Oklahoma Art Education Association Newsletter

Winter 2014

Volume 11 Issue 5

Mission Statement– Providing Oklahoma students with the highest quality of visual arts education.

www.oaea-ok.org

Youth Arts Month and Youth Arts Month and Youth Arts Month and Young Talent in Oklahoma Young Talent in Oklahoma Young Talent in Oklahoma

is here!!is here!!is here!! Art by

McKenzie Willy 8th Grade

Piedmont Middle School

SHELLEY SELF – Oklahoma Art Educator of the Year Shelly Self has been the art teacher at Coweta High School in Coweta since

1992. Her education includes a BFA from the University of Oklahoma, a MFA

from Texas Tech University, and a K-12 teaching certification from Northeast-

ern State University in Talequah, Oklahoma. She became a National Board

Certified Teacher in 2001 and just renewed this certification recently.

Shelley sponsors an art club that serves the community of Coweta and her

school each year with activities that include face painting, seasonal window

painting for businesses and an annual art exhibit. She has pursued professional

development to improve her expertise through AP workshops, the Quartz

Mountain Fall Arts Institute workshops, plus OAEA State and NAEA national

conferences. Shelley visited Japan as a Fulbright Fund for Teachers award

recipient. She has served OAEA on the Young Talent in Oklahoma high school

art exhibit committee since 2010 which requires many volunteer hours.

Shelley’s outstanding teaching has resulted in recognition and numerous

awards, including Coweta High School Teacher of the Year and OAEA

Secondary Art Educator of the Year. She received the Milken National

Educator Award in 2005 for Oklahoma, a huge honor for any educator in the

country. Shelley is an incredible art educator with the highest standards and a big heart who inspires her students to

achieve their best.

News just arrived that Shelley Self has been selected as the Western Region Secondary Art Educator of the Year.

That means she is the "BEST IN THE WEST" and the most outstanding Secondary art teacher in the 16 states

that make up the Western Region of NAEA. She will receive her award in San Diego in March at the

NAEA National Convention.

“Every artist was first an amateur.” –Emerson

It is difficult to believe that February is here. This semester, there are many

exciting events to look forward to. It’s the busy season, as student artists from all over the state will compete

in Young Talent in Oklahoma, Junior Young Talent, and Youth Arts Month. This is an excellent opportunity

for students to showcase unique pieces and the creativity that defines them. The National NAEA Confer-

ence, March 28-31 in sunny San Diego, will allow for teachers to collaborate and conceptualize the future of

art education through professional development focused on creativity. Can’t wait to see the Oklahoma Art

Educators represent our great state through many awards and presentations.

A final thought on creativity: As educators, we oftentimes sacrifice time with our medium in order to

assist students or add one more thing to our plates. I encourage you to slow down for a moment and recon-

nect with art. Let us never lose the passion that brought us into this profession, nor the memories of fine-

tuning our craft through serendipitous mishaps and unfettered creativity. Have a great spring semester!

Sincerely,

Eric Lyons

Taking a new approach after 30 years.

Looking back over my career as a teacher, as well as how education has changed and evolved has been interesting. After attending an AP workshop in Tulsa with Quiquia Calhoun I have taken a fork in the road, or a new path. I don’t yet know how to describe it. I am putting the work and the re-search in the hands of the students. I am taking away the feeding spoon and making them responsible for thinking. How am I doing this? I am teaching processes, not projects. I have given up control and now the students must do the following:

Come up with inspiration for projects.

Plans what they will do.

Project how many days it will take.

Decide what artistic process it will address.

Figure out what supplies they will need.

Decide how many days it will take to complete.

