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september 1
Fall Newsletter posted on-line september 1
Student and Member Fall Conference Grant Applications due to Laurie McLane-Higginson Arts
october 23
Board Meeting at conference in Hutchinson/Fall Conference in Hutchison
november 14
Youth Art Month Flag Design DUE to Vivian Redfern november 15
Board Meeting in Salina november 20
Professional Development Grant Applications due to Laurie McLane-Higginson
january 1
Mini-Grants Awarded (notification and check in letter) january 1
Membership Directory with calendar and Board Directory mailed, Annual Report on-line january 4
Spring Newsletter Article Deadline (Send articles to Angelia Perkins: aperkins@usd497.org)
february 1
Start making local plans for Youth Art Month february 1
Newsletter posted On-line february 10
Artwork for Youth Art Month Exhibit at the Capitol DUE, if mailing february 27
Hang artwork for Youth Art Month Exhibit at State Capitol- 9 a.m. february 27
KAEA Board Meeting in Topeka (10-2) february 28
Harry Hart Memorial YAM Scholarships awarded and Reception 2:00 pm

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Linda Nelson-Bova nelsonbova@yahoo.com
GET CONNECTED WITH NAEA and KAEA
There are a lot of different ways to stay connected with other members these days!! Take some time and check out the new websites, Nings and Listserves available to you.
NAEA website: www.arteducators.org
KAEA website:
www.kaea.com
Nings
Check out the new NAEA Secondary Division Ning Interactive Forum at http://naea-secondary-teachers.ning.com!
Check out the new NAEA Elementary Division Ning Interactive Forum at http://naeaelementarydivision.ning.com
Check out and join the various listserves
Divisions: elementary-subscribe@artedlists.org
middle-subscribe@artedlists.org
secondary-subscribe@artedlists.org
highered-announce-subscribe@artedlists.org
supervision-subscribe@artedlists.org
museum-subscribe@artedlists.org
student-subscribe@artedlists.org
Region: western-subscribe@artedlists.org
Carolyn Berry cberry@usd497.org
Our new web site has been in operation for a little over a year now. Web traffic has increased especially during conference times and for Youth Art Month. The KAEA list serve operation will alert you to updates on the web site, professional information and when the newsletter is published. I would encourage you to join our list serve by contacting Kris Bohanan at cobalt-blu@sbcglobal.net or myself at carolynberryart@hotmail.com or cberry@usd497.org. Please contact me with questions, new information or corrections about the web site.
Carolyn Berry / Webmaster

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Dear KAEA colleagues,
I hope you have had a fun, exciting and RESTFUL summer and are ready to return to school recharged and ready for the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.
This summer held many significant changes in my life. In early June, I attended an institute at the Dyck Arboretum in Hesston, KS called Earth Partnership for Schools which forever changed my attitude about the value of nature education and how we can integrate it with art education. My oldest son Brett was married in Chicago in late June and my youngest son, Mike welcomed his first child into the world at the end of July.
The birth of my first grandchild was a much more emotional experience than I thought it would be. It literally took me back almost thirty-one years to the birth of my first son.
With two sets of grandparents, other relatives and friends, the new parents are bombarded with an overload of advice. Cloth diapers or disposables? Circumcised or not circumcised? Breast fed or bottle fed? (as a dyed-in-the-wool La Leche Leaguer, I had to bite my tongue so hard it may take awhile for the teeth imprints to fade.) Each family member thinks they know “The Way.” There are pros and cons to each position and ultimately it is the new family—baby included—who must figure out which is “The Way” for them.
For most of my professional career I have searched for “The Way” (now called best practices) to teach art. My quest generally focused on what was the ideal amount of structure to inspire creativity. Too little structure and students floundered in the dark; too much structure and they couldn’t flex their creative muscles.
One of the types of art motivation that I find to be successful is to give the students models—natural objects such as shells, small figures such as Schleich animals or
McFarlane sports models and pictures to use for observational drawing before starting many projects. After filling our minds with imagery we use those drawings to create— paintings, clay sculptures, etc.
I have to remind myself that there are many different approaches to teaching art and a variety of approaches will better meet the needs of our variety of learners. Often students who have less artistic confidence with need—will actually crave—more structure in their art lessons. What I love about the opportunity to network with other art teachers is to learn from each other’s successes. In the Wichita Public schools we meet and share ideas on a monthly basis, but what about art teachers from rural areas who may be the only teacher at their level for miles around?
For outstanding professional development at a very reasonable cost, I hope you all are planning to attend the KAEA fall conference, October 23-24 in Hutchinson, KS where we will all be “Out of Our Minds” with Daniel Pink.
A great place to get lesson plan ideas is the Artsonia website: www.artsonia.com
Artsonia is enticing teachers to create an art portfolio for their school, by giving newly signed up teachers who submit artwork a $35 gift certificate to Dick Blick. To receive the gift certificate you must use the following code when you sign up: For those of us who already have Artsonia galleries, stay tuned to the Artsonia website for a special opportunity for all Artsonia members. (Sorry, I am sworn to secrecy at this writing.)
Another resource is the new NAEA Ning Interactive Forums for the elementary and secondary divisions. Elementary is http://naeaelementarydivision.ning.com/ and secondary is http://naea-secondary-teachers.ning.com/ Post a question and get responses from art teachers throughout the United States and Canada.
My best wishes for a successful back-to-school.
Marcia

