: from the president
Welcome to the website of your Kansas Art Education Association. Please check out all areas of this website. We hope you will use it as your roadmap to find out more about the Kansas Art Education Association, as an improvement to your classroom curriculum or management, and the direction to self development.
2010 marks the seventy-fifth birthday of KAEA along with Elvis Presley, the Dalai Lama of Tibet, and the Chevrolet Suburban. I encourage you to attend the fall conference where you will meet Kansas art educator colleagues, and will find workshops, where you will gain knowledge you can use with your students. I encourage you to visit with your art friends and ask them to join you as a member of KAEA. By doing this, KAEA will continue to grow. By growing, the association will be able to help its members and their students even more. Our wish is that the Kansas Art Education Association is well-known as a leader in art education.
As the saying goes, “we’ve come a long way, baby”. We know the history of art education in the past seventy-five years. But we can only predict and dream about the future. In 1935, The Kansas State Art Teachers Association was formed and then in 1952 the name was changed to its present name, The Kansas Art Education Association with Ray Pierce of Dodge City as its president. Knowledge from this past has formed the present, and all of this together will form the future.
The question, “What will art education be like in the next seventy-five years?” would be hard for us to predict. Even the next fifty years will be beyond our limit to realize. But the next twenty-five are completely within our vision. What will change the most? Will it be the media that we use, the means of delivering that media, or will it be the means of delivering the information to our students? Will the students be using electronic sketch books in the place of paper sketch books? Art along with art education is constantly changing. Even with an unknown future, it is not unthinkable.
Bob Cross
KAEA President