Describe how they will know if it was successful. I have to tell you, when I decided to incorporate this into my curriculum I was a little unsure of how it would all work. Were they really ready to make these decisions themselves? Could I let go of control enough to allow them make all the decisions? Were they mature enough to make the correct decisions? Would they try or would they just take the easy way out on each project? Remember the adage, “Students live up to expectations”? Indeed they do! I have been absolutely impressed with their ability to make decisions, plan, execute and evaluate their own projects. Of course it was harder for those I had spoon fed the previous years, but they have adapted and blossomed beautifully. I am still teaching projects in beginning art, in my case the Art I class. They are novices and probably aren’t ready to make some of the tough decisions. I felt pretty sure Art III students would be ready for the challenge, but I was not convinced Art II students would be prepared to “steer the boat”. Students don’t always like to be forced to think. At first they had a lot of questions. “What should I do?” “What should I use?” but after a few projects they gained the confidence to make those decisions without hesitation. This is what teaching is really all about isn’t it? I am not saying I have it all worked out perfectly, but I have seen a lot of student growth. Grading has been inter-esting, like putting a square peg in a round hole. Luckily my administrators are completely on board. It’s not per-fect, but I am getting there. If you are interested in this process, watch for my workshop at OAEA Fall Conference in Lawton. Maybe by then I will have all the answers, but probably not. Or maybe you will have some answers for me! Marsha Carman OAEA Past President

OAEA members receive a 40% dis-count on all school and teacher or-

ders. OAEA loves Terry and Triangle Art Supply.

Do you know an art teacher who is doing an outstanding job? Have you been inspired by the efforts of some art teacher you know? If you can say “yes” to either of these questions, please nominate them for an award. Now is not too early since everyone is still in school and communication is easier. Awards in Oklahoma are given at the Fall Conference in September. The absolute deadline for nominations is August 15, 2014.

The objectives of the OAEA Awards Program are:

• To recognize excellence in the many outstanding individuals in our state; • To focus professional attention on quality art education and exemplary art educators; • To increase public awareness of the importance of quality art education; • To set standards for quality art education and how they can be achieved; and • To provide tangible recognition of achievement, earn respect of colleagues, and enhance professional opportunities for OAEA members.

An awards packet consists of the following: Total of six pages

1. Nomination Form (one page) 2. Nomination Letter (one page) 3. Vita Form (two pages written by the nominee) 4. Two letters of recommendation from others who know the nominee

Photo of the nominee

We would like to give awards in at least the following categories at the 2014 Fall Conference at Cameron University in Lawton. Oklahoma Art Educator of the Year Higher Education Art Educator of the Year Secondary Art Educator of the Year Middle School Art Educator of the Year Elementary Art Educator of the Year Museum Art Educator of the Year Retired Art Educator of the Year To get current forms for nominations, click on the hyperlinks below for a printable pdf or contact me at okart-

bob@msn.com for the forms in Word format. Send nominations to Bob Curtis via e-mail or snail mail at 2305 N. War-

ren Avenue, OKC, OK 73107.

Nomination Form

http://www.arteducators.org/grants/2014_Awards_Nom_Form.pdf

Vita Form

http://www.arteducators.org/grants/2014_Awards_Std_Vita_Form.pdf

A word from Bob Curtis

Photo’s of high school art students attending OAEA Portfolio Day

The 54th Annual Young Talent in Oklahoma HS Art Exhibit and Senior Portfolio competition is in progress at this writing. The judging was held February 1st at Westmoore HS conducted by Young Talent in Oklahoma Committee members Donna Barnard, Shelley Self, and Debra Detamore. The jurors included Gayle Curry,

artist/educator; Patrick Riley, artist/educator, and Burt Harbison, Oklahoma University Professor of Art. Over 800 general entries and 97 portfolios were entered by state art teachers. Special thanks to OAEA members who assisted at the judging: Ranell Zurmehly, Melissa Mayo, Ruth Vesanen, Brian Payne, Marsha Carman

(past president), Bob Curtis (past president), Eric Lyons, current OAEA President.