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KAEA Members
Every time I start to write something for your KAEA Newsletter, I ask myself, “What will the member think of this?” and “What will they gain from reading this?” The KAEA Board wants to give you, the member, a quality newsletter that may inspire you to take your teaching or personal art to another level. We hope this newsletter will give you the tools to do that.
The KAEA Newsletter is full of opportunities afforded to you as members. We hope that you read each issue to see what new ideas you can gain.
You will also find information from your fellow Kansas art teachers who will be more than willing to share the hows and whys of their articles.
This association is only as good as its members. Without members who are willing to share their vast knowledge and time with their fellow teachers,
KAEA cannot grow. Every year we ask members from all over the state to share their expertise with other teachers by chairing a conference, presenting a workshop, or serving on the board.
Another connection with fellow members is the use of e-mail. Many states have gone totally green. Many people of my generation have a very hard time grasping this concept, but we are getting better at it. Now we just need to learn to answer our e-mails. I hope to communicate with not only the board, but also the general membership in this manner. I will be building a data bank that includes the general membership and I will put it to use. If you wish to help me get a head start on this, please just drop me an e-mail at bjcross@cableone.
net and place KAEA in the subject. In addition, I will have a sign-up sheet at the registration table at the fall conference for this purpose. You will get a response letting you know that I received it. I am much better at writing e-mails or calling on the phone than writing a letter.
I hope that you have a fantastic start to your school year, and if you have any questions, feel free to contact me. I won’t know all of the answers, but I will promise I will try to find one.
Please take the time to study this and every issue of the newsletter. You might be surprised at what you learn.
Bob Cross
President-Elect

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Angelia Perkins aperkins@usd497.org
The KAEA Newsletter is currently being published on-line three times per year.
Please add the following deadlines to your 2009 calendar .
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Lawrence High School
Teacher, Angelia Perkins
Items to consider submitting:
Art Road Trips
Contests/Exhibitions
Book, Video/DVD Reviews
Classes for points or College credit
Letters to the Editor
Suggestions for Student or First Year Teachers
Student Art (Please send this on CD instead of e-mail unless you contact me in advance) E-mail for mailing address & image specifications.

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Image by: Haley Fischer
Senior, Lawrence High School
Teacher, Angelia Perkins
A new social network for secondary art teachers has been created by Dana Jung Munson, secondary art teacher in Atlanta, Georgia. Dana along with Diane Scully, National Art
Educator Director in Secondary launched a site for secondary art educators in June. The site is located at http://secondary-teachers.ning.com. Included on the main page, educators can take part in discussions iniated by fellow seconary art educators, link to events like the National Art Education Convention in Baltimore April 14-18, 2010, Pinwheels for
Peace, September 21, 2009. You can post photos, videos, invite other art educators. You create your own page when you join that you add friends to and can communicate from that page to another friend without everyone else reading it. , Other information that can be accessed is Masters of Art Education, lesson plans and networking. It’s really fun and colorful. A small group of Kansas Secondary Art Teachers have joined and it would be great to have more join. Please check out the site. Our fall conference will be in
Hutchinson this fall, October 23-24. Hope many of you can make it since Daniel Pink will be the keynote thanks to Dillions. If you have any ideas for the secondary division meeting during the conference, email me at lynnfelts@cox.net. I need as many door prizes as possible at the conference this fall, so please let me know if you can do that.
On a side note, a group of artists in Winfield has started a Co-op art gallery called “Artist
Alley Co-op Gallery”. We had a large opening on June 27. 300 local people attended the
1 and 1/2 hour opening, which is huge for a town with a population of 10,0000. It is a beautiful space with a permanent gallery membership of 10. We would like to host guest artists. Kris Bohanan will be a guest artist featuring her jewlery during the month of September. Kris’s artist reception will be Sept. 12th at 114 8th Street at the Artist Alley Co-Op
Gallery from 1-3pm, Winfield, KS. One of the discussions on the ning has been how to balance being a creative artist and being an art teacher. Please check out the ning and contact me if you have any questions or concerns. thank you, Lynn Felts, Secondary Representative KAEA, Secondary Director-Elect NAEA

