2017 Youth Art Month

The Youth Art Month Celebration will be here before we know it!!!

Dear Fellow Kansas Art Educators: It's time to celebrate our profession and our  student's accomplishments. Please join the Kansas Art Education Association for our  Annual Youth Art Month Celebration  Saturday, February 25, 1:00-2:30 pm  at the  Topeka State Capital, 2nd floor Please park and enter through the North Side. ALL KANSAS ART EDUCATORS: Every Art Teacher in the state of Kansas is eligible to enter one work of art from one student in every school that you teach in. Please plan on participating by honoring ONE of your students from each building in which you teach by exhibiting their artwork at the Youth Art Month Celebration at the capital building. Labels for the artwork and an invitation can be printed from our website: http://kaea.com/yam.html  There are area YAM representatives listed on the website that are willing to take your artwork to Topeka for you.   Simply contact them for delivery.   *OR you can deliver your art work in person on February 24th, from 4-8 pm to the Clubhouse Inn in Topeka.   *OR if that does not work, we will accept artwork by 8:00 am at the state capitol on Saturday, February 25th. KAEA MEMBERS:   As part of your KAEA members benefit we would like to invite member teachers to submit your students work to the  "YAM Virtual Gallery"  for the KAEA Youth Art Month Celebration!  Each teacher is allowed to enter three pieces of art work from each building they teach in.  You may submit up to three pictures for one piece of 3D work.  Along with the photos, please clearly label each piece with: Student Name, Teacher Name, School Name, Title of Work, Media. You must also submit an "artist release form" for each student.  This can be found on the YAM page on the website (left side).  Please note, artwork submitted to the virtual gallery should be different from the one piece of physical artwork you bring to the YAM celebration in Topeka.  Please e-mail artwork & a digital copy of the form to: Kate Miller   kmiller@usd415.org     with YAM Virtual Gallery in the subject line.    Deadline, February 17 "Youth Art Month Art Competition" KAEA Members' students are also eligible to win first, second and third place prizes in the elementary, middle and secondary levels provided by Sargent Art, Nasco and Molly Hawkins. One student will be awarded a Best of Show award courtesy of Sargent Art. This year the Best of Show recipient will receive a $1500.00 cash prize!! "NAEA Kansas Youth Art Month Exhibit" Teachers are invited to submit student work for exhibit at the National Convention in New York City.  Please send one or two digital images of your student's artwork that you would like have included in our state's exhibit.  Please include: your name, student's name, school name, student's grade level, title of work, and media. Send images no later than February 17th to: Lana Kaylor at kaylorl@usd385.org Please edit (crop, color adjust, etc.) your images as you would like them to print. Kansas Youth Art MONTH Celebrations (All Educators) Help Kansas celebrate the visual arts by putting up an art display in your school, a school board meeting or somewhere in your community. Make sure that you mention that March is Youth Art Month. Add some advocacy materials and put up the National Visual Arts Standards. Call your local paper or add something to your school website, newsletter, or newspaper.  Get some coverage for your students and your art program.... be your own best advocate!   Youth Art Month Scrapbook: Share all of your accomplishments with us by documenting what you have done and send that information to: Megan Wendleton at meganwendleton@hotmail.com  so that we can include you in our YAM report. Please CLICK HERE to fill out a google doc to help us with our record keeping as required by our donors. If you would like to help with YAM please contact:  Lynn Felts 620-229-1309 or lynnfelts@cox.net

#KSYAM16 Details

Dear Fellow Kansas Art Educators:

It's time to celebrate our profession and our student's accomplishments.

Please join the Kansas Art Education Association for our 

Annual Youth Art Month Celebration

Saturday, March 5th

1:30-3:30

at the Topeka State Capitol, 2nd floor.

Please park and enter through the North Side

Every Art Teacher in the state of Kansas is eligible to 

enter one work of art from 

ONE student in every school that you teach in.  

Labels for the artwork and an invitation can be printed from our website:

http://kaea.com/yam.html

 

There are area YAM representatives listed on the website that are willing to take your artwork to Topeka for you.  Simply contact them for delivery.

*OR you can deliver your artwork in person on March 4th, 

from 4-8 pm to the Clubhouse Inn in Topeka.

