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Follow this link to review the available awards and submit your nominations: https://www.arteducators.org/opportunities/naea-awards
Want to see your chapter featured here? Contact us for the application! Also, meet this student chapter at the Seattle Convention during the Blending Our Voices session on Thursday, 3/22, at 4-4:50pm!Jayme is a new teacher that we are so inspired by!! Meet Jayme Rodriguez, a young art educator who totally blew us away in her nomination: "Jayme Schomann Rodriguez currently teaches both magnet and elective visual arts courses at Sudbrook Magnet Middle School in Pikesville, Maryland. Sudbrook is a Baltimore County public school. She recently received her Bachelor of Science in Art Education from Towson University where she served as the Community Service Coordinator for the NAEA Student Chapter. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art and Art History from The George Washington University and a Master of Arts in Art Education from Concordia University, Montreal. She previously worked as an Education Coordinator for the Walters Art Museum and has taught in various summer camps and community arts settings in Baltimore and Montreal. Jayme presented at the 2016 MAEA conference and 2017 NAEA conference and participated in the 2017 MAEA exhibition: Collaboration at the Maryland Institute College of Art." I asked her to tell us a little about herself: "I actually started my career in museum education. I had an internship in the National Gallery of Art in DC during my undergraduate studies and I loved the behind-the-scenes of the museum so much I focused all of my job applications on museums when I graduated. I ended up working at the Walters in their Education Division. Giving school tours and teaching homeschool workshops was so much fun and the most rewarding part of the job, I knew I wanted to continue teaching. I was very focused on community arts education in Montreal while in graduate school and then I started working in schools when I returned to the US, getting my certification and post-bacc from Towson University. Towson really helped my teaching career take off by placing me in two fantastic Baltimore County public schools for my student teaching experience. My favorite type of art to create is illustration and printmaking. I also find working with clay to be really therapeutic. My dream is to open an online shop where I can sell prints and pots! I’m currently working on a comic with my husband who is a 3D environment artist for a video game studio. I hope to collaborate and do more shows in the future. I’m running a women’s’ comic book and drawing club and hopefully that will result in a group show." We are so glad you chose this field Jayme!
Congratulations Grace!! We are so excited for you!Get to know the Member of the Year! I asked Grace Springsteen to tell us a little about herself and how she ended up in the art world! She is truly an outstanding member of our division; here's what she said: "I was lucky enough to have three lovely placements for my student teaching, each one incredibly unique. I was placed in two high schools, one a small rural community and the other a very large suburban 10-12 school. I was placed in a k-4 elementary school for my last and longest placement. At each school I gained knowledge from observing the methods of my cooperating teacher. I learned the importance of relationship building. I learned that a rigorous lesson can alleviate many behavioral problems before they arise. I learned that so many students just want to be heard and validated. It was in my last placement that I was able to use that knowledge to become a part of the community. I grew very connected with my pupils, parents, and the school staff. I was able to come into my own and hone my own presentation style, understanding my students needs and allowing them to grow. Now, as a recent graduate I am looking forward to my own classroom. Currently, I am working at the Saugatuck Center for the Arts as their Exhibition Coordinator. This means I work closely with artists to curate their exhibitions, I work with local schools, and organize and implement programing at the center. I feel so lucky to have landed in the art education field. My own journey has been not so much a straight path but one with many twists and turns. As an artist, I am always searching and teaching myself new things. I am an explorer of mediums, which is what brought me to teaching. I love to try new methods and don't often stick with the same one for long. This enthusiasm for livelong learning within the arts lead me into art education, where I solidified things I had already felt my whole life. At Kendall College of Art and Design, I joined a community of art educators who were passionate about the arts and ensuring that children receive the highest caliber of education, which includes a thorough and thoughtful arts education. I learned about the pedagogy, learning styles, inclusion, and history, but I also learned about the brain. I was taught and shown how my teaching effects the brains of my students. My journey brought me to art education, but it really is who I am. I'm very passionate about teaching. I feel that as an art educator, we all have the ability to change the world. Perhaps it is a small way, planting seeds that may not grow today or tomorrow or even this generation, but slowly we may effect change within our communities and the world, one student at a time." Keep up the great work Grace!We are so proud of you Cynthia!!The purpose of this award is to recognize student achievement in art education at the College/University level. Nominees must be active members of NAEA. The nominee must have completed student teaching within the last school year and have been an active student member of NAEA at the time of their student teaching. This year's award winner is Cynthia Moore! I asked her a few questions about herself so that we can all get to know her a little better! Can you tell me a little bit about you? I'm a first-generation college grad, late-bloomer to the college game (they say it's never too late to go back), mom to an amazing little 6 yr old artist, named Ella. Happily married to my best friend for almost 7 years. I live in North Texas (Texas forever) and I'm addicted to coffee, book stores and art supplies. I'm a natural born dreamer and maker who hopes to travel to all 50 states one day. (I'm getting close!) How did you decide to make art and education a part of your path? I wish I could say that I was born with a crayon in my hand, but the truth is, my life didn't involve much play time in the form of arts and crafts. I was raised as a migrant farm worker, which basically means my family and I moved around a lot to tend to farms all over the United States. So growing up, my form of fun was getting lost in the blueberry fields, finding a shaded tree to sit and read or drag a stick through the mud. I was raised to believe a solid work ethic would get you where you need to be. I am so grateful for those experiences because my family taught me you can achieve ANYTHING with hard work and determination. Those experiences led me to an opportunity to work in the field of education in my mid-twenties. I was given the opportunity to work with at-risk kids, students who fit the drop out criteria. My main job was to figure out the situation, find a solution and give the kids a fighting chance despite their circumstances. Something that powerfully stood out was their perseverance and the dynamic impact the arts had on their life. If there was a way I could incorporate the arts into their program or routine, the more they wanted to walk across that stage and dash through the finish line. I started to see the transformational power the arts had in their lives. So in essence, their stories were weaved into their artwork and in return weaved into my heart. I knew that education was for me. If art had the power to transform lives, why not share it with the world? So I continued to work full time, go to college full time, intern at a museum, run our Teaching Artist Network charter at TWU, all in the name of experience and to learn everything that I could about the arts. I wanted to give back to the community and to find a way to share this mission with the world. Now it's my life, it's my purpose. I'm now in my graduate program at Boston University, working towards my MA in Art Education with a concentration in Art Advocacy and Leadership. I'm working in an extreme Title I school in an urban environment, hoping to transform their art program and witness the transformational power of the arts in my students. What is your favorite form of art? It's an even tie between fiber arts (embroidery) and acrylic inks in my journal, they are just so forgiving! Future goals? Besides getting my MA from BU, and continuing working as an art teacher, my family and I are in the process of starting a non-profit that will serve underprivileged areas with free art advocacy, and we hope to expand to working with other non-profits to bring the gift of the arts across the globe. They say no goal is too small, to always start with the end in mind, and I just happen to believe that there is a happy ending waiting for all of us out there, we just have to take it one day at a time. Such an awesome human, thanks for sharing Cynthia!
We are hosting our first ever NAEA Preservice Division field trip to celebrate you, our members! We are so excited to see you all there! |