ENVIRONMENT 5 Retiree Recognition 6 Request for Proposals

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art 4 AEM President’s Message ENVIRONMENT 5 Retiree Recognition 6 Request for Proposals

7 News from the Perpich Center

AEM’s fall conference is coming 8 Art Made with Hands

9 Celebrate Conservation through the Arts

Find the conference schedule, 10 MSHSL Visual Art Competitions 15 2013 Spotlight on the Arts hotel, and registration information online 16 Editor’s Corner

at www.aem-mn.org! 17 Art Invasion

18 Different Art History Periods

Art + Environment, AEM’s fall conference this coming November 8 and 9 in Duluth, will be 19 Holistic Management organized a little differently than past conferences! With dwindling staff development funds 20 Art Teachers as Artists in our schools, we have made changes to enable our state’s art teachers to participate in this amazing staff development opportunity doable for art educators around the state. These mea- 22 AEM Council Roster sures include offering one- or both-day pricing with a full schedule for each conference day, compelling keynotes, and a separation of membership from the conference. Can you still pay for your membership with your conference fee? Yes, but you no longer “have to” be a member Art Educators of Minnesota of AEM to attend. Your membership will be your professional responsibility; much like your Mission Statement participation in other valuable civil and social organizations – and of course, AEM and NAEA Promote and advocate quality art education need and want your continued support. All of us together make a difference to our profession! for all learners through networking, sharing and collaborating with local, state and On the next page there's a quick draft of the conference schedule or see the online schedule national resources and provide information and professional growth opportunities for for the up-to-date sessions so that you can plan your day(s)! all art educators of Minnesota.

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NEWS FLASH Draft of the conference schedule Fall Conference payment options Friday, November 8 Saturday, November 9 become more flexible! 7:45 - 9:00 Registration, Coffee, Raffle Sales 8:30 - 9:00 Registration, Coffee We know times are tough and staff de- 8:45 - 9:00 Welcome and Introduction 9:30 - 10:30 Workshop Session IV velopment money is hard to come by…so 9:00 -10:30 Cheng Khee Chee 10:45 - 11:45 Ann Klefstad many of our members are paying for AEM 10:45 -11:45 Workshop Session I 12:00 - 12:45 Panel Discussion, Lunch fall conference out of their own pockets. 12:00 - 1:30 AEM Awards Luncheon 1:00 - 2:00 Workshop Session V This year, we have SEPARATED member- 1:45 - 2:45 Workshop Session II 2:15 - 3:15 Workshop Session VI ship and conference registration so that 3:00 - 4:00 Workshop Session III anyone may attend AEM’s fall conference, with or without a membership. 4:15 - 6:15 Reception, Electronic Members’ Show Our hope is to bring in more people, so (TADA), Art on the Spot Exhibition, invite your colleagues, curriculum support Artists’ Marketplace people, and principals to come see what we 6:30 Leadership Dinner do and why art education is so important! We have also set up registration this year so that you will have the option to attend VENDORS will be at the conference both days: Friday from 12:30-5:30, and Saturday from and pay for EITHER Friday, OR Saturday, 9:00-12:00. or BOTH. Because of our awesome venue in Duluth, we will have more sessions and Cheng Khee Chee: Friday Keynote options on Saturday available, so if that’s the only day that works for you, you can Ann Klefstad: Saturday Keynote still be assured of getting a lot of bang for your buck. There will be fascinating Sessions include a variety of presentations in visual and media arts, including hands-on keynotes and great vendors BOTH DAYS! options and courses that meet re-licensure requirements. See the webpage for complete session descriptions. Do we still want you to be members? You bet! As an option during the fall conference The Inn On Lake Superior: is our conference hotel. Please register online at: www.thein- registration process, you can also pay for nonlakesuperior.com before October 7, 2013 to receive the reduced rate. The group ID # your AEM/NAEA membership at the same is 4858. The password is 37000033. The Inn is holding our conference rate for Thursday, time if you wish! Being a member of AEM/ Friday and Saturday nights; should you wish to bring the family and make a mini getaway NAEA gives you all sorts of benefits, activi- on Lake Superior! ties, and access to resources that will help you as an art educator grow, build your The Art + Environment Conference will take place at the DECC – Duluth Entertainment and networks, and be supported. It also helps Convention Center – right on the waterfront. The Inn on Lake Superior is just a short walk us stay connected with you so we can across Canal Park and over the Minnesota Slip Bridge. keep you updated with all the important happenings in art education in Minnesota. Attendee 1 day $85.00 Attendee 2 days $150.00 We have over 40 sessions lined up on and College Student 1 day $25.00 around our theme of Arts+Environment. College Student 2 days $40.00 Some of this year’s sessions will cover Retired Teacher 1 or 2 days $00.00 your relicensing areas as well – so be sure to look for those in the session list! AEM/NAEA dues can be paid with registration at regular rates. Registration and materials will be online Active $95 soon – watch for a gmail blast from AEM Associate $65 and be sure to Like our Facebook page! Retired $60 https://www.facebook.com/ArtEducator- Student $35 sofMinnesota Institutional $285

2 www.aem-mn.org AEM Art Exchange Cheng-Khee Chee presentation Ann Klefstad presentation

ENVIRONMENT AND ART: art and the natural world: How Environments Influence Artists and Art In a Teaching Context

