Executive Council Meeting Phone Conference Maryland Art Education Association February 20, 2014 4:15 pm Service • Knowledge • Leadership • Professional Development ATTENDANCE x x President Lisa Stuart Past President Eleni Dykstra VP Programs TBD Members Exhibit Jillian Jenkins Student Exhibits Laura Patacca-Kerr Awards & Honors Ashley Molfino x State Awards Jamila Bellamy x Research Shyla Rao Other Members: Christopher Whitehead, Victoria Wenger X X President Elect Parliamentarian VP Communications Web Page Editor Gazette Editor Technology Scholarships Gino Molfino Linda Adams Sarah Neubold x Elisa Patterson TBD Sue Owens X x x Treasurer Historian VP Advocacy NBCT National Art Honor Society New Teachers Youth Art Month AIMS Nan Park Jay Tucker TBD TBD Sherri Fisher TBD Meghan Zanskas Joan Newcomer Welcome X X Secretary ES Division MS Division HS Division Higher Ed Division Admin/Sup. Division Museum Division Membership Pat Cruz Virginia Bute-Riley Raven Bishop Craig Llwelyn Kay Broadwater Mark Coates Brittany Powell Katie Heuston Lisa Stuart Welcome 4:20pm Review/Approve Minutes Pat Cruz We will vote on minutes from today and last meeting at the next meeting. Treasurer’s Report Nan Park Our balance as of January 31st $38,833. A full treasurer report will be posted at the next meeting. And all treasurer reports will be available on google docs for commitee Membership Katie Heuston 466 for January – down three from last month. Unfinished Business TASK Council WHO YAM Update Meghan Zanskas Gazette Elisa OUTCOME/Next Steps Received over 400 submissions. Four members agreed to help sort and vote on them. The deadline for printing the flag is March 1st. She will contact Sergeant Art so the flag can be in San Diego Submitted all documents submitted to Suzanna, designer. Need to work on getting permissions for photos and students artwork. Hoping to get it published by March 14th. Need to have something about YAM and the BWI show. It can be in the next issue. We need to get info of our activities out to the group so people know. New Business TASK Council WHO Professional Development Gino Website Proposal Christopher Membership Sarah BWI Show Victoria OUTCOME/Next Steps Michael Lamason and Gayle Danley PD event flyer is ready to go. Waiting on the Paypal account to start registration. The username and password for current Paypal account is not working. Eleni will talk to Lori about Paypal Account. March 15th will be at Miller’s Court. Gino will send Sarah jpeg of save the date. Sarah will post on Facebook page. Clay workshop will be at art center in Columbia. Pat will talk to the Visionary to do MAEA tail gate at kinetic sculpture race – May 3 Proposal submitted to committee to have in-house person come up with web page design for faster updates and edits, multiple people will have access. Christopher is the web master for MAEA Massachusetts. Proposal is 100% editable. Email any other questions about proposal to Christopher. Originally, we paid a one-time design fee and a monthly maintenance fee. This will give us more autonomy – Christopher would be new webmaster. The fees are approximately the same as before. Sarah made a motion to accept Christopher’s proposal, Brittany second the motion. Motion passed. Current webmaster will be dismissed. We need a timeline from Christopher of how long the re-design will take. Web team committee will get together before the next meeting to discuss new web design. Discussion on membership survey Sarah created based on NAEA. Does MAEA have an official address? People always use Eleni’s email. Sarah is willing to create an MAEA email and check on it every month. Sarah is planning on sending it to people who renew or new members. Sarah use google survey. Sarah will look at old survey that was sent out to compare results and refine questions. We will discuss at the next meeting “Imagine All the People” at BWI youth art gallery in the observation deck. Installing April 15th. April 11th is deadline – will hang April until November. A flyer will be sent out to all supervisors with specs. It is a juried show. There is only one frame per county. Ideas for future – possibly in fall, based around theme, hook it to teacher awards Announcements New Organizations – need to discuss at the next meeting Next meeting - March 19th in Howard County Venue Extra room at the conference available – Sherry will take it Please “like” MAEA on Facebook, we are posting and making announcements. Posts with pictures get more hits. Adjournment Meeting adjourned