunity to document your past, present, and future in a book.

The first 200 conference registrants will get a free 9" x 12" journal and will have supplies to use at our visual journal station. Art on! .

HOW TO REGISTER To keep things clean and convenient, all registration will be done online via our website at http://azarted.org/conference-registration.

How much will the conference cost?

There are three different costs based on the date you register. The detailed pricing is listed in the table below: 1. EARLY BIRD registration is the present to September 15th 2. REGULAR registration is September 16th to October 15th 3. LATE registration is October 16th to October 27th* Please note that registrations will be NOT accepted after Oct 27th!

What is included in the cost?

Registration includes a bunk, ALL meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) workshops, and best practice lectures. If you are registering for one night, the cost includes your bunk for the night and breakfast in the morning.

Where will I sleep?

Pinerock Camp and Retreat Center offers comfortable, clean lodging in two large dormitories. Bathrooms have been updated so you will be impressed with the accommodations! You are welcome to request bunk mates when you register as well as the type of bunk you prefer, top or bottom. Bunks will be assigned on a first come first serve basis and we will do our best to accommodate requests.

What about the food? I don’t know if I want to eat “camp” food...

The food coming out of the immaculate kitchen is prepared by a team of talented cooks who are led by a graduate of the Scottsdale Culinary Institute. All the meals, including yummy dessert, are made from scratch and based on personal experience, truly taste homemade!

There are two serving stations with a salad bar that allows quick service for all our members. There is bread and beverage station for your convenience. When you register note your special dietary needs and we will do ou best to see your needs are met. Don’t be fooled, although we are AT camp, you won’t feel like you are eating at one!

Can I stay Saturday night?

When you register, you have an option of “An Extended Stay” for only $40. This includes dinner, a bunk, and breakfast on Sunday morning.

REGISTRATION PRICES EARLY BIRD Now to Sept 15

Non-Member

Member

Pre-Service Retired

Thursday

$125

$63

$44

Friday

$225

$113

$79

Saturday

$200

$100

$70

Entire Conference

$500

$250

$175

Presenters - Only during Early Bird

$450

$225

$157

Regular Registration Sept 16-Oct 15

Non-Member

Member

Pre-Service Retired

Thursday

$138

$69

$50

Friday

$248

$124

$90

Saturday

$220

$110

$80

Entire Conference

$550

$275

$200

LATE Registration Oct 16-Oct 27

Non-Member

Member

Pre-Service Retired

Thursday

$163

$81

$63

Friday

$293

$146

$113

Saturday

$260

$130

$100

Entire Conference

$650

$325

$250

What is happening on Sunday?

You are welcome to attend the Conference Debriefing following breakfast. We will review the happenings of the weekend and make note of those things that will benefit future conferences.

How do I get my Certificate of Participation?

Following the conference you will receive an email directing you to fill out a survey immediately receive your certificate via email after you fill out the online conference survey. We value your insight and input and look forward to learning how we can continue to serve you.

honoring our past Throughout this special 40th anniversary conference, we would like to recognize those individuals who played a valuable role in shaping the Arizona Art Education Association we know TODAY. Throughout the weekend, we plan to honor and look at the history of AAEA through the stories of PAST… Presidents, Award Winners, Council Members, Conference Chairs and Leaders (YAM, Regional and Divisional).

We hope to go BACK and learn either in person, via video or recorded message: How and why they got started in AAEA? What AAEA means to them?

What the future of AAEA looks like through their eyes?

Why AAEA is important?

What the most valuable learning experiences were serving AAEA?

• • • • •

If you are one of these dedicated individuals, we want to hear YOUR story or if you know of anyone who fits these descriptions above, please email contact information to aaea.2015conference@gmail.com. We hope the PAST experiences of AAEA will inspire its FUTURE.

CAMP PINEROCK

CAMP PINEROCK Here we will exchange stress, traffic, job and phones for fresh clean air, mountain views, and relaxing days and nights filled with inspiration from fellow art educators and leaders. The 2015 Conference team is so impressed with the staff, accommodations, service and technology available at Camp Pinerock, that we are proud to call it home for future Prescott camp conferences! Come see why we love Camp Pinerock in the beautiful cool pines of Prescott, Arizona November 5th-7th! ***The camp is alcohol and tobacco free. Please refrain from bringing any alcoholic beverages to camp; however, they have provided designated smoking areas.***

What to bring to a 40th Anniversary AAEA Camp Conference?

