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WAEA
 
mid- January
 
E-News

It was great seeing members at the Open Membership Meeting last Saturday!

Many great discussions were had about upcoming events, the potential power of the WAEA as advocates for stronger arts education in the state of Washington and how we can strengthen our membership through awards, recognition, student scholarships, SEL/JEDI networking, professional development, research opportunities, art shows for educators and students, along with virtual and regional in person workshops and gatherings.

When you write it all out... we are a powerhouse!

I am in awe of all the things that were "slated" and the collaborative force of the people in the room willing to connect with each other to share the load of work that it takes. 

I encourage more members to attend our Open Membership Meetings to find your niche and develop your passion and service to the arts education collective of Washington State. It is an important role, and I am reminded each Membership Meeting how important our role is for the students and the future of the arts community, and the greater community. 

I will highlight some of the initiatives, new and continuing, here in the E-News... I also encourage you to review the Agenda and Minutes of our Open Membership meeting if you missed it. They are located on the waea.net website under Events > Meetings > Meeting Minutes.
 
Please click here to Review the Strategic Plan of the WAEA. Feel free to add to our Growth Chart as well.
We are pleased to announce that...

The NATIONAL Art Education Association

awards

JAMES ANDREWS

as the

Secondary ART EDUCATOR of the YEAR!

WAEA is so proud to have you on our Board as our Advocacy co-Chair.

James has proven himself through his high quality arts instruction
in addition to his persuasive and persistent arts advocacy work
on the local, state, regional and national level!
 
James Andrews and his Famous Art T-shirts!

January 20th, 2024 Virtual Workshop
1.5 free clock hours for WAEA members
10 am - 11:30 am PST
Join Zoom Meeting

The January Virtual Workshop on Jan 20th will be geared toward “How to build an arts advocacy network in your region"

Come and learn how easy it is to host a regional workshop, apply for clock hours, marketing ideas, and help create a regional dashboard of potential activities and/or workshop contacts. Leave with a solid plan!

WE need a WAEA member from every region to attend.
The more the better!
You will be working in a team to brainstorm building an arts advocacy network in your own region!

We will have raffle prizes for all WAEA members who show up and participate in the regional dashboard creation!

 
Check out the Virtual Workshop page of the waea.net website for more information about the WAEA Virtual Workshop Series.
Want to Present a Virtual Workshop with us? Click here and fill out this presenter form! Easy!
LOVE Art CARDS...

...to Share and Receive Love from WAEA

How to Join:

1. To participate, fill out this form by January 30th.
2. Each participant will design a set of 1, 5, or 10 [select below] LOVE Art Cards.
3. Each card will be sent to a different participating artist.
4. Your cards can be unique or a repeated edition.
5. Your Valentine's address list will be sent by February 4th.
6. Please send your cards out by the end of February. (preferably by the 14th)
 
Questions?  [Jennifer Griffith: esd101@waea.net]
Click here to Sign Up by Jan. 30th
Reserve your Spot HERE!
Host your own Regional In-Person Event and offer clock hours for WAEA members by clicking here to fill out this request form! Easy!
Celebrate Youth Art Month!

March is designated as National Youth Art Month. Youth Art Month is the time to showcase visual art programs throughout schools, districts, communities and all of Washington.  It is recognized throughout the United States as an opportunity to celebrate and serve as an advocacy tool to promote the importance of visual art in educating children as a whole. We promote Youth Art Month as a vehicle to advocate the importance of the visual arts.

Here are two important ways for YOU to celebrate this year: 

1. Participate in the Flag Design Competition!

The theme for 2023-2024 is "Dream In Art" We have pushed back the due date to 2/10/24.

Be on the lookout for a PPT to use as inspiration with your students! It will be added to the YAM webpage and shared to our WAEA Facebook group in the coming week. 

2. Obtain a Proclamation from your Principal, Superintendent, School Board, and/or Mayor so they can declare March as Youth Art Month!