Cheng-Khee Chee will give a 90-Minute presentation on the top “Environment Ann Klefstad will present on art and the natural world in a teaching context. Klefstad and Art” at the Educators of Minnesota 2013 Fall Conference. The presentation is a sculptor whose public commissions and studio work strive to evoke the enveloping will be in two parts. presence of the nonhuman world, and to encourage viewers to awaken to a broader perception of the presence of nature. She believes that one of the primary gifts of Part 1. Cheng-Khee will give a lecture on how the following environments artmaking is that it teaches the habit of careful perception, which young people need influence artists and Art: in order to know and love their natural surroundings. One does not protect what one does not love; one cannot love responsibly what one does not know. 1. The Family Environment A close relationship with the natural environment has much to teach young 2. The Social Environment artists as well. Algorithms of the forms of living beings, the shapes of life, the 3. The Economic Environment hypercomplexity of a boreal forest: all of this can be best seen by eyes that can 4. Political Environment see form and color as detached from immediate utility, as living for living’s sake. 5. The Geographical Environment Art teaches us to see things for themselves, not just for our use. This ties in to 6. The Cultural Environment the deep ecology of Arne Naess and recent ethological writers, whose work 7. The Mental Environment will be touched on in the presentation, along with the work of authors such as 8. The Cyber Environment Diane Ackerman, E. O. Wilson, and Ellen Dissanayake, writings that address the evolution of our species as driven by artmaking in relation to the natural world. Part 2. Cheng-Khee will give a painting demonstration to illustrate how his Some of Klefstad’s writing on art can be found on her clips site, sites.google. environments, especially the multicultural environment, influence his artistic com/site/annklefstadwrite; commissioned and studio sculpture is at http://annklef- development, creative concepts, and ways of working. He will also suggest the stad.com ; her body of water work is on walkonwaterannklefstad.blogspot.com possible application of some of his approaches to our art education programs. FROM ANN CHENG-KHEE CHEE, AWS DF, NWS, TWSA I will be talking to the art educators on art and the natural world in a teaching Cheng-Khee Chee, Associate Professor Emeritus of the University of Min- context. The natural world has certainly become the focus of my work. I believe nesota, is a Dolphin Fellow of the American Watercolor Society, signature member that art making teaches the habits of careful perception, which young people need of the National Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society of America in order to know and love their natural surroundings. One does not protect what (Master Status), Watercolor USA Honor Society and many others. He has received one does not love; one cannot love responsibly what one does not know. over 200 national awards, including the American Watercolor Society Silver Medal, I think also that a close relationship with the natural environment has much Transparent Watercolor Society of America Skyledge Award (First Place), Allied to teach young artists: the algorithms of the forms of living beings, the shapes of Artists of America Gold Medal and Knickerbocker Artists USA Grand Award Gold life, the hyper-complexity of a boreal forest, all of this can be best seen by eyes Medal and Purchase Prize for Excellence. His publications include The Watercolor that can see form and color as detached from immediate utility. Art teaches us World of Cheng-Khee Chee (book), The Work of Cheng-Khee Chee (Instructional to see things for themselves, not just for our use. This ties in to the deep ecology Manual), Old Turtle (illustration), and the 6-volume instructional DVDs. of Arne Naess and recent ethological writers. Chee was the recipient of the 1994 University of Minnesota system-wide I will present some research from authors such as Diane Ackerman, E. O. University College Distinguished Teaching Award and the 1994 University of Wilson, and Ellen Dissanayake that bear out some of these ideas and address Minnesota, Duluth Campus Chancellor’s Distinguished Services Award. He has the evolution of our species as driven by art making in relation to the natural explored and experimented with ways to synthesize the concepts and processes world, and also to include a few images of artworks from Minnesota (both mine of both Eastern and Western traditions. His work comprises many styles from and those of others) that are emblematic of some of these points. traditional to nonobjective. He is a popular workshop instructor and national Some of my writing on art can be found on my clips site, sites.google.com/ show juror. His breakthroughs in concepts and processes have greatly influenced site/annklefstadwrite; my sculpture is on mnartists.org/ann_klefstad; my water the direction of watermedia painting. work is on walkonwaterannklefstad.blogspot.com present some research from www.chengkheechee.com authors such as Diane Ackerman, E. O. Wilson, and Ellen Dissanayake that bear out some of these ideas and address the evolution of our species as driven by artmaking in relation to the natural world, and also to include a few images of artworks from Minnesota (both mine and those of others) that are emblematic of some of these points. Some of my writing on art can be found on my clips site, sites.google.com/ site/annklefstadwrite; my sculpture is on mnartists.org/ann_klefstad; my water work is on walkonwaterannklefstad.blogspot.com www.aem-mn.org Fall 2013 AEM Art Exchange 3 AEM President’s Message