• Outfit to match a decade for the Friday Dinner, Awards Ceremony and Decade Dessert Bar (We look forward to seeing flashbacks of the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and even futuristic outfits!)

• AAEA memorabilia from past conferences (name tags, bags, etc...)

• For those who made an instrument at the Central Regional workshop, don’t forget to bring your creation for the PDSF raffle • Small non-functional bisque ware piece to fire at Thursday’s pit firing • Collage “Fodder” for your visual journal (photos, junk mail, postcards, movie tickets, flyers, etc.)

What to Bring to Camp Packing List • Sleeping bag/bedding and pillow • Extra blanket • Toiletry items • Sweatshirt (it gets chilly up north) • Closed toed shoes • Flashlight • Water bottle • Bug spray • Sunscreen • Umbrella (weather permitting) Stadium Cushion or Camp Chair (optional) • Money for artist market and raffle tickets

As art educators, we look forward to Conference every year for the professional relationships we build and the important, inspiring things we learn. We are striving to make each conference more enriching than the one before it, and to help us accomplish this, please …...

1. Come with a flexible and open attitude 2. Fully participate in all that is offered 3. Attend the workshops that you’ve signed up for – our presenters prepare for the numbers registered.

4. Be the best participant that you can – keep conversations to a minimum or take necessary conversations outside 5. Be responsible with materials – use them appropriately, and help get them collected at the end of each session 6. Make sure to ask your presenter and fellow participants before taking photographs 7. Silence your phone where and when appropriate 8. Honor our vendors and the materials they offer in their booth 9. When supplies and resources are provided for group activities, please leave them for our association to use in the future 10. This is an adult professional development opportunity that is designed for you – and is not an appropriate venue for others to join

Y O U TH A R T M O N T H

Celebrate the creativity and diversity of Arizona art students at the Youth Art Month exhibition at Phoenix Art Museum.

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Each year the Arizona Art Education Association honors members who have given service to the association and made significant contributions to the art-teaching field. Those AAEA members who win awards are recognized at the annual state conference. The following individuals were honored at the 2014 conference in Tempe.

Chelsea Tinklenberg Higher Education Art Education Student of Achievement At the time of her award, Chelsea was a student teacher at NAU. A double major in art education and sculpture, Chelsea graduated with honors. Chelsea’s sculpture instructor pointed out Chelsea’s empathetic teaching style when he stated that she “works industriously on her own art but always seems to be aware of the problems or struggles that classmates encounter. Chelsea is always helpful and supportive of other students. If requested she generously takes interest and time to encourage, suggest, and instruct to help classmates through tough spots.” Chelsea went on to be named Higher Education Art Education Student of Achievement by the National Art Education Association and was honored at the NAEA conference in New Orleans.

Kelly Martin Emerging Leadership Award Kelly taught at Fees College Preparatory Middle School in Tempe. Prior to winning this award, Kelly served as the editor of the AAEA newsletter, a volunteer job that requires patience in addition to technology skills. Kelly’s other leadership qualities were evidenced when she served as Vice-President of the Student Chapter of NAEA, studied abroad to Italy, won a variety of scholarships and grants, and has had her artwork displayed in several exhibitions.

Jessalyn Carpino Outstanding New Professional Art Educator Jessalyn teaches at the BASIS school campus in Flagstaff. The headmaster at BASIS wrote that “from the moment Jessalyn began teaching at BASIS Flagstaff our school was transformed. Her influence sends a clear message that art is an important part of a child’s educational experience.” Jessalyn is one of those rare individuals who is accomplished in a variety of arts realms: artist, art teacher, actress in both film and on the stage, singer, musician, and photographer.

Devin Smith Outstanding Elementary Art Educator Devin teaches in Deer Valley Unified School District where she developed an online art gallery for student work and sponsored her school’s first field trip to the Phoenix Art Museum. Little wonder that in 2011 she was named Deer Valley Unified School District’s Rookie of the Year. Today Devin is the lead teacher for elementary and middle school art educators in her district and she acts as liaison between art teachers and administration. She also serves as the secretary of AAEA.