*If that does not work, we will accept artwork by 8:00 am  

at the state capitol on March 5th. 

KAEA Members:

Remember that you can also enter an additional work of art into the:

KAEA Virtual YAM Gallery

Send those entries to Kate Miller

at kmiller@usd415.org

In the subject line, put Virtual Gallery.  Include a jpeg of the artwork (1 for 2-Dwork and up to 3 for 3-D work from different angles), student name, grade, artwork title, medium, school name and your name.  

Deadline, March 1st.

KAEA Members' students are also eligible to win First, Second, and Third place prizes in the Elementary, Middle, and Secondary levels provided by Sargent Art, Nasco and Molly Hawkins.  One student will be awarded a Grand Prize of an all-expenses paid trip to New York City for the student, one parent and the art teacher courtesy of Sargent Art.

Local Youth Art Month Celebrations

Help Kansas celebrate the visual arts by putting up an art display in your school, at a school board meeting or somewhere in your community.  Make sure that you mention that March is Youth Art Month.  Add some advocacy materials and put up the National Visual Arts Standards.  Call your local paper or add something to your school website, newsletter, or newspaper.  Get some coverage for your students and your art program...be your own best advocate!  Share all of your accomplishments with us by documenting what you have done and send that information to:  Megan Wendleton at meganwendleton@hotmail.com

so that we can include you in our YAM report.

Please fill out this google doc to help us with our record keeping:  

https://docs.google.com/a/usd289.org/forms/d/1asH3rvtLVekjmhF4nfCIefvu4Dl4LYf9wxzH9HjTqvU/viewform?c=0&w=1

If you would like to help with

YAM, please contact:

Lynn Felts at 620-229-1309 or lynnfelts@cox.net

2016 Kansas YAM Flag Winner

The results are in for the 2016 Youth Art Month Flag Design Contest. 208 entries were received and judging took place December 1st. The panel of judges was extremely impressed with the quality of the flag designs. The results of the 2016 Youth Art Month Flag Design Contest are listed below.

Congratulations to all the winning students and their art teachers! All winners will be honored at the Youth Art Month Day at the State Capitol in Topeka on Saturday, March 5th. All entries will be included in a digital display at the YAM event. Details for this event will be posted on the KAEA website closer to March. 

2016 Youth Art Month Winning Flag Design—Morgan Winters, 12^th grader at Andover Central High School, student of Mrs. Pat Chambers!! 

Elementary Category

1^st Place—Kaydra Woods, West Bourbon ES, Uniontown, KS, 6^th Grade, teacher Chris Woods

2^nd Place—Casey Spencer, Ewalt ES, Augusta, KS, 5^th Grade, teacher Tiffany Osborne

3^rd Place—Karleigh Buthner, Garfield ES, Augusta, KS 5^th Grade, teacher Tiffany Osborne

HM—Elyssa Sledge, Garfield ES, Augusta, KS 4^th Grade, teacher Tiffany Osborne

HM—Addie Martin, West Bourbon ES, Uniontown, KS, 6^th Grade, teacher Chris Woods

HM—Grace Duncan, Garfield ES, Augusta, KS 5^th Grade, teacher Tiffany Osborne

HM—Laney Covey, West Bourbon ES, Uniontown, KS, 6^th Grade, teacher Chris Woods

HM—Rylan Rush, Ewalt ES, Augusta, KS, 5^th Grade, teacher Tiffany Osborne

HM—Javin Rowland, Ewalt ES, Augusta, KS, 4^th Grade, teacher Tiffany Osborne

HM—Jadyn Stevenson, Ewalt ES, Augusta, KS, 5^th Grade, teacher Tiffany Osborne

Middle School Category

1st Place—Melissa Sharp, California Trail MS, Olathe, KS, 7^th Grade, teacher Megan Wendleton

2^nd Place—Mariah Dominguez, Ruppenthal MS, Russell, KS, 6^th Grade, teacher Cindy Balthazor

3^rd Place—Nicole Henderson, Derby MS, Derby, KS, 7^th Grade, teacher Megan Highfield