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The NAEA Western Region Summer Leadership Forum was held
June 25 – 28, 2009 in Grand Rapids, MI. The Michigan Art Education Association hosted the forum at the Radisson Grand Rapids North Waterfront Hotel. The leadership agenda included Dr.
Deborah Reeve, Executive Director of NAEA, who welcomed the participants, and was followed by Bob Curtis, past NAEA president and member of the NAEA Foundation Board. Dr. Reeves explained her goal of increasing membership. Note of interest: Kansas is tied with Rhode Island in third place for having the highest percentage of members at 36%. Kansas trails only South Carolina at 53% and
Virginia with 46%. These figures were provided by Market Data Retrieval. Their figures include department chairs, art teachers, and art history/appreciation, craft, photography, and AP art instructors in K-12, and exclude retired teachers, college students, and institution and museum professionals.
Cindy Todd, Michigan President Elect, made a presentation entitled “Art: Today’s Brain Food”. She did a very nice job explaining the way the brain functions and identifying key obstacles to learning. We explored the value art adds to the public school curriculum and ways to better articulate and advocate for our programs.
Kathryn Hillyer, Western Region President-Elect from Illinois, presented a session titled “Communication through State
Websites”. Here we focused on using the website as a vehicle for communicating with others. Kathryn and Dan Soelberg, a graphic designer and a web designer/programmer, led the discussion on the technical aspects of a state’s website as well as content considerations.
“Finance Issues” was presented by Sara Chapman, Executive Director of the Texas Art Education Association, and Madeline
Milidonis Fritz, current Michigan AEA Executive Secretary. They presented practical approaches and tools to meet the needs of the members while being financially vigilant. They presented each state representative with a disk containing various forms. I will share this disk with our board members and be willing to share the information with any KAEA member who would like to have it.
If you have any questions concerning this meeting, Marcia
Scurfield, Linda Nelson-Bova or I would be more than willing to visit with you. We hope information gained at this forum will benefit KAEA members.
Bob Cross

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International Child Art Foundation, Washington DC
The International Child Art Foundation (ICAF) is pleased to invite KAEA to organize the
Kansas Arts Olympiad as part of its 4th Arts Olympiad (2009-2012), a free global program for children ages 8 to 12.
The U.S. Arts Olympiad usually commences in schools with a structured lesson plan that provides art teachers the opportunity to collaborate with athletic instructors and engage their students in digital art. Each school selects one best painting and one best digital artwork on the theme My Favorite Sport and sends it to ICAF. ICAF forms a panel to select the state winners who represent their state at the World Children’s Festival held on the National Mall in Washington DC every four years.
We invite you to organize the program during the upcoming academic year in order to leverage the Kansas Arts Olympiad and the World Children’s Festival to promote arts education in your state. KAEA’s responsibilities will be: a) Starting in September 2009, promote the Kansas Arts Olympiad to schools across the state through newsletters, emails, etc.
b) Starting in January 2010, collect the paintings and digital art selected by schools as their winners (school entries from your state sent directly to ICAF will be mailed to you) c) In May 2010, form a distinguished panel to select the two best works - one painting and one digital art - and send these to ICAF d) In the fall of 2010 organize “Children’s Favorite Sport” exhibition/auction of selected school entries to secure travel/hotel funds for the Kansas Delegation to the World Children’s Festival to be held in June 2011 e) Lead the Kansas Delegation to the 2011 World Children’s Festival in Washington DC
ICAF will be pleased to discuss further opportunities with you for a children’s troupe from your state to perform at the festival’s “World Stage” and for you to host workshops for art teachers from around the world at the festival. Please visit <http://www.icaf.
org> www.icaf.org to learn more about ICAF and the Arts Olympiads. Archived site of the 2007 festival is <http://www.icaf.org/worldfestival/> www.icaf.org/worldfestival/.
Interested KAEA members can subscribe online to the ChildArt magazine at <http:// www.icaf.org/resources/magazine/Magazine.htm> www.icaf.org/resources/magazine/
Magazine.htm. Our research on arts education can be downloaded at <http://www.
icaf.org/resources/papers/> www.icaf.org/resources/papers/.
We look forward to your reply.
Sincerely,
Ashfaq Ishaq, Ph.D. / Chairman
International Child Art Foundation
P O Box 58133
Washington DC 20037
1 202 530 1000
1 202 530 1080 fax www.icaf.org

