2010 RIAEA Conference - Art + Spirit |
Art educators will gain a deeper understanding of the “Why” in art education and creating art. Why do cultures create art? Why do we humans make art? Why teach art? Why do we love art?Come experience and examine the holistic aspects of art from various cultures and historical eras.
Join us as we celebrate and explore The Arts!
Come and renew yourself as artist and educator!
The 2010 Rhode Island Art Education Association's
Bi-Annual State Conference.
Art + Spirit.
Saturday,
October 16, 2010
at West Warwick High School.
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Keynote Speaker:
Joining Heaven and Earth by Dr. Peter London, author,artist, art educator, and lecturer. Mr. London is Professor Emeritus at UMASS Dartmouth; Distinguished Fellow, National Art Education Association; and founding member of the Caucus on the Spiritual in Art Education (CSAE)—
Established 2008. |
If you have any questions, please email
Susan Sward, Conference Chair
at SSward@WestWarwickPublicSchools.com
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ArtReach 2011 |
Rhode Island Art Education Association ArtReach Grants
with funding provided by
Rhode Island Monthly + Providence Performing Arts Center
ArtReach 2011 - The Lion King
Criteria for Application Eligibility
a) Application is open to current members of RIAEA only.
b) Application must be from a school site team, minimally, made up of one visual arts teacher and at least two other teachers, specialists or general classroom teachers, from that site.
Download application for additional information here
Deadline is November 19, 2010
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Professional Development |
Professional Development:
RIDE Credits will be available for these RIAEA sponsored Roundtables!

Summer Courses at Rhode Island College
This summer and every summer, Rhode Island College has a whole range of ART courses (not "Art Education" courses this summer, but perhaps in the future) that you can take for graduate credit! Also, in every Fall and Spring there are many Art, Art Education, Art History, and Art Media courses (usually listed with undergraduate numbers) -- that you can with special arrangement take for GRADUATE CREDIT.
For Art class offerings this summer at RIC, check out this link and, again, please be aware that virtually all of these art courses may be taken for graduate credit with special arrangement with the instructor:
http://www.ric.edu/art/summer.php
For example, there are drawing, painting, ceramics, and computer graphics (i.e., Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash) classes offered that you may take for graduate credit.
To register, please navigate through the RIC website at www.ric.edu -- or if you have questions or need assistance with registering for Art courses, please contact Maureen Iantuano (Art Dept. secretary) at miantuano or Professor Nancy Bockbrader (Chair of the Art Dept.) at nbockbrader@ric.edu for assistance.
These RIC classes, even when taken for graduate credit, are reasonably priced, convenient, and will be a wonderful professional development endeavor for applied use in your art teaching -- and to nurture your own creative spirit!
Elementary Roundtable
Watch for new Roundtable coming soon!
Middle School Roundtable
Watch for new Roundtable coming soon!
High School Roundtable
Watch for new Roundtable coming soon!
TECH SQUAD WORKSHOP SERIES
(for all K-12 art educators)
RIAEA is sponsoring
free Tech workshops for its members. Ride credit will be available. The cost is
$20 for non-RIAEA members and is FREE for current members. Participants may
sign up for membership at any of these workshops and wave the workshop fee.
As part of the
continuing RIAEA Tech Squad Workshop Series, three new workshops have been
scheduled. These workshops are open to all Arts Educators. RIDE credit will be
given.
Watch for new workshops!
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Special Event: March is Youth Art Month |
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Is your school/district having a Student Art Exhibits?
Register it on the YAM website!
Follow the new and improved path for registering
your YAM
show on the yamri.org site.
By registering your show,
you will be counted in RI’s
efforts to advocate
for school arts programs!!!
It only takes a few minutes to
register!!
Please REGISTER!


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ArtReach 2009-2010 |

Congratulations to the following winners of the 101 Dalmation ArtReach Grant!
Nancy Brandley
Portmouth High School
Portmouth
Donald Chabot
Curvin-McCabe Elementary School Pawtucket
Patricia Huntington
Toll Gate High School
Warwick
Bruce Lenore
Smithfield High School
Smithfield
Naomi Messier
Greenwood School
Warwick
Read about each project
awarded here
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Publications |

The Story in the Picture: Inquiry and Artmaking with Young Children
by RIAEA member Christine Mulcahey, with Foreword by Maxine Greene
Co-published with Teachers College Press, this book looks at the work of a variety of artists and demonstrates that using fine art reproductions in the early childhood curriculum allows children to construct their own meanings, teaches diversity, fosters thinking skills, and encourages storytelling. The author, a professor at Rhode Island College and a preK-5 art specialist, includes lesson ideas, examples of activities, and photographs of children working and interacting with one another and with works of art. Based on the NAEYC and NAEA standards, this educator-friendly resource provides:
• Numerous examples of open-ended arts experiences using reproductions of fine art from many different genres, periods, cultures, and sources.
• Art concepts to be used with children according to their developmental readiness.
• Easy-to-implement lesson ideas designed to encourage educators to create their own to fit in with their regular early childhood curriculum.
“This book has the capacity to have a profound impact on how art is viewed by educators by changing the art experience from one of insignificance to one that contributes greatly to the cognitive growth of the child.”
—Sharon Shaffer, Executive Director, Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center
120 pgs. (2009) ISBN 0-8077-5007-7
Regular: $20.00
NAEA Members: $18.00
You may purchase this book through the NAEA Store
Congratulations Christine!
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