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- March -
Introduction to Equitable Arts Education
Feb. 27th, 2024 | 6:00pm - 7:15pm
OPEN to ALL arts advocates.
SUPPORT Equitable Arts Education in YOUR Schools!

You're invited to join us on Tuesday, February 27 @ 6PM as we discuss how to support equitable arts education based on Washington State requirements AND based on what's best for your students.

This presentation was designed based on educator input, and is open to #students , #educators, #administrators, and #communitymembers.

It will also include opportunities to share your thoughts and questions. We know this is a complex topic and we are ready to help you navigate it!

1 free clock hour offered to current WAEA members.
Use this form to request after the session.


Register at https://mailchi.mp/.../introduction-to-equitable-arts....
Congratulations to our
2024 Youth Art Month Flag winners!
 
So many talented young artists and educators supporting them.
Check out the incredible winning designs and the Overall Winning Flag that will represent Washington state at the NAEA conference as well as be printed, framed and displayed at the OSPI offices.

May we have a round of applause for the student winners, the educators supporting them, and for the YAM chair, Nicole Dibble, for doing an amazing job with this!

Stay tuned to our Social Media for Youth Art Month Posts!
Let's Celebrate ART!
See WAEA Website for more details on YAM

A Sketchy Webinar: Developing Student Drawing Skills in a Digital Age 

Wednesday, March 6, 2024 | 4-5pm PST
FREE for NAEA members; $49 for nonmembers

Join us as we explore drawing in the 21st-century classroom. From analog to digital arts, see examples and hear from educators who teach drawing to advance artmaking and communications skills to help students capture real and imagined worlds. As part of this discussion, we’ll also dive into how the methods and mindsets of sketchnoting can help learners of all ages build confidence with new and effective ways to absorb and manage information.


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)

Join WAEA for our Virtual Workshop on
March 16th from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM (PST)

1.5 WA state clock hours available to WAEA members.

Culturally Responsive Teaching with Jennifer Griffith

Culturally and historically responsive education is both a theory and model to respond to students’ histories, identities, literacies and liberation in pedagogy. A learning standard indicates a ceiling or a stopping point. A new narrative for standards is a pursuit which does not have a ceiling; rather, it is ever evolving and one that helps students attain the larger goals of self-reliance, self-determination and self-liberation.
We will talk about the misconceptions of culturally responsive education and discuss how the following "pursuits" can be implemented in your culturally responsive classroom.

  • Identity – teaching students to know themselves and others;
  • Skills – teaching students the proficiencies needed across content areas;
  • Intellectualism – teaching students new knowledge;
  • Criticality – teaching students to understand and disrupt oppression; and
  • Joy – teaching students about the beauty and truth in humanity. 
Collectively these five pursuits teach the whole child and give children academic and personal success for their lives.

Jennifer Griffith is an educator, artist, and researcher. She recently graduated from Boston University with her M.A.ArtEd. and is currently teaching in Spokane. Jennifer is the coPresdient-elect and esd101 representative for the WAEA. She also currently coChairs the JEDI committee for the organization. She is currently enrolled in TAT Lab with ArtsWA and is looking forward to sharing with all of you.
 
Virtual Workshop Zoom Link
Want to Present a Virtual Workshop with us? Click here and fill out this presenter form! Easy!
Join WAEA and The Conservatory NW for Yoga and Calder inspired sculptures! Find your Balance!
Reserve your spot below or
check out the Regional Events page on the WAEA Website!
 

Explore the art and yoga offerings at The Conservatory Northwest!

www.theconservatorynw.com 

@theconservatorynw

What events do you want to hold in your Region? Propose your event below!
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!
Come to the WAEA Open Memebership Meeting on March 9th on zoom to find out more how you can help on various committees or find a way to share your talents.

March 9th, 2024 WAEA Open Membership Meeting

*9:30-10:00 Coffee Chat

​10am - 12pm
Open Membership Meeting

All Welcome! Only Members vote.

Zoom link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81596698495?pwd=zct0AqkVL2qBAJOmiz80HstZ5aCPUW.1

Here is a Google Calendar reminder link

WAEA Research and Knowledge Division is gathering information to help inform policy and archive yearly growth in our knowledge base.

Our survey on
Arts Education and Artificial Intelligence or AI (meaning any technological advancements that allow machines to learn and think)
opens March 1st and closes April 13th, 2024.

Survey will be included in an E-news, Facebook Post, and Instagram Post on March 1st and each week while open.

