In Perspective, August 2016

AAEA

Arizona Art Education Association

In Perspective

Special Conference Edition Aug 2016

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AAEA Cover Table of Contents

AAEA President’s Letter

Learning: Regional Workshops Community: Getting to know you!

Community: Getting to know you!

Community: Getting to know you!

Recruit a member, be a winner!

Research: Interest Survey Results Org. Vibrancy: Leadership Retreat National Art Honor Society Youth Art Month Robert Waller: ADE and the Arts Americans for the Arts

Conference Support Resource Conference Encouragement Letter Conference Cover Page Conference Co-Chair Letter Thursday Events Friday #1 Hands on Workshops Friday #1 Hands on Workshops Friday #1 Hands on Workshops

Friday #2 Best Practice Lectures Friday #2 Best Practice Lectures Friday #2 Best Practice Lectures Friday #2 Best Practice Lectures

Friday #2 Best Practice Lectures Keynote Address: Michael Bell Friday #3 Hands on Workshop: 31 Nights Friday #4 Hands on Workshop Friday #4 Hands on Workshop

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Friday #2 Best Practice Lectures Friday #2 Best Practice Lectures Friday Evening Events (Awards/Prom‌) Saturday #5 Hands on Workshops Saturday #5 Hands on Workshops

Saturday #5 Hands on Workshops Saturday #5 Hands on Workshops Saturday #6 Best Practice Workshops Saturday #6 Best Practice Workshops Saturday #6 Best Practice Workshops Saturday #6 Best Practice Workshops AAEA General Session Regional Meetings Saturday #6 Hands on Workshops Saturday #6 Hands on Workshops Saturday #6 Hands on Workshops Saturday #6 Hands on Workshops Conference Closing Conference schedule Session and Locations

Location/What to Bring Volunteer Opportunities/PDSF Professional Development Scholarship Fund YAM/Visual Journaling/Vendors Keynote Speaker: Michael Bell Artist Market/Mosaic Promenade 2015 AAEA Award Recipients 2015 AAEA Award Recipients 2015 AAEA Award Recipients FAQ

Registration Pricing

Letter from Your AAEA President

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Fall greetings to everyone around the state!

things I "may" need and the cabinets are not overflowing with materials students "may" want. I cannot say my organizing journey is over, but I feel less burdened by "stuff" and feel I have control over the space rather than the space having control over me. I am grateful to return to school and this year put the focus where it should be, on the students.

I don't know about you, but organizing has been one of my goals for as long as I can remember. Tired of trying to find things I know I have and shoving things in spaces they don't belong, I sought the help of a professional organizer. One of It is my hope that my efforts to organize my life and my my favorite tips was the things that give me the most joy work will allow me to better balance my life, work and should not be hidden but made visible so I can enjoy them." service as your AAEA President. It is funny the reactions I That was the first thing I did in my home studio, clear the received when I shared I was going to be the next AAEA shelves and display those items with the most memories. president. There was a lot of empathy since people assumed This was a transformative act that opened my eyes to the the job is all consuming. Any area of service can be but, just power objects have over us and how they influence our like when I realized my space was feelings and actions. The tv show overwhelming, I seek HELP "Hoarders, Buried Alive" gives witness to when I realize I cannot do this paralyzing reality that when things “As you start the new something alone. I am become the priority, the things that matter grateful to have such school year, remember most can be taken away. amazing people on the AAEA Board and Council who are that Arizona Art Four years ago, I inherited over 30 boxes willing to give of themselves and help in Education Association of items from a retiring art teacher. She any way they can. We all take ACTION and the National Art collected everything since her budget was with "Little steps that make a big tight and she always saw potential in free difference" John Wooden. My Education Association and the discounted materials. These items presidential goals and our AAEA mission are available to HELP truly overwhelmed and consumed me helps me realize what is PRIORITY and since I was always trying to figure out... what is not and helps me purge with with resources for 1) Where is the best place the PURPOSE. When my time is free of advocacy and things should go? clutter that consumes and overwhelms, I opportunities for 2) How can the students use can FOCUS on the things and events them? that bring me joy and value, spending learning…”

3) Where should the student's quality time with my family and serving work be stored since the space you the members. That is a GOAL worth was consumed with "things"? working for.

That summer, my principal stepped in and helped me purge, purchase storage totes, and put things in appropriate spaces.

As you start the new school year, remember that Arizona Art For those of you in similar situations, it takes a lot of energy Education Association and the National Art Education to purge and there were still things I "thought I could" use, so Association are available to HELP with resources for put them in totes on the floor or on top shelves or under desk. advocacy and opportunities for learning, such as our 2016 Year after year, those things kept haunting me and it was this AAEA Conference, Media Mosaics in Tucson November 10year I sought more help. I needed a system that would allow 12. We are available through our website azarted.org and me to be free of the clutter and the space was as functional our Facebook page, AZ Art Ed Association. If your as it could be with the least distractions.

PRIORITY is to take ACTION supporting and advocating the Arts Educators in Arizona, we are looking for leaders in the Enter my dear friend, Michelle Lindsay. Her art room was so organization who are dedicated to their field and serving inviting, efficient, inspiring, and functional that I desired that others. No need to feel overwhelmed when you take on a role space for my own. Her room is organized into centers with since we are vibrant community of like-minded professionals supplies ready for students to explore and create artwork whose PURPOSE is to support and learn from each other. using a variety of art processes such as drawing, painting, Just as my organization is an ongoing process, I hope your sculpture, clay, etc. It reminded me of my time at the Hartford GOAL this new school year is to “FOCUS on the journey, not Art School where I collaborated with other artists as an the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in experimental studio major. I wanted to recreate this space in doing it”- Greg Anderson. Have a wonderful school year. my own art room so Michelle helped me begin the Art Room Tracy Perry Transformation.

It has been a three-year journey of purging, sorting, and organizing. The floors are no longer cluttered with boxes of

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Learning Regional Workshops

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The AAEA Interest Survey said that Professional Development makes you feel supported as an Art Educator. The regional workshops are an opportunity to bring new and exciting ideas to art educators around the state. As regional liaison it was amazing seeing art educators from all around the state participate in these workshops. I am excited to continue to bring opportunities to the different regions. If you have a workshop suggestion, please e-mail me at Regionalevents@gmail.com.

Candace Greene AAEA Regional Liaison March 26, 2016: South Jane Peterson, our AAEA Southern Region chairperson hosted “Mad About Mosaics” in her classroom in Tucson. A variety of materials were available to choose from and many different kinds of beautiful mosaics were made while taking in the breathtaking desert landscape.

June 7, 2016: East

10 AAEA members attended the AAEA Western Regional Workshop: The Five Senses in at the Hualapai Mountain Park in Kingman.

Attendees learned an engaging and extremely fun hands on abstract, mixed-media collaboration art workshop based on one of the five senses as a stimulating prompt. They experimented with various media and expressing a drawing’s formal qualities only, without using any recognizable imagery!

June 16, 2016: Central

Julie Peters, our Central Regional Chair, hosted “Discover Drypoint” in North High School in Central Phoenix. Led by Joan Thompson, a retired art teacher and current member of the Arizona Print Group, teachers experienced the art of Drypoint using Plexiglas and water-based inks. Joan also demonstrated how to incorporate a variety of specialized papers into your printing process using a method referred to as Chine Collé.

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Community

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In this section, we would like to introduce our new Executive Board members as they share a little bit about themselves. We also invited them to interview a member of their art community so you will learn a little bit more about the amazing people we work with and who are doing amazing things in art education and the art world.

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Jessica Soifer AAEA President Elect

Jessica reflects upon receiving an art education award The 2016 National Art Education conference in Chicago offered many exciting workshops and events to participate in.

Good friends connected and new friends collaborated to celebrate Arts Education. I had the honor of receiving the 2016 Arizona Art Educator of the Year award alongside other Pacific Region Art Educators who put forth endless energy and passion to their students, classroom and colleagues. Nine of my proud family members cheered me on as I received my award. My Papa, who is 94 years old told me that I brought tears to his eyes and no words could express how thrilled he was for me. The love, support and encouragement, from family, friends and other awardees sparks the fire to continue excellence in art Education. It was special experience that I will never forget.

Jessica Soifer (J) Interviews Pamela Stephens (P) J: What is your name and what is your role in the field of Art Education?

P: My name is Pam Stephens. I currently head the art education at Northern Arizona University and serve on a variety of local, state, and national committees and boards.

I hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, K-12 art credentials, museums studies certificate, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy (art education). I have taught all grade levels from pre-school through graduate school.

While at the University of North Texas, I worked as a project coordinator for the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, a national project funded by the Getty Institute and the Annenberg Foundation.

This significant project sought to place art at the center of the curriculum and to measure the outcomes of such an approach.

J: What is your current position of AAEA? P: I am now the AAEA Awards Chair.

J: Why is it important for you to be a member of the NAEA and AAEA? P: I find that collaborating and networking through the national and state associations offers a sense of kinship that is sometimes missing in our professional lives. Too often, art educators are in schools where they are the single visual arts specialist. The collegiality of the associations provides a forum to meet like-minded individuals, discuss commonalities, debate differences, and to grow as individuals.

J: What advice would you give fellow art educators?

P: American psychologist Jerome Bruner stated in The Process of Education (1960) that “For any subject taught…, we might ask [is it] worth an adult’s knowing, and whether having known it as a child makes a person a better adult.”

Believe in transformational powers of the visual arts to make positive differences in the lives of the children.

These are children who will one day look back on your

J: How many years have you been a member of the AAEA and what positions have you held?

P: I moved to Arizona in 2003 and became a member of AAEA shortly after that. My first office in AAEA was as Chair of the Higher Education Division. I was co-chair of the 2013 AAEA conference in Sedona.

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classroom and be thankful that you contributed to their growth into better adults.

Be an art advocate.

Make your art voice heard.

Believe that you will make a difference.

Tonia Easton AAEA Secretary

Hello! It’s Tonia Easton here, your AAEA Secretary. I have been in education for 18 years and have a variety of experiences including teaching first and second grades, teaching Primary Montessori (pre-school and Kinder), acting as an instructional coach, and now I am an art educator (my favorite job of all)! I am ready to enter my third year in the art classroom and am so excited. I am currently taking three Art of Ed classes and am thoroughly enjoying them! I also love to make jewelry, travel, hike, dance (though I’m not very good at it) and do yoga. I have been happily married for 13 years and love to laugh with my husband.

https://www.facebook.com/RocNRowStudio/?fref=photo Takin’ It All In. 2016 24x24 Mixed Media, Diane Stevens

Tonia Easton’s Interview with Diane Stevens

Emily Dobson

Tolleson art teacher Diane Stevens has been teaching for 31 years, but began her career as an artist at a young age. “I was three years old when I painted my first mural on the wall. It was in our hall at home in the middle of the night and my parents thought they put all the painting supplies away. But I've always wanted to be a cowboy and since I lived in the city that was not going to happen but I could live the life through my art. So at a young age I started drawing the cowboy life. People loved my work and I would give them the piece and during my freshman year in high school I sold my first piece for $35.00.”

Prior to three years ago, I wasn’t a member of NAEA and my state organization, all which changed after attending San Diego’s National Convention in 2013. It was at Convention that I realized this is where everything that relates to my profession happens. This crazy jam packed event- can be overwhelming, but gives every person attending a renewed sense of purpose with Art Education.

