The Massachusetts Art Education Association has chosen our own Aimee DeBose as the 2014 Higher Education Art Educator of the Year.  

Aimee will be receiving the award on November 9 at the MAEA Fall Conference at the University of Massachusetts- Dartmouth.

A graduate of our MSAE program, Aimee taught for eight years at the K-5 level in the Ipswich Public Schools.  In the Art Education Department Aimee has taught a range of courses, including Art and Human Development, PrePracticum I (undergrad and grad), Portfolio, and Concepts and Processes for Classrooms.  She has played a large role in furthering the department’s relationship with the Bakalar/Paine Galleries, especially by involving the Prepracticum I students in Family Day.

Selections is a multi-disciplinary, multi-media exhibition in the Paine Gallery of work by MassArt faculty who are newly hired or who are returning from sabbatical.  Don’t miss seeing “me_ meme,” the work of our own Laura Reeder, who is in her second year in the Art Education Department.

In  a video on the college website, Laura says her installation is really about “how information is synthesized in an artist’s mind and how it’s put back out in contemporary media…. it’s a whole bunch of computers talking to each other around a few canvases that have multiple images.”

Selections will be up until December 7.

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Dear Art Ed Students and Colleagues:

Welcome back from the summer! As you see from Matt’s message, I’m away on sabbatical this fall. An important project of the sabbatical is to develop a travel course to India for Art Ed students. John Crowe and I will be traveling there in late October into mid-November, exploring the possibilities for a trip that I hope will be available to students in January 2015 (fingers crossed).  Continue reading →

Steve Locke’s show “you don’t deserve me” at Samson Gallery is reviewed by Francine Miller in the October issue of Art in America.