UNCG Art Education: The Student Chapter of NAEA

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MINUTES

NAEA Meeting – October 12, 2011
6:00pm, Room 225
Attendance: 8

New members: Sallee Walker, Heather Smith, & Kathy Cook
Existing members: Maria Lim, Tiffany Littlejohn, Denise Kanir, Sunshine Beshears, & Nikki

Tate Street Review
Thanks to everyone who volunteered
We made a profit of $80
What we have planned for next year
Tarp, craft ideas, etc

NAEA State Conference on Saturday, October 15
Convention Center, Charlotte 10am
Ours and Sunshine’s presentation
Anyone still interested who hasn’t signed up

NAEA National Convention, March 1 – 4, 2012
New York City
Online Registration through Jan 30
$75 for student, $135 for NAEA member non-student, $180 for non-member
Anyone can come

Workshops and Speaker Events
Maria has speakers in mind
Ask people what day works best for most

We decided on Wednesday evenings
Goal is at least 20
Get with past NAEA members (who are teachers now) and ask about hands-on workshops

Fundraising ideas
This year – bake sales, art donations, donut fundraising, etc
Can anyone make anything amazing?

Final Notes and Questions from group

Discussed a professional development opportunity- UNCG was asked to provide judges for the Greensboro Youth Council artwork. The art judging will take place on November 12th. If interested, let one of the officers know.

Minutes from first meeting for Fall 2011 Semester

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Minutes

NAEA-UNCG Student Chapter Business Meeting

September 7, 2011

Hello fellow art education majors!!! The minutes for our first meeting are as followed:

Introduction of officers, members & faculty advisor
Presidents: Tiffany LittleJohn & Shyla Sutton
Publicity Agent: Sunshine Beshears
Treasurer: Denise Kanir
Information: Membership fee $5/ semester
Meeting Dates: We will meet once a month for our regular student chapter NAEA meetings.
Here are the meeting dates for the semester: Wednesday, October 12TH at 6pm, Wednesday,
November 2nd at 6pm. If we are going to meet any other dates throughout the semester you
will be notified ahead of time.
Tate st. Festival!!! Coming really SOON! SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
We will collect materials and make arts& crafts to sell at the festival. This is an annual
fundraiser that the NAEA has participated in. Some of the ideas we came up with at the
meeting were to create bracelets out of buttons, headbands, feather hair clips, records,
and mini magnets. These are all ideas that we think will sale fairly easy. We have set
aside three dates for Tate St. Workshops: SEPTEMBER 9TH @ 4pm, SEPTEMBER 12th
at 6pm, and SEPTEMBER 14TH at 6pm. Please come out and help create items to sell.
Donations of items are also accepted. Last year we had some paintings donated and
they sold quickly! If you cannot make it to any of the workshop dates above feel free to
make things at home and drop them off or contact one of the officers.

Tiffany LittleJohn, Kathryn Chaney ,Taylor Brock, Clemarie Thomas, Leslie Hollowell , Denise Kanir,
Sunshine Beshears, Shyla Sutton

Attendance will be kept for each meeting to keep up with the activity of our members.

It was great seeing new faces !!! Hope to see you all on Friday!

-Shyla Sutton, Co- President

NAEA Cookout and last meeting!

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http://www.punchbowl.com/parties/2020357-naea-cookout-senior-show

Breaking Down the Barriers: The Faces of Mental Health

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From Patrick Kalaw,

Eta Sigma Gamma, National Public Health Honorary

Peer Educator, Friends Helping Friends Program

Hello my name is Patrick Kalaw and I am the Mental Health Chair representing Eta Sigma Gamma, the national Public Health Honorary. We are putting on a mental health event called "Breaking Down the Barriers: The Faces of Mental Health" which will consist of guest speakers telling stories of their struggles with having a mental health diagnosis. After that will be a health fair style tabling session with different campus and community resources showcasing what they offer. The event will be on March 30th from 11am-1pm in the EUC Kirkland room and we invite you and members of National Art Education Association to attend. I believe this is pertinent information for your organization because creative arts students have shown much higher rates of suicide and suicide attempts than the general population. If you could forward this to other members of your organization it would be greatly appreciated. We look forward to seeing you all.

UNCG NAEA on GCSTV for the Western High Mural Project

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From

Jenny Brooks

Program Administrator - Broadcast

Guilford County Schools

This Newsbreak is the story of the Western High Mural Project. TV airtimes are as follows:

GCSTV 2 will air this Newsbreak daily at: 7:31 am, 9:53 am, 11:34 am, 3:59 pm, 5:32 pm, 7:55 pm and 8:55 pm.

ABC 45 will air this Newsbreak (in a shortened form due to their time constraints) on Friday, March 18^th at 7:25 and 8:25 am. These are the local cut-in times during “Good Morning America”.

This Newsbreak can also be seen at the web links below:

http://www.gcsnc.com/depts/gcstv2/nb/176.html

http://www.youtube.com/user/gcschoolsnc#p/a/u/0/2YZbkuH0lDQ

Please pass this information on to your students and parents….so they can watch or DVR it!

Thanks, and I’ll see you on TV!