This year, I was able to attend as a Board member for my state with other fellow Arizona leaders. It was wonderful to be able to have a sense of solidarity at Convention. We were able to accomplish so much in those few days and came back to our state with a sense of what our next two years will look like for both AAEA and NAEA.

Stevens especially enjoys teaching 3D mixed media sculpture because she loves to see the kids being challenged by the various media and working to create a wonderful piece of art. Artists who were influential to Diane include Russell, Remington, and O’Keefe. Russell and Remington drew her in with their depictions of the cowboy life, while O’Keefe inspired Stephens on an artistic and personal level. Diane admires the strength O’Keefe possessed, especially at a time when female artists weren’t welcomed into the art world.

Emily Dobson’s Interview with Georgina Badoni On a bright and warm Sunday morning, I met Georgina Badoni at a local breakfast spot on 4th Avenue in Tucson. As an active member of AAEA, Georgina has been a member since she started her pursuit of education at NAU with Pam Stevens at the helm in the early 2000’s. Georgina has at least 12 years experience of Art education under her belt, with her first few years working at the Hopi Day School on the reservation. Even though the budget was small, she found great success,

If you are interested witnessing Diane’s talent for yourself, check her out on Facebook.

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I teach at Flagstaff Arts & Leadership Academy High School. It was a great honor to present twice at the National Art Education Association Convention in Chicago this past March. I have attended the NAEA conventions nearly a dozen times. It is always and outstanding convention. Every time I return I am invigorated and have new fresh cutting edge lesson plans and projects for my program. I have sold my artwork & used my own funds to attend because it is that important to my practice. Being at a national convention keeps me on the contemporary beat of 21 st century art education and practices. Being an art educator for 19 years has been an extraordinary journey.

Attending and presenting this year was a true highlight for the work I do with my NAHS and a phenomenal collaboration with other Flagstaff art educators. Solely presented: National Art Honor Society: Engaging Students in Leadership with Philanthropy and Service.

Learn and discuss how a NAHS is engaged in two annual art initiatives that develop students with leadership skills like grant writing, philanthropy, collaborations, service in the community, & fundraising. And co-presented with Joe Cornett (Flagstaff High School) and Chandra Hemminger (Summit High School) Visualizing Sound, a collaboration with Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra. Our students created a visual slide show for Symphonie Fanstastique.

for students were eager to learn and the community was supportive of her efforts to expose students to Art. After several years in the classroom, Georgina decided to pursue a Masters in Visual Culture with an emphasis on Museum and Community. What she learned in her courses, especially from Dr. Elizabeth Berber, “Flopped everything on its ass”, rather than having the focus of art education be on production, the focus was switched to theory and practice. As an educator, “how you need to consider the approach (to art making)”, and develop a deeper scholarly approach to art making. The educator should choose a topic, such as social justice or social issues, where the artmaking is a “part of the core of who you are; what you believe, what and how you.

Georgina moved back to Arizona after working several years in Museum Education at the Native American Museum in D.C, and as an Art educator in Seattle. She taught for a few years at the Holiday school in South Tucson, but the call of higher education beckoned again and Georgina started her current pursuit for a PhD in American Indian Studies, with a minor in Art Education.

The focus of her degree, has been on Native Women’s perspectives on women hood and looking at powerful women ideas through scope of feminism.

On the educational side of the degree, Georgina is interested in building a framework for educators to approach American Indian art in a new and novel ways.

Even though traditional art is rooted with a deep history, there are many ways to see American Indian Art, including through the lens of humor. Georgina wants the “shake it up” and “ expanding the realm of contemporary artmaking, and not allowing the viewer to approach art as a static experience- rather as an active, living, much like the artists that create the art”.

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Our interview was over an hour, and by the end of it- I felt honored to have met Georgina. Her excitement is contagious and felt like a breath of fresh air. How great is our organization that we have so many voices here in Arizona?

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Research 2016 AAEA Interest Survey Results

AAEA 2016 IN PERSPECTIVE

In May, an interest survey was sent to AAEA members and was available on the AAEA. Its purpose was to learn what members need and want from AAEA as well as some background information.

Special thanks to the 46 members that submitted their responses by June 4th. Your AAEA Board and Council plan to use the information collected when planning future events, creating resources and sharing information. Here are some of the results: 1. Learning is the core value that resonates most with members.

2. Five of 46 members surveyed attended the 2016 National Art Education Convention in Chicago 2016.

3. The kinds of special speakers/topics relevant to the field of education members would like to see or hear more about in the future include Advocacy, AP Portfolio, and Art History.

4. The events members are most likely to attend are art-making workshops and regional workshops.

5. Majority of members are wanting to present hands-on activities and learn about empowerment through the arts.

6. One hundred percent of members surveyed think e-mail is the best form of communication for AAEA. 7. More than half of the members surveyed have attended NAEA’s national convention.

8. Financial support is needed for 19 out of 46 members to attend an NAEA convention.

9. Professional Development makes members surveyed supported as an educator.

10. Here is the ranking of why members belong to AAEA/NAEA:  Highest Importance: o Community of like-minded professionals o Personal Growth  High Importance: o Resources o Networking  Important: o Programs o Leadership Opportunities

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Leadership Retreat Highlights Community On June 6, 2016, your Executive Board (Tracy Perry, Michelle Lindsay, Jessica Soifer, Tonia Easton and Emily Dobson, and your Regional Liaison, Candace Greene, started their journey to Kingman for two days of team building and building AAEA Organizational Vibrancy. Emily, from Tucson traveled the farthest, over 300 miles, but carpooling with Tracy from Mesa, Tonia from Goodyear, and Michelle and Candace from Phoenix, made the ride most fun.

We all met Jessica at the Recreation Area 3 at the gorgeous Hualapai Mountain Park. After a delicious lunch of salads, we prepared our affirmation bags and journal covers. We then gathered in our rustic Cabin 19 to unpack. We gathered in the living room and each person received a packet of resources including my Presidential Goals and job Description. We then watched the TED talk “Everyday Leadership” by Drew Dudley (https://www.ted.com/speakers/drew_dudley) . We shared how being a leader is something we do everyday, “lollipop moments” where we impacted others, and the opportunities AAEA and NAEA has to help us be an everyday leader. Since we all needed something to stay unified and accountable, I presented everyone with a compact Passion Planner to organize ideas and record expectations and record deadlines. (http://www.passionplanner.com/) With the video and planner as tools for inspiration, we sat at the kitchen table and each one of us reviewed all of our position statements. We made changes to the statements as needed and since Candace’s Regional Liaison position is new, she created her own. After sometime of discussions, the updated position statements were turned over to Emily to be rewritten. After a quick break, we moved on to reviewing the results from the 2016 Interest Survey.

Each of us was assigned one of the questions and calculated the responses. We then took the information and recorded it on an index card which was given to me to include in email communications as well as well as posted in the newsletter. Although we saw improvements that could be made to the survey, we were thankful for the feedback we received and thought it was a good effort to reach out to our members. We ended our table discussion by reviewing the Presidential

AAEA 2016 IN PERSPECTIVE Goals and assigning each officer one goal to support. The evening ended with writing affirmations, conversations and dessert by the campfire and finally a good night’s rest!

The next morning, we shared breakfast, packed up the cabin and cars, then made our way back to Recreation Area 3 for the Eastern Regional Workshop. We planned this event so members and interested participants living near Kingman could meet our board and witness our dedication to serving them around the ENTIRE state. The “Five Senses” workshop was presented by Tracy Perry and was based on Michael Bell’s “The Seven Deadly Sins”. The five members that registered and executive board worked in teams of 2 to explore the creative process of making large collaborative, abstract works of art with mixed media, including tempera paints, charcoal, pencil, and water-soluble oil pastels. After participants completed their works, a delicious lunch was served. The workshop closed with each team describing their process, sharing what they learned and how they will apply it to their teaching, and guessing what sense each artwork represented. When goodbyes were said to the workshop participants, the Executive Board received their affirmation bags as a reminder of how valued they are and reviewed what was gained from the retreat and what to do different in the future. We all agreed, as members from various parts of the state, we appreciated the opportunity to get to know each other in a more personal way, gain greater awareness of the expectations as an AAEA leader, receive tools that will help us be organized and be inspired as we serve our organization, and finally look forward to future “lollipop moments” and doing small things that will make a big difference.

John Wooden

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Advocacy National Honor Society

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National Art Honor Society (NAHS and NJAHS)

Are you an AAEA/NAEA member interested in making visual arts more visible in your school! Then start or renew your NAHS/NJAHS chapter!

Creative thinking is the core of 21st century learning and, as a visual arts educator, you are a chief creative officer in your school. National Art Honor Society (NAHS) and National Junior Art Honor Society (NJAHS) chapter sponsors magnify the innovation, skills, and scholarship that your art program brings to your school and community. Opportunities for national recognition, scholarships, and connectivity to 46,000+ outstanding art students are available to your students as members of NAHS/NJAHS.

How to establish your chapter 1. Download a copy of the NAHS/NJAHS Chapter Handbook and Resource Catalog and check out the NAHS FAQs. 2. Educators, discuss establishing a chapter with your school administration. Be sure to address important topics like funding, bylaws, and selection/eligibility criteria.

3. Designate a Chapter Sponsor.

4. Establish your chapter’s Bylaws.

5. Gain student interest and invite eligible students to join.

6. Collect student membership dues and finalize your student roster.

7. Submit your chapter registration form, student roster, student dues, and chapter fee (if applicable) to NAEA. Submitting registration materials by the end of January is a best practice. Your chapter must be registered each school year. Chapter membership lapses each year on June 30.

8. Receive your welcome letter, chapter charter, and student certificates/membership cards in the mail.

Go to https://www.arteducators.org/community/articles/152-establish-a-new-nahs-njahs-chapter for more information.

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Advocacy YAM at Conference

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What is Youth Art Month (YAM)? The Council for Art Education (CFAE) administers Youth Art Month at the national level. Festivities take place annually, traditionally each March, to celebrate visual arts for grades K – 12. The Youth Art Month Program emphasizes the value of art education for all children, encourages support for quality school art programs, and promotes art material safety. Youth Art Month also provides a forum for recognizing skills developed through visual arts experiences that are not possible in other curriculum subjects.

As stated in the Conference Highlights of newsletter, Youth Art Month starts November in Tucson! This year, we invite members to submit or bring one or more Arizona themed artwork(s) to the AAEA conference for consideration in the YAM Flag Design Contest.

Artwork will be on display at the conference for attendees to vote on their favorite design. The artwork with the most votes will be made into a flag for display in the Youth Art Month Museum at the National Art Education Association National Convention in March as well as at AAEA Council meetings and select locations throughout the year.

The next 10 artworks that receive the highest votes will be selected for the Arizona Art Exhibit in the Youth Art Month Museum at the National Convention as well! So encourage your students to begin creating artworks with the Arizona state theme in design.

Guidelines  Please include the name of our state somewhere in the design.  The Design can be VERTICAL or HORIZONTAL format (NOTE: Flags will be displayed vertically in the Youth Art Month Museum.)

 Creatively use images that represent the state or represent art.  If possible, include the words “Youth Art Month”.

If you are not attending conference, but would like to participate in the, please mail artwork by November 2nd to Michelle Lindsay, 820 West Thomas Rd, #6, Phoenix, AZ 85013.