March 2024 - This is the sixth qualitative survey conducted with the Washington Art Education Association (WAEA) serving as the host arts education organization since the pandemic in efforts to determine the impact on arts education access, inclusion, instruction, and staffing in the basic education arts subjects that include: dance, media arts, music, theater, and visual arts. 

*This survey will be open from March 1, 2024, through April 13, 2024, in an attempt to gather responses from all circles of influence in arts education and arts professionals and teaching artists, including students, regarding the status of arts education and artificial intelligence (AI) - nationally and internationally. The Washington Art Education Association (WAEA) is again the host state arts education organization for the distribution and gathering of this data.  
Have your read OSPI's new guidance on AI in Education?

If not, it is linked below...
OSPI AI Guidance for K12 public schools
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.

Regional Art Show Presentations are beginning to happen this month across the state!

Use the link below to explore Regional ESD Virtual Art Shows!
Show your students inspirational artwork from the state!

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 Websites
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 have another exciting opportunity for you to become a published author in an award winning magazine! 
Submissions for our spring issue of Splatter Magazine are due March 15th (pending change in deadline).
and the theme is “To Be Determined”

Please email Cheyenne Whitney at splatter@waea.net with potential themes that you would like to see in the Splatter Publication.

All are welcomed to submit an article or information for Splatter Magazine. It is community members like you who make this magazine great!


WAEA wants to publish your great lessons, issues and approaches to teaching art in our quarterly publication of “SPLATTER”
We are looking for:
  • Classroom Lessons Classroom Lessons should include: 3 or more high quality (300 dpi) images, the learning standards, materials needed, assessment, some steps to complete the lesson along with reflections and successes about the project. We’ve made it super easy… download this LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE and EMAIL to our Splatter editor!
  • Events: Share about an upcoming or recent show, workshop, event, advocacy opportunity in your school, district, ESD, region, or state.  
  • Teaching Reflections and Successes (not specific to a lesson)
  • Classroom Management and Organizational TIPS
  • Concerns and Issues that Address Arts in our State
 
  • If you have any questions or want help writing your article, please reach out to editor Cheyenne Whitney at splatter@waea.net

Splatter submission Guidelines: https://www.waeaboard.net/splatter-guidelines.html
Link to Splatter Archive: https://www.waeaboard.net/splatterarchive.html
Teachers As Artist Show
@ Maryhill Museum of Art

Congratulations to our WAEA artists who were selected for the show. 
*notifications were sent out Feb. 23rd.


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
 
Delivery of work: 2/24 – 3/ 9/ 2024
Opening Reception: March 23rd 2 - 4pm
Pick up work: 4/18 – 4/24/2024

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

Here is the address if you are mailing your work in.
Remember to include a pre-paid return mailing label.
 
Sorcha Meek Paul
Curator of Education
cc:Teachers As Artists
Maryhill Museum of Art
35 Maryhill Museum Drive
Goldendale, WA. 98620
509 773 3733 ext. 107
sorcha@maryhillmuseum.org
http://www.maryhillmuseum.org/
 
Join Window Seat Media for "Documenting Ourselves,"
an interactive workshop for community members interested in learning an oral history process and tools for documenting their family or community stories.
Saturday, February 17 from 2-5 p.m. at The Liberation Collective @tlc_olympia at YWCA Friendship Hall.
Ages 16 and up.
Please register - Sliding scale, access-for-all: $10-$200 (actual cost $60 per person).
We’ll practice our listening skills, consider how to spark memories, make meaningful connections through the interview process, learn recording techniques and technology, and explore the ethical considerations of recording other peoples’ stories. Participants leave with the skills and confidence to carry out an oral history interview with a loved one. Snacks provided.

https://www.windowseatmedia.org/post/community-roots-exhibit-opening-and-event-series

Window Seat Media presented with WAEA at the Art of Belonging Conference last summer.
The art of recording oral history/story is an essential tool that inspires and informs our art-making practice.

Also check out their "We need Space" Zine-Making Workshop on March 2nd.
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.
 
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN BUILDING UP THE ART EDUCATION ADVOCACY NETWORK IN YOUR WASHINGTON STATE REGION?

If so, the WAEA is looking for Regional ESD Reps to work with us to enhance visual/media arts professional development workshops, develop educator networking fun, and help with student and teacher art shows to build arts education advocacy in your area! Let us know if you, or someone you know, is ready to be here for each other, be here for the students, and be here for the ART!

contact copresident1@waea.net for more information
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