BAEA Workshop

MIXED MEDIA workshop

By Kellie newsome

Where:  Alabama Art Supply

When:  Tuesday March 26, 2013            4:00-6:00 pm

BAEA (Birmingham Art Education Association) and Kellie Newsome are hosting a “Mixed Media with Photo Transfers” workshop.  Kellie will share her techniques as you create your own unique art piece.  This workshop will include paint and one surface with a prepared photo transfer for you to complete and one surface for you to start a photo transfer. IF you would like to bring watercolor paper or another canvas you can paint as much as you want on the surface of your choice. The theme for the photo transfer is up to you. You can choose whatever image you like ahead of time.  If you decide to go this route, you will need to email the images to us by Wednesday, March 20^th so Kellie has time to print them at home and prepare them ahead of time. 

This workshop is open to all.  Workshop cost is $25 for non-members.  If you are up to date on your AAEA dues and would like to join BAEA ($10 annual dues) the workshop is free of charge.  .  The workshop space is limited to 15 people and the registration and payments will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. 

**Deadline for BAEA to receive registration is Wednesday, March 20th.  You can email or snail mail registration forms.  Payment is due at beginning of workshop.  If you have any questions please email Lindsay Mouyal at lmouyal@jefcoed.com or Casey Williamson at cwilliamson@jefcoed.com.  Checks should be written out to “BAEA .”

All registration forms and fees can be mailed to:

Lindsay Mouyal, 4407 6^th Avenue South, Birmingham AL  35222

You can check out Kellie's website and her art at www.kellienewsome.com/

Click here for registration form!

YAM Exhibition at BMA

The Birmingham Museum of Art

invites you to

celebrate the opening of the

20^th Anniversary

Youth Art Month Exhibition

Sunday, March 3

3:00 to 4:30 p.m.

Remarks at 3:20

Education Gallery

BAEA Silent Auction Flyer

Thanks to Mollie Blackwood for designing and creating this funky flyer for us.  Please come out on Februar 15th and support the arts!

BAEA Silent Auction

Check out our press release for the upcoming silent auction!  It is only a couple of weeks away, so mark it on your calendar now!  Special thanks to Greg Robinson for donating his P.R. skills by creating the press release for us, to Mollie Blackwood for creating our flyer design (images to come soon), and of course a big thanks to all of the artists and businesses who donated items to be auctioned off.  Another huge thanks to Daniel George restraunt in Mountain Brook for providing refreshments and to Avondale Brewery for hosting us!  We are so very excited!

-Lindsay and Casey

Birmingham Art Educators Host Silent Auction at Avondale Brewing Company

Guests will support professional development workshops by bidding on local and national artists’ work, among other items.

Birmingham—The Birmingham Art Education Association is hosting a silent auction at Avondale Brewing Company (201 41st Street South, Birmingham) 5-8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 15 to fund its professional development workshops for art teachers throughout central Alabama. This auction, open to the public, will include original artwork and other local business offers.

“With this event, we are hoping to establish a better grassroots connection with art patrons and would-be patrons of Birmingham, which makes Avondale Brewing an excellent venue,” said Lindsay Mouyal, a BAEA representative and participating artist. “The professional development activities that this event helps fund will impact our ability to develop the next generation of Alabama artists.” Past workshops have included topics such as the use of assessments in art education, cross-content connections through arts integration, teacher-tested art lesson plans and glass fusing with kilns.

Items for bid at the silent auction will include the following: original artwork by local and national artists, such as Jessie Rau, Sharon Christman and Becky Guinn; gift certificates to local restaurants and businesses; museum memberships; and more.

Daniel George Restaurant, of Mountain Brook, will serve refreshments during the event, and Avondale Brewing Company will open their private upstairs bar. Admission will be free, but bidders should make sure and bring cash or checks—the only accepted forms of payment for the auction.

About BAEA

BAEA or the Birmingham Art Education Association is a local organization affiliated with its state and national sister groups AAEA (Alabama Art Education Association) and NAEA (National Art Education Association). BAEA conducts professional development meetings and workshops to encourage best teaching practices among art educators in the Birmingham and Central Alabama region. Keep up with the BAEA here: http://bhamartteachers.blogspot.com/.

