South Carolina Art Education Association

Many SC Art Educators are going to National. Please post any events or workshops you recommend, any vendors giving away great stuff, or speakers to catch. Also, please post any good place for SC Art educators to meet and network.

Tuesday PM-Josh and I arrived. We accidentally ended up on the same plane into Baltimore. It is cold and rainy. Someone texted Josh to try Pickles Bar. We did. It had beer but, the food was OK-. We almost tried some street vendor crab cakes but held out for Pickles food. It was a bad choice but, the beer was cheap and cold.
The convention sight is busy. The museum selection in Baltimore is outstanding. I hear Seymore Simmons has been giving advice on which ones are the best. Delegates Assembly starts tomorrow (Wednesday) at 8am. Josh and I will be there for you!

Several SCAEA members are making presentations at this national convention. I know I will hear of more. I hope they will take the time to post when and where for us. Currently, I know that Cynthia Colbert Seymore Simmons, and Minuette Floyd have scheduled presentations. However, I know there are more...

I'm at the conference! By car, plane, light rail and foot- I made it to my hotel. Waiting for 3 ladies from Knoxville who will be sharing the room. I'm looking over the sessions for tomorrow and making plans. I would recommend attending any of the Artsonia presentations. I started using them this year and have already received over $6,500.00 in cash and prizes (sounds like a game show)

Thanks, Jeryl... Artsonia it is (Tomorrow). Josh Drews and I were in Delegates assembly today. Changes are coming. Most info is available at NAEA-RESTON.ORG.

I want to hear th story behind all the travel.

Steven I am living vicariously through your blog:-) I am glad you skipped the crab cakes on the corner it sounded like the brewing of an intestinal nightmare.
If you see some awesome technology stuff can you get me a handout or so Photoshop, Premiere/movie maker etc..
Has Meg made it yet? She did an awesome job helping me paint Walk for Autism windows!

Ok don't want to put you to work but could you send me some National picts for the home page and how about a blurb (it probably needs to be more than that) of Larry and his BIG ELIZABETH V award!

Attended some great sessions today and yesterday. Overload after listening from 10:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. We ate at on the patio at McCormick and Schmick overlooking the harbor. Beautiful weather.

This year I had the honor to do my presentation on advocacy as the very first session of the conference. It was great to have a large group and seeing familiar faces in the crowd like Jeryl, Liz Smith,Marty Rankin, and Linda Neely. if anyone is interested, the handouts and powerpoint are located up on the NAEA web site under the conference logo.

I have attended several workshops about AP. One session on "AP Blogging" highlighted Lorin Brandt of Rock Hill High School. It was great to see SC in the spotlight. Another workshop on AP on the new digitalizing. I plan to pull all this information together for our AP workshop in the summerl.

Liz Smith also presented her workshop today and found two of her former art students in the crowd. She was showing art teachers how to dance a painting.

We are all proud of Josh Drews who received his award today at the Southeastern Award Ceremony.

Liz Smith-Cox, Marty Rankin and I are heading home today. We had a great conference. There were over 4,000 art educators here in Baltimore. The weather was ideal and workshops were very informative.

If you never been to a national conference, you need to plan to go next year to Seattle. It will be in March.