Working to Recognize Quality Arts Educators

Who are the educator professionals supporting you?  Who has positively influenced your practice and career?  Honor them today with a request to nominate.  Thank them for helping you to be the teacher you are now.
Please make it your goal to nominate a fellow arts educator this year!

Nominations are due annually on the first Friday in January. (*First Friday in April for Preservice.)

All nominee application Packets are due February 1st. (*June 1st for preservice.)

Awards Information:

Links to application folders - including Nomination Form, Vitae, Rubric, and checklist - can be found by clicking HERE.

For the Nominator:
Check to see if the nominee is an MAEA Member. Need help with this? Contact aeforme.awards@gmail.com​
Complete the Nomination Form no later than the first Friday in January. (*The first Friday in April for Preservice nominations.)
Link to the nomination form can be found below.

For the Nominee:
​Review the rubric specific to the award for which you are being nominated (see link below.)
Complete the Standardized CV Form. Located in the folders specific to the award for which you are being nominated.
Compile and submit up to three letters of support.
Required for Preservice Student Art Educators completing their final student teaching placements:
  • Artwork (up to 20 images, 200 second limit) Provide url for YouTube upload.
  • Philosophy of Teaching Art

Completed award packets must be submitted no later than February 1st. (*June 1st for Preservice Student application packets.)
Incomplete packets will be considered invalid. 

Maine Art Education Association Awards Categories:
  • Elementary Art Educator of the Year
  • Middle-Level Art Educator of the Year
  • High School Art Educator of the Year
  • Higher Ed Art Educator of the Year
  • Museum Art Educator of the Year
  • Supervision/Administration Art Educator of the Year 
  • Retired MAEA Art Educator of the Year
  • Preservice Student Art Educator of the Year
All nominations - except Retired and Preservice Students - will be considered a nomination for the Maine Art Education Association Educator of the Year. 

Maine Art Educators of the Year:

Maine Art Advocates of the Year:
2023 Matthew Johnson
2022 Reagan Russell
2021 Jodi Thomas
2020 Amy Cousins
2019 Holly Houston
2018 Deb Bickford
2017 Suzanne Goulet
2016 Carolyn Brown
2015 Allison Foote Price
2014 Sandy Brennan
2013 Not awarded
2012 Linda Stanley
2011 Molly Mains
2010 Shalimar Poulin
2009 Kay McKeever Allison
2008 Sarah Tabor
2007 Charlie Johnson
2006 Wendy Libby
2005 Pam Ouellette
2004 Deloris White
2003 Karen Maxell
2002 Tom Block
2001 Kal S. Elmore
2000 Tory Tyler-Millar
1999 Manon Iodice Lewis
1998 Corliss Chastain
1997 Frank Chin
1996 Cathy Geren
1995 Debi Lynne
1994 Sandy Crabtree
1993 Stan Colburn
1992 Elaine J. Cyr
1991 Anne Tarbox
1990 Wendy Russo
1989 Charlotte Giovanella Fullam
1988 Not awarded
1987 Natasha Kempers Cullen
1986 Ray Lund
1985 Mary Ann Stankiewicz
1984 Gary Beckwith
1983 Chris Chapman
1982 Shelia Bohlin
1981 Dianne Noble
1980 Dr. Joanna J. Moore
1977-79 Not awarded
2022 Janet Parkhurst, Stained Glass Express
2021 Waterville Creates
2020 Susan Potters, MAAE
2019 Waterfall Arts
2018 Maine Education Association
2017 Saco Museum
2016 Maine College of Art
2015 Peter and Paula Lunder, Lunder Family Foundation
2014 Catherine Ring, MAAI
2013 Argy Nestor, Maine Department of Education
2012 Carol Trimble, MAAE
2011 Lauren Lessing, Colby Museum of Art
2010 Roxanne Quimby, Quimby Family Foundation
2009 Kennebunk Savings Bank
2008 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
2007 Stacy Rodenberger, Portland Museum of Art
2006 Dr. Trudy Wilson, University of Southern Maine
2005 Dana Baldwin, Portland Museum of Art
2004 Karen Baldacci, First Lady
2003 Jane Amero
2002 Victoria Wood
1999 Sharon Townsend
1996 Wes LaFountain