by Kris Holsen

Happy New Year! As I write this – it is mid- As you plan your school year, don’t forget to We are looking for some members who can come summer – and as much as it irks me that a put in NOW to attend our fabulous Fall Confer- help out our organization in large and small ways certain MN retailer has Back-to-School items in ence by the big lake in Duluth! AEM’s annual – please be open to helping with the tasks of our their seasonal aisles already, you and I know that conference is a not-to-be missed gathering of committees. We’ll take any amount of time and a teacher’s summer is an essential part of their YOUR people – people who care about the arts expertise you have to offer to help us all teach art success in the classroom. We work so many hours and who understand what you do – and want better, supported by AEM. So please say yes! I’m during the school year that there never seems to to share and discuss how we can all do it better. hosting a Saturday session where you can drop be time to think about how to improve what we One the most fabulous things about education to by and explore how AEM works and how you can do, or to learn a new skill, or even to stop and me is that teacher share and steal ideas constant- be involved. (I’ll even bring cookies!) It takes all breathe and relax and recharge. ly – because we all want what’s best for the kids. of us. Our leadership session on Holistic Man- Come recharge, learn, laugh, and grow with the agement was a great catalyst for bringing our I hope your summer was full of a balance of most fabulous people anywhere. And bring your mission to the forefront of our everyday activities. relaxation and inspiration, and that all that colleagues! This year anyone can attend with our Remember AEM is here to: sunshine and rain helped you grow along with without a membership – so lets integrate with all the green lushness I can never quite believe in other disciplines and get our leaders involved come January. And now – here we go! The kids in the powerful way to reach kids that is the are coming! Time to get those classrooms ready arts. We are planning some fun social and artful and rolling, so another group of imaginations can events in the fair city of Duluth as well - wouldn’t be inspired and given the tools to create, design, it be fun to bring your family up too? (Do you live and innovate. in the Duluth area? Help us plan cool stuff – drop me an email!)

Promote and advocate quality art education for all learners by providing professional growth opportunities for all Minnesota Visual and Media Arts Educators to learn, collaborate, advocate, and acknowledge excellence in the profession.

See more at: http://www.aem-mn.org/sitepage.asp?page=About_Us#sthash.gx1Z5nm7.dpuf

Pick a verb – make it happen.

4 www.aem-mn.org AEM Art Exchange Retiree Recognition Nancy Lee

Art educators who retired during this past school year, retire this summer or retire prior to the upcoming Art Educators of Minnesota Fall Conference will be recognized for their dedication and years of service to the profession at the Retiree Recognition Event during the November 8-9, 2013 AEM Fall Conference in Duluth, MN. Letters of information about the Retiree Recognition Event will be mailed to retirees whose names and addresses are submitted.

If you or someone in your district is newly retired or retiring please sent their name, address and/or email to:

Kris Holsen 240 18th Ave South St. Paul, MN 55075 763-360-6113 [email protected]

Minneapolis College of Art and Design Art Educator Programs

NEW! Creative Technologies for Educators Professional Development Certificate

Designed especially for art educators and others who are interested in combining technology, creativity, and education, this new certificate program connects artists and educators with the latest technologies to enhance artmaking, studio practice, and classroom teaching.

The Creative Technologies Certificate is a 6-credit (9-quarter credit) program of personalized coursework that is designed to be completed over 1 or 2 years. Participants may begin their coursework at any time throughout the year. School year evening and online classes will be offered in conjunction with the week-long summer workshops specific to art educators.

Certificate recipients will leave with 6 MCAD Continuing Education credits, be prepared for leadership and advocacy of the arts in a technologically enhanced world, and will have current skills in art and design technologies with an educational focus. These skills can be brought back to the classroom, used to enhance one's professional practice or shared with colleagues.

Join us this fall for a Creative Technologies Leadership seminar. For more information, please email continuing_ [email protected]

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Request for Proposals

rt Educators of Minnesota's Fall Conference, For information on how to submit a proposal, or to register "Art + Environment", is requesting proposals for for the conference, please check the website: www.aem-mn. presenters. The AEM conference is scheduled org or call Debra at 218-349-1140. Triarco Arts & Crafts forA November 8-9, 2013, in Duluth, Even though sessions Art Educators of Minnesota that addressFall that2013 address connections between visual and Thank you, media arts,AEM1309T design, science, environment, and sustainability Debra Hannu are desirable, sessions do not have to adhere firmly to these AEM Professional Development Committee themes. Attendees represent Minnesota's Visual and Media Art Educators of Minnesota Arts Educators in K-12 public and private schools, as well as higher education and museum educators, and retirees. Proposals may be one or two hours in length, and targeted to specific audiences or grade levels or for general interest. Ses- sions that meet a re-licensure requirement are also desirable.

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Jeremy Holien State Visual and Media Arts News from the Education Coordinator Perpich Center Perpich Center for Arts Education