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Senior, Lawrence High School
Teacher, Angelia Perkins above right: Carrie Klemencic
Junior, Lawrence High School
Teacher, Angelia Perkins
Katie Morris clehmkuh@emporia.edu
Hi everyone,
I found a great job since the last newsletter. I will be teaching elementary art at Pauline Central Primary and Pauline South Intermediate in the Auburn Washburn School
District. As I prepare to start my first school year as a teacher, I am learning to go with the flow. I had the opportunity to look at each of my classrooms as well as visit with the outgoing art teacher once. There has been a lot of construction happening to make improvements at both of my schools this summer so I have thus far not been able to take an inventory of supplies left at either school. While I don’t know what I will have available to start the school year, I am not afraid because art teaches us to be resourceful and innovative. I know that I’ll be able to plan effective and interesting lessons with whatever is thrown at me. I am filled with excitement as I think about the upcoming school year and all the great things going on with KAEA.
The 2009 Fall Conference will be October 23–24 and I hope that you will be able to make it. As a student, the conference was something I looked forward to all year. I learned as much about teaching art from the conference as I learned from some of my classes. I know that a lot of veteran teachers think the conference is only helpful for newer teachers but I think the fellowship and fun would be worthwhile to any art teacher.
Have a great start to your school year!
Katie Morris
Grant Writer

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Sue Atchison satchiso@ksu.edu
When the fall semester rolls around I always think about those novice teachers who are anxiously preparing for their classes. I encourage my students to use technology and its benefits whenever possible so here are some technology resources for the upcoming year.
The website, http://www.theapple.com provides sites and examples for the top ten technology tips for new teachers: 1) develop a personal learning network on
Twitter, 2) keep students engaged, 3) take charge of professional development,
4) involve parents by creating a link between home and school, 5) keep yourself organized, 6) find educational blogs to discover new ideas, encouragement and educational news, 7) get to know your students, 8) work smarter not harder, 9) don’t reinvent the wheel, 10) always be prepared.
Some of the examples are problem-solving websites that would be beneficial for the students who finish their work before others and need meaningful activities.
Professional development websites are listed to help keep your teaching fresh.
There is a list of free website creators to help link home and school and provide an avenue to post examples of student work. Good lesson plans are what most novice teachers are looking for and there are numerous websites listed for that topic.
I love the site named, Making Teachers Nerdy! There is a remarkable list of 45 websites for students to create original artwork online at http://mrssmoke.onsugar.
com/3442983. They are labeled by grade level and rated by how much interactivity is available at each site.
Need free images and sounds for student projects? Look into the websites at http:// mrssmoke.onsugar.com/3152550. We need to do a better job of teaching about copyright and this is a start.
The beauty of the internet is that each of these sites will direct you to numerous other sites that, in turn, lead you to more sites. Follow the links and bookmark them into your Delicious account (if you don’t have one—make one!) and you’ll have a good start on the year.
Sue Atchison
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This seminar will provide the content and resources needed to enhance your students’ global competencies by teaching about China, Korea and Japan in your own classroom. Topics correspond to national and state social studies standards and will benefit teachers of other subject areas including language arts, gifted education, fine arts, and even librarians!
TIMES & LOCATION:
Seminar will meet on October 3, 10, 24, 31st and November 7, 14, 21st and December 5th from
9:00 AM to noon at the KU Edwards Campus, 12700 Quivira Road in Overland Park with a special session at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art on December 12th from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM.
COSTS:
Seminar may be audited for FREE or taken for two graduate credits through the University of
Kansas. Benefits provided to all participants, both auditing and enrolling.
Good Benefits
•$50 worth of books and materials for your personal use.
•$250 stipend for writing one lesson plan incorporating primary sources for your own class -
•Opportunities for enrichment events and extensions!
•Bimonthly email updates about East Asian resources.
Qualifications
•Submit written support from an administrator and a statement of why you wish to partici -
•Make a commitment to participate in all the sessions.
•Teams of educators from same school or district are welcome.

