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ANNOUNCING THE2024-2025 ARTEFFECT AMBASSADORS, INCLUDING SUSANNAH VANHORN PhD. AND JEN KAY-RIVERA.

By: pastpresident | Published November 25, 2024

34 esteemed educators nationwide selected for online professional development focused on Unsung Heroes will develop innovative capstone projects for their classrooms and communities. ARTEFFECT Ambassadors is a prestigious visual arts education online fellowship for educators working directly with students in grades 6-12. The 34 fellows in the second annual cohort hail from 21 states.This year’s ARTEFFECT Ambassadors wil...

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Revolutionizing Creativity: Unleashing the Power
of AI in Upper Elementary Art Education

By: pastpresident | Published August 11, 2024

Jane Brumfield Montero Dexter Community Schools, Dexter, Michigan, USA Link to article: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p3xH_a0WZFyy_0LQp3ixREoEMnXMNfdb/view?usp=sharing ...

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MDE SHOW

By: pastpresident | Published August 7, 2024

Each year, up to 30 pieces of artwork are selected from schools across the state for a special show at the Michigan Department of Education building in Lansing.  These works are from students in every grade from Kindergarten to Twelfth Grade.  The show is updated each year in April and remains up for an entire year.  This partnership between the MAEA and Department of Education is a wonderful opportunity for advocacy of ou...

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Art Education Leadership Award Winners

By: pastpresident | Published July 24, 2024

Erica Gresock and Molly Marshall: LINK ...

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MAEA and MEA Members in Juried Art Show

By: pastpresident | Published July 24, 2024

The Art Acquisitions Committee is a voluntary group of MEA members.  We appreciate the fine arts and want to promote and celebrate the creative talents of our members.  Working with a professional juror, we put together an annual art show.  All pieces chosen by our juror are displayed at MEA Headquarters in a group show.  Out of this collection, the committee choses pieces for MEA to purchase which are the...

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Excellence In Education – Leeann McMichael

By: pastpresident | Published July 24, 2024

MAEA Secondary Art Teacher chosen for state award: https://www.fox47news.com/news/excellence-in-education/excellence-in-education-leeann-mcmichael-3-1-23 ...

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Nathan Kukla Spotlight on M-Live

By: pastpresident | Published July 24, 2024

Nathan Kukla, Art Teacher of the Year for Michigan Art Education Association: https://www.mlive.com/ne...

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Higher Education Division Publishes Article in Art Education

By: Michigan Art Education Association | Published January 20, 2022

Dr. Cam McComb, Chair of the Higher Education Division, is pleased to announce that seven members of the division worked together to write and publish an article in, Art Education, a journal of the National Art Education. The article titled, Zooming Support: Stories of How a Pandemic and SAMR Improved Preservice Art Education Instruction, describes how seven professors working at six universities helped each other to use tech...

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Dr. Cindy Todd – Art Educator of the Year

By: Michigan Art Education Association | Published January 25, 2019

Dr. Cindy Todd is the Art Education Program Chair at Kendall College of Art & Design of FSU in Grand Rapids, MI. She is a co-creator and key designer of the Grand Rapids Public Museum School, a place-based design school that is a proud winner of the 10 million dollar XQ Super School grant. ...

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A Need to Belong

By: Tammi Browning | Published July 25, 2016

When talking about multi-ethnic concerns, the conversation frequently turns to the subject of race. Socio-economic status (SES) also lies under the umbrella of multi-ethnic concerns. Increasingly, teachers are experiencing declining SES in the communities they teach. Coupled with the implementation of schools of choice the definition of school community has also changed. A school system is no longer comprised of people who liv...

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