Elsewhere Intern Flyer

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For all of those who plan on doing an internship with Elsewhere!

The Collaboratory Learning at Elsewhere

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This project will offer you all great opportunities to foster your passion in teaching art!

West Guilford Mural - January and February Volunteering

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Hooray volunteers!

Thus far we have a good amount of volunteers for the mural at West Guilford High School!

We always appreciate additional helping hands, but here's how it's looking so far:

And for February:

Again, if you are interested in volunteering, please let any of the officers know!

Welcome back, future Art Educators!

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Happy beginning of the semester everyone! Hopefully everyone's break was enjoyable and fun-filled.

Our first meeting of the semester is yet to be determined and you will all be notified as soon as a date is established.

Until then...

West Guilford High School needs our assistance in completing their mural that was started last semester. The sign up sheet is posted on facebook and on this blog. We could really use at least 3 people per day to help finish the project up. On Saturdays, as many folks as possible for volunteering would be incredible!

We hope to see your bright and smiling faces soon and best wishes in kicking off a new year!

West Guilford Mural Week 2 Sign ups!

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We just need 2 more volunteers, for each day: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday and one more for each day:Tuesday and Friday. Contact Tiffany via email or other NAEA officers if you can make any of these times.

West Guilford sign up sheet

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We would like to have 3 people for each day/time. An extra someone for Wednesday and 2 additional people for Thursday would be fantastic!

Art Education Seminar, Wednesday November 3

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Meeting Minutes From NAEA Oct 15, 2010

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Meeting Minutes

NAEA Oct 15, 2010

Started off meeting talking about last meeting and recent events:

Tate Street Festival:

- Made $250 - $50 fees = $200 profit

- Crazy spiders at Tate Street Fest J
- We made 50 before the festival booth officially opened (good idea next time?)
- We were one of the first things people saw when they walked down to festival
- Everyone feels pretty successful – sign up sheet good idea, time slots
- Next year: More ones! Like 50.
- Little and cheap: magnets sold really well, things people can use (functional)
- Advertise that the profits are going to the club
- Have a banner next year, may be a quilt banner?
- Itemized inventory of items, is it necessary?
- 3 people good idea to have in a shift

Write/explain position descriptions

- Everything you’re responsible for doing (so people know what to do next year)
- What publicity agents are responsible for

Mural Project at W. Guilford

- Meeting with teacher Monday () and Tuesday
- Signups are the only available times
- Story behind why we’re doing the mural: They approached us
- We’ll have a signup sheet, probably Monday or sometime soon
- People to head/lead the first days of project

- Volunteers

- This Monday
- See if Erin can extend hours til 2 or 3 instead of just 12-1, possibly some Saturdays
- Passed signup sheet around for everyone’s availability Nov 8-12 and Nov 15-19

Mural day at Ashley’s school:

- Day change (splitting it into 2 days instead of one)

Schedule of Volunteer times

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Flier for donations

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The big day is coming!!

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Tate Street Festival is almost upon us and we're just about 100% on having everything ready.

Fliers have been made for donations.
Donation times have been established and craft making days determined.
A schedule has been made for volunteers at our booth. We still need a few people...4 for each time slot. I'm posting a schedule that's the most up to date.

If you have any questions, let us know!

Minutes from the first Officers' meeting

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Sorry this is way late folks.

UNCG-NAEA officers meeting

September 3rd, 2010. 9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

Members attended: Maria, Becky, Jessica, Tiffany, Nikki, Austin

Agenda:
• Tate St. Festival
• NCAEA Membership/Dues
• New Bern
• Bake Sale
• Art Education Discussion Panel
• Monthly chapter day/time
• Monthly officers day/time

Tate St. Festival – September 20th-26th
Rent out space for tent ($50 to rent)
Make crafts to sell
Bring materials to next chapter meeting: fabrics and buttons for sock puppets, magnets and paints, paperweights, mini canvases, etc.

NCAEA – membership $25. Can be done online at NCAEA.org

Presentation in New Bern – 21st-24th Attend Saturday the 23rd?

Bake sale – discussed possibilities of doing another bake sale on campus to raise money for our chapter. Expand stands to Gatewood and EUC building. Look into fundraising deal with Krispy Kreme.

Art Education related activity: discussion panel of art educators in and around Greensboro. Planning on having this discussion sometime in November. Further planning will happen in future meetings. Expect at least 40 people to attend. Plan some kind of “speed-dating” art activities table.

Monthly Chapter day/time: 3rd Friday of every month
2:30 – 3:30 (Sept. 17th, Oct. 15, Nov. 19)
Monthly Officers day/time: Same as chapter meet dates but from 2:00-2:30

Upcoming Events

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Happy Sunday everyone!

As all of you know, the Tate Street Festival is fast approaching. We're now looking for volunteers for the booth we'll be setting up on Tate Street. I have attached a schedule thus far of people who are going to be there and what times. We're going to be setting up not later than 10/1030 and be there until 6pm.

Ideally, we would like to have 4 people for each shift. We're looking to have 2-hour increment slots (10am-12pm, 12pm-2pm, 2pm-4pm, 4pm-6pm) You can also volunteer for an hour if that's all you've got.