So, invite your students to begin creating works of art with an Arizona Theme and

celebrate visual arts for grades K – 12!

Check on FaceBook and AAEA website for updates!

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Advocacy

Dept of Education & the Visual Arts

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Robert Waller: Artistic Literacy and the new Arizona Visual Arts Standards

Arizona Accountability System

Robert Waller, your AAEA State Department of Education Liaison said, "The Arizona Department of Education is working on a new-and-hopefully-improved A-F Letter Grade Accountability System for schools, school districts, and charter schools. Specifically, under the new “Every Student Succeeds Act” (ESSA), states are required to have a single accountability system for all public and charter schools – a system that includes the following performance indicators:  Academic achievement based on long-term goals that measure student proficiency on state assessments for reading/language arts and mathematics  A measure of student growth for elementary and middle schools  Graduation rates  English language proficiency for non-native speakers  (NEW) School quality - The school quality indicator may include measures of student and/or educator engagement, student access to and completion of advanced coursework, post-secondary readiness, school climate and safety, or any other measure chosen by the state.

"It is within the new “school quality” indicator that Arizona would be able to include – for example – access and participation rates in Arts education in the new A-F Letter Grade Accountability System as well as other valued-andthus-measured performance indicators." As an art educator and one who greatly affects your schools quality he thought it would be helpful if arts educators provided comments, suggestions and evidence of how you greatly affect your school's quality, as well as the other performance indicators, through ADE's Request for Information (RFI).

Special thanks to if you submitted feedback and comments.

To stay updated on the Accountability System, visit these sites for more information:  ADE's Accountability site: http://www.azed.gov/accountability/  ADE's newest accountability newsletter: http://www.azed.gov/accountability/files/2016/06/accountabilitythe-grader-newsletter-june.pdf

ESSA Survey

Superintendent Douglas is inviting Arizonans to provide feedback on the new Every Student Succeeds ACT (ESSA) so now is your chance to share what you feel is most important! Share your ideas on what school characteristics are most important to you and how should student and school success be measured. Take a few moments and advocate the arts at http://www.azed.gov/essa/survey/.

Artistic Visual Literacy

Robert Waller created this amazing document to help understand the new visual art standards that go into effect this 2016-2017 calendar year. Please visit the Resource tab on the www.azarted.org website to review and print this very important document.

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Advocacy Americans for the Arts

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Americans for the Arts

Americans for the Arts serves, advances, and leads the network of organizations and individuals who cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America. Founded in 1960, Americans for the Arts is the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education. Their mission is to serve, advance, and lead the network of organizations and individuals who cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America.

Connecting your best ideas and leaders from the arts, communities, and business, together we can work to ensure that every American has access to the transformative power of the arts. To learn more go to http://www.americansforthearts.org/about-americans-for-the-arts.

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Conference Advocacy

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The following pages are some resources you may find helpful when seeking support to attend the November 2016 AAEA Conference, Media Mosaics, in Tucson in November as well as the March 2017 NAEA Convention, The Challenge of Change in New York City.

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Dear School Administrator,

The Arizona Art Education Association (AAEA) shares your vision for ensuring that your students receive the best possible education and that your faculty possesses a deep knowledge and understanding of teaching and learning. The professional development experience made available through the AAEA fall conference for professionals in the field of visual arts education, offers a comprehensive opportunity for educators who are engaged with the arts in learning.

We are pleased to announce that the 2016 fall conference will be held November 10-12 in Tucson with the theme of “Media Mosaics.� On behalf of your art education faculty, I encourage you to support their participation in the 2016 professional development conference. A vibrant, innovative community of professionals representing art specialists and teachers of the visual arts, school district administrators, university professors and scholars, researchers, and museum educators will connect with the common goal of advancing art education for the benefit of students in schools throughout Arizona.

Conference opportunities include education sessions that provide interactive learning through hands-on workshops and showcase the latest educational techniques and practices. The content of this experience is 100% education-related and can be applied immediately to teaching and learning in your school. AAEA and the Arizona Department of Education have worked together to bring a strand of workshops focusing educator effectiveness, art assessments and application of the State art standards in the classroom.

As educators, we know that in this climate of high stakes testing, the arts are critically important in developing the habits of mind that nurture human potential and prepare our students for success in today’s world. By providing released time for this professional development opportunity, and supporting travel and lodging, your encouragement of the art educators in your school and district further advances their knowledge and professional skills. Additional conference details will continue to be posted on the AAEA website. Feel free to contact us for further information at aaea.2016conference@gmail.com. I extend my appreciation to you for your leadership as we work together on a common vision of offering quality, comprehensive education to students across the nation.

Sincerely,

Tracy Perry

AAEA President

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Arizona Art Education Association

Annual Conference

November 10 – 12, 2016 Tucson, Ariz.

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Letter from Your Conference Co-Chairs

AAEA 2016

Annual Conference

Hello everyone!

Media Mosaics celebrates the 2016 conference and will offer rich and meaningful experiences that pattern our artistic souls. We will come together to create, develop and connect with people from across the state of Arizona. We will have opportunity to interpret and create meaning of technology integration, art-making, design cross-curricular lessons, assessments and organizational skills. Join other art educators to expand your mind while discovering relevant ways to build meaning as an art educator.

Experience Tucson's resort-style setting at the Hilton Doubletree Hotel in Reid Park. Enjoy 14 acres of lushly landscaped grounds among the hotel that gracefully blends in with the Sonoran Desert that surrounds the hotel. After a busy day at the conference kick back with ease at the pool, bar, the comfort of your room or stray four miles from the hotel and indulge in what downtown has to offer.

This year the AAEA presents Michael Bell as the keynote speaker. Get ready to be re-invigorated and reinspired. Michael is going to share how to transcend expectations and exceed any limitations within creativity experienced in and out of the classroom. The hands on workshop with Michael Bell will follow the Keynote. Get ready to be blown away by the rich visuals, concepts and delivery of daily practices that will uncover and discover. You will receive 31 exciting prompts while exploring collaborative art mixed with an innovative approach to visual journaling.

Throughout the weekend we will reflect on the mosaics that break the arts into many pieces, compartments and concepts. Celebrate the people, art and students that create inspiration, innovation and change within art.

Collaborate with familiar faces and new friends to develop strong ideas and visions of art. Participate in visual journaling, hands on workshops, best practice workshops, honor award nominees and experience a fashion show and prom by finding your inner mosaic. Together we can make 2016 conference a memorable experience: We=Power!

azarted.org/conference See you in Tucson!

Jessica Soifer and Tracy Perry 18

THURSDAY Session Highlight

AAEA 2016

Annual Conference

Registration & Events

Registration begins at 4:00 pm in the hotel lobby. Pick up your name tag to embellish and a visual journal. Since our theme is Media Mosaic, we thought it would be fun for everyone to bring one or more conference bags from the past for a Conference Bag Exchange! If this is your first conference, we will have extra bags for you to choose from!

Things to Do!

4:00 – 9:00p

Create upcycled fashion creations for Friday Night’s

Visual Journaling

station will be open 24 hours in the Grand Ballroom Lobby.

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Embellish Name Tags at the Name Tag Station!

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AAEA will provide hair combs, crowns, sashes, etc., along with a variety of materials for decorative purposes. Materials you might consider bringing include buttons, beads, bottle caps, wire, fabric, burlap, felt, sewing kits, toilet paper rolls, old paint brushes, marker caps or anything else you have just laying around.

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FRIDAY Session Highlights

AAEA 2016

Annual Conference

1 Hands-On Workshops 9:0010:50a

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Roxie May

Printing with Gelli Plates

ALL LEVEL

Get stARTed with Gelli Plates! Whether you have tried the new craze in printmaking or not this workshop will give you great ideas for bringing monoprinting into any level of the art classroom. From Kindergarten to AP and beyond gel printing plates are the new and easy way to get fabulous results without a press. A great way to explore the Elements and Principles of Art and promote exploration, creativity and problem solving. Participants will start with the basics of Gelli Plate Printing and move on to more advanced techniques as time permits.

1.Select stencil or found objects 2.Ink the plate and place objects 3.Pull first "print" of negative space 4.Remove stencil and/or objects 5.Pull final print

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Deanna Dikinis

Chinese Brush Painting – Bamboo Plants

MIDDLE & SECONDARY

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Very fun for students and teacher, while learning Chinese brush painting focusing on painting bamboo plants. Step by step instruction will be shown, starting with the bamboo stalk, stems, leaves and the whole plant. Then participants are set loose to play, creating their bamboo plants. Are there pandas in the bamboo forest, butterflies, or tigers? This project is a wonderful hands-on component as an introduction to Chinese culture. Chinese lanterns are a great secondary project - will bring examples and lesson plans.

1.Comparative aesthetics of Chinese art to Western art.

2.Talking about the materials, how to hold the brush and how to mix the ink.

3.Demonstrating using the brush to create the stalk.

4.Show how to make six stalks, then have participants do their stalk practices.

5.Demonstrate the stem, leaves and putting it together.

6.Participants practicing and doing the plant components - painting.

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Debbie Hammer

East Meets West

SECONDARY

This lesson combines learning origami folding techniques with the Alexander Calder method of making mobiles. The techniques are taught in a way that will alleviate students fears of creating origami. As a teacher it is a delight to hear students excited about their success. Please try to view the film "Between the Folds," before the conference.

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1 FRI 9:0010:50a

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Robert Waller

Digital Artistry

ALL LEVEL

Using FREE, Cross-Platform, Technology Tools to Create Inspired Digital Art Masterpieces. Are you seeking new and exciting ways to reach your students? Are you looking for an easy and inexpensive way to infuse 21st-Century technology skills into your Visual Art curriculum? Are you in search of an innovative and practical way to introduce your students to famous artists and the work they create? If the answers to any or all of these questions is, "Yes," then please join Robert Waller, Art Education Specialist for the Arizona Department of Education, for a fun and interactive hands-on workshop exploring a variety of FREE, cross-platform technology tools you and your students can use to create inspired digital art masterpieces. (NOTE: Internet access is required. Attendees will need to supply their own personal computer - PC or Macintosh - to participate in the hands-on workshop. Access to technology tools and step-by-step digital artistry ""recipes"" will be provided by the instructor.)"

1.Use a personal computer to access one of several FREE, cross-platform technology tools 2.Begin with a photograph or a blank digital canvas.

3.Using an instructor-provided "recipe" as a starting point, create a beautiful digital masterpiece in the style of a famous artist.

4.Experiment! (Digital canvases are FREE, and pixel "mishaps" are easily rectified.)

5.Stand back and marvel at your digital artistry!

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Angie Watts

Budget Friendly Weaving

ELEMENTARY

Weaving is a wonderful standards based art activity for elementary students! You will go back to school with one example and plans for 4 types of weaving. Weaving teaches children fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination and is a relaxing, tactile experience. We will use simple cardboard looms and I have several tips for making the process faster and easier than traditional methods.

1. Measure, cut and warp the loom.

2. Choose your colors and weave 3. Remove from loom, tighten warp strings if needed.

4. To make "people, bend and weave in a chenille stem to top and bottom, add beads, yarn for hair and hot glue a button and magnet for a head

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Emily Gabaldon

Tiki

SECONDARY

Participants will be guided through a sculpture lesson using dry oasis floral foam to create a Tiki. The process is messy, but fun and easily used at many grade levels.

