Alabama Art Education Association

Louise B Marshall Scholarship for undergraduates and first year art teachers is now online at the website under the Conference 2010 headline. The answer to your second question is No the Fall Conference Registration is not there yet. Patience guys patience.:)

I am participating in an online college scholarship essay contest. Please follow the link to vote for me. It will only count 2 votes per email each day.

Thanks!! Amanda McGinnis Mercer

http://www.crosslites.com/scholarship.aspx/Essay/181c9fc78d3f843f8ce0c3a7a7b211c5#vote

Your Classroom Wish List: National Teacher Registry announces that more than

27,000 Blick Art Materials products have just been added to the

website! Start the new school year with the National Teacher Registry.

The program is free. If you are a teacher, go to www.NationalTeacherRegistry.com today and create your Wish ...List! Then they'll help you share the news. 

DoSomething.org

Scholarship Contest: DoSomething.org is calling on artists to submit

computer wallpaper designs to show why arts education is important in

its Make Art. Save Art. contest. The most popular design will win $5,000

for their school art program and five HP Pavilion dv6z computers.

...Winners will be determined...

by the number people who share their design with local representatives,

advocating for art education in schools! Interested artists can submit

designs now and encourage everyone they know to share their design with a

local representative starting September 1. The submissions can be in

any form such as photography or painting, just as long as it ends up as a

background desktop image. Find out more information at www.DoSomething.org

For your safety I can not change your information. Sorry for the inconvenience.

New NAEF Grant Program Information and Application Materials Released for Project Year: July 1, 2011-June 30, 2012. Learn more: http://www.arteducators.org/naef. Link to program booklet: http://tinyurl.com/2e8xl2n 

Sorry guys. A lot of you have been asking for it. I am excited that you are turning to the site. That means I am doing my job; however with the later conference the registration will be up later. If you are a member of AAEA go ahead and join this site. When  the registration is done, I will get it, I will get it up, and members of the site will get the blast ( e blast).

We also have a Facebook page, join that and you will also get a blast through that venue.

The first Birmingham Area AAEA Social Get Together!  We are going to meet at the cafe in Little Professor Bookstore in downtown Homewood at 6:30 PM on September 14th.  Hooray!  As this is our first gathering, it will be informal and fun!  We should all try to recruit at least one new art teacher to join us!  I am planning to bring several of my first year art teachers from Jefferson County.  Let's get the word out and rally our cause!  Go Art!

BEWARE! If you or your students have been using the internet for "borrowing" of ideas your days are numbered. Artists now have a variety of tools at their fingertips to find you and bring you down. Don't just think they will go after your students if you sign off on your student's work that it is original they will go for your job and your bank account.

For more information on how they can do this visit the Members Only page to see just how this can be done.

A victim was taken down in this practice at Scholastic Art and Writing Awards this year. Don't be a victim yourself.

BEWARE

Keep the Arts in Public Schools: A few hours ago, the U.S. House of Representatives approved by voice vote H Con Res 275, (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111%3AH.CON.RES.275: ) a concurrent resolution expressing support for designation of the week beginning on the second Sunday of September as “Arts in Education Week”. 

National Art Education Association Map Provides First-of-their-kind Classroom Examples of Integrating the Four Cs into Arts Courses. The 21st Century Skills Map for the Arts will be released at a Congressional briefing on Thurs., 7/15 at 2:30pm. The map demonstrates how the three Rs and four Cs (critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration and creativity and innovation) can be fused within arts curriculum. More details to come!