About Avondale Brewing Company

Combine the charm of a historic town, the passions of several good friends, a rooted respect for the craft of brewing and you have unearthed the beginning of what Avondale Brewing Company is all about. A byproduct of the collaboration between Coby and Hunter Lake and Craig Shaw, ABC is a locally owned and operated brewery in the heart of the Deep South with an unmistakable affinity for hand-crafted brews. For more information, visit http://www.avondalebrewing.com/.

Contact:

Lindsay Mouyal                                  Greg Robinson
Visual Arts Teacher                             PR Coordinator
BAEA Representative                        (229) 507-8343

(205) 222-4413                                    gregwrightrobinson@gmail.com

lmouyal@jefcoed.com

Chinese New Year Exhibit at the BMA

The Birmingham Museum of Art is calling for artwork for their Chinese New Year Exhibit held in January.  The show is open to all age groups.  Each teacher may submit one entry. The deadline is December 7th to get your work in!  Send all artwork directly to the education department at the museum.

Norman Rockwell Storyteller

Sharon Christman told me about a wonderful opportunity for us to get together.  I know this is a busy time of year, so don't feel obligated to come.  It isn't an official BAEA meeting, just a great opportunity to get together at a great event.  Let me know if anybody is interested in going!

 

This coming Thursday, November 15th from 6:30-7:30 pm there will be a guest speaker at the Irondale Library.  See information below:

 

Dolores Hydock 'Behind the Covers-Norman Rockwell as Storyteller
Irondale Public Library
105 20th Street South.
Irondale, 35210
Thursday, Nov. 15th at 6:30

 

Free to the public, no reservations needed.

 

There was a HUGE crowd at the Museum.
**might be same situation at library, so might want to get there early to get a seat.

Arts Integration through Cross Content Connections in the Classroom

Wow!  I am still pumped from all of the fabulous ideas about arts integration that were shared at our BAEA meeting this November at the Birmingham Museum of Art! 

First, I want to point out how great of a tool cross content connections can be for you as an art educator.  We all know (because we do it every day) how rich the arts are and how they are already embedded with other subjects.  Whether it is literacy, math, science, history, foreign language, or something else, many of the lessons we teach in art already connect to another subject.  The problem is, we don't always help our students to make those connections and our fellow teachers and administrators don't always know it either.  Taking the core standards that your students are learning in their regular classrooms and using them to inspire you as you plan your art lessons can create wonderful learning experiences in your classroom; not to mention advocate the importance of arts education.  Advocating the importance of what you do, now more than ever, is so important!  In fact, Laura Reichert shared a great idea that she does every year.  She compiles an end of year report that lists all the cross content connections she taught in her art classes, exhibition opportunities that she provided her students, and other accomplishments she had during the school year.  At the end of the year, she passes this on to her administrator to put on file so that if anybody ever approaches her school and asks, "why are the arts important?" there is already a response on file.  Ok, I think I am going to step off of my soap box now and share more of the ideas discussed at our meeting!

Suzy Harris, Associate Curator of Education at the Birmingham Museum of Art, got the opportunity to spend a week at the Kennedy Center last spring.  Staci Jacks, who serves as the Visual Arts Supervisor for Jefferson County Schools, also went.  This has resulted in a partnership between the museum and Jefferson County.  They have been working hard to bring a lot of what they learned back to us!  They have planned workshops for teachers (from any school system).  That begins with a Poetry focused event Thursday, January 10th, from 4:00-7:00 pm.  When they surveyed administrators, the consensus was to focus on literacy.  The January 10th visit will be led by Glenis Redmond and combines poetry and performance!  There are two more workshops planned for Thursday, February 7th from 4:00-7:00 pm and Saturday, March 9th from 8:30-11:30 and 12:30-3:30.  This year they are focusing on elementary with hopes of continuing this project next year with an emphasis on the secondary level.  For more information or to enroll in one of the workshops visit their website at www.artsbma.org/teachers.