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I was fortunate to attend the National Art Education Conference in Minneapolis this last April. At the conference, Eric Jenson was a keynote speaker. Jensen is an authority on the applications of brain research in education for more than 15 years. He is a former teacher, a speaker, and has taught as adjunct faculty at three universities. Jensen authored Teaching with the Brain in Mind, Enriching the Brain, Arts with the Brain in
Mind, and 22 other books on learning, the brain, and teaching.
I would like to share with you some of the points he covered in his speech. Jensen states that a quarter of our brain is dedicated to visual literacy. In each of the arts and for most things, you are engaging both sides of the brain. Jensen outlines his main argument: that research on the arts, learning, and the brain demonstrates that the arts merit a place in public education equal to the other disciplines. Jensen compares the arts with what he considers major disciplines or essential curriculum areas that should be studied every day.
When he talks about music, he feels music education should start early; making it mandatory, providing instruction, and adding choices. He mentions that music education is required of all students in other nations, including Japan, Hungary, and the
Netherlands, and is quick to point out that students in those three countries boast some of the highest mathematics and science test scores in the world.
We have to learn to see using our brain. Seeing is a key skill in school. The arts teach children how to pay attention, sequence, and process. The arts strengthen our operating system. From the book, Arts with the Brain in Mind, Jensen concludes that, “the visual arts have strong positive cognitive, emotional, social, collaborative, and neurological effects” (p. 68). He notes that teachers whose students receive regular visual arts instruction report stronger academic skills on the part of their students, including increased retention, higher levels of student confidence, and more highly developed independent thinking skills.
Jensen talked about the science and practice of consistent involvement of students through brain-based teaching. He describes brain-based teaching as purposeful
Engagement of effective Strategies derived from Principles of cognitive neuroscience; or what he coins as E-S-P. Purposeful teaching uses energizers that raise heart rate and boost memory. Get the student in the right “state” as he calls it and they will learn. All successful engagement is based on three rules: respect, relationship, and hope. You need to show respect first before the students give it to you. You cannot get respect, only earn it. To develop a relationship, show you care about them first before they’ll care about you. You must never, ever give up on them; they’ll sense it and give up on you too. He contends that evidence suggests that stress is a significant factor in creativity, memory, behavior and learning. Teachers who purposely manage stress factors in class are likely to experience a positive classroom environment. There are many ways to decrease stress in the classroom, such as integrating stretching exercises, incorporating recess, teaching coping skills, and utilizing physical education.
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As I have read about brain research and the arts, here are some interesting links on the brain that I have found.
Brain facts and figures, Facts and statistics about the brains and body systems of different animals: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/facts.html
NIEHS Kids, A diagram of how your brain works: http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/brain.htm
Arts appear to play role in brain development, by Liz Bowie. A newspaper article on the arts and brain: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/education/bal-md.
arts18may18,0,1345340.story
Let Computers Compute. It’s the Age of the Right Brain, an article from the New York
Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/technology/06unbox.html
Arts, Neuroscience, and Learning James E. Zull An article on human behavior and achievement and the arts, that talks about physical and chemical events in our brain: http://www.newhorizons.org/neuro/zull_2.htm
Beside Jensen’s books, you might want to check out Daniel Pink’s book, A Whole New
Mind. Pink is a best-selling author and also former chief speechwriter for former vicepresident Al Gore. He has written a book that talks about the shift from the Information
Age, with its premium on logical, linear, computer-like abilities, to what he calls “the
Conceptual Age,” where “right-brain” qualities like empathy, inventiveness and meaning predominate. “Now the master of fine arts, or M.F.A., is the new M.B.A.” – Daniel Pink
Circle your calendar for the KAEA’s convention in Hutchinson on October 23 & 24th,
2009. Come for Thursday night, October 22nd, to a celebration downtown called Third
Thursday. There will be a lot going on: galleries, music, and food. The theme of the conference is “Out of Our Minds”. At the conference you will be able to hear Daniel Pink talk in person and attend a book signing for us.
On Friday, October 23rd, the elementary division will meet from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m.
During this meeting we will feature the second annual “drag and brag” activity. Please bring 50 copies of your lesson plan and an example of a finished piece. We are a great resource to each other. We often teach in isolation. This is a great opportunity to see what other elementary art teachers are doing. I might suggest bringing a camera also to take pictures. I remember better when I have a picture.
My co-chairperson, Andrea Aeschliman, asks to email her if you want to be included on the elementary division list serve. If you already are on the list serve, have you changed jobs and/or email addresses? Please let her know at: aaeschliman@easton449.org.
Submitted by: Sondra Horning, Elementary Art Instructor, Hutchinson Public Schools

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Laurie McLane-Higginson
Hi everyone! I hope your summer has been as relaxing as mine. I have really worked hard to slow down, get back into an exercise regimen, and take a couple of classes.
My son was home for the summer too so it was about perfect around here. I just got back from a week studying with an enamellist named, Jessica Calderwood at
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. I am pumped and ready to teach my kids these new techniques. You too could feel this way if you had gotten a Professional
Development Grant from KAEA and gone to art camp!!
Proposal forms are available below and also available online at the new KAEA website. The three that are available are:
KAEA Professional Development Grant Application
Deadline: Nov. 20
There are 5 awarded in the amount of $750.00 each. This is a great opportunity for you to stretch your art ed knowledge by going to an art camp in the summer or attend a national art ed conference.
Applications not received by Nov. 20 will not be considered.
KAEA Student Fall Conference Grant Application
Deadline: Sept. 1
This grant is designed to cover the cost of registration for the fall conference for students majoring in art education in a Kansas college or university. See below for eligibility and responsibilities of recipients.
Scholarship Eligibility Criteria:
1. Must be a member of KAEA/NAEA or become one by the time of the conference.
(Note on registration form for the conference that you are applying for the scholarship and if you do not receive one, you will pay upon arrival.)
2. Must be an art education major in good standing at a Kansas college or university.
Applications sent after due date of Sept. 1 will not be considered.
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Photo by: Korissa Gillespie
Lawrence High School
Teacher, Angelia Perkins
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Laurie McLane-Higginson
KAEA Fall Conference Grant Application
Deadline Sept. 1
This year there are 5 grants available in the amount of $200.00 each.
This grant is designed to help with the costs of attending a Kansas Art Education
Association Fall Conference. Grants are open to all KAEA members. The goal of the program is to provide opportunities for KAEA members to improve instruction and gain knowledge relating to visual arts education.
Applications not received by Sept. 1 will not be considered.
Don’t wait apply now and get your learnin’ on!
Laurie McLane-Higginson

