NAEA Convention in Baltimore

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2010 NAEA National Convention
April 14 – 18, 2010

Join with K-12 art educators, administrators, professors of art education, museum art educators, college students, and artists from around the globe for the premier professional development opportunity for visual arts educators

This year’s theme, Art Education and Social Justice, explores the role of visual arts and education as vehicles of social equity and agency in today’s increasingly visual culture.

Dan Serig, Steve Locke, Lois Hetland, Jen Hall, and Adriana Katzew from the Art Education faculty will be presenting at the convention.

Visit the 2010 Convention Website.

After Hours Show at BAA

Boston Public Schools 13th Annual Visual Arts Exhibition
featuring art work from BPS visual arts teachers

 afterhours
March 3-31, 2010

Sandra and Philip Gordon Gallery / Boston Arts Academy
174 Ipswich St., Boston
Gallery hours:  M-F, 9-4

Including work by our alumnae:  Beth Balliro, Constance Bigony, Raquel Cardoso, Martha Kempe, Virginia Kropas, Kathleen Marsh, Matthew Poirier, Constantia Thibaut,  Yvonne Troxell, Anna Youman.

Image:  “Allston,” Ari Hauben, McKinley South End Academy 

Mardi Reed

MardiReedInvitationforweb2Mardi Reed (MSAE 1994) will have work in

the Jamaica Plain Artist Association Juried Exhibit
at Andover Newton Theological School
 

Opening Reception 
Thursday February 25th 6:30 to 8:00 
Noyes Dinning Hall Exhibition.

Kate Jellinghaus in Concert

KateJellinghaussinginggroupKate Jellinghaus, currently a TPP student, will be performing with her singing group Divi Zheni, Boston’s own Women’s Bulgarian chorus, this Saturday February 20th. 

7:30-8:00         10th anniversary concert

8:00-11:00       Dance Party – lively Balkan dancing!

Location:  Payson Park Church, 365 Belmont St., Belmont

Student tickets:  $10, includes refreshments

Trintje Jansen, Teacher-Hero

TrintjeforwebTrintje Jansen, who has been teaching and supervising student teachers in the Art Education Department for over twenty-five years, was chosen by May Chau (BFA 2007) as the subject of a paper she wrote for a graduate course at Boston University in the fall 2009 semester, entitled “Trintje Jansen – My Inspiration and My Teacher-Hero”.  May writes that Trintje was “a pivotal force and influence on my decision to change my career path from sales to art education.”  

When May first enrolled in Trintje’s Continuing Education course Drawing for the First Time, she was making a transition from a ten-year career in sales and marketing to what she hoped would be a career in the arts.  Drawing for the First Time is a course for those who have little or no drawing experience.  May found Trintje’s course “unlike any art class I [had] ever taken” in the way Trintje fostered open-ended discovery.  As a result of the course, May decided to apply to MassArt, as other Drawing for the First Time students have done, and she majored in Art Education, ultimately being supervised by Trintje in her student teaching placement in Cambridge. May is now teaching at Somerville High School.

Many of us have had teachers who are heroes to us, and it is nice that in this case the student acknowledged it.