We met Sunday, November 18 at 8:00 AM in the Hilton Palacio del Rio.
Area Representatives Gretchen Bell and Jean King were present and facilitating. Lee Ann Carrier was unable to attend. There were thirteen TAEA members attending. TAEA President Elect Tim Lowke dropped in for a few moments.
Here's the news:
Houston Area YAM Competition: There will not be a TAEA Area VI YAM Competition this year. There are several reasons for this: Area Reps are extremely busy. We do not have a reservation for Owens where we have done the judging for the past several years. We need to take a hiatus.
Vote in the Members Only area of the TAEA Website: Please go to the TAEA website and vote on whether you want to remain with the current system of Areas or whether you would like to change to representation by Region. Under the current system our Area contains ESC Regions 3, 4, and 5. We currently are allowed four representatives per Area. If this passes there will be one representative per ESC Region. The vote closes December 1! Tim Lowke spoke with us about this matter.
Victoria and Beaumont: We need better representation for and input from the Victoria and Beaumont areas. Currently we have three representatives, Gretchen Bell, Lee Ann Carrier, and Jean King. All are from the Houston area.
Summer Mini-conference: This last summer communications about the our Summer Mini-Conference fell through between the Museum of Fine Arts -Houston and the Area Representatives. There were a number of reasons for this including changes in Leadership/Management at the museum.
Mini-Conferences in general: We may want to consider having a mini-conference separate from the MFAH in future. If we do a separate mini-conference, we will need TONS of volunteers and help from other art educators. We would need to find a location, presenters, etc.
Possible themes for a mini-conference:
"Concepts We Teach Beyond The Classroom"
"Finding Our Place In The Community"
"Finding Your Own Place"
Teacher/Members to present and ideas/suggestions:
- Letha Guillory, MacArthur HS, Aldine ISD, 3D works with fibers and paper and other recycled materials, adapting sketchbooks and portfolios to make easier for students to transport
- Hailey Ann Booth, Cinco Ranch HS, Katy ISD, classroom procedures/ organization and planning in the art room, vertical alignment from elementary to high school, teachers visiting each others schools/classes to make presentations to students.
- Sessions on classroom management due to the growing number of students in our classes.
Newsletter/Blog to go out to districts to advocate for the programs and needs of art educators.
Pull Outs: Sarah Chapman spoke about Fine Arts state bill in the works about students being pulled out of arts classes. Stay tuned to TAEA's website for advocacy/political information (Political Palette).
TRS: The State Legislature is currently considering changes to the Teacher Retirement System. You need to stay informed about this as it directly effects all our futures.
Politics in general: Get names and info on Legislators, District Board Members in your area and share your concerns. Raise your voice. Vote.
To stay informed, most legislative news will be reported on GoArts website, www.goarts.org. It may be too early for things to be up yet on the site, but watch it for news. They may need our support. Register with them.
Katie Brown - Ceramic workshop
Names were pulled for door prizes. Laura Dickinson from Pasadena HS win a educator's membership to Lawndale Art Center. All attendees received at least one prize.
Special "Thank You's" are due to the following:
- TAEA and Abbeyville Press - Suzy Greene - give aways for the area meetings
- Lawndale Art Center - Complimentary Educator Membership
- Jean King - Dias de Los Muertos t-shirts
- MFAH - for all they do for us, including, but not limited to the TAEA/MFAH Summer Mini-Conference (where they handle registration, location, refreshments and more) and the use of the museum and Glassell Junior School as sites for our YAM Show and Reception.
If you want to be more involved in TAEA or have news to share with us, you can contact us through this blog or through the TAEA website under Area VI.
Gretchen Bell
Lee Ann Carrier
Jean King
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
A funny thing happened on the way to this post
Time flies when you're having fun AND when you're teaching art!
While I was attending the TAEA Conference this last week in San Antonio several people approached me saying things like, "You need to update the web page!" "Do you know the last thing on the web page is the TAEA/MFAH mini conference in 2011?"