This is a great way to meet new people and earn bonus points in the art department. Even if you're not a member of the NAEA yet, but you'd like to contribute, we'd love for you to be there. Let me or any of the officers know if you'd like to sign up, via e-mail or facebook, or in person if you have the opportunity.

We're going to hold another set of meetings this week before the festival. Thursday Sept. 23 from 12-2pm and Friday Sept. 24 from 1pm-4pm in the art education room.

ALSO: There's an additional chance to volunteer your time coming up. The NAEA will be offering their services to a mural project at West Guilford Highschool. We'll be meeting with a teacher from the school on Thursday and will let everyone know when it'll be starting.

Thanks so much!

NAEA meeting this Friday!

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I'm not sure who, these days, would check the blog before they check their own facebooks, but for those of you who would, this is a friendly reminder!

This Friday, September 17th, we'll be meeting in room 206 of the Studio Arts building at 2:30pm. Officers will be meeting 30 minutes prior to deliberate.
Bring any donations and all kinds of awesome ideas to share with everyone so we can tackle tasks before the big day, NEXT SATURDAY!

If you have any questions, be sure to email us!

Latest updates for the UNCG NAEA!

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The year's starting full-swing and full-force, with a new chapter in the NAEA.

New officers have been elected for the year, and are as follows:
Jessica Sanford - President
Austin Smith - Vice-President
Becky Manning Hiatt - Secretary
Nikki and Tiffany - Publicity Agents

We hope that we'll have tons of new members this year to share in on the fun. If you're on the fence of whether or not you should join, PLEASE come out to the meeting. You can get a taste of what we're all about and hopefully that'll help you decide.

Some very important events/dates everyone should be aware of:
THIS FRIDAY September 10 - WE WILL NOT BE MEETING.
NEXT FRIDAY September 17 - WE WILL BE MEETING!
September 25 is the official day we will set up a booth at the Tate Street Festival to try and raise money for our organization. The UNCG homecoming is held Sep. 20-26, which is when we'll be there.

Art donations for the festival, from anyone, would be AMAZING! Donations include crafts and supplies such as stuffed creatures, pins, magnets, canvas art, most craft-ish items you can think of and paints, clay, cloth, anything to make something of. Donations should be delivered to room 206 in the Art building, but if you can't get there, PLEASE let us know, and we'll be happy to arrange for it to be picked up by one of our members. Jessica is willing to take donations as well, just let us know if you need her phone #.

Of course we realize that we all have pretty hectic schedules this time of year, but please know everyone is more than welcome to work on things on their own time. Halloween crafts are a great idea this time of year, and if anyone has any more ideas on what to make, let us know at the meeting.

We will also be meeting: (which are all Fridays at 2:30 - 3:30)
September 17
October 15
November 19

Officer meetings are held 2-2:30 (before chapter meetings)

Flyers will be posted in the Gatewood building and around Tate Street. Please tell your friends and family about the festival. We'd like to have as many people come by as possible!

The NAEA will be hosting a seminar in November, in what will probably be 2 sections/days. One day for lecture and the second, consecutive day for hands-on activities. Dates are to be determined. More than likely a Wednesday.

Jessica and Tiffany started off the year with a warm-up round at Maria's, where we dined on delicious Korean sustenance, provided by Maria and her family and friends. We went over some details of NAEA technicalities with Kara Seaford. It was a short visit, but a nice, informal introduction.

End of the Year Cookout

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NAEA National Convention

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Four of our Student Chapter officers gave a presentation on our club's service learning project: the Reedy Fork Elementary media center mural. Our club supervisor was there to introduce us! There were tons of presentations given by students, teachers, professors, and authors.

Ceramics Workshop

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We had a wheel-throwing workshop with local artist, Po-Wen (http://powenliu.blogspot.com/ ).

Most of the members that came to the workshop were learning for the first time how to throw a piece on the pottery wheel. It was a great learning experience and it was fun to meet and work with an artist from our community.

ART CAN!!!!!!

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Hello Everyone!

We've just found out that our NAEA Student Chapter will be participating again this year in the ArtCan competition in the sculpture garden of the Weatherspoon Art Museum on UNCG's campus. The event will take place on April 22 (Earth Day) from 3:30-5pm. The compitetion will be to collect canned and nonpershible food items and we will create a sculpture out of these items. The group with the best sculpure wins! We came in second place last year, lets see if we can take first this year! :)

Please drop off any food donations to Maria Lim's office on the 2nd floor of the studio art building.

We will keep you updated on when we will meet to plan our sculpture and make T-shirts!

Visit our blog to see images from last years competition: www.uncgarted.blogspot.com

ATTENTION

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Go to this!

Wednesday, April 21 @ 5:00 - Weatherspoon 103 Michael Christiano - Curator of Education at SECCA No Subject Left Behind. Connecting Learning Through the Arts

Jackson Library- Borrowed Narratives

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Go check out the art opening on Friday in the Jackson Library reading room! It features work by students in Leah Sobsey and Bryan Ellis' classes so you know the work will be amazing!