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Dr. Susan Nakao snakao@pittstate.edu
Students majoring in art and in elementary education spent between two weeks and six weeks in Japan this past summer studying about the concepts of Power, Peace and Creativity within the
Japanese Spirit.
Under the direction of Dr. Susan Nakao, eleven students travelled to Japan, visiting the cities of
Mishima, Takayama (in the Japanese Alps), Hiroshima, Osaka, Ofuna, Kamakura and Tokyo. Some of them took an optional tour to Mt. Fuji, while others chose a day in the heart of Tokyo’s Youth
Culture. These students completed assignments related to their majors, including paintings, visual artifact journals and PowerPoint presentations for community service projects when they returned to the states.
Students visited shrines and temples throughout Japan, including many places designated as international cultural treasures. They spent a day at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and Peace Park, and some visited film director Hayao Miyazaki’s Ghibli Museum near Tokyo. The students visited elementary and secondary schools in the Osaka area to observe and some helped in the teaching of a calligraphy lesson with brush and sumi ink. Many of the students “fell in love” with the culture and stated that they hope to return after graduation, perhaps with the JET program or through some other teaching opportunity.
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Emporia State University Students Study in Japan cont.
Though H1N1 was a concern and the Osaka schools were shut down for one week in early May, about ten days before our visit, none of those traveling became ill. All were moved by the heart of kindness and consideration of the Japanese people – their willingness to extend a helping hand to foreigners, and many reflected on how they, themselves, wanted to change to be more kind and generous with those their own circle of influence who don’t speak English well.
The students also had the opportunity to participate in a collaborative art project, the Blessing Dove Project. Artist Sandra Ceas from the Colorado State Art Education Association and an instructor at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design gave each student a cast porcelain dove, asking them to place the dove somewhere during their travels in Japan, photograph it and send her the photograph and a paragraph explaining why they had chosen that place. She was going to add these to her website as part of her on-going effort to spread the “blessing doves” all throughout the world.
Dr. Susan Nakao hopes to offer other summer tours, with both undergraduate and graduate credit for art students and art teachers in future summers. If you would like to be on her mailing list to receive information about these tours, please drop her an e-mail at snakao@pittstate.edu.

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Senior, Lawrence High School
Teacher, Angelia Perkins
Linda Morgan, KAEA Middle Level Representative
Welcome back Middle Level Art Educators! I hope you are ready for a great year of teaching and some wonderful KAEA/NAEA art opportunities. KAEA is planning a tremendous conference in Hutchinson, KS October 23 & 24, 2009. With the help of the Hutchinson Community
College Dillons Lecture Series, KAEA was able to arrange to have Daniel Pink, author of A
Whole New Mind, as our keynote speaker! He was an outstanding keynote at the NAEA Conference in New York a couple of years ago. Along with Daniel Pink, art educators from across the state have planned some outstanding presentations and workshops for you to attend. At our Middle Level Division Meeting we are planning a lesson plan swap. Please bring 50 copies of your favorite art lesson plan and an example of the project to our meeting and you will walk away with 50 new lesson plans!
With the state of the economy you might be thinking, “How will I be able to take advantage of these opportunities with so many cutbacks?” Well, KAEA/NAEA might just have some solutions for you. KAEA is offering five fall conference grants worth $200.00 each to current
KAEA members. The applications are due September 1, 2009 and they can be found on the
KAEA website. In addition to the KAEA grants, NAEA offers grants for equipment, professional development, curriculum resources, and programs that promote art education. Just go to the
NAEA website to apply—the deadline is October 1, 2009.
While you are at the NAEA website, be sure to checkout the new NAEA Wiki at http://naea.
wikispaces.com/ . Many of the NAEA national presenters posted their presentations, lesson plans, and color photos on the Wiki. They are available for all NAEA members to view. You will need your KAEA/NAEA membership number to access some of the NAEA website areas—one of the great perks of becoming a member! Once you are on the Wiki page, you can view the lesson plans by clicking on the blue names and titles on the left hand side of the page. If you decide that you would like to post your own material, just follow in the instructions on how to become a Wiki Member—it is free!
Here are a few more opportunities to mark on your calendar--the NAEA deadline for Award
Nominations in October 1, 2009. You can find the nomination forms on the NAEA website.
Surely you know at least one teacher that is deserving of a national award—nominate them today! Also, November 20th is the deadline for KAEA Professional Development Grants—who knows, you could receive a significant grant toward attending the NAEA National Conference in Baltimore, Maryland!
Have a great year! I’ll see you at the KAEA Conference in October!