Nicole Dibble, Youth Art Month Chair, has sent one to Jay Inslee (WA Governor) and Chris Reykdal (WA Superintendent of Public Instruction).

Here is an YAM Proclamation Letter to edit with your local info and who you are sending it to.

Here is the Proclamation itself to email or drop off with your letter. The earlier you can send it the better. We also recommend checking back a week after on the status of the Proclamation. 

This is a great advocacy tool to put the spotlight on all the great things we do to enhance students' lives through the power of Art!

Please reach out to Nicole Dibble if you have any questions at yam@waea.net

 

YAM Flag Design Contest for 2024

DEADLINE is EXTENDED

to Feb. 10th at 9:00 AM

The theme for 2024 is
​
Dream in Art.
 
WAEA will have 4 winning categories this year:
  • Primary level winner (transitional K through 4th grade)
  • Middle level winner (5th - 8th grade)
  • High School Level winner (9th - 12th grade)
  • Overall Top Prize Winner (transitional K - 12th grade)

Winning Entries: Top Prize will receive $100 Charlene Dixon Scholarship from the WAEA and other top entries will be featured in Splatter Magazine. 
All students must complete the Artwork/Photography Release Form to participate in any of the YAM activities. *Participating educators must be a current member of the WAEA.

Check out the WAEA Website
for Student Entry Forms formatted to the correct size and how to submit!

DEADLINE is EXTENDED
to Feb. 10th at 9:00 AM

email the YAM Chair with questions:
yam@waea.net
See WAEA Website for more Details and Submission Forms.
The  WAEA Tribute Award is given annually in May to recognize an individual or group who over time has made significant contributions and/or service to WAEA. We are looking to honor individuals who have made contributions in one or more of the following areas:
 
  • LEADERSHIP: ​​​Leadership contributions to the State and/or National Association
  • LEARNING: Contributed to WAEA/NAEA through their knowledge and understanding of the processes of artistic growth as well as the the theory and practice of teaching art (for example by presenting at conferences and writing articles)
  • ADVOCACY: Advocated for visual arts and the importance of art education in schools
  • ASSESSMENT: Helped develop accountability systems for assessing performance in art 

Nominations are due
March 9th at noon.
 
We will announce Nominations in the Open Membership Meeting that day.
​Award winner will be honored at the OSPI Superintendent High School Art Show Reception in May.
 
Nominations are strengthened by....
  • Letters of Support: from WAEA/NAEA Members, Co-workers, Administrators and friends of the Nominee
Tribute Award Website and Nomination Form
We would like to start pushing out our Student Scholarship Information at this time. Please help us out by printing and posting this flyer in your classrooms, scholarship boards, museums, libraries, and art space community boards.

We want to make sure that we get the word out to all Wa State High School Seniors that the WAEA offers 3 $1000 scholarships to students attending a college, community college, or art school courses with a focus on visual art or majoring in an art field or art education.

See the webpage for more details and the scholarship application.

We are going to need more art teachers, let's help them get schooled.

email questions to: scholarship@waea.net
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Take note that the OSPI Superintendent's High School Art School
consists of 15 pieces from each Regional ESD's Art Shows.

The Submission Deadlines for your
ESD's Art Show are usually
at the end of January or in February.

Start thinking about what you will art you will ask students to enter and set a reminder of the deadlines in your calendar.

The Superintendent's High School Art Show
Co-hosted by OSPI and WAEA
​Reception and Awards Ceremony
Tuesday, May 28th, 2024
OSPI Building
Olympia, WA 98504 
1:00pm-3:00pm

The winning WA State YAM Flags will be honored
along with the WAEA Tribute Award.


High school students from
all nine of the state's educational service districts (ESDs)
participate in this artistic celebration each year.
Click here for list of Regional ESD's Art Show Deadlines
Get your art ready for the 2024
Teachers As Artist Show
@ Maryhill Museum of Art

DEADLINE for Submission

is Feb 9th!