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Our club is presenting on Friday, April 16 at the NAEA National Convention in Baltimore!

3:00 PM-3:50 PM
Meeting Room 343/Center
Student Chapter (SC)
Face-lifting the NAEA Student Chapter at UNC-G
This presentation will discuss about the initiative process and capstone events participated by the NAEA student chapter to re-vitalize the art education student organization at UNC-Greensboro. Student officers and a faculty supervisor will share their journeys, reflections, and insights.
Eun-Hee (Maria) Lim, Ashley Perry, Chuck Siler

Check it out!

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Symposium at the Mint Museum

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Come support Tomi and come to the Mint Symposium on Saturday!

Please Help!!!

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Hi everyone,

You all recieved an email several weeks ago about the Art Celebration at Aycock Middle School. This is to raise money for their art department. Because of the bad weather, the celebration was rescheduled. It will now be taking place on Tuesday, March 23 from 5:00 to 7:00pm. If you are interested and available to volunteer at this time they would love to have your artistic talents put to use. If you want to sign up please email Maria Lim at e_lim@uncg.edu . Also,it would be great if you could be there by 4:45 to set up and find out what you will be doing. If any of you are willing/able to draw caricatures or quick portraits let Maria Lim know!

CERAMICS WORKSHOP!!!

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Hi Everyone,

UNCG NAEA is hosting a free hands-on ceramics workshop with Po-Wen Liu. He has work on display at the Green Hill Gallery at the Cultural Arts Center and has his own professional studio: Natural Green Pottery Studio. Please check out his website at http://powenliu.blogspot.com/ to see his work.

The workshop will be held on Friday, March 19 at 4:30-6:30pm in the Studio Arts building ceramics room in the basement level. Po-Wen Liu will give clay demonstrations and you will get the chance to create your own piece. We will need to know how much clay to have prepared, so if you are interested in attending you must sign up by responding to this e-mail. Please respond by Wednesday, March 17, if you are planning to attend.

Also, we will have a follow up workshop on Friday, April 30. This will be the glaze workshop. It will be in the same location from 4:30-6:30pm. You must have attended the clay workshop to be able to attend the glaze workshop (but you are not required to attend both if you can only come to the first).

Don't miss out on this great opportunity!

BAKE SALE!!!

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New Postcards!

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We have new postcards printed and ready to go to potential Art Education majors at UNCG!

MURAL COMPLETE!

2010-01-30T09:45:00.000-08:00

Our Mural at Reedy Fork Elementary was an amazing success! We worked hard brainstorming, painting, and perfecting our mural and the students and faculty were very impressed and appreciative! Thank you all for your help and support!
-Ashley

Mural Project in Progress

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Our club is working on a mural in the library of Reedy Fork Elementary School. Hopefully next week we can have more pictures of the FINAL product!

Falk- Visiting Artist Jon Rubin

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Jon Rubin is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores the social dynamics of public places and the idiosyncrasies of individual and group behavior. His solo and collaborative projects include creating a game show for ideas, opening a fake store in an indoor shopping mall, starting a restaurant that secretly runs via take-out from its double across the street, broadcasting an office's telephone conversations through a talking piano, running a neighborhood truck that gives away free homemade goods and services, operating a radio station that only plays the sound of an extinct bird, developing a hypnotized human robot army, producing a cable access variety show at a senior center, and developing a free nomadic art school. He has exhibited video, drawings, installations and public projects internationally including at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico; The Rooseum, Sweden; Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany; Nemo Film Festival, Paris; as well as in backyards, living rooms, and street corners.

Jon Rubin's Artist Lecture 5:00 p.m., Thursday November 12, Cone 103 Weatherspoon Art Museum

More details on his visit will be provided shortly.

More Pictures From Tate St. Festival

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The first picture shown is from one of our art-making meetings. The others are of our table at the Tate Street Festival. We had some great handmade pieces and despite the rain we were able to sell a lot of them! This was our first fundraising event.

Art Education K-12 Exhibition

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Tate St. Festivals and Updates!

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Tate St. Festival was a complete success!
We made over $200 for our club! Thank you to all who helped out with this event.

News From our amazing faculty advisor/art ed professor:

Hi Student officers,

I am so happy to inform you that our proposal submitted to the NAEA National Convention, in Baltimore has been competitively accepted. Congratulation!!! We will go to National!!! As Pat expressed, this is the first time in our history of art department. :) Pat & I are talking about the way we(Four of you & I) can receive college funds from the Dean. I will update with you about this matter.

I would like to meet the group who signed for the mural project to brainstorm ideas for a design. Friday, Oct.16, 4 pm was our next chapter meeting date & time I guess (due to having fall break for the second Friday that we originally chose to meet monthly). We shall call a meeting for the same date as we did set and we also can discuss about the mural. I will bring some finger food for our social and hope to discuss about our picnic!! :)

UPCOMING AT THE GATEWOOD:
Panel Presentation of K-12 Art Educators

Date: November 4, 2009 @5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Location: Gatewood Gallery
Panelist: Lisa Wood (Weavers’ Academy); Lisa Sterling (Southeast High School); Helen Palmentari (Northeast High School); Victoria Wreden-Sadeq (Newcomer’s School); Erin Stesch (Western Guilford High School).
Moderator: Dr. Maria Lim

Template for the Mural!

