2013 Delegates Assembly State President Report

President:Constance (Coní) Moore

Street Address: 89 Summit Avenue

City: Winthrop State: MA Zip Code: 02152

Telephone: Home: 617-846-0020 Cell: 617-6052424

E-mail:

Term of Office: MAEA President serves for a term of 2 Years (Current term: August 2012- August 2014)

Division: ElementaryMiddle Level Secondary Higher Education Museum Education []Supervision/Administration

Significant Past State Activities – March 2012–March 2013:

  • Planning for our annual( Fall Conference November 9-11, 2012) at Salem State University (SSU) to coincide with the exhibit Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones at the Peabody-Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, MA;the conference was entitled"A Hat-full of 21st Century Skills."
  • Planned and sponsored a members’ Art Exhibit held during the summer at the State Transportation Building, Boston, MA. A culminating reception for the participating members was held on the evening of September 21, 2012, from 5:00 – 7:00 pm.
  • Solicited nominations and processed the award winners for the State Divisions for Art Educator (AE) of the Year for 2013; these awards were conferred during the luncheon at the MAEA Conference on Saturday, November 10, 2012.
  • New President, Coní Moore, initiated the practice of submitting reports from the Board members who had items to report at our monthly meetings prior to the meetings to be shared with the Board so that meeting time could be used more productively for addressing and planning the issues at hand.
  • Our Advocacy Committee (Sarah Dugan, Chair, Coní Moore, President, Kristi Oliver, Vice President, Pete Curran Special Education liaison, Helen Downey, YAM Co-Chair, Alice Gentili, Middle School Rep, and Cory Shepherd, Secretary), has continued to hold our meetings electronically via Google Drive, committee members log-in simultaneously and enter their additions and responses to the agenda items in a live-time meeting. The state Arts Coordinator at the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), Lurline Muñoz-Bennett, in the office of Literacy and Humanities has agreed to serve as our state advocacy representative for 2013-2014. The emphasis of our meetings has been discussions of how we can support our members with regard to the new Massachusetts Teacher Evaluation System;editing and refining our Bylaws; developing and generating our Members Only Pages on our website, as well as our outreach efforts with other arts organizations throughout the state. We have discussed having Round-Table sessions at various locations around the state, and offer guidance to art teachers as they unpack the standards and plan and write their S.M.A.R.T. Goals. It is our aspiration that our

new liaison with Ms. Muñoz-Bennett will lend credence to these efforts. In addition, our Secretary andDigital Newsletter Editor,Cory Shepherd, has been branching out on behalf of MAEA. He has been attending meetings of the Massachusetts ARTS | Learning (AL) organization (visit: for more information), a nonprofit organization that advocates for all of the ARTS, and ARTS Education. He has also been attending meetings of the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) as well as MASS Creative. Both Cory and Coní Moore have been attending the meetings sponsored by these groups with regard to the implementation of a University ARTS requirement for entry in a state university. Further plans are on the table for workshops in different regions of the state;we are investigating sponsorship for materials/supplies for these workshops from Art Supply Co. and publishers.

Additional outreach, Coní Moore and Kristi Oliver attended a meeting with advisors and students at MASS College of Art and Design to talk to them about membership in NAEA/MAEA. The newly formed chapter had a presence at the NAEA Convention in March; 16 students attended and participated in Student Chapter activities and meetings. Pete Curran and Coní Moore attended and participated in a Professional Exchange at Mass Art on February 27th in order to speak with and share best practice strategies with pre-service art teachers.