Greeting arts teachers! This past summer was Media Arts Networking Grant: filled with professional development opportuni- A new grant opportunity is being developed that ties with rich workshops delivered by Olivia Gude will give participants direct and specific cur- on authentic creativity, Jason Ohler on digital riculum/professional development workshops at story-telling/media arts, Jamie Steffl and Lockie the Perpich Center. This grant will convene arts Chapman with integration of the iPad within art educators from across MN to network and grow curriculum, Darlene St. Clair (with Diane Aldis, their expertise around specific content areas Barbara Cox, and Jeremy Holien) on Arts in Cul- such as animation, digital photography, and spe- tural Context, my Understanding by Design work- cific genres of media arts. This networking grant shop in Rochester and Daniel Jasper and Ange will provide substitute reimbursement costs for Wang’s workshop on design thinking. Not to men- attendance at these workshops at the Perpich tion the many collaborative opportunities with Center, as well as provide for travel and asso- Higher Education institutions across MN! If you ciated costs of convening the network of teach- were able to attend any of the aforementioned op- ers. Look for this opportunity to be announced portunities I hope you found great value in it. early in the school year. It is my hope to continue this level of professional development at the Perpich Center for Arts Visual & Media Arts Education Consulting: Education throughout this coming year. Several schools, districts and colleges continue to request professional and technical assis- If you missed these opportunities, you can still tance with professional and curriculum develop- make use of the resources from these workshops ment, arts PLCs, assessment, arts integration, located here: https://sites.google.com/a/pcae. standards implementation and technology integra- k12.mn.us/minnesota-visual-and-media-arts-education within the arts among other topics. We have tion/documents or by simply using this shortened developed some great tools to assist your school URL: http://goo.gl/NBQzV At this site you will or personal development in these areas. Most of find the same handouts, videos, online content, these curriculum and professional development and even an Edmodo iPad class that were avail- resources can be found at this link: https:// able to all of the workshop participants. Check sites.google.com/a/pcae.k12.mn.us/minnesota-vi- it out! sual-and-media-arts-education/ or by typing in this shortened URL: http://goo.gl/G2cm1 Upcoming Opportunities: Our first collaborative effort within a MOOC Please let me know if there are any district or (Massive Open Online Course) will be offered to school based consulting needs in the areas of participants around the world, but the Perpich visual or media arts education. I am available Center will be the collaborator/facilitator that for professional or curriculum development in ensures Minnesota teachers have this great FREE each of these areas. Contact me at my new phone educational technology opportunity within art number 763-279-4185 or via email at jeremy.ho- education! The initial focus will be on digital [email protected] As always, our services are citizenship, followed by digital storytelling and free as my work is funded by an appropriation by media arts. Participants will be offered the op- the state legislature. portunity to take the course for graduate credit if they desire. More information will be sent Thanks for your dedication in providing a dynam- out as details are finalized so make sure you are ic art education to students across this state! on the state visual/media arts contact list by contacting me at [email protected] to ensure you don’t miss out on this announcement.

www.aem-mn.org Fall 2013 AEM Art Exchange 7 Art Made With Hands by Craig Farmer

Over the last couple of years there from Outdoor Weekly magazine’s website. and much more. I will also recommend the have been some extensive discussions in Every year this publication presents all of book to the English teachers in my building my classroom about how some artists never the entries from the contest year. as a vivid, beautifully written memoir by a touch works of art attributed to them that Another useful part of Smith’s book writer with a unique perspective. sell for millions of dollars. Jeff Koons and discusses the history of wild life art and how When a wing of the Royal Residence at Damian Hirst are the most popular targets of it measures up against other areas of the art Hampton Court caught fire in 1986, wood- derision. To help with these kind of debates market. I look forward to the debate in my carvers were selected to make exact copies of within your classroom, I decided to read classroom about the relevant value of duck Grinling Gibbons’ tromp l’oeil woodcarvings some newly published books that focus on stamp art. My students will probably be that were damaged or destroyed by the fire. artists who are still making art with their interested in the fact that although contest Gibbons was considered the master wood- hands. winners are not gaining the financial wind- carver during Charles II’s reign in the latter Even though I am from a duck-hunting fall of past years, the money made from the half of the seventeenth century in England. area of Nebraska, I really didn’t know what a sale of prints from “the winning Duck Stamp The American David Esterly was one of the duck stamp was until I read Martin J. Smith’s Contest painting” is still substantial for the woodcarvers who spent a year on site carv- The Wild Duck Chase: Inside The Strange and winning artist. ing a vertical floral masterpiece. In 2012 he Wonderful World Of The Federal Duck Stamp In his memoir The Measure of a Man: The wrote a small book about his experience en- Contest. This U.S. government-sponsored Story Of A Father, A Son And A Suit, J.J. Lee titled The Lost Carving: A Journey To the Heart competition, held in the month of October, tells the story of his effort to refashion his Of Making. Like the other two books men- is a tradition reaching back to 1939. Approxi- father’s suit to reflect contemporary men’s tioned in this essay, Esterly’s book uncovers mately two hundred and fifty artists submit fashion and also in order to come to terms a part of the art world I had never thought entries. The three rounds of judging by five with his father’s death. Lee had a painful re- of before. Fine art decorative woodcarving judges select one winner and that painting lationship with his first-generation Chinese takes years to master and Esterly’s text is full is made into a small stamp that goes on all immigrant father who owned and managed of insightful artistic musings. In particular, duck hunting licenses in the United States for restaurants in Montreal and other Canadian he takes on Jeff Koons with the interesting the following hunting season. The paintings cities. After his father died in 2001, Lee, an point that “Gibbons was a better woodcarver “must measure ten inches wide and seven artist with a master’s degree in Architecture, than his assistants. But when a conceptualist inches high, and be surrounded by arctic- decided at the age of thirty-seven to ap- sculptor hires a fabricator, this hierarchy of white matting no more than a quarter inch prentice with a Chinese master tailor who technical skill does not apply.” This is the thick.” We happen to live in a state that is owned a tailor shop with his two brothers in one book that will give the most help in “the unquestioned center of the duck stamp Vancouver’s Chinatown. At that point, Lee the discussion about contemporary art not universe.” The three Minnesotan Hautman began to change his father’s suit. made by the actual artist. I also look forward brothers have won the contest an incredible This book has so many layers. It gives to using Esterly’s book in discussions with twelve times from 1989 to 2011, and the you a history of men’s fashion, the struggles my students about how to talk about their Minnetonka artist David Champman won of an immigrant family, and an assessment art and their craft. the 2012 contest. Smith’s book interweaves on the current state of made-to-measure Duck stamp paintings, made-to-mea- the story of the 2010 contest with a history tailoring. In art history book publishing, sure tailoring, and fine art woodcarving are of the federal program that has raised a there are not many accessible readings for all deeply fascinating subjects. My hope in billion dollars for waterfowl conservation. students interested in men’s fashion. I will sharing these books with you is that you I plan to have my students read segments use Lee’s book for interesting digressions will be able to use one or more of these re- of the book dedicated to the judging trends that include the history of lapels, three- sources in your classroom when discussing and then have them pick their own winner piece suits, boutonnieres, pocket squares, the meaning of art with your own students.