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Click to enlarge!!

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Upcoming Events...

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de Kooning's "Woman" turns 60!

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CELEBRATE HER BIRTHDAY AT THE NEXT WEATHERSPOON ART MUSEUM COMMUNITY DAY Saturday, October 17, 2009, Free

The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro is pleased to present the Fall Weatherspoon Community Day on Saturday, October 17, 2009, from 1-4 pm.
The focus of the day’s activities will be Willem de Kooning’s painting Woman, which turns 60 this year. A special community birthday cake will be cut and served at 2 pm.
Woman (1949) by Willem de Kooning is a pivotal work in the artist's career, as it anticipated the six famous "Woman" paintings he began in 1950. The purchase of the painting by the Weatherspoon in 1954 created something of an uproar in Greensboro: many people wondered why funds contributed in memory of former arts educator, Lena Kernodle McDuffie, would be spent on such a garish and aggressive image. Woman now holds rank as the jewel in the crown of the Museum's permanent collection.
Woman’s birthday party will include hands-on art activities for the young, and the young at heart, with special de Kooning-inspired collage/drawings, wacky photographic self-portraits, Modernist-inspired marker paintings, and a gallery scavenger hunt.
And, if you have not heard the Percussion Ensemble from The Winston-Salem Enrichment Center, this is your opportunity! They will be performing from 3-4 pm.
Director Aaron Bachelder (multi-instrumentalist and composer) formed the group in 1997 with interested students at the arts-based, not-for-profit program in Winston-Salem, North Carolina for adults with disabilities. The Percussion Ensemble recently released its third recording, Ten Songs, an eclectic mix of original music and unique interpretations of American standards, and it has performed at venues in New York and at the Museum of American Folk Art in Baltimore.
Players include: Valarie Williams- glockenspiel Andrew Shumaker- keyboards Jonathon Lindsay- piano Walker Lewis, Jr.- marimba, percussion Meredith Lamy- vibraphone Marcie Haley- drums Aaron Bachelder- guitar
For more on the Percussion Ensemble, visit their site: http://www.microearth.com/ecpe/ WAM Community Day events are fun for people of all ages who can enjoy art activities based on concepts derived from Weatherspoon’s varied exhibitions, great live music for the whole family, and refreshments. Gallery greeters will be on hand to answer questions as participants visit the Museum’s six galleries. Community Day is a wonderful opportunity to discover the museum for the very first time or to return and bring a friend who may not be familiar with everything the Weatherspoon has to offer. Community Days are normally scheduled in the Fall and Spring annually.
Image: Willem de Kooning, Woman, 1949, oil on canvas, 64 1/8 x 46 in. Lena Kernodle McDuffie memorial purchase, 1954.
About the Weatherspoon Art Museum
Mission The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro acquires, preserves, exhibits, and interprets modern and contemporary art for the benefit of its multiple audiences, including university, community, regional, and beyond. Through these activities, the museum recognizes its paramount role of public service, and enriches the lives of diverse individuals by fostering an informed appreciation and understanding of the visual arts and their relationship to the world in which we live.
History The Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro was founded by Gregory Ivy in 1941 and is the earliest of any art facilities within the UNC system. The museum was founded as a resource for the campus, community, and region and its early leadership developed an emphasis—maintained to this day—on presenting and acquiring modern and contemporary works of art. A 1950 bequest from the renowned collection of Claribel and Etta Cone, which included prints and bronzes by Henri Matisse and other works on paper by American and European modernists, helped to establish the Weatherspoon’s permanent collection. Other prescient acquisitions during Ivy’s tenure included a 1951 suspended mobile by Alexander Calder, Woman by Willem de Kooning, a pivotal work in the artist’s career that was purchased in 1954, and the first drawings by Eva Hesse and Robert Smithson to enter a museum collection.
In 1989, the museum moved into its present location in The Anne and Benjamin Cone Building designed by the architectural firm Mitchell Giurgula. The museum has six galleries and a sculpture courtyard with over 17,000 square feet of exhibition space. The American Association of Museums accredited the Weatherspoon in 1995 and renewed its accreditation in 2005.
Collections + Exhibitions The permanent collection of the Weatherspoon Art Museum is considered to be one of the foremost of its kind in the Southeast. It represents all major art movements from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Of the nearly 6,000 works in the collection are pieces by such prominent figures as Willem de Kooning, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Cindy Sherman, Al Held, Alex Katz, Henry Tanner, Louise Nevelson, Mark di Suvero, Deborah Butterfield, and Robert Rauschenberg. The museum regularly lends to major exhibitions nationally and internationally.
The Weatherspoon also is known for its adventurous and innovative exhibition program. Through a dynamic annual calendar of fifteen to eighteen exhibitions and a multi-disciplinary educational program for audiences of all ages, the museum provides an opportunity for audiences to consider artistic, cultural, and social issues of our time and enriches the life of our university, community, and region.
Weatherspoon Art Museum The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Spring Garden and Tate Streets, PO Box 26170 Greensboro, NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5770, weatherspoon@uncg.edu
Word Document:
For more information or high-resolution press images, contact: Loring Mortensen, 336-256-1451, lamorten@uncg.edu

CLUB AFFILIATION!