HM—Savanna Nichols, Augusta MS, Augusta, KS, 7^th Grade, teacher Johnna Smith

HM—Valrey Peebler, Derby MS, Derby, KS, 7^th Grade, teacher Megan Highfield

HM—Keith McCullough, Derby MS, Derby, KS, 7^th Grade, teacher Megan Highfield

HM—Vanessa Herrada, Derby MS, Derby, KS, 7^th Grade, teacher Megan Highfield

HM—Savannah Tredway, Derby MS, Derby, KS, 7^th Grade, teacher Megan Highfield

HM—Lauren Cabrera, California Trail MS, Olathe, KS, 7^th Grade, teacher Megan Wendleton

HM—Zoe Kulphongpatana, California Trail MS, Olathe, KS, 8^th Grade, teacher Megan Wendleton

High School Category

1st Place—Morgan Winters, Andover Central HS, Andover, KS, 12^th Grade, teacher Pat Chambers

2^nd Place—Cassidy O’Neill, Douglass HS, Douglass, KS, 12^th Grade, teacher Emily Young

3^rd Place—Emma Lou Graham, Cheney HS, Cheney, KS, 11^th Grade, teacher Shawny Montgomery

HM—Sarah Gegen, Cheney HS, Cheney, KS, 11^th Grade, teacher Shawny Montgomery

HM—Emily Monson, Cheney HS, Cheney, KS, 10^th Grade, teacher Shawny Montgomery

HM—Macy Wallace, Cheney HS, Cheney, KS, 11^th Grade, teacher Shawny Montgomery

HM—Shylah McKay, Cheney HS, Cheney, KS, 12^th Grade, teacher Shawny Montgomery

Featured Member: Karen Matheis

KAEA would like to start featuring members from across the state in semi-regular blog posts to share some of the amazing things happening in Kansas art education and to shine a spotlight on members. Our second featured member is Karen Matheis. Karen will be presenting a workshop at the 2015 KAEA Professional Development Conference at Pitt State October 8-10. 

 

I have been teaching elementary art in the Shawnee Mission School district since 1992. I am fortunate to work with students who are children, nieces, and nephews of students that I taught in previous years, which makes my teaching community seem like a family.

As a teacher, I encourage the people I work with to find their personal expression and explore possibilities of creative art making. I believe art teachers are unique in that we can create an environment where students can investigate and learn in meaningful ways.

We are in an exciting and changing time in art education. Technology is allowing amazing possibilities, and there are many directions and resources for us to choose from. The KAEA fosters the arts throughout Kansas. I enjoy going to the annual conferences and meeting people from all over the state of Kansas. It is important to have a professional organization that ties us all together.

I love teaching art to all levels and ages of students. Other teaching experiences include working at the acclaimed Lawrence Arts Center Preschool Arts Program as an undergraduate, and teaching adult art education in recent years.

My personal art making is very important to me. I am disciplined when it comes to working on my own oil painting I am represented by Blue Gallery in Kansas City. Blue is very helpful to me, both professionally, as well as critiquing my work.

Other things about me: I run six miles every day before school, and am an avid yoga and gym person. I am constantly working at time management, to allow for personal time along with the demands of teaching.

Come to my workshop at the 2015 KAEA fall conference where I will talk about strategies for personal art making while balancing family and full time jobs.

I am a Kansas native, and grew up in Overland Park, Kansas. I currently live in Lawrence, Kansas where I am an active supporter of the arts community.
I have a Master of Arts Education ( with undergraduate degrees in art and art education) from The University of Kansas.

Websites:
http://www.woodcuts.org<http://www.woodcuts.org/>
( My personal website)

http://bluegalleryonline.com/artists/karen-matheis/
( website for Blue gallery)

https://vimeo.com/128036556 documentary of Karen�s work

http://lawrenceartscenter.org/karen-matheis-chronic-city/
Newspaper review of a show from Last November at The Lawrence Arts Center

Workshop Description

Setting Goals for Personal Art-Making

Karen Matheis

Finding time for personal art making can be a challenge for busy art educators. Karen will present ides on how to utilize time and set personal goals. Group discussion will follow.

My 1st Conference

The 2007 Student NAEA group from Emporia State University and our fearless leader Dr.Grove. I'm in front of the "L" in the white shirt.