8 www.aem-mn.org AEM Art Exchange CelebrateCelebrate ConservationConservation ThroughThrough thethe ArtsArts

T he Junior Duck Stamp is produced by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to recognize the conservation efforts of young people while supporting environmental education programs in the United States. The stamp design is selected from a national art contest administered by the Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program. The national standard-based curriculum is designed to spark youth interest in habitat conservation through science, art, math, and technology, which gives students an opportunity to create a design for a Junior Duck Stamp. It stresses wildlife observation, nature journaling, photography, enjoying and exploring the outside world, and investigating the treasures of the National Wildlife Refuge System.

Art Educators Jumpstart your artists today with the hands-on free curriculum available at http:// www.fws.gov/juniorduck/curriculum.html. Additional resources available for loan including an education trunk, literature connections, and Minnesota academic standards correlations. To reserve contact Mara Koenig, [email protected] or 952/858-0710.

Entries for the Minnesota Junior Duck Stamp Design Contest must be postmarked by March 15, 2014 and mailed to: Mara Koenig Minnesota Coordinator, Federal Junior Duck Stamp Program Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge 3815 American Blvd East Bloomington, MN 55425

www.aem-mn.org Fall 2013 AEM Art Exchange 9 Minnesota State High School League Visual Art Competitions

2013 saw another huge outpouring of artwork from students across the state. Almost every Section was able to

hold their visual art competitions. The interest and support from schools, teachers and students has really been

amazing as these events continue to take place year after year. This year’s Judge’s Choice Awards Celebration,

a culmination of all of the students’ whose works received that particular honor, was held at the Perpich Center

for Arts Education for the very first time since the College of Visual Arts had to close its doors last spring. The

work was astounding to the say the least. I would encourage all of you to take part in these events again for

the 2013-2014 school year and, if y our section will not be having an event, make sure that your school has

paid its fine arts dues to the MSHSL so that you can take part in a Section that is holding their event. There is

nothing quite like these opportunities for students, their teachers, the parents and the communities at large in

which they take place. Not only do the students get to see their work in a juried show of their peers, but there

is great PR generated for the art programs that the works are coming out of. Make a point of inviting fellow

teachers, parents, school administrators and district personnel. Also make sure that you submit notices to local

press outlets for both hard copy and electronic releases. Enlist the help of the MSHSL in doing this. They would

be very willing to help generate that type of support,

Once again I am enclosing examples of the work that was submitted for the Section 4AA / 5AA combined Visual

Arts Competition also held at the PCAE again last year. I am inviting each of you to save examples of works from

your Sections for publication in the Art Exchange next fall as we look at the previous spring’s efforts. It would

be wonderful to have an all-state representation of multiple Section student art works in the Art Exchange.

Best of luck to all of you in the coming year!

Kevan Nitzberg AEM Comunications Co-Chair / Art Exchange Editor MSHSL Visual Arts Consultant

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A Change in Venue.

As of this coming winter we will be having both the winter and the spring Art Exchange Art Exchange: issues in an interactive, electronic format Print Version that will be available on the AEM web • Dedicated articles site. Notifications will be sent out to the Outside Promotions / (months or issues) membership as to when the issues will be Press Releases • Committee submissions available. We are hopeful that this will give • MN State Arts Board LinkedIn or our membership access to greater resources • All submit In fall • PCAE other blogs • Grand Marais by utilizing this format. We will continue • Principals to send every art teacher in the state the • Superintendents print fall version in order to make sure that • Others everyone gets the necessary information that is important to receive at the start of Higher Ed Page or Communication links articles in Art Exchange the school year. AEM • Scholastic • Each issue (print and • MN H.S. League We will be asking for your feedback and electronic) COMMUNICATIONS • Area Arts Centers ideas as we move forward with this 2 • Possibly contributed by WEB pronged approach to providing our mem- Art Education students • Others bers with a quality and useful newsletter. Student Art Gallery On a separate note, be sure to look at the • Permission slips / Electronic Art Exchange Communications Committee structure dia- authorization for gram if you are interested in taking a more publishing needed (Winter and Spring issues) with Active Links and active role in your professional organization. Promote Web- • Perhaps 1 piece per teacher embedded videos / podcasts (Board members as well) Art Exchange each month / issue feature in Facebook as free AEM service to all MN art teachers

To all of the AEM Membership still contemplating what role (large or small) that you might wish to contribute your talents to in order to support your professional teaching organization, here is a breakdown (courtesy of Communications Committee member Kathryn Petri), of what it is that we are involved with. Contact me if you find any of the below to be on interest.