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It's a new semester guys! We really need everyone to help make this year great! We are going to be affiliating our club so I will try to keep you up to date!

If you did anything art-related this summer send me an email with photos so that I can post them here. [uncgnaea@gmail.com]

-Ashley

Student Organization Re-affiliation Meetings - Fall '09

All student organizations that would like to be affiliated during the Fall 2009 semester MUST re-affiliate each semester, regardless of whether your org. is currently affiliated this semest...er. Please plan to send one representative to one of the fall re-affiliation meetings:
Tues. 9/1 - 5 pm, Maple room, EUC
Wed. 9/2 - 2 pm, Maple room, EUC
Thurs. 9/3 - 10 am, Maple room, EUC

Please note that organizations that fail to attend one of these meetings will automatically lose affiliation for the Spring 2010 semester.
* Honor societies, graduate student organizations, and club sports are not required to attend these meetings to remain affiliated, but WILL be required to complete the online re-affiliation application in Fall 2009 in order to remain affiliated (details to come in early September about the application).

MINUTES FROM OUR LAST MEETING!!

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3^rd UNCG-NAEA Student Chapter Meeting Agenda

April 30, 2009

Gatewood 225

Announcements:

Art Can Event- Our group participated on April 23, 2009. We won 2^nd place overall and altogether the event raised about 1,300 cans. Ashley Perry has kindly put information and a video about this event on our blog.
NCAEA ’09 Conference- Scheduled for October 22-25, 2009 in Winston-Salem. Maria has proposed two presentations for our officers to give at the conference. All members must join NCAEA and our chapter to participate.
NAEA ’09 Minneapolis- Maria kindly showed us a photo presentation of her trip to this Conference.

Student Chapter Business Agenda:

Fundraising Event Ideas: Many ideas were raised including making and having people pay to decorate coffee cups, face painting at Kid’s Fest and other similar venues, handmade T-shirts to sell, painting seeded pots, etc. We are planning to host fundraisers relatively every month.
General Meeting Dates: We plan to schedule meetings once a month with updates on our blog and emails regularly unless we need to meet more than this for events. We will decide on times and dates for next year at the beginning of the fall semester ’09.
Membership Fee: $5?

Additional Comments Raised:

We need more advertising through email, flyers, and setting up tables in the EUC or atrium, etc.
Jamie Cope suggested that we involve ourselves in some way with Greenhill, a downtown art building for children.
In regards to the Tate Street Art Booth that we are planning to participate in, the suggestion to have people pay to paint a set amount of time on a large canvas. Then we would ask for their email address to send them a picture of the final project. More details to come.
Maria is planning to have a separate orientation of for incoming freshman Art Education majors. She is working to require them to join our Student NAEA Chapter. The suggestion to get a booth at SOAR was raised.

Members present:

Jaimie Cope
Chuck Siler
Becka Ledford
Jake Patton
Ashley Perry
Ali Kapps
Shyla Sutton
Lindsay Metz

At the Weatherspoon...

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May 5, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

EXHIBITION – EILEEN NEFF: BETWEEN US
May 24 – August 16, 2009

The Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is pleased to present the exhibition Eileen Neff: Between Us, which opens to the public on Sunday, May 24, 2009.

Eileen Neff: Between Us presents a selection of the artist's work from the last decade. Trained as a painter, Neff initially used the camera to produce pictures that she incorporated into early photo-objects and installations. Since 2000, her use of digital technology has facilitated her cut-and-paste approach to combining images into seamless collages, in which her essential theme of the collapse between interior and exterior space becomes apparent.

Neff's subjects seem at once familiar and arresting, a result of her using camera and computer, natural images and those constructed within her studio. One of her pictorial devices is the mirror image. In Narcissus (2001), a strip of river edged by lush forest is mirrored vertically, doubling the work's disorienting effect. Similarly in The Field and the Plane (2007), Neff produces a deep landscape by placing one image of a field on top of itself to meet an empty strip of sky.

A quiet sense of humor pervades Eileen Neff's work, as seen in a series of photographs entitled after famous writers. Dickinson (2004) shows a framed photograph of a long horizontal landscape hanging on a paneled interior wall, while a drawn-back curtain reveals an enlarged vertical sliver of the same landscape. The work speaks to Dickinson's self-imposed confinement and her deep appreciation for nature. Also from 2004, Thoreau poses a large landscape photograph resting atop a table in an otherwise bare room. Here, culture props up nature, much as it did for Thoreau as author, activist, and naturalist. The spare rooms of both works suggest the transcendentalist leanings of the two authors.

Eileen Neff has been exhibiting her work in this country and abroad since 1982, extensively in the Philadelphia area where she has lived and worked for many years. Eileen Neff: Between Us was initially organized for the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia by Patrick T. Murphy, director of the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin and Ingrid Schaffner, senior curator at the ICA. It was shown at the ICA and the Royal Hibernian Academy before traveling to the Weatherspoon.