1.Collect Visual inspiration 2.Draw/Sketch your Tiki 3.Transfer to foam block 4.Use subtractive sculpture methods to carve the form 5.Clean up the mess.

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1 FRI 9:0010:50a

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Julie Swanson Davis

Ink-Less Tessellation Prints

MIDDLE & SECONDARY

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Think printmaking requires ink? Think again! Beginning with a simple technique for making tessellating tiles, this Blick Art Materials workshop will teach you how to use transparent etched film and water-soluble crayons to make repeating patterns that are inkless, imperfect, and intriguing! A tessellating shape will be designed from a paper rectangle.

1.An image will be designed from the shape and etched into a piece of mono print film using Scratch-Art tools 2.Watersoluble artists' crayons will be used to fill the etched lines and drawn on the film surface 3.Prints will be made, side by side, on a piece of damp paper using a burnishing tool 4.A second layer of prints/color will be applied over the first until paper is filled with tessellations!

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1 FRI 9:0010:50a

FRIDAY Session Highlights

AAEA 2016

Annual Conference

2 Best Practice Lecture 11:0011:50a

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Kristi Rucker

Diverse Firing Techniques in a Trash Can! – Pit Fire

ALL LEVEL

Kristal Hoeh

Tools for Teaching Online

ALL LEVEL

The purpose of this session is to discover new ways to pit fire ceramics in a trash can, which is safe for any K-12 setting. We will discuss clay bodies, projects ideas, and the firing process for successful Pit Firing. This technique that does not require glaze and takes a short amount of time.

You will learn how to Pit Fire in a trash can from a teaching artist with education and experience from middle school, high school and higher education.

After this session you will be confident to do these techniques with your students or in your own.

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Teaching art online? Come learn about several Web 2.0 tools available to engage remote students such as Pictochart, Powtoons, Prezi, Google Docs, Google Voice, and other interactive web-based applications.

Summer Schaudt & Katie Stika

Creating a Data Driven Art Classroom – Everyday Rubrics!

MIDDLE & SECONDARY

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This session will take you beyond the basics of writing rubrics. We will discuss what makes a rubric valuable, the importance of student-centered rubrics for student reflection, and creating rubrics for performance-based assessment.

Integrate simple rubrics into every lesson to help improve student feedback and student performance. Bring your curriculum or a project idea for your classroom and leave with tools to make this lesson measurable from start to finish!

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2 FRI 11:0011:50a

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Karen Knorowski

Large Scale Mosaic Projects

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Karla Phelps

Favorite Five

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Brandon Uftring

ALL LEVEL

Would you like to learn how to lead a large-scale mosaic project from start to finish? In-depth information regarding how to choose a fitting design, how to choose and purchase supplies, and how to lead students and the community in the mosaic making process will be covered during this lecture. An overview of different tools and techniques will be discussed, and we will wrap up with a question and answer forum.

ELEMENTARY

Explore five elementary school art lessons that were voted best by the students! Learn how to plan lessons that are differentiated for each student, with a successful sequence from start to finish. Find out how to challenge students with higher level thinking and expand their depth of knowledge by creating projects with material exploration incorporated into each lesson. Learn how to guide your students through the process of creating their own rubrics for daily work and outlining their own project requirements. Leave this elementary school session with new ideas and lessons ready for you to implement!

Developing a Centers-Based Art Curriculum

MIDDLE

TAB and Choice classroom models have encouraged me to rethink the way I structure my classroom. After a semester of trial and error, I have developed a Centers-Based approach that works for me. Students work through a series of design problems/assignments at each art center. It is not TAB, but it is "TAB-ish" This transition has increased excitement and engagement within my classroom. 7th/8th grade students in my semester long classes rotate through 6 centers in roughly 2.5 week intervals. Current centers: Digital Art, Stop Motion Animation, Painting, Drawing, Ceramics and Fiber Art.

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2 FRI 11:0011:50a

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Nancy Wilkinson

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Olivia Yuen

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Melissa Samsel

How to Teach World Art –

Culture Trunks/Passport/Projects

MIDDLE

Through two Fulbrights (to India and South Africa), two NEH grants (Studying the India Ramayana Epic and the Pueblos of the South West), a Freedom Foundation Grant to China and a KAFE (Korean Academy for Educators) grant, and my own traveling, I have created culture trunks to share with students. Each of the countries we "visit" has a project along with the presentation of music, clothing, masks, dolls and art. In this workshop, I would show how to create a culture trunk, how to apply for grants and share the projects students have created.

Philip C. Curtis: Exploring the Realm of Magical Realism

Following my research and compilation of a teacher's guide, participants in this best practice lecture will learn about the artwork of Arizona's favorite son, Philip C. Curtis. We will explore the art style that his work is associated with, Magical Realism, and discover engaging ways to introduce Curtis to your students.  Be introduced to the teacher's guide  Learn about Philip C. Curtis and his artwork  Learn about Magical Realism  Discover how to implement Magical Realism and Curtis in your classroom.

Taking Art to the Next Level with Writing

ALL LEVEL

ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE

Explore a variety of ways that art can become more meaningful through writing. Encouraging students to write in the art room can foster higher quality art critiques, self-reflection, goal setting, and creative writing. Leave with a variety of ideas that you can implement easily into your classroom tomorrow.

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2 FRI 11:0011:50a

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Shana Cinquemani & Sarah Carton

Moving Beyond the Hallway: Creating Meaningful Exhibitions of Children’s Art

ELEMENTARY

Within this presentation, we will explore various ways to create thoughtful exhibitions of young students’ artwork. By sharing examples of exhibitions that we have curated (sometimes even in collaboration with children), it is our hope to help participants think about new and exciting ways they can share their student’s work. In addition to exploring curatorial choices and styles, we will also discuss how the curatorial styles we choose as art educators affect our students. It is the aim of this session to offer alternative ways to share student art that help to communicate the importance of their work.

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FRIDAY Session Highlights

AAEA 2016

Annual Conference

Keynote Address 12:0012:50p Michael Bell is a renowned American artist, most famous for his larger-than-life sized narrative series paintings and for his infamous portrait clientele, which includes Mob boss John Gotti, best pal Dominic Capone III (Al Capone’s great nephew) and numerous actors from "the Sopranos", "Goodfellas", "A Bronx Tale" and more. Bell’s works are often the mirror to a tragic world, but they deepen our humanity through psychology, ghostly brushwork and personal color palette that draws on memories and silent echoes from the artist’s own dark, turbulent past. In the field of education Bell has been a pioneer of the Visual Journaling movement across the nation for over a decade. Bell is a National Board Certified, Maryland Public Schools Teacher of the Year and has received numerous accolades over his career, including: the 2013 NAHS National Sponsor of the Year; 2013 College Board’s William U. Harris Award of Excellence; the Washington Post’s 2013 Agnes Meyer Teacher of the Year; Scholastic Arts National Gold & Silver Medalist Educator three years straight, and his students have earned over 10 million in scholarship offers the past five years alone. Bell exhibits his paintings in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. "I believe the most important job of an artist is to draw a line from your life to your art that is straight and clear. For me, it's not as much about what I do as it is about why I do it. To put it simply - our student's art matters. And so does yours. I'm going to show you how to tap into your "why" and unlock the key to your students' creative process along the journey."

- Michael Bell

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FRIDAY Session Highlights

AAEA 2016

Annual Conference

3 Hands-On Workshop with Michael Bell 1:303:20p We will begin as a large group and present the concept of 31 Nights through an exciting PowerPoint rich with visuals and video clips.

Then we will break out into 31 groups. All 31 groups will receive 31 exciting prompts while exploring Collaboration Art mixed with an innovative approach to Visual Journaling… How can you go wrong?! You will learn how to lead your student artists through one of the most selfexplorative journeys of their lives!

31 Nights is literally the key to unlocking their creative art-making process in drawing, photography and painting, and one Bell recently gave a TEDx talk on! Think of it as weightlifting on steroids for artists – an artist’s training camp that leads to daily practices that help you uncover common threads in your own work.

1. Split small collaborative groups of 4 or 5 spread out into 31 stations.

2. This is a place to collaborate (from start to finish) on a 31 Nights prompt within your small group.

3. Materials such as: charcoal, pencil, chalk, newspaper, glue, watercolors, tempera paint and/or ink washes to experiment with the media- they may be combined in many ways to best interpret your “prompt.”

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3 FRI 1:303:20p

FRIDAY Session Highlights

AAEA 2016

Annual Conference

4 Hands-On Workshops 3:305:20p

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Jackie Johnson

Posterized Portraits

SECONDARY

Use portraits, gridding, and photo editing techniques to create Posterized Portraits.Take a picture and upload it to your computer.

Using “picmonkey.com”, change picture to black and white and posterize your picture, chosing 5 values or more.

1.Print a 4"x 6" picture and grid the picture using 1" increments.

2.Grid a 8" x 12" paper/board in 2" increments.

3.Copy each square on the 4" x 6" picture onto the 8" x 12" paper.

4.Once picture is drawn, reproduce the values to finish the Posterized Portrait.

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Lonni Himmelstein

Easy Foam Printmaking

ELEMENTARY

Participants will create a design which when transferred to the foam, will be printed using colored inks and colored papers.

1.Participants will create a design using line, texture pattern and contrast.

2.Participants will transfer the design to the foam using a pencil. If participant chooses to make a 'two-color” design they will need to sync their colors.

3.Participants will print their design on a variety of colored papers using colored inks.

4.If Participant has chosen to do a 'two-color' design, they need to print their first pattern, and sync the second to the previous print to make it work.

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4 FRI 3:305:20p

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Summer Schaudt & Katie Stika

Rigor in the Art Room – Scaffolding Lessons

MIDDLE

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Candace Greene

Stop Motion Animation

ALL LEVEL

See how to incorporate rigor into my middle school art room through scaffolded, 10-day lessons that introduce students to theme, vocabulary, skills practice, final draft projects, art critiques and reflection. This will be a hands-on workshop where we will walk through a hands-on lesson, in an abridged version of a 10 day project, and complete a sample project (textile sculptures - stuffed animals) in the process.

This class will show art educators how to use ipads and cell phones to create stop motion animations using a variety of materials.

1.Storyboard 2.Create characters 3.Video Tape 4.Add voice and music 5.Upload your animation

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Pam Stephens, Adriana Yankey, Elisa Weideman

Easy Peasy Handmade Visual Journal

MIDDLE & SECONDARY

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In this hands-on workshop you will learn multiple activities that are immediately applicable to your classroom. Learn how to create a four-page (or larger) accordion-spine book that can be used as a visual journal, a scrapbook, or portfolio. After your book is complete, start your book’s content with some budget friendly activities such as a simple origami bookmark and various printmaking techniques including mixed media. These activities are designed with upper elementary and middle school students in mind.

1.Select cardstock colors, measure, and cut 2.Measure and fold spine; assemble pages and cover 3.Allow visual journal to dry 4.Make a bookmark and try some printmaking activities 5.Place your completed artwork in the visual journal

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4 FRI 3:305:20p

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Margaret Lawson Dunlop

Making Tape Motion Sculptures

MIDDLE

This workshop will guide you through a value and form focused lesson geared for 5th or 6th graders. Participants will look at realistic sculpture examples from various artists. Participants will first draw a realistic person in motion of their choice. Then they will learn how to make a realistic person in motion using masking tape sculpture that matches their value drawing.

