Sunday, November 22, 2015
Monday, August 10, 2015
OAEA - Call for Leader Nominations
Leadership
is a rewarding experience in ways that connect you with stronger bonds
to your professional community through the service you provide and the
opportunity to grow that leadership returns. When you consider
leadership opportunities think of your capacities in skills and
availability as well as your experience and inspiration. This may be
your “tipping point”, that step into new career territory. Realize your
potential. OAEA is made of many voices, including yours. “You’d be
great!”
At the State Level
The following 3 offices on the Executive Committee are open beginning 2016
President-Elect (one year term followed by two as President and two as Past-President)
eligibility
minimum 5 years of service on the OAEA Board of Directors
minimum 5 years of teaching experience
1st Vice President (two-year term)
Treasurer (two-year term)
eligibility
minimum 5 years of teaching experience
minimum 5 years of active membership with 2 active years immediately preceding election
Please read the detailed job descriptions and qualifications online
Nominations for these positions are open now
through the annual business meeting at our conference in November in
Dayton. Voting will be concluded in December so that these new positions
can be seated Jan. 1, 2016.
Contact
anyone on the Nominations Committee to nominate. Nomination committee
is chaired by Randy Robart, Past-President and includes Parliamentarian
Sherrie Dennis and Membership Chair Suzanne Mitolo.
also-
At the Regional Level:
Regional Directors
new RDs* to be seated in 2016; NE, SE, SW, W
regions that may hold “director-elect” elections this fall; C, EC, E, NC, NW
Public Relations and Advocacy Chairs
new PR/ Advocacy Chairs* to be seated in 2016; C, EC, E, NC, NW
regions that may hold “chair-elect” elections this fall; NE, SE, SW, W
*regions may have already held elections prior, creating an “elect” year
Contact your RD for regional positions in Membership, Newsletter, Awards and more.
A reminder of our Policy & Procedure for all and any elections in OAEA. (page 8)
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There is “no campaigning”
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Any “Get Out the Vote” initiatives must include all candidates equally and be sent or made available to all eligible voting members.
Monday, July 6, 2015
National Portrait Gallery - Annual Teen Portrait Competition
The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery opens a "call for entries" for the third annual Teen Portrait Competition. Artists between the ages of 13 and 17 may electronically submit portraits to the juried competition in the medium of painting and drawing, photography, and video through Wednesday, September 30 2015. The grand-prize portrait will be printed and displayed at the National Portrait Gallery in 2016.
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Impressions - EC Teacher as Artist Exhibit Fall 2015
Impressions
Teacher as Artist Exhibit
East Central Ohio Art Education Association
Journey Art Gallery - Canton Arts District
Oct 2 - 13, 2015
Art teachers from Perry Local Schools are curating EC's teacher as
artist show this fall entitled "Impressions". Over thirty individuals
have promised to create one work of art for this special event. If you have not already RSVP'd to participate and would like to please contact Aimee ASAP: aimee.sauls@perrylocal.org
Participation: This exhibit is only open to OAEA members. You can contact Suzanne Mitolo at oaeamembership@gmail.com to find out if your membership is current. You can also visit the OAEA website: http://www.oaea.org/join-oaea
Location of the Show: Journey Art Gallery 431 4th St NW, Canton OH 44702
Journey Art Gallery is open Tues-Sat 12-6. Phone - 330-546-7061
Artwork Drop Off: Artwork needs to be dropped off at the gallery on Wednesday, September 30th. Artwork will be hard to store if it is dropped off too early. Please call Su Nimon at the gallery if you need special arrangements.
Information Needed: Please include the following information with the work, but not affixed to the work as a label. Labels will be created using the information you provide. Your name, where you currently teach/work/retired from, Name of the work, Medium, Is this work for sale?, What is the price that you want to get for it?
Dates/Show Opening: The show will open on Friday, October 2nd for Canton's First Friday 6-10 pm and all the work will be displayed through Tuesday, October 13th.
Pick Up Work: Please make arrangements to pick up your work on Wednesday, October 14th during gallery hours.
Speed "Arting" East Central-Style - OAEA Regional Workshop 8/3/15
Speed "Arting" East Central-Style
An OAEA Regional Workshop
Monday, August 3
10am - 12pm
Faircrest Memorial Middle School
616 Faircrest St. SW, Canton, OH 44706
Since this awesome screen printing event won't take place at the OAEA Conference 2015 (something else cool is in store), we decided to have our own version!
Bring your t-shirts, aprons, bags, and anything else you'd like to screen print with a cool, artsy, OAEA or EC design!
AND - bring a friend! Not in the East Central region? Who cares! Come anyway! The more the merrier!
Bring your t-shirts, aprons, bags, and anything else you'd like to screen print with a cool, artsy, OAEA or EC design!
AND - bring a friend! Not in the East Central region? Who cares! Come anyway! The more the merrier!
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Workshop at Tuscarawas County Center for the Arts - July 1
Join us for a regional meeting, short workshop, & a tour of this awesome facility!
Wednesday, July 1 at 10am
461 Robinson Dr SE, New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663
Please RSVP on the EC Facebook page by June 26
OR by emailing amy.eibel@cantonlocal.org
OR by emailing amy.eibel@cantonlocal.org
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Arts LIFT 2015 - Summer Studio PD
Do
you need some graduate credits to renew your license? Interested in
participating in an AWESOME, and SHORT learning experience where you
make a fabulous piece of public art? You could take a studio course OR a
community-based art education course!