Image: Eileen Neff, Anecdote of the Tree, 1999-2000, C-print mounted on aluminum, 44 x 64 in. Courtesy of the artist and Locks Gallery.

Related Events

Artist Talk: Eileen Neff
Thursday, June 4, 5:30 pm, with reception to follow.

Noon @ the ‘Spoon Public Tour – Eileen Neff: Between Us
Tuesday, July 14, 12 noon
Join us for a 20-minute staff or docent-led gallery tour.

INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY!!!

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This is a VERY GOOD opportunity and I think everyone should check it out!!!

Henri Matisse Internship

Greensboro, NC - April 28, 2009 - Caldcleugh Multicultural Arts Center, offers a 4 week internship for undergraduate or graduate art students through its After School Arts program. Intern would be expected to research, develop and implement a project with students in grades K-5 about the life and work of Henri Matisse. Project timeline: March 29-April 30, 2010.

After School Arts

After School Arts is a program of City Arts and the Greensboro Parks and Recreation Department. Its purpose is to provide quality after school care that includes homework assistance, one-on-one tutorials and activities that expose young people to the artistic traditions and culture of people throughout the world.

About Caldcleugh Multicultural Arts Center

Caldcleugh Multicultural Arts Center is an outreach arts facility affiliated with the City of Greensboro Parks and Recreation Department and City Arts. It provides a variety of opportunities for emerging artists to either develop or share their skills and knowledge with young people.

Contact:
Kerri Mubaarak, Director
City Arts/Caldcleugh
200 N. Davie St. Box #2
Greensboro, NC 27401
336-373-5881
kerri.mubaarak@greensboro-nc.gov

Caldcleugh Multicultural Arts Center
1700 Orchard Street
Greensboro, NC 27406
336-373-5881 (office)
336-373-5816 (fax)

ART CAN!!!!

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OUR SIGN!

THE LADIES

THE FELLAS

THE CANS

READY SET GO!

A BALANCING ACT

OUR LOVELY CAN SCULPTURE!

FROM THE TOP

OUR ART CAN TEAM!

2ND PLACE!!

VIDEO FROM ART CAN!! [photos coming soon!]

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http://webmedia.news-record.com/legacy/indepth/09/04/can_art_hd/

T-Shirt Options

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Pictures from our last meeting

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We were all working hard on coming up with a can sculpture design!

We can't wait to see everyone at the ArtCan event on Thursday.

Meeting Minutes: April 16, 2009

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Meeting Minutes
UNCG Student Chapter of the National Art Education Association (NAEA)
4:00-5:45pm, April 16, 2009
Members Present: 9
Advisor Present: Maria Lim

Business Agenda

ArtCan! is next Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 2:30 outside of the Weatherspoon Art Museum! UNCG NAEA Student Chapter will be competing.
We decided to meet in the Studio Building, room 225 at 1:00pm on Thursday, April 23 to make our own t-shirts to wear to the ArtCan! event. If you can't be there at 1:00, drop a shirt off to Maria Lim and we will make it for you and bring it to the event at 2:30.
If possible, please meet us at the Studio Building room 225 office at 2:00pm on Thursday to carry the cans over to the event site.
We need a club logo: if you have design ideas, please e-mail them to uncgnaea@gmail.com as a JPEG file by Monday morning (April 20) when we will send out all the designs by e-mail and vote on which one to use. The final design will be printed out and ironed on to our club t-shirts.
We have a good number of cans (but still need more) and were able to come up with an idea for our sculpture. If you have cans please bring them with you on Thursday to the ArtCan! competition.
If you want to be involved in the NCNAEA State Conference weekend in October 2009 in Winston-Salem, please e-mail Maria Lim at e_lim@uncg.edu

Our UNCG NAEA Student Chapter Constitution

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Constitution

ARTICLE I: CLUB AND AFFILIATION

Section I The name of this organization shall be the UNCG Student Chapter of the National Art Education Association

Section 2 The organization is affiliated with the State and the National Art Education Association.

ARTICLE II: OBJECTIVE

The object of this organization shall be to promote learning in the visual art and art education.

ARTICLE III: MEMBERSHIP

Section 1 Membership in this organization is open to anyone interested in art education, particularly but not limited to Art Education students.

Section 2 The advisor and officers shall determine the dues needed for membership in accordance with any state and national dues along with any needed dues for club operations.

Section 3 Members majoring in Art Education shall register with the NAEA. All non-Art Education members shall pay club dues only.

ARTICLE IV: MEETINGS

Section 1 General meetings shall be held monthly.

Section 2 Special meetings may be called by the president.

Section 3 All decisions at meetings will be made by majority vote with two-thirds attendance.

Section 4 Notification of meetings will be announced at previous meetings, through email or other electronic communication, and by means of advertising and publicity.

ARTICLE V: OFFICERS

Section 1 The officers of this organization shall be a president, a vice president, two publicity agents, and a treasurer.

Section 2 The president shall call and run the meetings, and shall organize activities.

