We have attended a lot of meetings for the arts planning for a wonderful upcoming new year! Barb and I started off with our meeting with Sonia and Mike from the Fort Wayne Hilton and Grand Wayne Center where we are planning to hold the 2010 AEAI State Conference. That was a well spent block of time looking at the facilities and dreaming about the possibilities for our future conference. I have been reading all about Ansel Adams and his ground breaking work in landscape photography and trying to pick up a little of that inspiration and compositional sense we see in his work. I will be traveling to visit Glacier National Park and Olympic National Park and taking photos as we walk in the footsteps of Ansel Adams provided by the Lily Teacher Creativity Award. And after that, printing out some wonderful shots too. Rich and I each printed a large digital photo from our work earlier this year for the FWMoA artist's show opening July 18th. This will be our first art show here in Ft Wayne. We are really excited about that!
Meeting with the District 2 people for lunch last week was also great fun, lots of good ideas exchanged about art and the upcoming AEAI state conferences. We drove to Rockville to meet with Connie, AEAI president, Patti , 2008 AEAI conference coordinator, and Leah, AEAI past president, to learn about creating a master schedule for the fall conference. It was quite a lesson in using the left and right sides of the brain. My most relaxing activity has been to plant my vegetable garden and walk a mile in the morning with my friend Jenny.
That is what this art teacher is doing this summer. This is just a small snapshot of the summer break before June 15th. Seems like we have a lot of ground to cover before returning to school. I am off to leadership training for the Western Region of NAEA this Thursday through Sunday where Brad, AEAI president elect, and I will meet with other representatives from the western region.
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