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The National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS) has been formed to create a next generation of the 1994 National Standards for Arts Education gardes K-14. NAEA President-Elect Dennis Inhulsen has been named Chair of the Visual Arts writing team. The online application process closed October 27, 2011 and writers are being chosen by NAEA from the over 100 visual arts applicants. For more information about the NCCAS standards writing project go to http://nccas.wikispaces.com
The two candidates for NAEA Vice President-Elect are:
- Patty Bode, Tufts University, MA
- Peter Geisser, Rhode Island School for the Deaf (Retired), RI
The NAEA election is open through January 20, 2012.
UCAE Member News
UCAE Board member Rick Lasher has completed two elected terms as a National Art Education Foundation Trustee.
Ms Lasher, a NAEA Distinguished Fellow is a former NAEA Division Director, a former President of the Art Educators of New Jersey and an AENJ Distinguished Fellow and Board Member Emeritus. Rick is the recipient of NAEA’s Distinguished Achievement within the Profession Award, National Elementary Art Educator of the Year, Eastern Region Art Educator of the Year and the Marion Quin Dix State Leadership Awards. The Art Educators of New Jersey named Rick Lasher Art Educator of the Year and awarded her the organization’s highest honor, and The Distinguished Achievement Award. She served as Director of the AENJ’s Hands & Minds DBAE Professional Development Institute, co-sponsored by Getty Institute for the Arts and NAEA and was the chair and author/editor of the Hands & Minds Curriculum Armature and an author of New Jersey Goals & Standards K-12 as well as NAEA’s Guide to Guides. Her county in New Jersey honored her as The Outstanding Woman in the Arts during a Women of Achievement month. The AENJ Grant program includes a “Rick Lasher Professional Growth Grant” which provides members money to attend NAEA conventions. She is the recipient of six New Jersey Governor’s Awards in the Arts. She served on the New Jersey Department of Education Panel, which developed the original, Visual and Performing Arts Standards as well as the panel, which worked on Developing Assessment Standards. She is retired from the River Edge New Jersey School district and from Moore College of Art & Design.
UCAE member Lucylee Chiles designed and painted the donor wall mural for Gilda’s Club New York City (Donor Wall Mural Page)
Students and teachers from the Isabel O’Neil Studio Workshop where Lucylee was the Executive Director (www.isabeloneil.org) painted the exotic finishes on the objects. The mural is 13′ x 9′ – painted on canvas. As people make contributions small brass plaques are attached to the objects. The night of the Gilda’s Club gala at the Pierre Hotel a million dollars was raised. Nice all the way around.
Dr. Rikki Asher, Queens College SUNY, was the recent recipient of the Higher Education Teacher Award given by the New York City Art Teachers Association at their annual meeting on October 23rd.
In her recommendation letter, Dr. Maxine Greene wrote: “I became an avid admirer of Rikki Asher’s work, following her career as a teaching artist at the Lincoln Center Institute, Assistant Professor at SUNY New Palz and current Director of Art Education at Queens College. For me, she is a model educator and an artist always in search of wider visions relevant to a troubled world.” Asher’s research and published materials focus on art applied to peace projects and community murals.
Dr. Judith M. Burton, FRSA Teachers College, Columbia University received a NYCATA/UFT special citation in the category of Cooperating Teacher/Mentor. Under her direction, hundreds of outstanding art teachers have been trained.
NYCATA/UFT initiated the annual recognition award for educators who prepare graduate students for certification as K-12 visual arts educators in New York City public schools to call attention to the essential role of the unsung academics that are responsible for the exemplary art teachers in the schools.