youth art month IN SIDE: 2 AEM’s Fall Conference 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. CONTINUED on next page>>> www.aem-mn.org Fall 2013 AEM Art Exchange 1 <<<"AEM’s fALL CONFERENCE" CONTINUED 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 confer- ence, 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.