Consider
registering for one of the classes described below. Elisa Gargarella
and I will be leading this project through The University of Akron.
We've been doing this summer project for over a decade, and it always
proves to be a fantastic event.
Contact Elisa at gelisa@uakron.edu if you're interested in signing up!
Summer PD - Malone University - OAEA member C. Triner, instructor
"Visual Art Studio as Active Learning Laboratory"
Instructor: Chris Triner
Malone University / Johnson Center (next to the Canton main post office on Market Ave.)
8:30 am - 2:30 pm - June 15 - 19, 2015
This
course is for art educators in grades 6-12, and those wanting to
involve more arts education into your classroom. Are you looking to have
time to further study “active learning” techniques? Want in-studio time
to site test lessons AND time to dialogue with fellow professionals
about their effective classroom strategies? This week-long course offers
how to incorporate writing, brainstorming, response (critique), simple
technology, and art history as a way to further motivate your learners
to fully understand lessons. Studio time will be stressed. A daily
critique of your own work and how it can impact your students will round
out each day. A supply fee of $30 will be collected on the first day.
(2 graduate credit hours)
Link to Malone's Center for Professional Development:
Other Malone art-related offerings:
VECTORize!
Date and Time: Mon-Fri; June 8-12; 8:30-2:30; JC
Instructor: Li Hertzi
Credit Hours: 2
Credit Hours: 2
Adobe
Illustrator software defines the future of vector graphics with
creative options and powerful tools for efficiently publishing artwork
on the web and in print. You will learn the design tools, create simple
illustrations, work with scanned images, draw and modify objects, paint
with the brush tool, work with text and advanced type features,
transform objects, use the pathfinder, manage colors, create masks, work
with layers, use the mesh and 3D tools, and automate tasks. Class
projects include creating a paper robot, web icons, photo-realistic art,
a map, and a corporate identity. Prerequisite: Basic computer skills.
A class fee of $30 will be paid to the instructor on the first day of
class. (2 graduate credit hours)
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Youth Art Month Exhibit & Awards
Some images from Youth Art Month Exhibit and Awards in Columbus - March 14, 2015
East Central members & students
EC OAEA 2015 YAM
Monday, March 9, 2015
"Watercolor Perspectives" Workshop - April 18
"Loosen up and flow on a gesso surface" with Guest Artist, Rob VanNatta. Join us on Saturday, April 18 from 10am to 12pm at Wooster High School. Spaces are limited for this workshop!
More on Robert. H. VanNatta
http://roberthvannatta.com/Robert_H._VanNatta/Home.html
RSVP is required: email amy.eibel@cantonlocal.org or via the Facebook invite.
CEU certificates will be available!
Monday, March 2, 2015
OAEA 2015 Conference --- Call for Workshop Proposals!
Ask not what “Art Can…” do for you… ask what you can do for art!
- Have you been looking for new curriculum ideas to implement in your classroom? Technology? The latest materials and equipment?- Do you ever feel left out as the ONLY visual art teacher?- Want to “talk shop” with like minds?- Want to experience visual art nirvana?
Never fear!!! It’s that time of year…
Time to submit proposals for “Art Can…” Dayton 2015!
Reasons to Submit for 2015:
- Your presentation becomes part of your OTES paperwork.- Gain administrative support and funding from your school via presenting.- You can receive an additional 1 Professional Development Unit (CEU) from OAEA for your time as a presenter.- We all have great things happening in our class-rooms, so become a platform of greatness helping colleagues learn from you.- Choose from 3 workshop types to meet your presentation needs: Standard Workshop, Hands-On Workshop, or Ticketed Event.
The process for submitting remains online; just select the form most suitable to your needs.
We encourage you to submit and thank you for helping aid in the professional development of Ohio’s art educators.
The 2015 Dayton Art Can… deadline is May 1st at midnight.
Visit the OAEA website for all the information you need and access to the forms.
Ideas for workshops topics:
- Gifted and talented identification- Writing/Developing SLO’s- OTES tips- Student data driven growth in the Artroom- “How to navigate conference”- Technology focused lessons; Prezi, Apps & Websites for Art Teachers- Advocacy & Grant Writing- Special Needs in the Artroom- Media specific techniques- Differentiation, project based learning, challenge based learning- Elementary studio lessons
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Field Trip: ZERO LANDFILL Akron - Sat. Feb 21st
Join us at our next regional meeting for a fabulous field trip to Zero Landfill Akron on February 21!
We
will be having a business meeting at Cracker Barrel (at the Strip) starting at 8:00
a.m. Bring money to buy breakfast! We will be sharing our updated 2015
calendar of events, and we already have several awesome workshops and
events on the books for this year (at at locations ALL over our region).
PLEASE RSVP TO AMY IF YOU'RE COMING TO BREAKFAST! You can respond on
Facebook at our OAEA East Central page, or via email to Amy.
After
breakfast, we will head up to Akron for the Zero Landfill event to get
some great FREE supplies for our artworks! This year's location is that
same as last year's: 530 S. Main Street, Akron, Ohio 44311
For more information about Zero Landfill, click on this link:
I
have used so many supplies from Zero Landfill in my classroom. It's a
great event. I recommend you bring a wagon, cart or dolly, along with
boxes or plastic containers in which to store your free art loot!
Please contact me if you have any questions!
- Amy
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