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HAVE YOU UPDATED YOUR ASSOCIATION CONTACT INFORMATION LATELY? In an effort to improve our communications across the state, we ask that you take a few minutes and update your personal information through NAEA. Your membership information is sent to the executive board monthly and is vital for our communications across the state. Please fill in as many fields as possible to help us view our membership demographics. Update your profile here. LET'S START THE YEAR WITH A GOOD ADVOCACY PLAN! NAEA has many position statements that you can use to advocate for your needs in your school and district. Access those here. DO YOU NEED RESEARCH TO BACK YOUR TEACHING POSITION? ARTS ED SEARCH is the nation’s first online research and policy clearinghouse focused entirely on student and educator outcomes associated with arts learning in and out of school.  FEATURED ARTIST WORKSHOP for 2014 FALL CONFERENCE Sarah Bailey, Photography This session focuses on using photography to get students outside and learning about the place where they live. Time in the field spent photographing life on the prairie will not only teach students photography techniques and skills, it will translate to an interest in learning what makes prairie ecosystems unique and will foster an appreciation for nature where they live. Sarah Bailey lives and works in Aurora, NE as the greenhouse manager and educator for Prairie Plains Resource Institute, a non-profit educational land trust. Diane Scully, Curriculum Facilitator: Diane Scully is an art teacher in the Columbia Heights Public Schools in Minnesota. She serves on the NAEA Research Commission and is also on the National Art Education Foundation Board of Directors. Joanne Langabee (Friday), Naturalist: Joanne Langabee has always enjoyed nature. At the age of 8 she had a vegetable garden, selling the produce to friends that lived in town. She taught science for 32 years. Upon retirement she started volunteering at Lauritzen gardens where she leads tours and works in the green house. Lisa Brown-Olsen (Saturday), Naturalist: Lisa is an artist who loves the outdoors. Every year she is part of the core teams for the S.O.A.R and Flying Higher camps at Rowe Sanctuary, Gibbon, NE helping young people discover the wonder of the world around them along the Platte River. Brown-Olsen’s primary medium is post-consumer mosaics, made completely of her own tiles from recycled and natural fiber materials such as brown paper bags, cereal boxes and banana leaf paper. Lisa has been a Spanish teacher for more than 20 years. WHAT EXPERTISE CAN YOU SHARE AT FALL CONFERENCE?
Submit a presentation by August 20th. With this year's emphasis on a flipped workshop experience, member presentations will be delivered in the format of a poster presentation. We are asking members to create a tri-fold display available for viewing throughout the conference. We also ask that you visit with participants at least one of three poster viewing sessions - your choice. DO YOU WANT TO PRESENT AT 2014 FALL CONFERENCE? August 20 deadline: Share your expertise with everyone attending conference. Create a tri-fold display and attend at least one sharing session to talk with participants about your ideas. Poster session presentations proposals are due August 1st. Register your presentation now! SUMMER BOARD MEETING UPDATE Ten board members and four committee liaisons attended the July 18th board meeting in Ansley, NE. Many topics were discussed including board restructuring progress, communications, and a new budget for 2014-15 was approved. Watch for new developments in the NATA website and communications this next couple of years. Full membership updates will be provided at fall conference. BOARD APPROVES $200 DONATION TO NAEF National Art Education Foundation supports a wide variety of professional activities. Past C0-Presidents Lorinda Rice and Bob Reeker continue to serve on NAEF committees. NAEF assists with representing the teachers of art in America. As an associate of NAEA, Nebraska Art Teachers Association supports the work of NAEF by making this donation. LAST CHANCE TO ENTER NATA ART EDUCATOR EXHIBIT THIS SATURDAY, JULY 26! Deadline to enter your artwork has been extended to July 26, 2014. Get your entries in now! Spread the word! NATA SERVICE TO MEMBERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Wow! We have made 32 new membership service representative appointments. If you are interested in serving the NATA membership in any of the positions listed here that remain open, please contact Lynette Fast or Allison Varah.
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO RECEIVE NATA NEWS? Take our survey on the website. NATA EVENTS AND DEADLINES
On the NATA Calendar NATA ART EDUCATOR SHOW Deadline to enter your artwork has been extended to July 26, 2014. Get your entries in now! Spread the word! NATA EVENTS AND DEADLINES On the NATA Calendar NATA SERVICE TO MEMBERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Wow! We have made 29 new membership service representative appointments. If you are interested in serving the NATA membership in any of the positions listed here that remain open, please contact Lynette Fast or Allison Varah.
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO RECEIVE NATA NEWS? Take our survey on the website. HIGH SCHOOL ART BOOKS!