[email protected]

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By Amanda Feterl

Do you remember Beatle Mania when the British band wrong, I'm not talking brainwashing our youth, but invaded the U.S. in the 1960s? The mass hysteria of simply helping them (and everyone else) discover the screaming fans holding banners and placards followed power and potential of Art. They would come to the the young men like moths to a flame. This British Inva- realization that student learning and achievement, as sion happened before my time, but I can only imagine well as life in general, just isn't possible without Art. the crowds that gathered every time they went out in public; much like the fans that show up for modern day So, now on to your plans for an Art invasion. What artists such as Taylor Swift or the group One Direction. might that look like? How will you make the students and stakeholders of your district go gaga for Art? Anyway, I started thinking this summer about how cool And I'm not talking about choosing different projects, it would be if there was an Art Invasion. You know, rewriting curriculum or selecting new assessments. kids of all ages screaming and fighting for a chance Rather, it is imperative that we think about the big to get up close and personal with Art! Community picture. We must consider starting a major invasion. In members and parents arranging every opportunity other words, infiltrating current Art programs, infusing possible for their students to experience the awesome- them with BIG ideas that will shake things up, leaving ness of Art! Administrators and policy makers vying students and parents yearning for more. We would for the chance to bring Art to their area. It would be create our own Art fanatics and an Art Invasion would an all-out Art Mania! surely ensue. I personally plan to begin the school year by attempting to break a World Record. Why not, Sound improbable? Not so much! I believe it's our job right? The world's longest continuous sidewalk chalk to provide our students with as many Art opportuni- mural...here we come! ties, events, programs, and activities as possible in order to totally and systematically invade their brains with art-minded thinking and behavior. Don't get me

www.aem-mn.org Fall 2013 AEM Art Exchange 17 Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History – Metropolitan Museum of Art Continuation of Online Links to Architecture in Renaissance Italy

Different Art History Periods http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/itar/hd_itar.htm Compiled by Kevan Nitzberg

The previous spring issue of the Art Exchange covered resource links to the Gothic Period. This issue will focus on links to the Renaissance.

Reminder: these are being provided as supplementary resources only –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Art History Resources – Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe Renaissance Art in Italy Web Gallery of Art Web Gallery of Art http://arthistoryresources.net/ARTHrenaissanceitaly.html http://www.wga.hu/index1.html Renaissance Art Elsewhere in Europe

–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– http://arthistoryresources.net/ARTHrenaissanceeurope.html

Early Renaissance http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/early-renaissance.html

High Renaissance –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Mark Harden’s Artchive http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/high-renaissance.html Renaissance Art Mannerism http://www.artchive.com/artchive/renaissance.html http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/mannerism.html

Northern Renaissance http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/northern-renaissance.html –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Michelangelo Buonarroti About.com – Renaissance Architecture http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/michelangelo_buonarroti.html http://architecture.about.com/od/periodsstyles/g/renaissance.htm

Leonardo da Vinci http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/leonardo_da_vinci.html

Raphael http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/raphael.html

–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Visit to the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican The Chapel

Quattrocento decoration

The ceiling frescoes

The Last Judgment http://www.wga.hu/tours/sistina/

18 www.aem-mn.org AEM Art Exchange Holistic Management: Moving AEM Into the FutureBy Kris Holsen

his summer’s leadership training was held farming. We discussed the inherent challenge of art AND get it all done. The holistic model is a circular at the Cloquet Forestry Center in Cloquet, education because it is so often undervalued in our process of plan – monitor – adjust – re-plan, with the MN. Our speaker was Cree Bradley, who society – and celebrated that our art teachers are so assumption that you are not doing it perfectly due to worked with us on Holistic Management, a value- dedicated to meet this level of challenge every day. the many complexities involved. Tbased decision-making process for managing one's life Cree explained the Holistic Management model We diagrammed a tree, with all of the people that and resource base in a way that generates financial to us. Holistic management is based on finding your are stakeholders in what we do as the trunk, the core strength and improves quality of life while enhancing core values and using them as a way to work toward a values of the organization as the leaves (they change, the environment that sustains us. Cree runs Chelsea common vision. Creativity is one of the biggest lessons fall off and re-grow), and began to talk about the forms Morning Farm, a CSA enterprise, where she and in how to approach this model. Although many of the of production, which are the branches that we must her husband have committed to building a life that categories and ideas listed on the holistic model are commit to in order to stay true to our core values. The upholds their guiding principles through Holistic Man- farm-related, it was easy for us to see corollaries to roots are the environmental factors we must nourish agement. One of their guiding principles is that their our (or really any) profession. to sustain our goal. farm should be aesthetically pleasing. Cree designed their logo herself, they plant their crops in a sun ray In the model, a holisticgoal is a tenet that we Our next steps are to touch base with our mem- pattern, and they designed a unique fence which also create and then test all of our decisions against. The bership to highlight our core values, and to work with used their own available resources, another guiding goal reminds us what we really want for the organiza- committee chairs and committee members on how principle. (http://chelseamorningfarm.weebly.com/) tion, much like Jack Sparrow’s compass led him to his the work of their committee aligns with our mission heart’s desire in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. as an organization. Our plan is to be grounded in our Eight members attended, with a wide range of experi- The holisticgoal contains quality of life statements goal, make it a habit to always consider our vision, ence and length of membership. We began our morn- (core values), forms of production ( a list of things we and therefore think clearly about decisions that we ing by introducing ourselves with our names, role in must commit to in order to sustain the core values), make for the benefit of AEM. AEM, other personal and professional roles, a recent and future resource base (a vision of what the future change in our lives, and an artistic dream. Even though Thank you so much to the members who at- should look like). many of us know each other well, we discovered many tended the leadership training – and if this process wonderful and new things about each other. The We identified AEM’s strengths, weaknesses, op- excites, challenges, or inspires you, please come share passion for who we are and what we do was com- portunities and threats, and we talked about efficiency your ideas as we continue to grow AEM into the best mon among our stories, including Cree’s experiences versus effectiveness. You can’t expect to be perfect possible organization for art teachers. I’ll be hosting a session on Saturday in Duluth!