  • Formation of a Bylaws Committee January 2013, our first meeting was held on February 13, 2013 in Mendon, M.A decision was made as to the style of the Bylaws, tweaking some of the language of the older form with the objective being to update, clarify, and make the Bylaws more relevant and proactive in order to best represent an active21st century professional organization. We are also in the process of writing an updated version of the job descriptions of our Board members. Our next meeting will take place in April.
  • Work in and for the annual Youth Art Month exhibit began during the fall. Our annual YAM Exhibit is currently on display at the Worcester Art Museum (WAM) until the end of March. The student and parent reception for this took place on March 3, 2013 at WAM. Past-President Christopher Whitehead addressed the parents and students at this event, which coincided with the Scholastic Art Awards ceremony.
  • Collaborated with MCC, A | L, MC, in their Creative Minds plans to exhibit student work electronically during Youth Art Month
  • The Boston Globe sponsored Scholastic Art Exhibit is currently on display. Dr. John Michael Gray and Tim O'Connell are the co-coordinators of this event and have worked tirelessly on organizing, soliciting and collecting student work as well as working with the steering committee and judges since October [the show was hung during the February blizzard and several MAEA Board members, who also serve on the Scholastics Steering Committee Eva Kearney, Awards Co-Chair and Past President; June Krinsky-Rudder, Conference Committee member, and Past-President; and Coni Moore, assisted with this] the exhibit is on display until April 19th at the Massachusetts State Transportation Building at 10 Park Plaza; Boston, MA. Five separate Awards Ceremonies (by grade level(s) /categories took place at the John Hancock Hall, Boston, on March 3, 2013. Coní Moore addressed the audience along with a Boston Globe representative at each of the five ceremonies that day.
  • Plans for Team East 2013 have been finalized. It will be held at New Bedford, MA (the 7th most artistic city in the U.S. according to census data) on June 21-23, 2013. Our VP and Conference Coordinator Kristi Oliver, has worked industriously on the scheduling and organization of these plans. The registration forms are currently posted on the MAEA website under Conferences at: , and all information about the venue and hotel can be found there.
  • We added a new position to our Board in December, Exhibit Chair, and Past-President, Christopher Whitehead in addition to being our Web Master has assumed this role. Currently an exhibit co-chaired by Kristi Oliver of member work is on display at the Mad Hatter Gallery in Marlborough, MA from March 5th to 31st, the title of which is

Through the Looking Glass(see attachment). The member reception will take place on Friday, March 22, 2013 at 6 - 9 pm at the Gallery.

  • On January 5th Coní Moore and V.P., Conference Committee Chair, Kristi Oliver met with the two University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth faculty representative, Drs. Kathy Miraglia and Cathy Smilian to discuss, plan and look at facilities for our next fall conference in November 2013. We met again on February 20th along with other members of the Conference Committee in addition to the aforementioned, also consisting of Sarah Dugan, Carolann Tebbits, at looked at additional venues off campus for day two of the fall conference, which will be held at UMASS Dartmouth on Nov 9 and 10, 2013.
  • The Awards Committee is currently working changesin our timeframe and protocols, and planning for an early submission of candidates as well as adherence to the NAEA rubric for the selection process.
  • Many state members were seen and met during the NAEA Convention in Ft. Worth, and MA seemed to be well-represented in attendance as well as by presenters.

Significant Planned State Activities – March 2012–March 2013:

  • Please refer to bulleted items above for details the salient events to date are: Hosting Team East in June; Fall Conference at UMAA Dartmouth in November; Plans for sponsored workshops around the state (spring-summer); Summer Exhibit of Member work (possible venue State Transportation Bldg.); launching of Members ONLY pages on our website; accelerated due dates for conference proposals and awards nominations; additional outreach and advocacy plans.

Upcoming Conference/Professional Development Activities:

  • Once again, please refer to details above.

Association Work on NAEA Strategic Plan Initiatives:

  • At this time we are actively engaged in revising and improving our Bylaws; we are planning our outreach to universities and colleges to inform pre-service art teachers about our organization; we are reaching out to art teachers by planning workshops around the state with the objective of increasing membership, and by providing Members ONLY pages on our website; we are planning and organizing Members Exhibits; and we are working on improving our newsletter with relevant articles related to classroom issues and concerns. . . .

Learning—develop effective leadership, teaching and advocacy for art education:

  • Please refer to items above.

Community—build a professional community:

  • These efforts are evidenced in out outreach and planned workshops, etc. please refer to items above.

Research/Knowledge—assess programs/services and provide access to information on policy:

  • We are currently working on structuring this now, especially, by our work on the Bylaws. Our work has involved doing research and looking at Bylaws from other state organizations as well as those of National. We plan to expand this as we move forward.

Advocacy—communicate the value of visual arts:

  • Our collaboration with MCC, A | L, and CM, in addition to procuring a DESE liaison, and having regular Advocacy meetings, and reaching out to colleges and universities as delineated above are testament to this.

Other new information from your State: Not at this time.

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