2024 WASHINGTON and OREGON Art Education Associations
Teachers as Artist: THE WAY I SEE IT
The exhibition runs from March 15th through April 17th 2024
 
Submission process: 1/12 – 2/9/2024
*Notifications will be sent February 23rd 2024
Delivery of work: 2/24 – 3/ 9/ 2024
Opening Reception: March 23rd 2 - 4pm
Pick up work: 4/18 – 4/24/2024

Submission Form here...

more information on our WAEA.NET Website under Art Shows.

The 2024 WAEA Fall Conference will be held in Ellensberg
this year Nov 1-3.

Help us create a theme.

*I just threw the above logo together… We will develop a logo after we get the theme.

When we talk about a theme we start with Ideation.
Then we take from the collective list to develop the Theme
or Motto that we can build the Conference around.

Have your Students help in this professional process!
Help Develop the Theme by Adding to this Doc!

Helping Students With Disabilities Thrive in the Art Room
Virtual Webinar

Wednesday, February 7, 2024 | 4-5 PM (PST)
FREE for NAEA members; $49 for nonmembers

Conduct an accessibility audit in your classroom! Unpack contemporary understandings of disabilities and how to apply these practices in all areas of your teaching while taking a critical look at your syllabus, curriculum, lesson plans, materials, tools, techniques, and classroom space and design. The visual arts classroom can be a unique space for valuing disabilities and differences, and this webinar will focus on creating an inclusive educational environment by learning to apply the principles of universal design, interdependence, and allyship. Leave with a fresh perspective along with the tools you need to ensure your instruction is equitable and accessible to all learners.  


Register HERE on the NAEA website.
You can also watch online once posted for pd credit and apply for WAEA Clock Hours with Completion Certificate from NAEA.

Use this Link here to apply for WAEA Clock Hours (up to 30 a year from NAEA Virtual events)
In honor of MLK Day, I wanted to share this letter I recently read from Dr. James Haywood Rolling, Jr., recent past-president of NAEA.

“Black Lives Matter: An Open Letter to Art Educators on Constructing an Anti-Racist Agenda”

His message here on Constructing an Anti-Racist Agenda is a wonderful read in honor of the work being done, and that still needs to be done, within our organizations and ourselves.

His FRAMEWORK OF SUGGESTED INTERVENTIONS is a thought-provoking way of auditing myself as to what I am currently doing in my life to design an anti-racist world?
 

Dr. James Haywood Rolling, Jr. has also published 2 books that we want to share with you. 

Shannon and I had the honor of seeing him speak at our Pacific Leadership retreat this past summer on the topics from this first book and were truly inspired.

The first is, Growing up Ugly: Memoirs of a Black Boy Daydreaming

Growing Up Ugly is an inspirational coming-of-age memoir that traces the upbringing of a painfully shy child with chronically low self-esteem--a Black boy reprimanded for daydreaming too much and raised in a struggling inner-city New York neighborhood--who eventually grew to become an artist, a leading educator, and an award-winning scholar. 

The second is one for the little ones. Discovering African American Art for Children (Come Look With Me)

The artwork presented in this book is a small representation of a very remarkable effort by African Americans in the United States during the twentieth century to portray our developing self-image as citizens who have shaped not only ourselves, but have helped to develop the shape and color of all of our aspirations.
It is a great time of year to start planning your travel plans to get you and your network to the NAEA National Convention | April 4-6
in Minneapolis, Minnesota!

REGISTER HERE!

WE will have more information about a Washington State Social Event in Spring!

We want to know if you are presenting...
Please email copresident1@waea.net if you are.

We are planning a WAEA Dinner Party for
an evening in Minneapolis during the conference.
We are waiting to see when the TAB meet-up is,
and the Caucus of the Spiritual Arts Meet-up is
scheduled to schedule our Dinner around those events.
 
Stay tuned to your email...

The Winter Edition of the Award-Winning Splatter is coming out soon!

Start thinking about what article or lesson you can share in our next issue. Deadline is in March!
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