Nordiska Mandalas och blommande ikoner

Nya målningar av Alison Aune

20.7 – 4.8 2013

SAHLSTRÖMSGÅRDEN Utterbyn 20, 685 92 Torsby

Öppettider Mån-fre kl. 11.30-16.00. Lör-sön 12.00-16.00.

www.aem-mn.org Fall 2013 AEM Art Exchange 19 ART TEACHERS AS ARTISTS SUMMER LEARNING

“The Women's Art Institute is an extraordinary artistic experience for women from 18 to 100! Highly recommended opportunity to both look at one's own work, and meet and have a discourse with other local, national, and internationally known successful women artists. I've grown in many ways from this four-week intensive as well as made new artist friends to continue the momentum that I have gained.”

– Susan Mikutowski

The Women's Art Institute For the past 13 years, the Women's Art Institute has Erickson and Olson have been creating community for quite some time. In 1976, the two artists founded been an annual program at the Minneapolis College Women's Art Resources of Minnesota (WARM), an arts advocacy organization and gallery. Around the same of Art and Design. In 2012–2013 the Institute moved time, USC also introduced a feminist art program, inspired by pioneers like Judy Chicago, Elaine de Kooning to the beautiful St. Paul campus of the University of St. and Miriam Schapiro. “The program at USC, founded by Sister Judith Stoughton, was very controversial at Catherine. The USC Department of Art and Art History the time and it only lasted one year,” says Olson. “In a way, bringing the Women’s Art Institute to St. Kate’s presented this innovative and rigorous course, June feels like a wonderful way to honor the University’s long history of celebrating women artists.” 3-28, 2013, that focused on feminist social issues and art through the combination of open studio work, Gabrielle Civil could not agree more. “Art is not just decorative and it’s not just material. Art can be an creative writing and discussion, intense individual event of the self,” says Civil, who taught in the English, Women's Studies and Critical Studies in Race and tutorials, inspiring conversation and critiques, and pre- Ethnicity Departments at USC and is working on a book, Swallow the Fish. “The Women’s Art Institute al- sentations from guest artists, critics and art historians. lows women a forum to go deeply into their own work and to use that momentum and synergy to break through to a whole new level. "The Women's Art Institute fits in perfectly with the University of St. Catherine’s mission to empower ABOUT the WAI at USC: women to lead and influence," says Pat Olson, Insti- This intensive four-week studio program is designed for individuals who have mastered basic technical skills and tute Director. “Though the summer studio program now wish to pursue deeper levels of understanding and expression in their work. Disciplines explored include will remain the jewel in the crown of the Institute, the painting, drawing, collage, photography, sculpture, digital art, installation and performance. Participants will possibilities for growth are endless with the resources, have all-day and evening access to the large, sunlit studios and shop facilities of the Visual Arts Building on facilities and talents at USC as a backdrop.” the USC campus.

“Our goal has always been to provide women artists A resurgence of activity and discussion around the issues of women and art has galvanized artists to ask some the space, time, and community to challenge them- new questions: What do you have to say about contemporary women’s images? Where are the new horizons selves and each other,” says the Institute’s Founding that you see in women’s art practice? In interdisciplinary collaboration? In feminist art? Who is your audience? Director Elizabeth Erickson. “USC has a reputation What are your questions? for doing the same—striving for excellence and en- couraging its students to be active members of their communities and the world. Moving to USC feels natural, and we are delighted.”

20 www.aem-mn.org AEM Art Exchange WAI Course Objectives: Linda Levin explains her work • Gaining insights into the work of contemporary and answers questions in a class critique. women artists;

• Achieving philosophical, aesthetic and histori- cal knowledge that will define your goals as a woman artist;

• Having opportunities for intensive studio work and individual tutoring, with critique emphasiz- ing intention, form, content and context;

• Developing a portfolio of work based on group discussion and individual questions.

Additional Learning Highlights included: Field trips: Hazel Belvo’s studio, Harriet Bart’s studio

Lectures:/Presentations: Artists Sandra Taylor and Linda Gammell Artists and art teachers traveled from great distances to exchange ideas Artists Shana Kaplow and Michal Sagar. and perspectives. Fatin Taha (Karbala, Iraq) and AEM member, Jo-Anne Performance Artist Gabrielle Civil. Kirkman collaborated with paintings of ancient Babylon and modern Artist Nancy Robinson. day Iraq. Artist Joyce Lyon Performance Artist Krista Walsh Faculty Artists Elizabeth Erickson and Patricia Olson

Seminar and lecture: Guest Artist, Jane Gilmore Art Historians Lauren DeLand, Diane Mullin , Amy Hamlin. Presentations by TA’s Anna Garski, and Dakota Hoska,

Required text: The Power of Feminist Art, edited by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, Harry N. Abrams, Publisher.

College credit and CEU credit is offered for this course. Scholarships are available.