The exhibit will be installed February 15, 2014 starting at 9 am at the Norick Art Center Hulsey Gallery at Oklahoma City University. The date was changed from February 8th due to school closings the week of February 3-7. The exhibit may be viewed February

17 through March 1, 2014. Approximately 195 outstanding 2-D and 3-D works of art will be in the gallery. The reception will be from 1 to 2:45pm on March 1 with light

refreshments, with the Awards Ceremony at 3 pm in Walker Hall, next to the Norick Art Center.

Several hundred students attended the annual Portfolio Day sponsored by the Oklahoma Art Education Association held at

the Oklahoma City Museum of Art on January 17th. Juniors and seniors from Oklahoma high schools had the opportunity to

show their artwork to representatives and instructors from colleges and art schools from several states. Visiting with the col-

lege representatives can lead to scholarships to the participating colleges. Students were also able to visit the art collection

at the museum at no cost, including the current Chuck Close exhibit which proved to be excellent to the young viewers. Port-

folio Day chair Jann Jeffries worked closely with the colleges and museum to coordinate this special day for high school stu-

dents.

It’s that time of year again when we as Art Educators get to showcase what we do across our great state. I firmly believe that Oklahoma has one of the best art education programs in the country and it is all because of you guys and the hard work you contribute to your profession. This time of year is about advocacy. Advocacy through participation. If you are an elementary teacher you advocate by contributing to the State Superinten-

dent Elementary Showcase. If you are a middle teacher participate in Jr. Young Talent. High school teachers par-

ticipate in Young Talent. Our students are our best advocacy tools and getting their work out there is our best advocacy strategy. You can find all this info at http://yamok.wikispaces.com/HOME

FLAGS

This years flag competition is elementary (k-6) The flag submission deadline FEB 14, 2014

STATE SUPERINTENDENTS ELEMENTARY SHOWCASE

The show runs FEB 28TH - APRIL 3RD

Work submitted by FEB 14TH to Chris Cochran @Putnam City North HS

All work needs to be mounted and include tags on front and back of work (2 works please)

Ptunam City North High School 11800 North Rockwell Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73162

Work will be hung on FEB 28TH (anyone who can help would be welcomed) Please check the wikispace for an

update on the specific hanging time.

YAM awards ceremony will be held APRIL 3RD @ 2:00 PM in the Hodge Building of the state capitol along with the SSES show.

If you have any questions, please email us at:

ccochran@putnamcityschools.org

Please include this information with your entries into the OAEA student showcase and the State Superintendent Elementary Showcase. Please include with your 2 pieces of art a separate list of all submitted work including Name of student Grade/Title Teacher name/school email address

This information needs to be on the back of each piece. It is very important to include your email. We had a difficult time trying to contact a few teachers last year.

On the back of each work include this label. Please print clearly and make sure the label is really secure to the back of the art piece.

Student Name:

Grade:

School:

County:

Teacher:

Teacher email and contact number:

Use this label for the front of the art piece.

Attach to the lower Left side.

All this information can be found at

www.yamok.wikispaces.com

If you have any questions feel free to email me.

ccochran@putnamcityschools.org cgharibvand@baschools.org

Use this month to have conversations with people about what you do and why you do it. Go visit your

local art museum and ask them if they would be willing to publicly proclaim this month as youth arts month on their website or release a statement about

their support of art education, any little bit helps. You all are incredible and we on the

OAEA board appreciate you more than you could know.

DOOR HANGERS

This has become an important Arts Advocacy

tool to show our state legislators what our

association is all about and the importance of art

education the students of Oklahoma. Door hangers need to be submitted by MARCH 7TH to

Cindy Gharibvand Broken Arrow HS

1901 East Albany Street Broken Arrow, OK 74012

This years YAM theme is "ART IN ACTION" and door hanger style (if you choose to incorporate it into a lesson) is "art and community"

YOUTH ARTS DAY @ THE CAPITOL IS

MARCH 13 FROM 9am -12pm

OAEA has 380 members /followers on Facebook!! Join us to

stay up to date.

Elementary Teachers

Submit a flag entry today!!!

