2021 Maine Art Education Association VIRTUAL Spring Conference
Perceptions
Hosted by Iva Damon from Leavitt Area High School and MAEA
Saturday, April 3, 2021
Perceptions
Hosted by Iva Damon from Leavitt Area High School and MAEA
Saturday, April 3, 2021
Conference Schedule
8:30 Check in/Art making/Breakfast
9:00 Welcome and Keynote: Natasha Mayers & Robert Shetterly
9:30-10:30 FIRST Power Session
10:35-11:35 Second Power Session
11:45 State of the Arts- Jason Anderson
12:15 Awards Recognition followed by Lunch
1:00 FINAL Power Session
2:00 Closing
9:00 Welcome and Keynote: Natasha Mayers & Robert Shetterly
9:30-10:30 FIRST Power Session
10:35-11:35 Second Power Session
11:45 State of the Arts- Jason Anderson
12:15 Awards Recognition followed by Lunch
1:00 FINAL Power Session
2:00 Closing
Recognition of MAEA Awards
Our annual awards ceremony occurred virtually last spring and will again occur virtually this spring BUT please join us during lunch in celebrating the recipients of both 2021 and 2022!
Please plan to join us!
Please plan to join us!
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2020 Honors
Middle Art Educator of the Year: Libby Winslow Secondary Art Educator of the Year: Raegan Russell Maine Art Educator of the Year: Jodi Thomas |
2021 Honors
Middle Level Art Educator of the Year: Hope Lord Secondary Level Art Educator of the Year: Lori Spruce Supervision Art Educator of the Year: Serena Sanborn Outstanding Service to the Profession: Susan Bryand Maine Art Educator of the Year: Raegan Russell |
Description of Power Sessions
"Update your Advocacy: New Ways of Promoting and Expanding Your Impact Beyond the Art Room." – Cory Bucknam (Brunswick Junior High)
Necessity is the mother of invention. Uncertain times require a creative rethinking of how best to promote our programs and make them vital and indispensable to our communities.
Offered during FIRST POWER SESSION
Necessity is the mother of invention. Uncertain times require a creative rethinking of how best to promote our programs and make them vital and indispensable to our communities.
Offered during FIRST POWER SESSION
“Evaluating Creativity” – Joseph Cough (Midcoast Music Academy)
This workshop will focus on how we evaluate students in the arts, and how we may want to take a different approach in describing a student's progress. This workshop will make an argument about how a narrative for a student's artistic progress may be more effective in charting their learning development than a standards based one. Two important questions will be asked: how do I know what I think I know about a student's progress? And am I working with the student to help them reach their needs?
Offered during FIRST, SECOND, and Third POWER SESSION
This workshop will focus on how we evaluate students in the arts, and how we may want to take a different approach in describing a student's progress. This workshop will make an argument about how a narrative for a student's artistic progress may be more effective in charting their learning development than a standards based one. Two important questions will be asked: how do I know what I think I know about a student's progress? And am I working with the student to help them reach their needs?
Offered during FIRST, SECOND, and Third POWER SESSION
AP Art And Design Network Discussion – Lori Spruce (Brewer High School) & Holly Houston (Yarmouth High School)
The objective of this workshop is for AP Art Teachers to meet and discuss the UPDATED requirements of the AP Art and Design course and portfolios including sharing how teachers are currently understanding, planning, teaching and assessing the course. Participants are encouraged to share lesson handouts, rubrics, student work, and sketchbook examples.
Offered during SECOND POWER SESSION
The objective of this workshop is for AP Art Teachers to meet and discuss the UPDATED requirements of the AP Art and Design course and portfolios including sharing how teachers are currently understanding, planning, teaching and assessing the course. Participants are encouraged to share lesson handouts, rubrics, student work, and sketchbook examples.
Offered during SECOND POWER SESSION
MALI Roundtable Conversation – MALI Teacher Leaders
Curious about MALI? Want to know more about what it means to be a MALI teacher leader or curious about what direction MALI is taking? This is the session for you!