Students love this project and it's easy to acquire all necessary materials even on a limited budget. We will talk about artbooks, define VALUE, create a value scale, draw sports figure, select your own person in motion, and draw it showing value.

1.Demonstration with materials 2.Show how to assemble sculpture armature/blocks 3.Show you how to properly use the materials (ripped newspaper, masking tape) 4.Create a realistic sculpture showing motion

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Julia M Miller

Simply Cyanotypes

ALL LEVEL

Learn how to create your own cyan blue prints with this early photographic process. This non-toxic, photogram seems almost magical as you watch your image appear - similar to a darkroom photograph, but in full daylight. All ages can produce cyanotypes!

1.Create an image or choose an object 2.Expose your cyanotype paper to the sun with the image or object attached 3.Wait for the sun to expose the paper 4.Watch your image come to life by setting in water 5.Watch the cyan blue become bolder as it dries.

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4 FRI 3:305:20p

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Michael Harbridge

Everything You Need to Know About Brushes

Tricia Hilbert

Ted DeGrazia Inspired

ALL LEVEL

Each participant will receive a set of brushes with various hair types and shapes, along with pad of paper and color so they can learn about the different types of hair, how the brushes are used, what type of products work best with each.

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Recycled Aluminum Can Flowers

MIDDLE

This project was inspired by a visit to Ted DeGrazia's Gallery in the Sun. I saw these amazing flowers decorating every outdoor area and I asked the gallery docent how they were made. The docent literally took a can of soda she had just finished and started cutting away with scissors! I was amazed that something so simple (and cheap) could make something so beautiful! I tried it with my 7/8th grade students 10 years ago and they were hooked! We do it every year and the projects get more beautiful and elaborate with each new group of students!

1.Rinse out cans and use scissors to cut off top of soda can.

2.Make vertical cuts in can to make cutting petals easier 3.Cut detailed designs to create interesting petals/leaves 4.Paint individual layers of cans with acrylic paints 5.Use hot glue to attach can layers together

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FRIDAY Evening Events

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Art Prom!

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Dinner, Awards & Raffle

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Artist Market

AAEA 2016

Annual Conference

6:0010:00p

How would you like attend an Adult Prom?

Would you say “yes” to our invitation to the 2016 Mosaic Promenade on Friday after the Awards Dinner? Dress to impress and strut your stuff down the catwalk! Design, embellish and bedazzle a “fancy but arty” mosaic themed outfit to wear to “Mosaic Prom.” Those who are shy, channel your own Andie or Duckie styled outfit (Pretty in Pink), while getting down to some awesome dance moves. We will have a Best of Contest as part of the evening festivities. Start thinking about how you can impress your fellow art educators with your “Make it work” concepts and get ready to “Hold Onto the Night” in Tucson!

6:007:30p

Honor award recipients at the 2016 Awards Ceremony in the Grand Ballroom

7:0010:00p

Artist Market open from 8-10 in conjunction with the Mosaics Promenade !

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SATURDAY Session Highlights

AAEA 2016

Annual Conference

5 Hands-On Workshops 9:0010:50a

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Michelle Lindsay

Identity Box

MIDDLE & SECONDARY

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A survey of internal and external symbolism that will assist in an introspective journey of personal expression through compositional multi-media exploration.

1.Prepare, Partition & Paint Box 2.Complete survey & Create symbols 3.Add Graphics 4.Embellish and Refine Aesthetic

5.Present with Written Component

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Julia M Miller

ALL LEVEL

Creative Bookbinding

Learn to make two fun styles of mini books to use for class projects, including one hardcover book and one softcover.

These will be sample blank books and will not include content. Tools and materials needed for the classroom will be discussed, as well as possible uses for books in the classroom.

1.Create hardcovers by covering book board with paper 2.Make the inside of the book 3.Attach book covers to inside of book 4.Create second book cover and inside of book 5.Attach covers to book

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Jean Paradis

MIDDLE

Reflections

Where do you see yourself in ten years? As adults with a lot of life experience, this can be a head scratching question. But ask Middle Schoolers who have yet to travel high school, ten years can mean "I'm 24! What do I want my life to look like?! A beautiful drawing project that causes students to truly think deeply about the things that most matter to them, Reflections was voted a "Most Favorite" by all my junior high art students. You will make a Reflection drawing to use as a model for your class, and take home how-to steps for making a student-created rubric.

Learn about and create Depth of Knowledge questions that will help students make connections, gather resources, think through complex ideas and make them live through art.

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5 SAT 9:0010:50a

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Nicole Coleman

The Vision Collection

SECONDARY

Middle years inspired design unit that gets students thinking about their future with art making. This hands on workshop is TAB Choice based and allows students to design their own company while considering the many facets of visual aesthetics. In this workshop, teachers will kick start a new business idea and bring their vision to life creating a professional brand board.

1.Brainstorm Ideas for Company 2.Design Your Company Logo 3.Collect Visual Representations of Your Company for Brand Board 4.Assemble

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Emily Dobson

The 80’s Are Back

ALL LEVEL

By utilizing shrinky dinks in the art room, you can engage students with numerous projects that captivate all age and skill levels. Students will enjoy creating their own little piece of art- and after seeing their creation shrunk- the media to take on a “magical” quality. The only real cost to the project is the shrinky dinks sheets- everything else should be readily available in an art classroom.

1.Choose the template to use/ coloring page/ drawing/ image 2.Apply sharpie and color pencil 3.Cut out the drawn object.

4.Punch a hole if object will be hung.

5.Heat in a toaster or oven on low and assemble when cool.

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5 SAT 9:0010:50a

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Pat Burdette & Hailey Hatch

Add That Optical Third Dimension

ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE

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Ignite the interest in your students by the use of Chromadepth glasses. Since these work purely on color, any art medium works! First, wearing the glasses, you will look at images and artwork to figure out then learn their rules. Then create a bookmark that focuses on color and pattern that when you look at it with the glasses pops right off the page. Lastly create a cut paper project based further on op art, that is intriguing without glasses but is super fun with them.

1.Cover both blue papers with black crayon rubbed textures 2.Measure and cut 1” strips from the 9 x 12 blue/black and 9 x 12 red 3.Glue alternating opposite strips on the 12 x 18 blue/black and 12 x 18 red, creating 2 striped pieces of paper - one will be the background paper. Using the second sheet - design and cut contour shapes.

4.Carefully glue down.

5.Display with a pair of glasses so all viewers can get the full impact!

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Roxie May

Decorated Papers

ALL LEVEL

Decorated Papers can be used for collage, book covers, or interesting grounds for drawing, painting and printmaking. Participants will rotate through multiple stations with a variety of tools, materials and techniques to create many different kinds of decorated papers. Options will include glue textures & patterns, tissue paper, printed/stamped/rolled surfaces, paste paper, cheese cloth, dry brush, etc.

1.Introduction to concepts and distribution of instructional materials and samples.

2.Participants will select papers and a station to begin.

3.Participants will rotate through stations as time permits.

4.Work will be labeled and dried as participants progress through the different techniques.

5.Sharing ideas and celebrating success!

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Julie Swanson Davis

ALL LEVEL

Paint-Trail Journals

In this workshop sponsored by Blick Art Materials, participants will make a dynamic “paint-trailed” book jacket with a nod to the textile-inspired designs of Henri Matisse. By combining painting and printmaking techniques on vibrant felt pieces, you’ll create a new sketchbook or journal cover that really makes a statement!

1.Mark a piece of felt with registration marks 2.Begin a design by trailing acrylic paint from a squeeze bottle on one side of the felt 3.Make a symmetry print by folding and pressing the felt together 4.Repeat process until design is complete 5.Finish book cover with a few simple stitches and insert provided journal

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SATURDAY Session Highlights

AAEA 2016

Annual Conference

6 Best Practice Lectures 11:0011:50a

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Robert Waller

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Manisha Sharma & Lisa Hochtritt

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Megan Howe & Heidi Herboldsheimer

Artistic Literacy in the Classroom: An Introduction to the

Arizona Academic Standards in the Arts

ALL LEVEL

The Arts provide students with the means to think, feel, and understand the world around them in ways unique and distinct from other academic disciplines. These skills have been recognized as essential to lifelong success both in and out of school. Join Arizona Department of Education Arts Education Specialist, Robert Waller, as he reviews the recently revised Arizona Academic Standards in the Arts – standards which embrace the real-world skills and mindsets of Artistic Literacy: the ability of our students to create and present art, respond to and critique art, and connect art to their lives and the world in which they live.

Altered Perceptions: Site-

specific Art Interventions by Culture Jamming

ALL LEVEL

In this presentation, participants will explore how contemporary art and art interventions can help us to critically consider spaces by using strategies common to culture jamming. Sturken & Cartwright (2009) explain culture jamming as rerouting messages through our own work to create new meaning. Presenters will share particular strategies and concepts to use in art and design classrooms. This session will include discussion on contemporary art, and we will brainstorm ideas to connect these strategies to our own personal/professional contexts.

The Tiny Art Class

ALL LEVEL

The Tiny Art Class, a business started by two classroom art educators, will demonstrate offered lesson plans which provide meaningful engagement in the visual arts outside the typical school environment. Pre-made boxes of themed art lessons and materials provides fulfilling, creative art projects that are easily accessible for students to teach themselves as well as for non-art educators to conduct and creatively interpret. Each box will include a set of lesson plans including examples of student work, national art standards met as well as standards met in integrated subject areas, K-12 age appropriate for the lesson, art materials needed and tutorials on how materials are used. Boxes are designed to have enough supplies for individual students, small groups, or larger class sizes. Our unique boxes supply lessons in a variety of unique themes such as forensics, geology, explorations of self, color theory, and studies of the Sonoran Desert.

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Angela Foreman

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Kristi Rucker

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Kala Phelps

Differentiation in the Creative Classroom

ALL LEVEL

This session highlights instructional differentiation strategies that allow art teachers to create oneunit lesson, but with multiple challenge levels. You will learn how to use a Tiered Lesson Planning Chart to design a variety of activities for your students that focus on the same standards and/or learning targets. This allows students of all ability levels to still work on mastering the same standards and/or learning targets while each individual student is assigned a specific level of challenge that is uniquely tailored to his or her artistic abilities determined by performance-based Formative and Pre-assessments. You will also learn how to use Extension Menus to support your Gifted or advanced students (those who can demonstrate mastery of upcoming standards and/or learning targets that require more of a challenge enrichment).

Raku 101: Basic & Advanced Raku Firing in K-12

SECONDARY

Fabulous Five Middle School

MIDDLE

Change your mindset! You can Raku in High School!!! Many of us Raku fired in college but feel overwhelmed trying to do this dangerous technique with a class full of excited students. We will discuss Raku’s history, clay bodies, project ideas, glazing tips, and the firing process for a safe Raku. I will share my YouTube page, with lots of videos and lessons, along with a Raku commercial. Learn how to safely Raku in a secondary setting, with tips that come from education and experience, about clay bodies, project ideas, glazing, and the process for a successful Raku.

Explore five middle school art lessons that were voted best by the students! Learn how to plan lessons that are differentiated for each student, with a successful sequence from start to finish. Find out how to challenge students with higher level thinking and expand their depth of knowledge by creating projects with writing incorporated into each lesson. Learn how to guide your students through the process of creating their own rubrics for daily work and outlining their own project requirements. Leave this middle school session with new ideas and lessons ready for you to implement!

