Call for VAEA Conference Presenters

The proposal form for this year's VAEA conference workshop presenters is online on the VAEA website. The VAEA conference will be in Richmond, November 19-21.

Call for Nominations

Nominations for VAEA Executive Board officers are now being accepted. Please contact Pat Carr at pcarr@rcs.k12.va.us if you know of someone you would like to nominate or have questions. Forms are due by May 8th and are available from the vaea.org website home page under special news. Position descriptions are also on the vaea.org website under the Board drop down menu.

Call for Lesson Plans

Our Trash to Treasure art show was such a success, we figured a collection of project ideas that uses at least some recycled materials would be in demand. If you have a Trash to Treasure lesson plan that you want to share with us, we will compile them on a CD. The compilation CD will be reasonably priced with the proceeds going to future SWVAEA workshop expenses. Email your lesson plans as a Word document or a pdf to swvaea@gmail.com. We encourage you to include a teacher example image, but remember not to include images that we do not have permission to publish. Collaborative classroom projects do not belong to the individual students but to the teacher and school so images of those are allowed. We will then send you a Permission to Publish form to fill out and send back.

Thanks!

Call for Presenters

The theme for our mini-conference is "Trash to Treasure", inspired by our successful YAM show. It will be June 22nd from 10-4 at Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke. We would like to hear from anyone who wants to share and demo a successful project that uses recycled materials. Please contact us at swvaea@gmail.com with your ideas.

Get Together for New Art Teachers

The SWVAEA board invites all art teachers who have three or fewer years of experience to meet at the Blue 5 restaurant at 312 2nd St in Roanoke on May 15 at 4:30 to whenever. The purpose is to give these new teachers a chance to get to know each other and share their trials and triumphs ... a sort of pep and vent session...as well as give them a chance to ask us questions.

These new teachers do not need to be members to attend, so please spread the word to any new art teachers in your area, in case they do not get the SWVAEA notices. RSVP at swvaea@gmail.com

Trash To Treasure Extended

The Jefferson Center has asked that we extend the Trash to Treasure show until about April 25 (take down April 26th 1pm-3pm). According the exhibition director at the JC, they have heard more positive comments about this show than any other in the past 5 years that he's worked there. Word of mouth is spreading about it and someone even brought their class in to critique the work. Teachers have been coming to get ideas. He would love to have YAM show again next year.

Kaleidescope CASA's 4th Annual Art Fest

Many local high school students have created paintings for this fundraising art festival and sale for CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates for children in the Roanoke Valley). April 9, 2009, 6-9 at Fitzgerald Hall at the Jefferson Center. Art sale begins at 7:15. Tickets and info: 540-344-3579. (Click on the image for a larger, printable poster.)