The vice president shall support and assist the president and keep minutes of the meetings.

The publicity agent shall be responsible for the promotion and advertising of meetings and events including recruitment of new members.

The treasurer shall be responsible for the management of the income and expenditure of club funds.

Section 3 The officers shall be elected by ballot at the end of the spring semester and shall continue in office for one year (fall and spring semesters).

Section 4 A majority of all votes shall be necessary to constitute an election.

Section 5 Any vacancies may be filled by special election.

Section 6 Officers may be removed from office by a majority vote of members.

ARTICLE VI: ELECTIONS

Section 1 Elections shall be held at the end of the spring semester.

Section 2 Nominations will be made: at the meeting prior to the election or to the current advisor or officers before the election meeting.

Section 3 Nominated candidates must have been a member for at least one semester, be in good academic standing, and be able to fulfill the nominated position for the full term.

Section 4 Good academic standing shall be considered holding a minimum of a 2.7 GPA and being a full time student. The nominated candidate must provide verification of good academic standing to the club advisor.

ARTICLE VII: THE CONSTITUTION

Section 1 The constitution shall be read at the fall semester of each year.

Section 2 Copies of the constitution shall be available to all interested members.

ARTICLE VIII: THE ADVISOR

Section 1 The advisor for this organization shall be the Coordinator of the Art Education program or another appropriate member of the faculty.

Section 2 The advisor’s duties are to provide support and information.

ARTICLE IX: AMENDMENTS

Section 1 This constitution may be amended at a regular meeting by a 2/3 vote of all members.

Section 2 Amendments to this constitution become effective upon approval of the organization, the Council on Student Welfare, and the Vice President for Student Services.

Summer Ceramics Course

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Meeting Minutes: March 19, 2009

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Meeting Minutes
UNCG Student Chapter of the National Art Education Association (NAEA)
4:00-5:10 pm, March 19, 2009
Member present: Rebecca Ledford, Lindsay Metz, Chuck Siler, Ashley Perry, Kara Seaford,
Shyla Sutton, Lauren Ward
Advisor present: Dr. Maria Lim
Excused: Katy Lupton, Kate Kapps, Stephanie Wells, Erica Tobin, Jaimie Cope,
Ashley Dean

Business Agenda

We had a great first meeting!
There were seven students present along with one advisor.
We discussed future fund-raising options as well as other club activities such as:
Art Can!-Sculpture competition, Tate Street Festival, Bake Sales, etc.
We voted and agreed on the Constitution of the UNCG Student Chapter of the NAEA after making one change:
We added a section 3 to Article III (Membership)
Section 3: Members majoring in Art Education shall register with the NAEA. All non-Art Education members shall pay club dues only.
The constitution will be available on http://uncgarted.blogspot.com/
We also voted on five Club Officers. Their running term is from now until spring 2010. The officers are as follows:
President: Chuck Siler
Vice President: Lindsay Metz
Treasurer: Rebecca Ledford
Publicity Agents: Ashley Perry and Kara Seaford

It's Official!

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We WILL be participating in the Art Can event at the Weatherspoon!!! Here is a description:
[For Rules, click HERE!]
4/23/2009

2:30 PM Art CAN!, Farmers' Market and Sustainability Film: "Wal-Town" -

Celebrate Earth Week at UNCG and the Weatherspoon Art Museum. For a full list of events and sustainability initiatives at UNCG, visit http://www.uncg.edu/rcy and http://sustain.uncg.edu.

2:30-4 pm: Art CAN! - UNCG departments and student organizations battle in the first-ever team sculpture building competition using only canned and boxed foods. Competition begins at 2:30 with judging at 3:15pm. All 'sculptures' will be donated to the Greensboro Food Bank following the event. Co-sponsored by the UNCG Division of Enrollment Services and the Office of Waste Reduction and Recycling. Rain or shine event.

4-6 pm: 2nd Annual Farmers' Market - Meet local farmers and organic growers from the Piedmont Triad area. Produce and other food items will be available for purchase. Sponsored by the UNCG Sustainability Committee.

6:30 pm: Sustainability Film: Wal-Town - Six student activists. Thirty-six Canadian towns. One giant corporation. A daunting experiment in activism. A group of six university students, calling themselves Wal-Town, take to the Canadian highway over two summers. Directed by Sergeo Kirby, 2006, 66 min.

In collaboration with the UNCG Sustainability Committee, the Weatherspoon Art Museum presents a second year-long film and discussion series on current issues affecting the environment. Films are free, seating is limited. For details on the films and ways UNCG is working to identify sustainable practices across the community, visit http://sustain.uncg.edu.

We need to meet before this to practice and begin collecting cans!!!! Let me know if you can!!

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Hopefully we will be able to participate in the upcoming Weatherspoon Event Art Can! Maria Lim [our faculty advisor] has emailed to sign up but it's first-come first-serve.

Hello Members!

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Today was the first unofficial meeting for the UNCG chapter of the National Art Education Association. We have a lot to do before we re-affiliate, and we are excited to get started! Soon, I will have more updates and information to post, but for now we will just keep you up to date through email and facebook!

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