I want to tell you a little story about my first KAEA conference. Ok, I suppose it was technically my second conference as I had helped with the conference the previous year when I was a sophomore at ESU, but this was the first FULL conference experience complete with packing, carpooling, learning, and meeting new people in a new place. It was 2007 and the KAEA conference was being held in Great Bend that year, with the theme of Wild About Art.

The art education students at ESU were all encouraged to apply for a conference grant which would cover our conference registration fees. We had all become members of KAEA/NAEA and were already enjoying those benefits like a subscription to Art Education. (You can join here: http://www.arteducators.org/community/join) Since KAEA took care of our registration fees, we carpooled and shared hotel rooms, attending the conference was quite affordable.

 The 7 of us packed and piled into a couple vehicles to head to the conference. On Thursday night we had a chance to just hang out and meet art teachers who were showing up the night before the conference started. We had fun playing Pictionary by the pool.

The next morning, the conference officially kicked off! We enjoyed our meals, our workshops, and especially networking. I don't know how many times we heard exclamations of "You should come student teach with me!" and "There's going to be a job opening in my district!" The workshops are great every year, but I think I look forward to the time between the workshops and meetings just as much. My favorite workshop that year was about Artist Trading Cards (ATCs). I hauled my camera with me but with the abundance of smart phones now, taking pictures of cool ideas you see is easier than ever.

In exchange for receiving a student conference grant, you are asked to donate something for the silent auction. I donated a mixed media collage made from papers and metal. My friend, Josh, pitched in and helped show the artwork. (It was a live auction that year).

Some workshops are project or technique based while others are based on other parts of teaching art. No matter what you are interested in teaching some day, you'll be able to find something new to learn.

I even helped present a workshop that another student had planned- a lesson plan swap.

Another conference highlight is the awards ceremony that honors teachers as "outstanding" in their field. I teared up listening to the nominators describe their friends and colleagues and thought "I want to be that good someday!" It was inspiring, to say the least.

I think traveling to the conference together made our relationships stronger, too. I'm still in touch with most of the students I attended with and know we can call on each other if we need help, even though we're all working across the state and one of us is now teaching in a different country! 

I really do feel like attending that conference set me on a path for my teacher. I had known I was going to be an art teacher since I was in high school, but attending the conference showed me how it could be better as a connected teacher. I've only missed one conference since that "first" one and I look forward to them every year. This year we will gather at Pitt State where I will reconnect with old friends, meet new ones, attend some great workshops (it's so hard to choose!), and donate some art to the silent auction so that future students will have the same opportunity to attend the conference that I had. 

If you've never been to a KAEA conference before, I encourage you to join us and try it out! There is still time for pre-service art teachers to apply for grants and you can find the information here: www.kaea.com/grants.html. Apply for that grant, attend the conference, TALK to people, take pictures, and be awesome! Please let me know if you have any questions about KAEA, our conference, or the student grants.

-Katie Morris, KAEA Webmaster, PreK-12th grade Art Teacher USD 335. 

KAEA Endowment Grants

The Kansas Art Education Association is pleased to announce its new  "KAEA Endowment Grants" Please share this information with your friends, peers and colleagues who are not members.  Please share with them why you are a member and invite them to join us. Be sure to tell everyone that this is an additional opportunity to attend the 2014 KAEA Fall Professional Development Conference in Pittsburg in October at the member cost!

The Kansas Art Education Association will be granting a ONE-year membership to THREE (3) non-member active Kansas art educators and FOUR (4) college art education students.  These endowment grants will be given out annually as funds are available. In order to be eligible for one of these grants, you need only be interested in joining Kansas' largest Art Education Professional Organization. Non-Member Active Art Educators:  Must be presently teaching art and have NEVER been a member of KAEA.  You do not have to be first year teacher. Students:  Must be presently enrolled in a College/University Art Education degree- seeking program. Applications will be accepted between August 1st and September 1st Send all applications to Laurie McLane-Higginson at laurie.mclanehigginson@gmail.com

Applications can be found on the KAEA website at: http://kaea.com/grants.html A KAEA Membership Brochure can be found at: KAEA Membership Brochure