OAEA President-Elect Randy Maves and I (Christopher Shotola-Hardt, OAEA President) attended the annual NAEA Pacific Region Leadership Conference in Vancouver, B.C. Pacific Region Vice President Penny Venola has allowed me to post her summary of this summer's productive session. Please read on:
REPORT FROM NAEA PACIFIC REGION SUMMER LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE 2013
Dear Pacific Region Presidents,
For those of you who were able to attend the
Summer Leadership Conference in Vancouver, you know what an awesome time was
had by all.
For those of you not able to
attend, I will try and cover some highlights and information that emerged.
Many, many thanks to the awesome committee in
Vancouver who wore us out sharing highlights of this gorgeous city and
providing a great venue for our meetings.
The Leadership report has been sent to Reston. Following are things of a
helpful nature or just to jolt your curiosity.
The three top topics for future position statements
are:
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The need to change STEM to STEAM.
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The need to write a new position statement
starting where race-based mascots stopped, to make it more inclusive.
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Concern about awards and nominations being
limited to people in jobs for 51% of their time, eliminating people in more
than one job setting or qualified people not allowed to run for an office
because of their job.
If you have any input, please send it to me as the
national board begins working on the new position statements for the March 2014
Convention.
Other topics that came up and may turn into position
statements are:
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Need for NAEA membership category and division
for other art education providers such as:
Artists Guilds, Boys and Girls Clubs, Scouts, Assisted Living Groups,
Y’s, Community Centers, Artist-in-Residence, Senior programs.
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Future topics for leadership conferences:
design, SES diversity, reaching out to alternative arts programs, services to
NAEA after retirement.
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Leadership conferences need time to discuss
legalities for state associations such as: IRS reports, maintaining non-profit
status, audits, insurance, board members’ legal responsibilities.
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Address inequities in funding for technology to
keep programs current, equipment maintained, and staff trained.
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Need culturally relevant pedagogy: art methods
vs. general methods, cultural awareness of student demographics. Criteria for national and regional positions
needs to include “retired.”
Again, if you have any input,
please send it to me.
Upon returning home, I just had
time to do laundry, sleep, and leave the next morning for the Super Summer
Summit in Reston, Virginia. Your
national staff is a marvel. Only eleven
people service the needs of the entire organization and they do so with joy in
their work, efficiency, and a wonderful camaraderie.
A highlight of the meeting was the
presence of a GRAPHIC RECORDER who graphically recorded every discussion. He then changed hats and became a GRAPHIC
FACILITATOR, explaining the process and suggesting two books to use in our
classroom work to make note taking more visual:
Understanding
Comics by Scott McCloud
Sketchnote
handbook by Mike Rhode
Another
handbook that has been mentioned before as being of great help in organizing
your state boards is:
The
Source 12: Twelve Principles of
Governance That Power Exceptional Boards.
This is available at
www.boardsource.org.
Thoughts
and ideas worth sharing:
o Highly
functioning teams do not allow each other to fail.
o Always
volunteer to promote art education.
o Perseverance
pays off.
o Evaluate
everything through the lens of member experience.
o Put
money saved from not mailing newsletter into postcard blasts inviting all school
art teachers to become members prior to next convention. Or, giving scholarships to elementary
teachers to attend.
o Identify
future leaders by sending out postcards/letters saying, “You’ve been nominated as an emerging leader
to____________________.” Invite them to participate
in a specific way.
o If
you are having difficulties holding state board meetings, you might try online
conferencing.
Oregon has used it with
great success.
Contact Christopher
Shotola-Hardt with specific questions. :
cashoaea@gmail.com
o NEW
AWARDS GUIDELINES are posted on the NAEA Home Page. Remember that the deadline for awards
nominations is OCTOBER 1ST.
We want all our catagories filled!
James
Catterall has two books worth investigating:
Doing
Well and Doing Good by Doing Art: The Effects of Education in the Visual and
Performing Arts on the Achievements and Values of Young People
Next
Generation Creativity Survey Handbook: Assessing Creative Thinking, Behaviours, and Motivation
in the Arts
Another
informative read is The Secret Lives of
Frames: One Hundred Years of Art and Artistry by Deborah Davis. It is inspired by the hundred year history of
Lowy, the premier fine arts services atelier in New York. If you are ever in NY and want a treat, visit
Lowy’s and they may be able to give you a tour of the six story premises if you
explain that you are an art teacher.
View their site online.
Deborah
Davis is also the author of Strapless,
the story of the painting of Madame X by John Singer Sargent. Utterly delightful!
If
you are ever in Southern California, The Huntington Library and Gardens is on
all tourist information sites. Along
with the spectacular library and gardens are four venues for art shows, both
permanent and changing. What is less
well known is that they house one of the largest collections of ART EDUCATION
MATERIALS from the Diana Korzenick collection.
If you, or anyone you know is interested in art education research, you
can obtain information on using the collection by going to: Huntington.org/LibraryLink/Usingthe
library. Use of the research library is
by application only. The application is
on the website.
Here’s
to a wonderfully rewarding school year.
I will leave you with this from Emily Dickenson. “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches
on the soul.” What a lovely thought to
retain throughout the year as we work to strengthen our state boards and make a
difference in art education.
Looking
forward to seeing you in San Diego. If
there are any questions you have not received answers to, just email them to
me, again.
Penny
Venola
Pacific
Region Vice President
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