Final public review of NCCAS

arts standards

will launch in February The National Coalition for Core Arts Standards

(NCCAS) has scheduled a final public review of the

draft PreK-12 arts standards in dance, media arts,

music, theatre, and visual arts.

The review will open February 14, 2014, and close February 28. A draft reading copy of the re-

vised standards will be available at http://nccas.wikispaces.com on January 30.

This third and concluding review reflects NCCAS’s ongoing commitment to a responsive and

transparent strategy that allows adequate time for each arts discipline’s standards writing team to

incorporate changes to the drafts suggested by reviewers. To fully address the standards content

and structural changes, the coalition has revised the project’s timeline. The February review is the

first in a series of new and significant benchmarks for NCCAS, leading to the web-based release of

the standards in June, 2014.

I am an

I understand it well enough

to teach someone else!

I am a

I can mostly do it myself but sometimes I make mistakes

and get stuck.

I am an

I can mostly do it myself but sometimes I make mistakes

and get stuck.

I am a

I am just starting to learn this and I don’t really under-

stand it yet.

Mona Rubric My art room rubric was developed from an art teacher blog I found on the internet.

I revised it to make it my own.

Go to the blog for more information:

http://artroom104.blogspot.com/2012/11/marzanoi-can-student-scale-in-art-

room.html

April

Registration on-line deadline April 25-midnight (qualify

your juniors for three $1,500 scholarships (as a

Senior 2014-15)

May

Submit artwork on May 2 (3-5 PM) and 3 (1-4 PM)

Pick-up unaccepted artwork May 16 (3-5 PM) and May 17

(9AM-12PM)

September

VASE-Visual Art Scholarship Event September 10, 6

PM (VASE is a new ANNUAL EVENT to raise monies

for three $1,500 scholarships)

State Fair Awards Ceremony September 13, 11:00 AM

The January Teacher of the Month is Mr. Brendon Williams

from Douglass Mid-High School in Oklahoma City. Mr. Wil-

liams graduated from Oklahoma City University with a Bach-

elor’s in Fine Arts in 2009. He has been teaching at Douglass

for two years.

In his first year teaching at Douglass, Mr. Williams teamed up

with Lomography Camera Co and the Western Heritage Mu-

seum on a film photography project. During the Winter Fine

Arts Program, Mr. William’s students had some amazing Art

projects that were shown during the program. He incorpo-

rates other subjects into their art work so that they may have

evidence of cross-curricular learning.

Mr. William’s teaching philosophy is that he is there to learn

WITH them. This guiding principle has allowed him to over-

come the challenge of convincing students that art is worth

learning and exploring. The joys of teaching come when a

student goes from swearing that they lack any artistic ability

to freely creating and expressing themselves visually. He ar-

ranges his class so that all students are allowed an opportunity

to succeed.

Student art by

Savanna Canion

12th Grade

Yukon High School

Art teacher

Brian Payne

HB2850 THREATENS OKLAHOMA ARTS COUNCIL’S FUTURE POSTED BY JENNIFER ON JANUARY 30, 2014 IN ADVOCACY, HB2850, OKLAHOMA ARTS COUNCIL

OKLAHOMA CITY — — A bill has been filed by a member of the Oklahoma

House of Representatives to eliminate all funding to the Oklahoma Arts Coun-

cil by July 1, 2017, at a rate of at least 25 percent a year.

The Oklahoma Arts Council is a state agency that provides funding to arts or-

ganizations, schools and tribal governments across the state. Last year, their

state appropriation was about $4 million, an amount that represents less than

1/10th of 1 percent of the entire state budget.

Contact your local representatives today.