Offered during THIRD POWER SESSION
Curious about MALI? Want to know more about what it means to be a MALI teacher leader or curious about what direction MALI is taking? This is the session for you!
Offered during THIRD POWER SESSION
Hand-Build a Torn Up & Stamped Mug –Samara Yandell (Biddeford Middle School)A step-by-step hand-building lesson that results in a creative and engaging twist on the classic slab built mug project. Participants will learn how to make their own clay stamps, then use found materials and pre-made stamps to create a unique and functional clay mug. Finally, underglazing and glazing options will be presented that will make your unique textures and patterns really stand out!
Materials Needed: Clay, rolling pin or slab roller, assorted clay stamps, found materials for texture, tar paper, clay knife, needle tool (plus other basic hand building supplies might be useful but not required)
Offered during SECOND POWER SESSION
Materials Needed: Clay, rolling pin or slab roller, assorted clay stamps, found materials for texture, tar paper, clay knife, needle tool (plus other basic hand building supplies might be useful but not required)
Offered during SECOND POWER SESSION
Neurographic Art- A Meditative Drawing Technique to Help Relieve Stress - Hope Lord (Maranacook Middle School)
Neurographic Art is a new art method created in 2014 by a Russian psychologist named Pavel Piskarev. This therapeutic drawing process can engage our neurons and help relieve stress. By drawing a series of curved, intersecting lines, and tracing circles, people can start to feel stress fade and feel more relaxed. This meditative drawing method is a great technique to teach our students, especially students with Social Emotional Learning needs. This is the perfect lesson to teach during remote learning, because most students will have paper and pens, or markers at home. Neurographic drawings can be a wonderful warm up activity to help students release their stressors and be ready for learning. Join me for a fun and meditative drawing experience that you can share with your students.
Materials Needed: Black pens, sharpies, markers, paper, colored pencils, watercolor paints, or other coloring materials.
Offered during FIRST and THIRD POWER SESSION
Neurographic Art is a new art method created in 2014 by a Russian psychologist named Pavel Piskarev. This therapeutic drawing process can engage our neurons and help relieve stress. By drawing a series of curved, intersecting lines, and tracing circles, people can start to feel stress fade and feel more relaxed. This meditative drawing method is a great technique to teach our students, especially students with Social Emotional Learning needs. This is the perfect lesson to teach during remote learning, because most students will have paper and pens, or markers at home. Neurographic drawings can be a wonderful warm up activity to help students release their stressors and be ready for learning. Join me for a fun and meditative drawing experience that you can share with your students.
Materials Needed: Black pens, sharpies, markers, paper, colored pencils, watercolor paints, or other coloring materials.
Offered during FIRST and THIRD POWER SESSION
Teaching and Learning with Natasha Mayers: An Un-Still Life
Recently released film–Argy Nestor (Sweetland Middle School)
Artist Natasha Mayers has dedicated her life as an artist to storytelling, activism, community, and much more. The recently released film tells her artist story - Natasha Mayers: An Un-Still Life. Created by Maine film makers Anita Clearfield and Geoffrey Leighton, they cleverly communicate the big picture, the details and themes that are inter-woven throughout her life.
Accompanying the film are lesson plans for elementary, middle and high school students that will be shared for the first time. Collectively participants will unpack the lessons and collaborate on other ideas about ways to use Natasha’s art work as the seed for inspiration in the classroom.
Offered during FIRST and THIRD POWER SESSION
Recently released film–Argy Nestor (Sweetland Middle School)
Artist Natasha Mayers has dedicated her life as an artist to storytelling, activism, community, and much more. The recently released film tells her artist story - Natasha Mayers: An Un-Still Life. Created by Maine film makers Anita Clearfield and Geoffrey Leighton, they cleverly communicate the big picture, the details and themes that are inter-woven throughout her life.
Accompanying the film are lesson plans for elementary, middle and high school students that will be shared for the first time. Collectively participants will unpack the lessons and collaborate on other ideas about ways to use Natasha’s art work as the seed for inspiration in the classroom.
Offered during FIRST and THIRD POWER SESSION