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6 SAT 11:0011:50a

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Xoe Fiss & Katheryn Medill

Social Media @ the Art Museum

ALL LEVEL

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Michelle Sparks

Teaching Through the Ewww

ALL LEVEL

In this lecture we will discuss different methods of using social media as a mode of constructivist learning for museum visitors of all ages. Social media directly connects to 21st century learning skills and modern day literacies that allow millennials and generation Z visitors to view the museum as a more relevant and engaging space of meaning making. In addition, we will also demonstrate how these techniques can be transferred to classroom learning and utilized as preand post- museum visit activities.

Teaching Through the Ewww (Nudity, Violence and Other Uncomfortable Topics in Art History) Naked Bits. Blood & Guts. Sexism, Racism, & More! How can teachers navigate through the PG13 history of art, when there’re so many minefields, just waiting to derail your class? And forget a class trip to the Art Museum - there are nudes there, everywhere you turn! Learn strategies for addressing "uncomfortable art" and why it is important to tackle the challenge. Warning: this workshop WILL feature art that may make you blush – but we’ll talk about our natural instinct to avoid this topic, and the best way to get beyond the gasps and giggles.

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6 SAT 11:0011:50a

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Nancy Feiring

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Mary Erickson & Janet Blum

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Amanda Beaubien

Teacher’s Toolbox: Simple Activities to Add Rigor

ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE

Participants will learn easy ways to stimulate their students' critical thinking. The featured activities can be modified to fit different grade levels, lessons, and media.

Connecting Creativity & Choice through Standards-Based Curriculum

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ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE

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In grade-range groups, teachers will collaborate in a simple art activity. Erickson and Blum will introduce a standards-based curriculum development graphic organizer, and invite teacher groups to practice elaborating, modifying, or extending their ideas into an outline for an instructional unit for one grade level. A teacher will share her process of planning and then implementing an art unit that addresses a grade-specific standard from each of the four art processes (CREATING, PRESENTING, RESPONDING, and CONNECTING). The session will conclude with discussion of how all fourteen gradespecific standards can be addressed within a school year or course.

Choice Based Organizational Tools

MIDDLE & SECONDARY

In a Choice Based classroom, there is a lot more student responsibility. How do you keep everyone moving forward?

This best practice lecture will give you some tools and materials to help you streamline your choice based classroom through student organizational strategies.

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SATURDAY Session Highlights

AAEA 2016

Annual Conference

 General Session 12:001:00p We invite to you to consider sharing your voice and vision as a leader in AAEA as we are currently seeking to fill open positions on the AAEA Council. You are welcome to nominate a member you feel would best serve these open positions or nominate yourself if you are being called to be a leader for your fellow art educators. Nominations can be made online at azarted.org.

AAEA Open Council Positions  North Region Chair  Elementary Division Chair  Museum Education Division Chair  Administration/Supervision Chair

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Appointed

 Pre service Liaison  Communications Chair  Youth Art Month Chair  Arts Advocate Chair

Please visit  http://azarted.org/council-job-descriptions to learn more about these very important council openings.

Thank you to our current Executive Board and AAEA Council who look forward to meeting you in Tucson!

President Tracy Perry Past President

Michelle Lindsay

Treasurer

Emily Dobson

President-Elect Secretary Council Members Divisions

Higher Education/Preservice/Student

Elisa Wiederman

Elementary Level

OPEN

Museum Education Middle Level

Secondary Level

Administration/Supervision Retired Art Educators Pre-Service Liaison

Regional Chairs

Jessica Soifer Tonia Easton

Standing Committees

OPEN

Conference 2016 Tucson

Emily Gabaldon OPEN

Roxie May-Thayer

Conference 2017

State Deppt of Ed Liason Website

East

Jackie Johnson

VASA

South

Regional Liaison

Tracy Perry

Registrar

Emily Dobson

PDSF Baskets

Communication/Newsletter

OPEN

Kim Alsheimer

Central

Co-Chair Co-Chair

OPEN

West

North

Pam Stephens

Awards

Youth Art Month (YAM)

OPEN

Jessica Soifer Tonia Easton

Jessica Soifer

Summer Schaudt Robert Waller Lee Polzin OPEN OPEN

Julie Peters

Jane Peterson

Candace Greene

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 SAT 12:001:00p

SATURDAY Session Highlights

AAEA 2016

Annual Conference

 Regional Meetings 1:302:20p North South East West Central Attending the regional meeting at our conference in Tucson in November is a great way to have your voice heard. We will take the information that you share with the regional chair during the conference and use it to create workshops based on what is needed in your area. Our membership of five regions will have a meeting at conference with their regional chairperson.

Membership Regions Central

Northern East South West

Aguila, Wickenburg, Buckeye, Glendale, Goodyear, Phoenix, Tempe, Chandler, Mesa, Coolidge, Florence, Scottsdale, Peoria, Cave Creek, Hyder, Kerney,Wittmann, Surprise, Sun City, Fountain Hills, Apache Junction, Gilbert, San Tan, and Avondale Flagstaff, Grand Canyon, Jacob Lake, Page, Tuba City, Winslow, Seligman, Williams, Cottonwood, Sedona, Congress, Prescott, Prescott Valley, Supai, Grand Canyon Village, Leupp, Mormon Lake, Chino Valley, Bagdad and Kirkland Chinle, Kayenta, Ganado, Payson, Show Low, Pinetop-Lakeside, Eager, Alpine,Teec nos pos, Pinon, Holbrook, Snowflake, Roosevelt, Globe, Saint Johns Yuma, Douglas, Casa Grande, Tucson, Clifton, Tubac, Willcox, Ajo, Eloy, Safford, Duncan, Tanque, Oro Valley, Santa Rosa, South Tucson, Three Points, Comobabi, Pisinimo, Lukeville, Green Valley, Sahuarita, Nogales, Bisbee, and Sierra Vista Kingman, Bullhead City, Lake Havasu City, Parker, Peach Springs, Dolan Springs, Cibola, Quartzsite, Vicksburg, Wenden, Francona, Hualapai, Colorado City and Kaibab

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 SAT 1:302:20p

SATURDAY Session Highlights

AAEA 2016

Annual Conference

7 Hands-On Workshops 2:304:20p

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Morgan Wells, Marianna Pegno, Chelsea Farrar, Olivia Miller

Engaging with the Art Museum

ALL LEVEL

In this session, the Tucson Museum of Art and University of Arizona Museum of Art will highlight how the two museums are using interactive techniques to engage visitors and teach students to view art work more creatively and critically. These hands on activities will demonstrate different ways educators can foster discussion and creativity with students while developing critical thinking skills. Teachers will be able to look at both reproductions and real objects as a way to gain understanding on how to use activities in the classroom as well as at a Museum.

1.VTS 2.Storytelling and Poetry 3.Compare and Contrast 4.Huh, Wow 5. Create your own emoji's



Beth Rolfe

Makerspace: A Creator’s Dream

SECONDARY

Come learn about the trend towards Makerspaces by participating in an authentic creative environment. Through a hands on design thinking process of creating the ideal wallet for a partner, you will be introduced to Makerspaces, facilitating a maker mindset, and gain ideas on how to be involved as art educators in these new innovative spaces within your schools.

1.Sketch their ideal wallet and interview their partner to gain insights about his/her wallet use 2.Define a point of view based on the insights they found 3.Sketch some new alternatives based on the point of view 4.Test these new ideas with their partner to gather feedback 5.Act on the feedback and build a wallet in the form of a physical prototype

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7 SAT 2:304:20p

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Alicia Marrano

Clay People

ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE

This project demonstrates the steps in sculpting a simple form of a human child.

Lessons on proportion and multiple clay sculpting and handbuilding techniques are included in the process. This project is created from low fire clay and will need to be fired by the individuals enrolled in the workshop. The workshop is recommended for those who have access to a kiln.

1.Outline the process through notes and sketches.

2.Smooth the sides and round the edges of a 6"x2"x1" pillar of clay, identify and round the top, and form the feet.

3.Measure, mark and gently squeeze the neck, and then form the face and features..

4.Create hair with texture from an additional piece of clay. Shape arms and hands from two smaller pieces of clay. 5.Score and slip them on securely.

6.Use line, shape and texture to design clothing on clay sculpture. Then write name and class on the bottom. Finished work must dry for one week before firing.

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Sara Wilson

Intro to Clay for Kinders

ELEMENTARY

This lesson is designed as a first clay project for Kindergarten (or 1st grade) students. Students will work with slab construction method and learn to cut and add texture to the clay.

1.Talk about fish 2.Learn to draw fish 3.Introduction to clay 4.Get creative with fish 5.Cut, add texture to, and paint your very own clay fish!

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Thomas Holaday

Perspective the Art of 3D Made Easy

ALL LEVELS

Learning how to create 3D looking letters, shapes, and buildings in a step by step process can be accomplished by young children as well as more advanced students at higher grade levels. Focusing more on applications applied to drafting and architecture.

1.Make a small square in the middle of a piece of paper.

2.Make a dot, or vanishing point, above and over to one side of the square.

3.Connect all corners that can be lined up to the dot without going through the square.

4.Make a parallel line on each side between the lines going back to the dot.

5.Erase all lines going back to the dot after the parallel lines.

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7 SAT 2:304:20p

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Denise A Incao

All Hands on Earth

ELEMENTARY

Exploring the potential for deepening bonds through group art games and activities using clay. The ideas and concepts can be easily translated to other art media. In this presentation, the goal is not product oriented, but the value of free expression in a group, cultivating appreciation of our own and others expression, mindfulness, and acceptance of diversity. There will be two main activities presented using clay as the expressive medium. Participants will have an enjoyable and inspiring time working individually and with each other, with focus on acceptance of oneself and others.



Julie Peters

Monoprinting with Gelli Plates

SECONDARY

This workshop will focus on developing simple yet complex monoprints using Gelli plates and open acrylic paints. In this workshop, you will be cutting your own stencils from Yupo paper and combining the stencil with various textured materials to create multiple prints.

1.Place a square piece of paper on both sides of the plate, tape one edge, centering so that when flipped the plate is 2.Flip it back, remove the stencil from the plate, and flip the paper on the left onto the plate and rub to get a ghost 3.Flip the paper on the right onto the plate and rub with your fingers.

4.Remove the stencil.

5.Print the ghost side.

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Pat Burdette

All About Me! Self-Portraits

ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE

Every student enjoys making art, especially if they are the subject. Here’s a collection of lessons that focus on the self-portrait: with a focus on the realistic guided portrait, a collage and a simple collagraph. The Tempe Elementary School District Self-Portrait Art Kit was designed for the classroom teacher to offer a variety of easy successful art lessons to students to kindergarten through fifth grade. Come make a few about you -- and gather ideas for future self-portraits with your students.

1.Look closely in the mirror and with guidance, draw what you see.

2.Turn that drawing into a collage by simplifying those shapes and cut them out of paper.

3.For a successful collagraph, remember that every edge will make a line. Make adjustments to make the collage into a successful collagraph.

4.Cover with a thin sheet of paper and ‘print’ it by using the edge of a crayon to transfer the image.

5.Create a display for the three versions of yourself, add a name plate, and patterning with a silver Sharpie on black paper to finish it up.

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David Van Ness & Chris Taylor

Full STEAM Ahead!