021 : fall 2009 above left: Sam Willger
Lawrence Free State High School
Teacher, Carolyn Berry above right: Chase Hoag
Lawrence Free State High School
Teacher, Carolyn Berry middle: Gaby Otero
Lawrence High School
Teacher, Angelia Perkins
Carolyn Berry, KAEA Webmaster
Angelia Perkins, KAEA Newsletter Editor middle: Sarah Stern
Lawrence Free State High School
Teacher, Carolyn Berry bottom left & right: Austin Noll
Senior, Lawrence Free State High School
Teacher, Carolyn Berry bottom middle: Olivia Dykes
Lawrence High School
Teacher, Angelia Perkins
Aerie International is a literary arts magazine out of Big Sky High School in Missoula, Montana.
This year, student art & literature was collected from Great Britain, Turkmenistan, Alaska, Russia,
Japan, Nambia, Finland, & the United States. For the two years that they have been in publication, Lawrence, KS. has won the cover. Last year, Ben Wilson from Lawrence High School took the cover with his photograph. This year, Austin Noll’s self-portrait entry was chosen for the cover from Free State High School. This is an international competition hosted by Big Sky High School.
Copies of this publication can be purchased for $12 by contacting www.aerieinternational.com.
Above are a few of the artworks chosen for publication in the latest issue.

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Carrie Klemencic
Junior, lawrence High School
Teacher, Angelia Perkins
Cal Mahin
NAEA 2009 Convention collage
The 2009 NAEA Convention in Minneapolis was a wonderful event. The General Sessions,
Artist Lectures, and with over a thousand workshops to select from keeps one very busy from early morning to late at night. Attending a wide variety of workshops was my goal each day, and to explore new areas in the Arts. Time well spent was in the vendors exhibit, experimenting with new media and materials, browsing in new publications, watching demonstrations and the abundance of exhibiters’ gifts was most educational.
The KAEA souvenir pins were distributed to the Kansas delegation the first day during lunch. We each had about seven pins to give or trade with about 3,500 attending the convention. The Kansas souvenir pins were a great hit and we enjoyed meeting art educators from all over the Nation, Canada and Europe.
Taking part and attending a National Convention is an experience I hope each of you have some time. The 2010 NAEA Convention will be in Baltimore, Maryland, April 14-18, start now to make plans to be there!
There will be a few KAEA souvenir pins (for you collectors) on the auction block this fall at the KAEA Fall Conference in Hutchinson October 23-24, 2009. An exhibit of the souvenir pins collected in Minneapolis this spring and convention collage will be shown also.
Souvenirs-Cal Mahin

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Jean Regier
As we anticipate a new school year we often look for creative ways to promote teaching
Art effectively. These books, available from NAEA, may provide some impetus for doing just that!
Rita L. Irwin and Anna M. Kindler, Editors
The themes of collaboration, partnership, and community are central to this anthology.
The text offers encouragement and words of wisdom born out of experience and careful reflection to guide development of new alliances drawing on and strengthening communities through an arts involvement. It presents a strong rationale for collaborative partnerships that extend arts education beyond the school boundaries by demonstrating benefits that stem from such collaborative initiatives. This anthology does not undermine the value and importance of formal, systematic art education in school settings; it explores ways in which learning that begins at school can be extended and supported by resources that reside within the community, highlighting ways in which learning can be enriched through the participation and involvement of new, outside partners able to contribute expertise, insight, and funds not readily available in schools.
Al Hurwitz and Stanley S. Madeja with Eldon Katter
Pathways is a source book for art teachers for the teaching of art appreciation at all levels.
Content strands are carried throughout the book. Each chapter opens with a general discussion about various approaches to the study of art related to the “teaching of art appreciation.” Instructional strategies and art activities are presented in a separate “Things to Do” section At the close of each chapter, “Assessment Strategies” that contribute to the teaching of art appreciation are addressed. Formative and summative assessment activities can be found throughout the book. Many instructional approaches in the “Things to Do” strand are dual purpose, being applicable to assessment and to instruction. This book accomplishes two goals: to help dispel the unnecessary mystique surrounding art appreciation, and to clarify the significant ways in which this far-reaching subject can excite, motivate, and enhance the lives of students. It serves as a resource for the teacher who desires to enhance and expand the teaching of art appreciation in the classroom.
Gary and Jean Regier

