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Transformation Inside This Issue President’s Message ........................................................................................... 3 Letter From the Editor ....................................................................................... 5 The Book Mark .................................................................................................. 6 Teaching Around the State I: Save the Silos ....................................................... 8 Media Art Education ........................................................................................ 10 Sagamore Institute Summer 2018 .................................................................... 11 Sagamore 2018: Finding Your Tribe .................................................................. 12 Teaching Around the State II: Painting with Light ............................................ 14 Special Interview with Dr. Marilyn Galvin Stewart ......................................... 17 Conference Rates ............................................................................................. 21 Conference Program Overview ....................................................................... 22 Conference Keynotes .................................................................................23, 25 PK- 16 Pre-conference ..................................................................................... 26 Museum Educators Pre-conference .................................................................. 27 Conference Highlights and What’s New .......................................................... 29 Conference FAQs ............................................................................................. 30 NYSATA Awards Recipients .............................................................................. 31 Pre-service Information ................................................................................... 32 The New NYSED VA Associate ......................................................................... 33 Teaching Around the State III: STEAMroller Printing ....................................... 34 Teaching Around the State IV: The Secret Life of Plants ................................... 38 Conference Student and Member Exhibit Info ................................................. 41 Conference Workshop Descriptions ...........................................................42-51 Conference President’s Party and Friday Art Party Info .................................... 49 Artisan Market Info .......................................................................................... 52 NYSATA BOT Members .................................................................................... 55 1 NYSATA NEWS Volume 48. 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No. 2, Fall Digital Issue 2018 President’s Message from Sharon Ciccone “. it is a time to reflect on the past and look to the contemporary practices that are transforming our profession and meeting the needs of students in a new era of education.” As NYSATA celebrates its 70th Anniversary, it is a time to have challenged us to reexamine how we approach our reflect on the past and look to the contemporary practices that instruction through the four Artistic Processes. To address the are transforming our profession and meeting the needs of needs of our society and create artistically literate citizens, we students in a new era of education. The story of art education provide opportunities for constructing knowledge through has seen great change since it was first introduced into public personal experiences. Many art educators are using the Studio school education. The industrial revolution brought with it Habits of Mind as a framework to guide students through the educational institutions and changed the culture of public processes of artistic endeavors. Choice Based Art Education education. Subjects were compartmentalized and labeled as has expanded the possibilities of student-directed learning. academic or non-academic based on the needs of the job Students are creating art based on investigations and market. Art was used to improve technical drawing skills for conceptualization of Big Ideas. Works are presented within industry rather than an informative creative outlet. the cultural and social context of community and challenge the viewer to interact. In 1947, one year before NYSATA was established and our first conference was held in Buffalo, Victor Lowenfeld Using Visual Thinking Strategies, students interpret the wrote Creative and Mental Growth, outlining the natural intent and meaning through thoughtful, facilitated discussion artistic stages of growth in children. Lowenfeld highlighted the to activate the curious mind. Connecting through integrated process of artmaking and the value of art experiences. The approaches, such as STEAM and Design Thinking, helps introduction of the Discipline-Based Art Education approach students synthesize and relate knowledge among content to art drew upon content in the four disciplines of art history, areas. Fueled by advancing technologies, Media Arts reflect criticism, aesthetics, and production as a basis for creating, the hybridity of time-related contemporary practice created by understanding, and appreciating works of art. We moved recording sound and/or visual images and traditional art through Modernist beliefs of individualism, creativity, self- forms. It is exciting to imagine where we will go next. expression, and formalist models of art criticism to Postmodernist Theories of social conditions and structures that This brief history, by any measure, is not the full story of shape artistic values. who we are or inclusive of the rich tradition and current practices that exist today. We come from a long line of We are now living in an intense era of identity politics. educators who transformed the field of art education. Our Differences in perceptions of cultural, social, racial, and history is filled with researchers, theorists, risk takers, gender inequalities create tension. The bombardment of innovators, and artists. All along, educators have questioned images and over stimulation from technology challenge the the status quo and looked for solutions for teaching students ability to focus and make sense of the information we receive. that reflect the ideology and issues of the time. It is our duty As educators, we are in the middle of tremendous change. to help students discover their place in the world through the When we ourselves are trying to navigate the socially and lens of art. As teacher and author Sydney Gurewitz Clemens politically charged landscape of our contemporary world, states, “Art has the role in education of helping children how do we promote opportunity, growth, and social well- become like themselves instead of more like everyone else.” being for our students through art education? As you read the research, articles, and personal stories of This past year the NYS Learning Standards for the Arts our contributors, try to imagine your own story. How have 3 NYSATA NEWS Volume 48. No. 2, Fall Digital Issue 2018 you as an educator transformed into who you are today? Why do you do what you do and how has that transformed over About the News time? What is your vision for the future of art education and how can you be a leader in that transformation? How has your The NYSATA News publishes official announcements for pedagogy and classroom practice changed through the years? NYSATA as well as commentary and research on topics that What values and goals have persisted? What event helped to are important to art educators. The opinions expressed in transform your practice or attitude? editorials and articles are those of the authors and do not represent NYSATA policies. The NYSATA News encourages an This November, I encourage you to come celebrate exchange of ideas, and invites submission of news or articles for publication. To submit news or articles, please contact NYSATA’s 70th