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Serving Art Educators in Northeast Indiana

We are happy to announce 3 Art Education Association of Indiana board members are teaching in District 2. AEAI President Elect, Terri Nagel, AEAI District 2 Representative, Bret Bailey, and AEAI Elementary Division Chair, Barbara Kuntz, are excited about sharing information with the AEAI District 2 educators and prospective members. Many opportunities will be coming to allow art teachers to collaborate, lead professional development, participate in workshops, and advocate for the arts. Please watch of the announcements as they get posted.
We are searching for county liaisons to take part in the excitement as well. If you are interested in teaching a workshop, sharing teaching ideas with other veteran teachers, or collaborating with teachers who understand your dilemna and share your celebrations, please e-mail us at aeai101@gmail.com and leave a message.

State Conference

With the 2008 Art Education Association of Indiana Conference just around the corner, we are looking for news to post on our district display board at conference. If you have some special things going on in your art classroom, please make a comment to this post so that we can tell the art educators just how special art education is in district 2.

2008 AEAI State Conference

The 2008 Art Education Association of Indiana State Conference is rapidly approaching. The AEAI conference is being held at the French Lick Resort in French Lick, Indiana. Be sure check out the Art Education Association of Indiana to see the list of wonderful workshops and collaborative activities available.

Terri's Journey

I am having a fantastic time reading about Terri's journey. If you would like to join us, click on the link to read more about her amazing tour through breath-taking vistas of the western portion of our country. Terri is creating a photography portfolio of this awe inspiring experience. I can't wait to see the culmination of her travels.

2008 Lily Teacher Creativity Grant Winner Terri Nagel

Terri Nagel, AEAI district 2 representative, is on an adventure of a lifetime. A recipient of a 2008 Lily Teacher Creativity Grant, she is taking images of the western United States as she travels in the foot steps of Ansel Adams. There are some photos posted to her photo stream on Flickr. Please join me in sharing the experience with her this summer. I anticipate her final photographs which will be on public display this fall. She has a few morsels posted to wet our appetite. She will present images and commentary at the 2008 AEAI state Conference in French Lick, Indiana, allowing us to share in the culmination of her life-changing experience.

What do art teachers do in the summer? Terri's Summer

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.