Look for registration information for next summer’s Women’s Art Institute 2014 on the AEM web pages, and The University of St. Catherine, Women’s Art Institute, posted next winter! Additionally, check out these photos and information: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stkates/ sets/72157634327139906/

Maggie Rozycki, Char Howell and Justine di Fiore discuss the 7 key questions during the morning sessions. www.aem-mn.org Fall 2013 AEM Art Exchange 21 AEM Council Roster Art Educators of Minnesota Due to the structural transition that is taking Art Exchange Newsletter Advertisement Rates place in the AEM Council, the Council Roster 2012-2013 SIZE FALL WINTER SPRING 3 ISSUE RATE has been significantly altered. Represented 2.25 X 3.O SINGLE COLUMN $60 $60 $60 $165 here are the members of the newly organized 4.50 X 3.0 DOUBLE CLOUMN $85 $85 $85 $240 4.0 X 5.0 QUARTER PAGE $110 $110 $110 $305 Executive Board that is made up of the 4.0 X 10.0 HALF PAGE $165 $165 $165 $480 8.0 X 5.0 HALF PAGE $165 $165 $165 $480 President, the President Elect and the 8.0 X 10.0 FULL PAGE $225 $225 $225 $660

Chairs of the 6 Committees. Check below above for issues you wish to advertise in. Refer to chart above and write in below the size and cost for each issue:

President Communications Committee Kris Holsen Kris Holsen Fall: ____/_____ Winter: ___/____ Spring: ___/____ All: ___/____ 240 18th Ave. S. 240 18th Ave. S. South St. Paul, MN 55075 South St. Paul, MN. 55075 763-360-6113 763-360-6113 Submit all artwork and ad copy to: Kevan Nitzberg, Art Exchange Editor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Birch Grove Elementary School for the Arts Birch Grove Elementary School for the Arts [email protected] [email protected] Kevan Nitzberg Online link to commercial vendor site on AEM web site (http://www.aem-mn.org) President Elect Anoka High School Annual Fee: $200 (check box) OPEN 3939 7th Ave. N. Anoka, MN 55303 763-506-6431 URL Address: [email protected] Finance Committee Rick Mittelstadt *********************************************************** 6500 Casey Pkwy. Professional Development Make Checks Payable to AEM Total Amount Submitted: $ ______Prior Lake, MN 55372 Committee 651-639-6106 ext. 2378 Jeremy Holien 651-423-7511 (fax) Visual & Media Arts Education Coordinator [email protected] Professional Development and Research Perpich Center for Arts Education Company Name: ______6125 Olson Memorial Hwy. Golden Valley, MN 55422 Contact Person: ______email: ______Member Services Committee 763-591-4776 OPEN [email protected] Street Address: ______City, State, Zip Code: ______Dr. Alison Aune Advocacy / PR Committee University of Minnesota–Duluth Jo-Anne Kirkman 218-726-6216 Submit payment to: Please Note Submission Deadlines: Orono School District [email protected] [email protected] Richard Mittelstadt AEM Finance Committee Chair Fall Issue: July 15th 6500 Casey Pkwy Winter Issue: December 15th Council Services Committee th Debra Hannu Prior Lake, MN. 55372 Spring Issue: March 15 822 9th St. 651-639-6106 ext. 2378 ------Duluth, MN 55805 218-724-2973 [email protected] Vendor Link: annual fee applied to [email protected] date link is activated

22 www.aem-mn.org AEM Art Exchange Art Educators of Minnesota Art Exchange Newsletter Advertisement Rates 2012-2013 SIZE FALL WINTER SPRING 3 ISSUE RATE

2.25 X 3.O SINGLE COLUMN $60 $60 $60 $165 4.50 X 3.0 DOUBLE CLOUMN $85 $85 $85 $240 4.0 X 5.0 QUARTER PAGE $110 $110 $110 $305 4.0 X 10.0 HALF PAGE $165 $165 $165 $480 8.0 X 5.0 HALF PAGE $165 $165 $165 $480 8.0 X 10.0 FULL PAGE $225 $225 $225 $660

Check below above for issues you wish to advertise in. Refer to chart above and write in below the size and cost for each issue:

Fall: ____/_____ Winter: ___/____ Spring: ___/____ All: ___/____

Submit all artwork and ad copy to: Kevan Nitzberg, Art Exchange Editor [email protected]

Online link to commercial vendor site on AEM web site (http://www.aem-mn.org) Annual Fee: $200 (check box)

URL Address: ______

*********************************************************** Make Checks Payable to AEM Total Amount Submitted: $ ______

Company Name: ______Contact Person: ______email: ______Street Address: ______City, State, Zip Code: ______

Submit payment to: Please Note Submission Deadlines: Richard Mittelstadt AEM Finance Committee Chair Fall Issue: July 15th 6500 Casey Pkwy Winter Issue: December 15th Prior Lake, MN. 55372 Spring Issue: March 15th 651-639-6106 ext. 2378 [email protected] Vendor Link: annual fee applied to date link is activated www.aem-mn.org Fall 2013 AEM Art Exchange 23

BS Art Education, BFA in Graphic Design, 2-‐D, 3-‐D & Integrated Media • NASAD Accreditation (National Association of Schools of Art and Design) • NCATE Accreditation (National Council for Accreditation in Teacher Education) • Minnesota K-‐12 Visual Art Licensure & Professional Development • Teacher Preparation Initiative providing MTLE and EdTPA assistance, added field experiences , co-‐teaching opportunities, and post-‐ graduation career support • High Placement in Art Education, Media Arts, Graphic Design, & Computer Technology • Active Involvement with the professional organizations -‐ Art Educators of Minnesota and the National Art Education Association • International Programs in Studio Art & Art Education • Priority registration for art students • Completion of the Art Education program in 120 credits • Downtown storefront Gallery (Gallery Vault) and 2 Department Galleries • Award winning faculty, beautiful riverside location, outdoor kiln • Student Groups: Future Art Educators, Student Graphic Designers, and the Art Student Union

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