JUNIOR YOUNG TALENT IN OKLAHOMA 2014 Please check the OAEA website for any updates on date & times

The exhibit will be juried for entry - 125 works will be accepted

Selected works will be judged in three categories:

2-diminsional – color & mixed media

2-diminsional – values

3-diminsional

Per judges discretion categories can be created, examples:

Prints, Portraits, Collage/mixed media, Color representational, Color design

Please mail or hand deliver entries to:

Frances Williams Amy Harden Sch: 823 2nd Street North, Piedmont, OK 73078 Brink Jr. High,

Hm: 4408 Ryan Drive NE, Piedmont OK 73078 11420 S. Western, Oka. City, 73170

frances.williams@piedmontschools.org puddlesofcolor@yahoo.com

ricwpi@gmail.com (405) 881-5211

(405) 373-1111 home

Exhibit will be at the located at: Science Museum Oklahoma

2100 NE 52nd St., Oklahoma City, OK 73111

Please come and help hang the show after school: February 28, 2014

Junior Young Talent in Oklahoma 2014 - Artwork label procedure

All art must be labeled with the following information TYPED or printed CLEARLY and attached to the back of the art work

Student Name: _______________________________________

Grade: _____________________________________________

School: __________________________________________________

Medium: _________________________________________________

Teacher: _________________________________________________

Prospectus for entering: $1.00 entry fee per work, no limit on entries, make checks out to: OAEA and mail to: OAEA c/o Carla Wade, PMB 207, 902

Arlington Center, Ada, OK 74820 Email works entered list to Frances Williams, deadline: February 14, 2014

All 2-D works matted or mounted on sturdy material with a way to hang, binder clips work great.

Student, teacher, school info attached to all works on provided label

Call for material entries deadline: February 26, 2014

Show hangs February 28, 2014, 3:30-5:30pm, PLEASE come and help

Closing reception & Awards Ceremony: March 28, 2014 – 6:00-7:00pm, awards at 6:30pm, all works must be picked up at this

time. Please make arrangements to have it picked 6-7:00pm. If you mail work, it can be mailed back if you include postage.

All art must be labeled with the following information TYPED or printed CLEARLY and attached to the back of the art work

Student Name: _______________________________________

Grade: _____________________________________________

School: __________________________________________________

Medium: _________________________________________________

Teacher: _________________________________________________

Junior Young Talent in Oklahoma Teacher Entry Form 2014

This form due by February 14, 2014

PLEASE TYPE and email to: frances.williams@piedmontschools.org or ricwpi@gmail.com

(405) 373-1111 0r (405)550-8933

US mail to: Frances Williams, 4408 Ryan Drive NE, Piedmont, OK 73078

Please Double check the spelling of student names in order for certificates to be printed correctly

You may enter more or less than 30, this is just a template

All physical works are due to Frances Williams by: February 26, 2014

or call/email me to make alternative arrangements.

Teacher Name: OAEA Member #:

Address:

Phone:

e-mail:

School Name:

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Leland Leslie Secondary Co-Chair

Brian Payne Secondary Co-Chair

Marsha Carman Past President/Great Plains Country

Ruth Crittendon Secretary

Frances Williams Middle Level Chair

Natalie Hughes Youth Arts Month

Amy Harden Middle Level Chair

Brandy Sitts Membership

Lisa Taulman Membership

Chris Cochran Youth Arts Month

Tracy Gibson Grants

Glen Henry State Department Liason

Tina Vercelli Arbuckle Country

Rosemary Burke Carol Retired Chair

Jann Jeffrey Portfolio Day

Bob Curtis Awards

Cindy Gharibvand Youth Arts Month

Mikel Iberra Web Liason

Kevin Thomas Adminstration Chair

Carla Wade Treasurer

Isolete De Almeida President Elect

Eric Lyons President

Nancy Matthison National Board Certified Chair

Erin Oldfield Museum Chair

Jennifer Dix Brown Eastern VP and Green Country

Edna McMillan Western VP

Debra Detamore YTIO

Chris Ramsay Higher Ed

Michelle Barnes Newsletter

Shelley Self YTIO

Donna Barnard YTIO

Lynette Hill Red Carpet Country

Kristi Lovett Frontier Country

Sarah Carnes Elementary Chair