National Art Honors Society

Here is the direct link to National Art Honors Society .  They have Chapters for JH and HS.

Maea spring confrence in kc

SDATA art comptetition

Southwest District Art Teachers Association:

This is a long standing group in the Springfield area. Membership and workshop are approximately $40.00 for the event.

What do you get?

·         Membership in an professional organization

·         A chance to show work in a juried show (K-6 in fall and 7-12 in spring)

·         Student scholarships

·         A chance to show your work

·         Workshops on art lessons

·         Time with other art teachers

When is it?

·         Saturday, April 25

·         Drury University

·         Springfield, MO

·         9:00am-12:30pm

University of Florida’s Online Master of Arts in Art Education

.Winter Council Meeting

Here are some of your officers, furiously working in a meeting on a Saturday!

Missouri Fine Arts Academies

Just updated:  Govenor Nixon is suggesting  a ZERO budget for the Academies in 2016.  Here is what I heard:






From Ben Martin: Executive Director of MAAE:
 This will take a full court press to get funding back for the Academies. We hope to follow up with further information in the coming days. If you can, start making plans to be in Jefferson City for Citizens' Day for the Arts on Feb. 11th or Fine Arts Education Day on March 11th. Those days will be vital to our efforts to revive the Academies.

Ben Martin, Executive Director




From Kyna Iman:

. Governor Nixon has not only shut down our biggest increase ever to the Academies by withholding funding for the June, 2015, Missouri Scholars Academy and the Missouri Fine Arts Academy, but he has zeroed out our funding for the June, 2016, academies.

http://oa.mo.gov/sites/default/files/FY_2016_Elementary_and_Secondary_Education_EB.pdf

Five fabulous students testified in support of the academies' funding on Tuesday, before the Senate Appropriations Committee. Senator Schaefer has gone above and beyond to support our cause.

Please let your State Representative and State Senator know how important these funds are to your students/programs/etc.



From Fred Mintert:  Personally, I think this is a big mistake.  My son Brody went to the FA Academy in Springfield at MSU and LOOOOVVVEED it!  It still costs the participants money, but with zero funding from the state, these will disappear.

Pinterest board for MAEA Middle level.

I love Pinterest.  I gather, catalog, review and connect lesson ideas there.  Usually I just am working on adding things for my classroom.  I need to remember to also post things to the MAEA Middle level Pinterest Board.

here is the link:   http://www.pinterest.com/mrmintart/maea-middle-level-division/  Currently there are 12 or so collaborators, and we all have to start pinning more to it.  If you would like to join, let me know.  Of course, if you don't, you could just follow it in order to see the pins in your feed.

Thanks for all you do!  Keep up the good work!

Ill try to post more, make this more valuable to our community.