Glenis Redmond is an award-winning performance poet

The Kennedy Center's Definition for Arts Integration:

"Arts Integration is an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form.  Students engage in a creative process which connects an art form and another subject area and meets evolving objectives in both."

Mary Jane Coker, art teacher at Shades Cahaba Elementary, shared an art lesson she has taught to her elementary students.  She spoke about wanting to focus on literacy.  She approached the regular classroom teachers at her school and asked what they would like her to incorporate into her art lessons.  Their response was adjectives and nouns!  So, she placed word cubes at each table.  The lesson was introduced by asking students to roll the word cubes like dice to come up with a noun and an adjective.  Then, they had to draw a picture demonstrating the nouns and adjectives without actually adding any words to the image.  For example,"Pretty, Yellow, Apple" or "Crazy, Ugly, Lion."  She brought examples of the completed projects and they were wonderful!

Shelly Bailey, art teacher at McAdory Elementary, shared what she and her fellow resource teachers are doing at her school.  They have created an excel document outlining all of the Alabama Course of Study Objectives in Reading and Math.  They also refer to the standards for other subjects (science, social studies) online.  Then, they use these as inspiration when planning their lessons in art, music, library, and P.E.  Individually, they each create cross content connections in several lessons throughout the year.  They also try and collaborate a few times throughout the school year to do a unit together at the same time.  For example, Shelly shared how they did a collaborative unit on Japan.  The regular classroom teachers, for a certain grade level, were focusing on Japan for their reading unit.  Shelly did an art lesson on Japanese temples, the librarian read stories about Japanese culture and taught a little of the native language, the music teacher did a lesson on Japanese music, and I believe the coach focused on popular sports from Japan.  As you see, this creates a more holistic learning experience for the students! 

Casey Williamson, art teacher at Rudd Middle School, shared some ideas about how she addresses the growing needs of ESL learners in her art classroom.  She shared graphic organizers, a sample SIOP lesson plan, and more.  This was based on the workshop she taught at the recent AAEA fall conference in Orange Beach, AL.  My favorite idea that she shared is called the "hot onion."  What you do is write vocabulary words on pieces of paper.  You crumble one up, then crumble another wrapping it around the first, and then keep repeating with the rest of the vocabulary words.  What you end up with is a big ball.  Students get together and toss the "hot onion" ball around.  They "peel" off a vocabulary word and try to tell the definition.  If they get it right, they can toss the ball to somebody else.  This is a great way to assess your students.  Having the word in front of them is much better than just saying it aloud and calling on somebody to answer.  It helps not just your ESL learners, but everybody to see the word and it's spelling.

Lindsay Mouyal, art teacher at two elementary schools in Jefferson county (Adamsville and Brookville) shared some planning documents that she got from the SAIL conference she attended in Montgomery this summer that focused on arts integration.  She also shared some lessons she has taught in her classroom that incorporated other contents.  For example, she taught a lesson on outer space to her second graders and started the lesson out by asking them to share with her what they had already learned about outer space.  They had previously read a story with their reading series titled, "Exploring Outer Space with an Astronaut."  Then, she taught them the art technique of shading and they completed a drawing of the planets.  They were so excited to share what they knew!  She also shared an art resource request form she created and gave to the other teachers at her schools.  It gives them an opportunity to request help with incorporating the arts into their lessons, team teaching, and more. She also received a grant to have the "Hooked on Art" program visit her schools.  They will be coming this month and presenting a lesson that incorporates science concepts involving weather and tying it to artists who represent weather and the effects it has on surroundings in their art.  If you would like to have them come visit your school, you can email Becky Guinn for more information at bwguinn.guinn@gmail.com.

Kim Brodie, art teacher at Center Point Elementary, shared some fabulous arts integration lessons she has taught to her students.  One example is called “Who Works Here?” and uses actual people working in her community as inspiration.  Then students do self-portraits showing themselves as employees of somewhere in the community.

I have added document attachments of some of the resources that were shared.  If you have problems opening them email me!  If you want more information or have some arts integration ideas you would like to share with us please email me at artlindsay@yahoo.com or post a comment to this blog post!