Sara Daffe Outstanding Middle School Art Educator Sara teaches at Madison Middle School in Phoenix. In a letter of support from Sara’s principal, Sara’s efforts of infusing art into a STEM curriculum are recognized as exemplary. To quote her principal, “Sara transformed a neglected art program” which as we all know is no small chore. Her principal also points out that Sara has become a trusted teacher leader at her campus. She serves on the school improvement team, on the site-based council, as the electives team lead, and on the principal’s leadership team.

Janeece Henes Outstanding High School Art Teacher Janeece has taught art at Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy since 2005. Significant to Janeece’s work at FALA is her service learning program. Students in this program participate in activities that make a difference in the lives of others. From Chairs for Change to Border Service Expedition, Janeece provides opportunities for her students to contribute to social reform. She has made multiple presentations at state and national art education conferences, has won grants that benefit her program, and was recently named Arts Educator of the Year by Flagstaff Cultural Partners.

Elisa Wiedeman Outstanding Higher Education Art Educator Elisa teaches at Northern Arizona University. Elisa’s art appreciation class--a course for non-majors--is changing the landscape of art in the dark as students learn hands-on application of the art topics she covers. According to student evaluations of her courses, Elisa’s approach is well received and many students say she made art understandable and engaging. She has also taught an assortment of art education courses, foundational art courses, and supervises art student teachers.

Allison Seltzer Outstanding Museum Educator At the time of her award, Allison was a museum educator at the Phoenix Art Museum. A letter of support for Allison’s nomination stated that Allison “makes learning the arts come alive. She brings the outside world into the classroom with her in-depth knowledge about the components of art and education. She is a highly organized individual who recognizes and accepts the commitment to be successful in anything that she does.

She possesses the ability and dedication to undertake challenges and responsibilities, and most significantly, she cares about others.”

Pam Warren Art Advocate Pam Warren serves as principal at Madison #1 Middle School, a school that “is moving in a new direction”.

According to Pam Warren’s nominator, “During the next two years we will grow our new performing arts school together with visual art, theatre, dance, and choir; this exemplifies her dedication as an art advocate.” AAEA thanks Pam Warren for her leadership and dedication to quality arts education for children in urban Phoenix.

Sherrie Zeitlin Distinguished Service outside the Profession Sherrie is the founder of the Art Resource Center, an organization that offers free art materials to anyone who works with children. As a trained artist herself, Sherri also offers advice to educators.

According to her nominator, “The warm and friendly spirit of the Art Resource Center emanates from Sherrie. She and her volunteers receive no paychecks. They do, however, enjoy the convivial feelings within center’s walls, the sharing of art ideas, the important connections that can be made only with another art teacher.”

LynnAlison McGavack Distinguished Service within the Profession LynnAlison has tirelessly worked for AAEA and for arts education throughout her long and distinguished career. The hours she has devoted to the association and to art teaching are without number.

LynnAlison has served the arts in the local community, across the state, the region, and the nation. She has served as a teacher, a representative, a volunteer, an association member, and officer. She has received awards at both state and national levels. She has presented at state and national conferences.

She has hosted conferences and spent many hours in assessment writing and standards review.

LynnAlison’s nominator wrote that “whenever LynnAlison is involved, it’s 100%. To LynnAlison there’s nothing less, she will give it her all to keep the arts strong.”

Pat Burdette Marion Quin Dix Leadership Award This award is designed to recognize outstanding work of the leaders of state and national associations. Pat exemplified the criteria set forth for this award. She has been an indefatigable leader of AAEA. Some of Pat’s remarkable contributions to the association include serving as president, co-chairing state conferences, acting as conference scheduler, giving presentations at the state and national levels, acting as a delegate at NAEA conferences, and attending regional retreats on behalf of AAEA. In addition, Pat generously offers her guidance to current association officers as they carry on their demanding duties. AAEA is indeed fortunate to have Pat in our ranks.

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On the Front Cover A zenith telescope is a type of telescope that is designed to point straight up at or near the zenith; the highest point. They are used for precision measurement of star positions, symbolically much like the efforts and vision of our professional association in context to pointing straight to those members and contributors who have been stars in our organization. We celebrate our 40th Anniversary measuring small differences; those who stand out and shine, in the great distances across our state that are used and celebrated to determine astronomical latitude in our travels “Back to the Future