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Dr. Susan Nakao snakao@pittstate.edu
What is the source of inspiration for art? What causes some people to have an inner drive to create art? Sandra Ceas, Pacific Region Representative for the Caucus on the Spiritual in Art
Education recently commented, “Art materializes from an internal drive to release a thought or inspiration. This impetus comes from convictions held by the inner spirit of the artist.”
What do you think? What do artists say? What does the art education literature say?
At the NAEA convention this year in Minneapolis, several presentations focused on this topic.
One key point that was brought up through these discussions is that the “spiritual in art” and the “spiritual in art education” is an important aspect of art that almost all art educators know something about. However, there are only a few art educators who are willing to speak about this relationship in their art classrooms and to encourage students to explore this relationship through their assignments. In other words, many of the ideas expressed by Wassily Kandinsky in his famous essay on the “On the Spiritual in Art,” written almost a century ago, are common knowledge among art educators today. However, for this topic, it is clear that our knowledge has not informed our practice as art educators. Indeed, the relationship between the spiritual and art is an elephant in the art education closet!
The chairperson of a new Caucus on the Spiritual in Art Education (CSAE) took the lead at the NAEA Convention informing us that in his review of the indices of past art educational professional journals and publications, he found less than a handful of articles written on this topic, though the topic of spirit and its relationship to other fields, for example psychology or science, seemed to be quite a popular topic in the professional journals of other fields. Peter also reminded us that even though this topic is extremely important when the true nature of art is deeply considered, none of the standards for visual art education at the national or state levels mentions this relationship which has, in fact, been the subject matter of a majority of the art produced in every culture throughout recorded history.

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Susan Nakao, the assistant chairperson for the CSAE, and new art education faculty member at Pittsburg State University, helped to form the Caucus on the Spiritual in Art Education
(CSAE), which was approved as an official Special Interest Group of the NAEA in the summer of 2008. She encourages all KAEA members to think deeply about this topic and discuss their ideas with her and one another at the fall conference in Hutchinson. Knowing that the relationship between art and spirit includes artworks that have been produced as a symbol of a specific religion, prevents some teachers from wanting to bring this topic up in their classrooms. No one wants the hassle of accidentally overstepping the boundary between
“church and state.” This is indeed important and one reason that we have willing ignored the elephant in the closet for so long in art education. However, the relationship between art and spirit is much bigger than religious artworks connected to a specific dogma or belief.
The connections between art and spirit, in many cases are beyond religious dogma! Wonder, inspiration, awe, imagination, creativity, meaning and depth – all of these are examples of the unseen, non-material world of spirit. They are key elements in the creation of art and also key elements in spirituality regardless of a person’s specific religious belief.
The official missions of the CSAE include the study of the relationship between the spiritual impulse and the visual arts, the examination of the spiritual aspects of art from various cultures and historical eras, the study of the use of spiritual icons and signifiers, and an exploration of spiritual concepts in art education. The mission of the CSAE also includes work toward the development of a comprehensive paradigm for holistic art education, as well as research on the transformative aspects of the visual arts as a therapeutic or healing modality. In addition to these lofty goals, the CSAE seeks to develop art education curriculum theory and practices that encourage the study of the spiritual in art in all levels of education, within the boundaries of the constitutional separation of church and state, and to establish a community of art education professionals who participate in scholarly research and publication on this topic.
Every member of the NAEA, and of course the KAEA, is invited to join this vital and important new caucus. Let’s make Kansas a leader in bringing the elephant out of the art education closet by being informed and by honestly presenting not only the materials aspects of art, but also the deeper aspects of art to our students!
If you are interested in learning more about CSAE please contact: Susan Nakao at snakao@ pittstate.edu or Peter London at plondon@umassd.edu.
Dr. Susan Nakao snakao@pittstate.edu

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Teresa Preston, KAEA Conference Committee
Save the Date! Oct. 22-24, 2009
KAEA Fall conference will be held October 22-24, 2009 in Hutchinson, Ks. “Out of Our Minds” conference theme is based on the keynote speakers book , “The Whole New Mind; Why Right-
Brainers Will Rule the Future”. Daniel Pink believes, “ success is not just based in high tech but also high concept and high touch. High concept involoves the ability to create artistic and emothional beauty, to detect patterns and opportunities, to craft a satisfying narrative, and to combine seemingly unrealated ideas into a novel invention.” Our duty as art educators is to help our students develop R-Directed aptitudes which Pink calls the six senses, design, story, symphony, empathy, play and meaning.
Get registered online as soon as possible: http://kaea.com/fallconference.html
Member’s Only Exhibition: Check the specifics about entering at kaea.com (updated 9/3/09)
Questions: prestonte@hutchcc.edu

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Student, Preeti Singh photographed these images in Haiti where she travelled with her mother who was volunteering her medical expertise in the community. Preeti is using her images to create a calendar that will be sold to help the women of Haiti purchase a cocoa grinder to help provide for the community. To help
Preeti, e-mail her at preeti.singh1992@yahoo.
com or visit the website www.sonjeayiti.com.
Preeti Singh
Lawrence High School
Teacher, Angelia Perkins