Conference Early Bird Deadline is Soon

Badge Making, YAM/YPAE Prep, & Meeting

East Region Conference Badge Making, YAM/YPAE prep, meeting, and coffee and donuts. Saturday, October 20 from 9-11am at Avondale Elementary in Canton (near Belden Village and the Pro Football Hall of Fame). Link: https://goo.gl/maps/amBmQq5nzUP2

Badges: Go with the conference safari theme, were made with a Glowforge, and announce "The New East" Region. We'll learn a little about the Glowforge process and then add our artistic East touches to finish them! YAM/YPAE prep - Bring your student artwork and we will help you mat and mount it!

Artisans Market Sellers Needed!

Artisans' Market at Conference: Have something to sell? Know a non-OAEA member that may like to sell? Consider reserving a table for the artisans' market that takes place on Thursday night after the awards dinner. Registration is $40 for member and $50 for non-members. Click HERE to go to the page to download the form. Deadline to register is Oct. 1st, 2018 (postmarked)

Art Teacher Mixer 2018

Art Teacher Mixer 

Thurs. Sept 27, 2018 

4:30 to 6:30 

Fat Head's Brewery in Canton, Ohio. 

3885 Everhard Rd NW, Canton, OH 44709 in The Venue at Belden.

Map Link: https://goo.gl/maps/9LuDwcoXMV72 

Meet and mingle with art teachers from the East Region. All OAEA Regions are invited -- AND all area teachers are invited, regardless of OAEA affiliation! We will talk a bit about what's on the agenda for the school year, and cheer our regional (and state) award winners.

Emerging Artists High School Show - On Display!

Emerging Artist High School Show

This exhibit is up right now at STRS and runs through October 20th with a closing reception.  

This exhibit is dedicated to showcasing Ohio's Emerging Artist artistic efforts, recognizing budding talent and a providing professional display forum. East members who submitted student work include Bradley Nyholm, Pat Kuntz Anderson, Randall Robart, and Rebecca Sauer.

More info: https://www.oaea.org/high-school-art-show

2018 Conference Info

 

Registration and hotel information for our 2018 Conference

 is online at the OAEA Website!

Visit https://www.oaea.org/conference-2018 for more.

 

The New EAST Region

For the past year and a half a committee and the Leadership Assembly has been working on adjusting the region’s boundaries to support our smaller regions who struggle with fewer members, fewer funds, and fewer resources. Since January, the proposal has been seen by the membership three times with an invitation to give responses to the Leadership Assembly (they are the voting representatives for the whole membership). Two times the proposal went back to the drawing board and was adjusted. We are happy to say that the proposal has passed as of July 31, 2018! 

This biggest change was the combination of East Region and East Central Region. They will be the new East Region. However, there are also some individual counties that have been moved to the neighboring region. Please see the map. 

This is a great opportunity to meet new people, go to new events and activities, and make great use of new venues and resources. Does that mean you need to leave your old friends behind? No way! OAEA is going to be working hard on “blurring the regional boundaries” so members will have more opportunities. Regional Directors will be creating events that invite members from neighboring regions to come to. We will also be creating a calendar of events on our website so that if an event in your region doesn’t fit your calendar, you can sign up to go to an event in another region. Regional Directors will also be sharing mailing lists so you may get news blasts from neighboring regions of workshops and events they are having. We are really excited about this! 

There are options for you. What are they? If you choose, you can stay in your original region and not switch over. How do you do this, you ask? 

1. Go to the website and update your profile

OR 

2. Contact the membership chair at membership@ohioarted.com (have your member number handy) 

This is effective immediately and you should register for the fall conference with the region you want to be in. We hope this effort to support our smaller regions is as exciting for you as it is for us. 

Please feel free to contact me if you need help with the transition. 
Alice Tavani 
OAEA President 
president@ohioarted.com


https://www.oaea.org/assets/new%20region%20website%201.pdf