Hmmm, the web page? I looked at Area VI's page on the TAEA website. Nope, no sign of action there, but no mention of the 2011 mini-conference either.
I was mildly baffled, but decided I could decipher this little puzzle one way or the other. And I did! They meant this little ol' blog!
How, you might ask, could such a thing happen? More than a year without a new blog entry, how could it happen?
Believe it or not, even the author of a lil' ol' blog like this doesn't want to be a lone voice in the wilderness of Area VI. You have to let me know you're out there. Let me know that I'm not just typing messages to send out into the darkness of the great cyber abyss.
If you miss me or if you don't see updates here, feel free to shoot me an email at taeaare6@live.com.
Oh, well, enough of that!
The conference in San Antonio was a good one. I do believe my favorite thing was the last General Session. If you didn't stay until the bitter end, then you missed it. Sam Gilliam was the speaker and what a speaker she was. She gave a wonderful talk that inspired me more than anything I'd heard in a long time. She had me laughing and crying. I looked around and saw I wasn't the only one in the room wiping their eyes. She hit the mark over and over.
Quotes from her talk:
"That's what we artists do. We tell the truth. That's what we teach. . . ."
"One step at a time! Baby steps! Post the definition of passion in your art room, in your studio, in your life!"
"Hitch yourself to something BIGGER than yourself!"
"I want to be transformed by doing what I love."
"Passion is the key."
"Stillness is our most intense form of action . . . Passion."
I came away from her talk wanting to be the best, most passionate me that I could be.
Right now it's the Thanksgiving holiday and I'm on the road again. I wasn't intending to work, so I left all the updates I meant to post on here at home, waiting patiently beside a pile of bills and junk mail. I'll be posting again when I get back home, but hey, why not make a comment or shoot me an email. Let me know I'm not in this alone.
¡Somos el arte!
While I was attending the TAEA Conference this last week in San Antonio several people approached me saying things like, "You need to update the web page!" "Do you know the last thing on the web page is the TAEA/MFAH mini conference in 2011?"
Hmmm, the web page? I looked at Area VI's page on the TAEA website. Nope, no sign of action there, but no mention of the 2011 mini-conference either.
I was mildly baffled, but decided I could decipher this little puzzle one way or the other. And I did! They meant this little ol' blog!
How, you might ask, could such a thing happen? More than a year without a new blog entry, how could it happen?
Believe it or not, even the author of a lil' ol' blog like this doesn't want to be a lone voice in the wilderness of Area VI. You have to let me know you're out there. Let me know that I'm not just typing messages to send out into the darkness of the great cyber abyss.
If you miss me or if you don't see updates here, feel free to shoot me an email at taeaare6@live.com.
Oh, well, enough of that!
The conference in San Antonio was a good one. I do believe my favorite thing was the last General Session. If you didn't stay until the bitter end, then you missed it. Sam Gilliam was the speaker and what a speaker she was. She gave a wonderful talk that inspired me more than anything I'd heard in a long time. She had me laughing and crying. I looked around and saw I wasn't the only one in the room wiping their eyes. She hit the mark over and over.
Quotes from her talk:
"That's what we artists do. We tell the truth. That's what we teach. . . ."
"One step at a time! Baby steps! Post the definition of passion in your art room, in your studio, in your life!"
"Hitch yourself to something BIGGER than yourself!"
"I want to be transformed by doing what I love."
"Passion is the key."
"Stillness is our most intense form of action . . . Passion."
I came away from her talk wanting to be the best, most passionate me that I could be.
Right now it's the Thanksgiving holiday and I'm on the road again. I wasn't intending to work, so I left all the updates I meant to post on here at home, waiting patiently beside a pile of bills and junk mail. I'll be posting again when I get back home, but hey, why not make a comment or shoot me an email. Let me know I'm not in this alone.
¡Somos el arte!
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