MIDDLE & SECONDARY



Join Chris Taylor and David Van Ness from the NAU School of Art to learn about the new maker space on campus. In this workshop, participants will be guided through creating their own digital designs for 3D printing. Participants also will be introduced to the new summer STEAM-based professional development retreat at Rogers Lake near Flagstaff.

For this AAEA workshop, each participant will be given a link to download free software. Bring your laptop (mac or PC) to the workshop. All designs will be taken to the makerspace, printed, and returned to participants after the conference.

1.Introduction to NAU makerspace 2.Learn 3D printing software 3.Create a digital design 4.Introduce professional development opportunity at Rogers Lake

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SATURDAY Conference Closing

AAEA 2016

Annual Conference

 Farewell Address 4:30p

Join us as we close our Media Mosaics Conference with a gallery walk of visual journals, final basket raffle, closing of the silent auction, announcement of YAM Flag Design Winner and Arizona Art Exhibition Winners. Also stay tuned for more info that will keep the memories made at the 2016 conference memories even stronger!

SUNDAY Conference Debriefing

After a weekend of workshops, relax and reflect upon the conference Sunday morning. What did you learn? What else would you like to know? How can the conference improve for next year? We invite all members who wish to stay for a de-briefing session for the early stages of preparing for next year’s conference. From 8:00 to 10:00 A.M., the AAEA board, committee members and any interested members will meet in the Cactus Rose Restaurant for breakfast and to review the conference. When registering, add on “Conference Reflection” so we know you will be joining us to give valuable feedback and offer to become more involved with AAEA.

Special Thanks

Special Thanks to all those who shared their time and talents to make the 2016 AAEA Conference in Tucson a truly memorable one!

Tracy Perry  Conference Co-chair Jessica Soifer  Conference Co-chair Emily Dobson  Registrar Roxie May  Vendors Coordinator Michelle Lindsay  Presenter Coordinator and Volunteer Coordinator Pam Stephens  Awards Coordinator Tonia Easton  PDSF Raffle Chair Lonnie Himmelstein  Artist’s Market Chair Summer Schaudt  Visual Communications and Name tags Emily Dobson  NAHS Centerpieces Julie Peters  Thursday Recycled Art Workshop Jenine Grisez  Visual Journaling

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Conference Schedule

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UR DAY

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Welcome  Dinner Buffet

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Informal Workshops

Break Fast Buffet

8.008.45a

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Session 1

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Hands On Workshop

9.0010.50a

Session 2 Best Practice Lecture 11.0011.50a

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Keynote Address Michael Bell

12.0012.50p

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Lunch 1.001.30p

Check In 7.308.00a

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Check In 7.308.00a

SAT

Check In

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6.007.00p

DAY

DAY

p

4.006.00p

URS

FRI

5

Session 3

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Michael Bell Workshop

1.303.20p

Visual Art Journals Recycled Art 4.009.00p

Session 4

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3.305.20p

 Session 5

Break Fast

On Your Own 8.008.45a

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

Hands On Workshop

9.0010.50a

Session 6 Best Practice Lecture 11.0011.50a

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Lunch

12.00p

General Session Meeting

12.001.10p

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Hands On Workshop

Dress for Awards & Prom

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AAEA Annual Conference  November 10 – 12, 2016  Tucson, Ariz.

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Session 7

Region Meetings

North, South, East, West & Central 1.202.20p

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Hands On Workshop

2.304.20p

Farewell Address & Raffles 4.30p

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Dinner

6.00p

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Art Prom!

Come dressed as your favorite artist going to the prom

6.00p

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Awards

& Raffles

7.00p

Artist Market 7.00p

p

Sessions & Locations

ALL LEVEL  ELEMENTARY

 MIDDLE  SECONDARY SESSIONS & LOCATIONS

FRIDAY

FRIDAY

FRIDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SATURDAY

1 Hands On

2 Lecture

3 Hands-On

4 Hands-On

5 Hands-On

6 Lecture

Division Meetings

7 Hands-On

9.0010.50a

11.0011.50a

1.303.20p

3.305.20p

9.0010.50a

11.0011.50a

1.302.20p

2.304.20p

Posterized Portraits

Identity Box

Artistic Literacy in the Classroom

Engaging with the Art Museum Makerspace: A Creator’s Dream

SATURDAY

SATURDAY

1

SALON F WET SPACE 32

2

SALON G WET SPACE 40

Chinese Brush Painting 

Tools for Teaching Online

Easy Foam Printmaking

Creative Bookbinding

Altered Perceptions

3

SALON H WET SPACE 32

East Meets West

Creating a Data Driven Art Classroom

Rigor in the Art Room

Reflections

The Tiny Art Class

East

4

BOOJUM NO OUTDOOR SPACE 40

Large-Scale Mosaic 

Stop Motion Animation

The Vision Collection

Differentiation in the Creative Classroom

North

5

BONSAI NO OUTDOOR SPACE 40

Digital Artistry

Favorite Five Elementary

Easy Peasy Handmade Visual

The 80's are Back

Raku 101

South

6

SALON C DRY SPACE 32

Budget Friendly Weaving 

Developing a CentersBased Art Curriculum

Masking Tape Motion Sculptures

Add That Optical Third Dimension

Fabulous Five Middle School

West

7

SUNRISE PATIO OPEN AIR 30

Tiki

Simply Cyanotypes

Decorated Papers

All Hands on Earth

8

SUNSET PATIO OPEN AIR 30

Intro to Clay for Kinders

Everything You Need to Know About Brushes

Paint-Trail Journals

Monoprinting with Gelli Plates

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IRONWOOD 32

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REDWOOD 20

11

BASSWOOD 16 SALON A & B Vendors

Printing with Gelli Diverse Firing Techniques Plates in a Trash Can

How to Teach World Art

Ink-Less Tessellation Prints

GRAND BALLROOM

D 80

Perspective the Art of 3D Made Easy

All About Me! Self-Portraits 

Social Media @ the Art Museum

Teaching Through the Ewww Teacher's Toolbox

Visit the Vendors

Visit the Vendors

Vendors Closed

Visit the Vendors

Visit the Vendors Visit the Vendors

Vendors Closed

Michael Bell “31 Nights”

E&D Everyone

E 80

Upcycled Flowers

Exploring the Realm of Magical Realism

GRAND BALLROOM

GRAND BALLROOM

Journal

Clay People

Workshop

Taking Art to the Next Level  Moving Beyond the Hallway

Connecting Creativity and Choice Through Standards-Based Curriculum

Choice Based Organizational Tools

Central Full STEAM Ahead

Conference Highlights Location

AAEA 2016

Annual Conference

Accommodations

The 2016 AAEA Conference Media Mosaics to be held November 10-12 will be held at the Doubletree by

Hilton Hotel Tucson - Reid Park.

445 S. Alvernon Way, Tucson, Arizona,85711-4198, USA TEL: +1-520-881-4200 FAX: +1-520-323-5225 DoubleTree by Hilton is centrally located in Tucson and steps away from Reid Park, which features both a zoo and golf courses. The hotel is surrounded by the Sonoran Desert and 4 miles from Downtown Tucson. Even though it’s quite close to neighborhoods and major streets, the Hotel has a resort setting and is isolated on its 14 acres of property. The Hotel features include a Grand Ballroom, a heated outdoor pool and spa. There are two restaurants on-site, Cactus Rose Steakhouse and the Javelina Cantina- along with numerous restaurants surrounding the hotel, many within walking distance.

Doubletree by Hilton is a 100% non-smoking facility.

You will need to book your room through Doubletree by Hilton, not through AAEA, if you plan on staying overnight. They have reserved a certain number of rooms for us for the cost of $115 per night. Tell them you are with AAEA for the reduced rate.

For more information about the hotel, check out their website:

http://doubletree3.hilton.com and select Tucson-Reid Park.

What to Bring to the Conference          

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Toiletry items Swimsuit Clothing that layers (Tucson gets chilly at night) Walking shoes Water bottle Sunscreen Camera Sunglasses Umbrella (weather permitting) Formal, but fun clothing for the promenade (channel your inner Molly Ringwald)

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Journaling supplies (9x12 inch sketchbooks provided to first 150 attendees) Supplies for the making of accessories and /or embellishments for your outfit for the Mosaic promenade on Thursday evening Money for artist market and raffle tickets Materials for Michael Bell workshop: drawing pencil, paint brushes, watercolor paints Cash & checks for Artist Market, raffle, tickets and silent auction

Conference Highlights Volunteer

AAEA 2016

Annual Conference

Interested in making a difference at the conference? We depend on our members to help things run smoothly and we couldn't do it without our many helping hands!

We need volunteers to help in the following ways:

1. Set up Thursday afternoon (registration table, centerpiece workshop or vendors, name tags, lay plastic in the wet rooms, or salon) 2. Oversee the YAM flag exhibit 3. Welcome attendees at the Registration table Friday and/or Saturday morning 4. Be a workshop helper to help our presenters check people in and set up and break down their equipment 5. Sell Professional Development Scholarship Raffle tickets 6. Clean up and pack up everything on Saturday evening If you are interested in becoming a volunteer:

Contact Michelle Lindsay

 aaea.2016conference@gmail.com

Teachers reported in our AAEA Interest Survey that the lack of funding is the top reason they do not attend the National Art Education Convention and the AAEA conference. With your support, the Professional Development Scholarship Fund can be the resource that would allow passionate art educators around the state to take advantage of these learning opportunities. You can support PDSF three

different ways at the 2016 AAEA conference in Tucson: donate a basket, purchase basket raffle tickets, or donate an item for the Silent Auction.

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Conference Highlights

Annual Conference

Professional Development Scholarship Fund (PDSF)

Support PDSF #1

Donate a high quality basket to the 2016 Art Conference Basket Raffle by following these 3 easy steps.

1. Select one of the following types of baskets

Thematic Basket: Gather items centered on a particular theme. Choose from one of the following or create your own theme. Possibilities include, but are not limited to an art period/timeframe, country/region, style of art, particular artist, an art movement or media (still life, painting, fibers, drawing, etc.)

Lesson in a Basket: This basket is all about the now! Put together a basket that includes everything needed to teach a great art lesson today (with minimum preparation)! Include items such as a lesson plan, books, prints, PowerPoint, supplies, sample project, etc. Classroom Supply Basket: Help an art teacher build his/her art arsenal for future use.

Classroom sets of art supplies and/or tools are perfect for this basket.

Fun Basket: As you guessed it, this one’s about fun! Think teacher survival. Include items a teacher needs to survive being an art teacher. One direction to take this would be classroom needs like sticky notes, funny thoughts, push pins, fun pens/pencils, caffeine, chocolate, etc. A different direction would be at the end of the day what helps teachers to relax? Supplies or certificates for a bubble bath, dinner, movies, massage, manicure, and anything else you might think of. The possibilities are endless!

2. Put the basket together. Please include a container (it doesn’t actually have to be a basket) and wrap it. Items should be secure and easily able to view. Attach a tag that includes a title, description, and items included in the basket. Don’t forget to tell us who created it so that we know who to give the Basket Case (The basket that sells the most tickets) prize to! Please note, high quality baskets may be selected for the Silent Auction.

3. Bring it to Tonia Easton in the Grand Ballroom November 10th, 11th or 12th. All baskets will be on display throughout the conference.

Support PDSF #2

Support PDSF #3

The second way to support PDSF is to buy raffle tickets during the conference! Ticket prices are one for $1.00 or 6 for $5.00 A portion of the baskets will be raffled on Friday after the Awards so those who are only attending Friday will have a chance to win one of these baskets!

