Newsletter Articles Wanted!

We want your stories and photos for the KAEA Newsletter!

Submission Deadline is April 1st!

Have something great to share?

Topic ideas can include but are not limited to:

•Youth Art Month

•Lessons or classroom ideas

•Art inspiration

•Upcoming KAEA/NAEA events

•KAEA's impact on you, your teaching, or your students

Please submit your story, article and photographs to newsletter@kaea.com

Thanks! Questions? Audra Shelite at newsletter@kaea.com #ksarted

#KAEA2019 Workshop Proposals

The 2019 KAEA Conference Committee is currently accepting

workshop proposals for the Fall Professional Development 

Conference taking place at Johnson County Community College 

in Overland Park on October 10-12.

The quality of the sessions makes or breaks any art education conference! Please consider sending in a conference proposal this year and sharing your brilliance and expertise in art education with the whole state!

It is a fabulous addition to any resume, PD points galore, and truly provides a service to the profession by spreading the amazing things that are going on in your room!

Proposals are due April 15th this year which is early but it will allow for a more collaborative experience for the presenters before the conference.

Not sure what to present on?
We surveyed our members and found that most want to take sessions that are media/studio focused. In second was sessions about cultural connections, cross-curricular connections, and then art history based sessions.

Sessions can be 50 or 90 minutes long

This is the link to the presentation form: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12mw1Iiul-OONO78FsF1lIFX3bIhJjSnllrs_dEfZSl8/edit?fbclid=IwAR1vy1__pBUeI6heJvv5PJtF2gHtD9EhQYvS7HfsXsEk05AuNjkxNpJEE8M
Make  a copy on Google Docs and be sure to submit to lindsaywaller@gmail.com 

The conference planning team can’t wait to see your
presentation proposals!

Note the early deadline date!

Proposals are due April 15th

You will receive notification on your proposal by June 15th

2019 Summer Camp Registration is now Open!

Friends University--Wichita

June 3rd and 4th

Please join us for community, learning and fun! 

Workshop Options:

Pottery Intensive with Natalie Brown

For teachers wanting to add clay to their curriculum or need help developing and troubleshooting an existing program.

Plein Air Pastels with Lynn Felts and Martha Fitzwater

Learn new techniques and skills with this versatile medium while enjoying the beautiful gardens at Botanica.

Airbrush with Roger Scovell (tentative)

Learn basics of airbrush and potential applications for students and in the classroom.

More information can be found on the KAEA Summer Camp Website

https://kaeasummercamp.blogspot.com/ 

Registration is on a first come, first served basis so sign up early!

Graduate Credit through Friends University will be offered for those interested!

Questions? Natalie Brown at nataliebrownclay@gmail.com

#ksarted #kaeasummercamp #artedpd #professionaldevelopment

Upcoming Spring Regional Events

KAEA regions periodically host "drive in" events open to any art teachers. Check out your Regions' Events and all of those around the state. 
Click here for a list of Regional coordinators.

*Membership is not required to attend a Drive In, though we would love to have you!  Click HERE for membership information and HERE to join!

North East Kansas

Come out for some en plein air sketching of the garden, city streets, people or nature. Grab yourself a cup of coffee from one of the local coffee shops then meet at the garden at 10:00 to sketch. Bring your own sketchbook and supplies. We will sketch for an hour or so then get back together to share our sketches and talk about ways to use en plein air in the classroom. Please RSVP to Theresa at shetlthe@usd437.net. 

Kansas City Area

4:30-5:30 Teacher workshop – Transitions in Art. LIMITED SPACE click here to register. Join Karen Gerety Folk, Curator of Education, and learn about Monarchs: Brown and Native Artists in the Path of the Butterfly in our 1st floor galleries and create an autobiographical watercolor album cover. Free catalogue for the exhibition for all teachers who attend.

5:30-5:45 Continue working in the classroom, we will expand to our drop-in art studio activity from 

5:45-6:45 p.m. All ages welcome!

6:00-7PM Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and refreshments in the Museum Atrium, cash bar.

7:00-8PM Lectures in Hudson Auditorium by exhibiting artists.

Questions? Contact Karen Gerety Folk, 913-469-8500 ext. 4771, kgerety@jccc.edu

North Central

Batik Workshop.

Saturday, March 9 Beginning at 10 am

Republic County High School  2405 P Street, Belleville, KS

Career Tech Building – building is in back near football field

Fee:  $20.00

Spend the day with instructor Tranda Strnad in her classroom. Participants will create an original batik from an image they bring with them. The waxing and dyeing process will be explored as well as methods for enhancing the image.

Please RSVP to Tranda at tstrnad@usd109.org

North West

Aluminum Cast Tiles Workshop

Friday, February 15

1:00 PM until pouring is complete

Wheatland High School--Behind the shop  2920 K-23 Grainfield

RSVP to Ronna Schultz Instructor doart@ruraltel.net

Presented by Tobias Flores, Associate Professor of Sculpture at Fort Hays State University and students. There is no fee.

2019 Kansas Youth Art Month

We hope that you were as excited as we were with the changes that were made last year for the Kansas Art Education Association's Youth Art Month Exhibit and Celebration!!!!!

PLEASE NOTE THE NEW DATES THIS YEAR TO BETTER ALIGN WITH "YOUTH ART MONTH"

Our venue changed to the "Alice Sabatini Gallery in the Topeka Shawnee County Public Library" and will once again take place there this year.

Our exhibit time frame will once again go from the ONE DAY that we had become accustomed to to a FULL MONTH!!! The artwork will be professionally shown in a gallery setting and will be available for viewing the entire time to make it more convenient for families to see the show!

We will still have our Celebration/Reception/Awards on the last day of the exhibit. We will be able to present our recognition awards in an auditorium!!

Our Sargent Art Sponsored Youth Art Month Art Competition for member's students will be entered and judged digitally with the work also being physically shown in the Youth Art Month Exhibit in the gallery. Note that Sargent Art provides us with a $1000 check to the student of the "Best of Show" artwork as well as materials prizes for other students and their teachers! Don't miss out on this opportunity for your student!

If you are not a member of KAEA--join now!!

We hope that all of you will join us in celebrating Youth Art Month in Kansas!

As always--it is important that you review the rules/guidelines/labels on the KAEA website.

Important Dates to remember:

January 1- Start making local plans for Youth Art Month

February 7- LAST DAY to deliver YAM Artwork to your area YAM volunteer
                                 

February 9- LAST DAY to deliver YAM Artwork to the Sabatini Gallery. All artwork must be received by 6:00 pm in order to be included in the show! This includes any mailed work! Plan ahead to make sure that it is received in time!!!

February 11- LAST DAY for KAEA members to e-mail your submissions into the Sargent Art YAM Art Competition

February 11- Youth Art Month Exhibit—Alice Sabatini Gallery, Topeka Shawnee County Public Library

March 14-16- National Art Education Association Convention, Seattle Washington National Youth Art Month Exhibit

March 10- Youth Art Month Celebration/Reception & Awards 1-2:30

All information can be found on the KAEA Website at: http://www.kaea.com/p/yam.html