Kristy Schluckebier is getting rid of an existing high school art library and would like to see the books go to a good art home. View Photos. Books will be available on a first come, first served basis. Contact her at to set up a time to go through the books at Lincoln Christian on 84th and Old Cheney. SUMMER BOARD REPORTS are due Friday, July 11th. Liaisons, submit now. ART EDUCATOR JURIED SHOW entry deadline is in 1 week! Register those entries now! $22 NATA members/ $43 non-members to enter up to 3 entries! Best of Show $ 150.00 Second Place $ 75.00 Honorable Mention $ 50.00 DEADLINE July 15th to register for your Artisan Booth to be included in Aurora Artwalk Publications. NATA BOARD MEETING July 18th, 12:00-5:00pm, Ansley, NE Contact Allison Varah if you are interested in attending. VISIT the new calendar page for all NATA events and upcoming deadlines. DO YOU KNOW
GOOGLE CULTURAL INSTITUTE is a great classroom resource? 2014 Fall Conference |
| MEMBER PRESENTATIONS! Share your professional expertise in a poster presentation. K-12 STUDENT ART EXHIBIT! Enter up to two student works for an exhibit at The Leadership Center! BUY ART! The Awards Banquet Silent Auction, The Aurora Art Walk, and Vendors! MAKE ART - LEARN ART TECHNIQUE FROM PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS! 9 studio sessions to choose from! STANDARDS BASED CURRICULUM WRITING! Learn about the new state and national standards in artist workshops. Take ready to use unit ideas back to your school! EXCELLENT FOOD! All meals and beverages provided the whole weekend! | ART EDUCATOR JURIED SHOW! Show your artwork. Deadline July 15th - Register NOW! ARTISAN SALES! Register to sell your handmade items during the Aurora Art Walk! ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CONNECTIONS! Learn from master naturalists in artist workshops. Collaborate to use their educational opportunities in your classroom! COLLABORATE WITH COLLEAGUES FROM ACROSS THE STATE! Learn together and collaborate to write amazing unit plans to take back to your school! RELAXING ATMOSPHERE CONFERENCE LOCATION! The Leadership Center ALL IN ONE INCLUSIVE CONFERENCE! Eat, sleep, art! |
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SUMMER BOARD MEETING JULY 18TH IN ANSLEY, NE
If you are interested in attending with the board, please notify Allison Varah, allisonfees@gmail.com, to confirm your attendance ASAP. A social/light lunch will begin at noon with THE MEETING following.
LightHouse public Art project
ILLUMINATING LINCOLN: LIGHTHOUSE is a public art project celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Lighthouse: a community-based, after school program which provides a safe, nurturing, supervised environment for youth in middle and high schools to participate in academic support, recreational activities, field trips, evening meals, educational workshops and mentoring.
Because we have seen a multitude of Public Art Projects pop up in cities across the United States and around the world, it is evident that their popularity is derived from the way they promote excitement, display artistic expression, build a feeling of community, and heighten awareness as well as support of the arts.
We have seen fiberglass J. Does in Omaha and steel bikes in Tour de Lincoln. Lighthouse chose a Light Bulb design – an icon of illumination - as its concept, utilizing fiberglass combined with a polyurethane resin for an environmentally friendly strong, long-lasting medium, manufactured in Gibbon, Nebraska, by Icon Poly.
This Project offers Nebraska Artists an opportunity to use their creative talent and imagination to paint, design and otherwise manipulate and/or add on to the six-foot Light Bulb for outdoor display throughout Lincoln, May 1 – September, 2015. Click Link above for the Artist application form and agreement. If you have trouble opening the documents please contact Liz Shea-McCoy at (402)430-5923
Because we have seen a multitude of Public Art Projects pop up in cities across the United States and around the world, it is evident that their popularity is derived from the way they promote excitement, display artistic expression, build a feeling of community, and heighten awareness as well as support of the arts.
We have seen fiberglass J. Does in Omaha and steel bikes in Tour de Lincoln. Lighthouse chose a Light Bulb design – an icon of illumination - as its concept, utilizing fiberglass combined with a polyurethane resin for an environmentally friendly strong, long-lasting medium, manufactured in Gibbon, Nebraska, by Icon Poly.
This Project offers Nebraska Artists an opportunity to use their creative talent and imagination to paint, design and otherwise manipulate and/or add on to the six-foot Light Bulb for outdoor display throughout Lincoln, May 1 – September, 2015. Click Link above for the Artist application form and agreement. If you have trouble opening the documents please contact Liz Shea-McCoy at (402)430-5923