The remaining baskets will be raffled off Saturday following the last workshop. You must be present to win!

The third way to support PDSF is to donate a high quality item to the Silent Auction. We are seeking donations of artworks (2d or 3d), jewelry, gift certificates or other high quality items for attendees to bid on.

Buy Raffle Tickets!

Donate an item for the Silent Auction

With your help, let’s support more art educators in their quest for professional development and contribute one or more of these three ways to the Professional Development Scholarship fund! Please contact Tonia Easton aaea.secretary@gmail.com if you have questions about supporting PDSF with a basket or silent auction donation.

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Annual Conference

Youth Art Month Starts November in Tucson!

This year, we invite members to submit or bring one or more Arizona themed artwork(s) to the AAEA conference for consideration in the YAM Flag Design Contest.

Artwork will be on display at the conference for attendees to vote on their favorite design. The artwork with the most votes will be made into a flag for display in the Youth Art Month Museum at the National Art Education Association National Convention in March as well as at AAEA Council meetings and select locations throughout the year. The next 10 artworks that receive the highest votes will be selected for the Arizona Art Exhibit in the Youth Art Month Museum at the National Convention as well! So encourage your students to begin creating artworks with the Arizona state theme in design. Please include the name of our state somewhere in the design. The Design can be VERTICAL or HORIZONTAL format (NOTE: Flags will be displayed vertically in the Youth Art Month Museum.) Creatively use images that represent the state or represent art. If possible, include the words “Youth Art Month”. If you are not attending conference, but would like to participate in the, please mail artwork by November 2nd to Tracy Perry, 2457 North Cabot Circle, Mesa Arizona 85207.

Visual Journaling

It’s almost time for AAEA’s annual conference, which means it’s almost time for making some awesome artwork with your peers! This year, the Visual Journal Station will be open 24 hours in the Tucson Hilton Grand Ballroom Lobby. Visual journals 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 self expression. As the theme of our conference is Media Mosaics, 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!

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 you to sample new materials, meet the vendors personally and discuss any particular needs you may have in your schools. Explore the products and services offered by a wide variety of our vendors. Spend quality, in depth time and personally interact with new items!

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Conference Highlights Keynote Speaker

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AAEA is excited to announce our Keynote Speaker...

Michael Bell is a renowned American artist, most famous for his larger-than-life sized narrative series paintings and for his infamous portrait clientele, which includes Mob boss John Gotti, best pal Dominic Capone III (Al Capone’s great nephew) and numerous actors from "the Sopranos", "Goodfellas", "A Bronx Tale" and more. Bell’s works are often the mirror to a tragic world, but they deepen our humanity through psychology, ghostly brushwork and personal color palette that draws on memories and silent echoes from the artist’s own dark, turbulent past.

In the field of education Bell has been a pioneer of the Visual Journaling movement across the nation for over a decade. Bell is a National Board Certified, Maryland Public Schools Teacher of the Year and has received numerous accolades over his career, including: the 2013 NAHS National Sponsor of the Year; 2013 College Board’s William U. Harris Award of Excellence; the Washington Post’s 2013 Agnes Meyer Teacher of the Year; Scholastic Arts National Gold & Silver Medalist Educator three years straight, and his students have earned over 10 million in scholarship offers the past five years alone. Bell exhibits his paintings in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

“I believe the most important job of an artist is to draw a line from your life to your art that is

straight and clear. For me, it's not as much about what I do as it is about why I do it. To put it simply - our student's art matters. And so does yours. I'm going to show you how to tap into your "why" and unlock the key to your students' creative process along the journey.

” - Michael Bell

Michael Bell will be joining us from Thursday, November 10th to Saturday, November 12. He will be available for everyone to ask questions, collaborate and celebrate.

To learn more about Michael Bell, you can visit his website at http://mbellart.com.

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Conference Highlights Artist Market

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Calling all Artists! Register for the Artist Market at 2016 conference in Tucson, AZ in November.

Artists will display and sell their work during the Mosaic Promenade on Friday Evening.

AAEA Members may sell with no fee! Non-Members will pay a nominal fee of $20.00. Artist Market participants are asked to donate a piece of their work to Professional Development Scholarship Silent Auction. Simply check “Artist Market Seller” on the Registration form and at check out. If you are an AAEA/NAEA member, type in the discount code given by Lonnie Himmelstein. If you are not a member, $20 will be added to your total.

Contact Lonnie Himmelstein

Conference Highlights Mosaic Promenade

 lonnihh1@aol.com AAEA 2016

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How would you like attend an Adult Prom? Would you say “yes” to our invitation to the 2016 Mosaic Promenade on Friday after the Awards Dinner? Dress to impress and strut your stuff down the catwalk!

Design, embellish and bedazzle a “fancy but arty” mosaic themed outfit to wear to “Mosaic Prom.” Those who are shy, channel your own Andie or Duckie styled outfit (Pretty in Pink), while getting down to some awesome dance moves. We will have a Best of Contest as part of the evening festivities. Start thinking about how you can impress your fellow art educators with your “Make it work” concepts and get ready to “Hold Onto the Night” in Tucson!

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2015 AAWA Award AAEA Awards

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Thank you to those who have submitted AAEA nominations for the 2016 AAEA Awards and since nominations are no longer being accepted, keep a nominee in mind for next year's awards!

Congratulations to our 2015 Award Recipients

Higher Education Student of Achievement Janay Wiggins

Outstanding Administrator Anita Gomez

Anita is a principal in the Fountain Hills School District.

Having risen in the ranks from teacher to assistant principal to principal, Anita understands the day-to-day pressures of the classroom. Anita’s nominator wrote about Anita’s willingness to support the fine arts through fund raisers, talking to students about their artwork, community outreach, and lending a helping hand to organize an art classroom. Anita is the sort of administrator we all need in our respective corners.

Janay Wiggins is a senior at Northern Arizona University where she will earn a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education in May 2016. During her time at NAU, she has earned multiple honors and provided unparalleled service to the university. From being on the Dean’s List every semester to being a mentor to freshmen in the College of Arts and Letters Learning Community, Janay sets a role model for her peers.

Retired Art Educator Angie Watts

Art Advocate Award Laura Harnish

The Art Advocate Award honors those who are not in the field of art education, but who nonetheless provide advocacy efforts for the arts. Laura Harnish, assessment developer-coordinator for Maricopa County Education Services Agency. Her work includes the creation of assessments in the visual arts.

Angie Watts, according to her nominator, is “an amazing art educator, mentor, and friend.” All of us who have had the pleasure of knowing Angie or working with her through AAEA completely agree. Her patience and unyielding kindness have left a lasting impact on her students, her colleagues, and on art education in the state.

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Outstanding High School Art Educator Roxanna May

Outstanding Elementary Art Educator Jessica Soifer

Roxie has quietly served AAEA for many years. It is through Roxie’s service as vendor chair that members are offered the opportunity at each conference to meet art education vendors. Beyond this, Roxie has chaired a successful state conference. Roxie’s nominator wrote that “as an educator, Roxie is most dedicated. She shares her passion and love for art every day and is a gift to her school”.

Jessica teaches at Knoles Elementary in Flagstaff. One supporter stated that “Jessica believes that every student is an artist. She creates a positive learning environment where every student is able to be successful. She understands that these early years of exploration may set the stage for future commitment to art.” A parent wrote that “Through her encouragement and enthusiasm, both of my boys have developed a great love of art, and spend much of their time outside of class, drawing their own creations.” What better words of support could any art teacher ask?

Outstanding Middle School Art Educator Denise Horton

Her nominator wrote that Denise “is an exemplary art educator and a passionate advocate for students and society”. The awards selection committee agrees that Denise’s resume’ is impressive. She has collaborated with the Phoenix Art Museum, the Arizona Department of Education, has made state and national association presentations, has published an article, and has won the Maricopa County Education Services Master Educator Award.

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State Art Educator of the Year Jessica Soifer

The principal of the school where this teacher works wrote that “students are encouraged through art to think independently and creatively”. The nominator went on to write that this teacher has a unique ability to connect with students in such a way that every student realizes artistic talent and feels respect. This art educator works to promote life-long learning and stewardship that reaches far beyond the classroom setting. Instruction in the art classroom is rich in language learning. The teacher integrates music to enhance spatial-temporal training. This art educator sets up students for success by teaching math, science, and social studies through the arts. Most importantly, this educator teaches life lessons that help students succeed far beyond standardized tests. This is an individual who has contributed on many levels. Most recently this teacher won a grant to set up a STEAM program; a move that has won over campus administration in ways unimagined before.

Service, Dedication & Leadership Michelle Lindsay

When contacted by the nominator and asked how we could possibly honor this person, we decided upon a special award that we titled “Service, Dedication, and Leadership”. Kindness, caring, and boundless energy describe this art educator. This art educator has given countless hours to AAEA; as a presenter and as an officer. Pam Stephens is proud that this individual graduated from the NAU art education program. Michelle Lindsay, accepted this award as a small token of our gratitude for her work in AAEA, NAEA, and in art education.

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AAEA 2016

Conference Etiquette

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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.

Attend the workshops that you’ve signed up for – our presenters prepare for the numbers

3 registered.

Be the best participant that you can – keep conversations to a minimum or take necessary

4 conversations outside.

Be responsible with materials – use them appropriately, and help get them collected at the end of

5 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.

When supplies and resources are provided for group activities, please leave them for our

9 association to use in the future.

This is an adult professional development opportunity that is designed for you – and is not an

10 appropriate venue for others to join.

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Registration FAQ

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To keep things clean and convenient, all registration will be done online via our website  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 on the next page.

1. EARLY BIRD registration is the present to September 15th (please note, presenters, your 10% discount only applies during Early Bird so be sure to register before 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 Thursday dinner, Friday breakfast, lunch and dinner, Saturday lunch, workshops, and best practice lectures. Hotel cost is NOT included with registration. Please go to http://doubletree3.hilton.com and select Tucson-Reid Park for making hotel reservations.

If you are registering for one day, the cost includes the meal, workshops and lectures for that day.

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. After you fill out and submit your survey, you will receive via email a link that will allow you to print your certificate. CERTIFICATES WILL NOT BE DISTRIBUTED AT CONFERENCE BUT WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLY WHEN THE SURVEY IS SUBMITTED. We value your insight and input and look forward to learning how we can continue to serve you.  Note: Registration opens July 1st and closes October 27th 

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Registration Pricing

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Registration Prices

ďƒŞHotel cost is NOT included with registration. Please go to http://doubletree3.hilton.com and select Tucson-Reid Park for making hotel reservations.

EARLY BIRD Now to September 15

NonMember

Member

Pre-Service Retired

Thursday

$125

$63

$44

Saturday

$200

$100

$70

Friday

$225

$113

$500

$250

$175

$450

$225

$157.50

NonMember

Member

Pre-Service Retired

Thursday

$138

$69

$50

Saturday

$220

$110

$80

Entire Conference Presenters

10% Only during Early Bird

Registration September 16October 15 Friday

$79

$248

$124

$550

$275

$200

NonMember

Member

Pre-Service Retired

Thursday

$163

$81

$63

Saturday

$260

Entire Conference LATE Registration October 16-October 27 Friday

Entire Conference

$293

$146

$650

$325

$130

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$90

$113 $100