Faulkner State CC Art Fair 2013

Faulkner State CC Art Fair 2013

Judged by Steve Strickland

Merit Awards:

1. Sterling Yeend

The Rooster

Spanish Fort H.S.

2. Matthew Smith

Tribal Deer

Robertsdale H.S.

3. Ainsley Hill

New Life

Theodore H.S.

4.  Tristan Young

Reflective Radiance

Baldwin County H.S.

5. Emma Meeker

Courtship

Daphne H.S.

6.  Jackson Tharpe

Degas’ Dancers in Blue

Fairhope H.S.  

Excellence Awards:

1. Joni Moore

Biggie

Gulf Shores

2. Rae Carlson

Home

Daphne H.S.

3.  Nicholas Bryant

Mr. Squid

Murphy H.S.

4.  Leah O’Rourke

Through the Looking Glass

Theodore H.S.

5.  Charli Adams

Rage

Gulf Shores H.S.

6. Mary Harris

Self-Portrait

Foley H.S.

Best of Show:

Zoe Fletcher

Relief Next

Robertsdale H.S.

Ken Bethea and Steve Strickland, art instructors at FSCC, showed their appreciation to all of the art instructors with awards and gifts for such a wonderful display of student art.

Faulkner State Community College Art Fair 2013

FSCC Art Fair and Workshop

April 18, 2013

Bay Minette Campus

Checklist

• Secure field trip forms and transportation 
• Label art appropriately with white labels only
• Frame or professionally seal art
• Test hanger put on art
• Deliver to FSCC, Tyson Center room 143
• Due date to deliver April 11, 2013 to FSCC 

Agenda for the day

Arrive on time April 18 at 10:00

10:00 ---Art Fair and Awards begin in the John Tyson Auditorium

11:00---Workshop in art classroom begins

11:30---Tour of Classrooms and Q&A

12:00---Pizza and Coke Social

1:00---Depart to your school

Students must take all art home after the art show

If you have any questions or concerns please contact

Ken Bethea or Vicky Cook.  (vcook@bcbe.org) 591-1762                                

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Faulkner State Community College

(Regional Art Fair)

Requirements and Due Dates for April 18^th Art Fair

Artwork Due Date:  April 11, 2013

Deliver to Tyson Center, room #143

After 5pm drop off boxed works at main office. (Admissions Building)

Attach I.D. LABEL to back of each piece.

List:  Name – Title – Media – Grade (vertically)

Also include a TYPED (about standard size) white (adhesive) 

I.D. LABEL to be attached to wall listing same information.

Presentation:

Works should be matted or framed with a SECURE hanger centered (or use wire) on back.

Avoid taped wire as it can fail.

Please TEST hanger.

Thanks and see you there.

61st Annual Arts and Crafts- Murals

The 2013 Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce just held their 61st Annual Arts and Crafts Festival in Fairhope, AL last week.  For the last nine years the Eastern Shore middle and high schools including Bayside have participated by creating over the top artwork based on the theme selected by the Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce committee.   Master pieces have been created each year and it has led to a stiff competition for the schools for the top cash awards given by Segers.
The theme Bay Breeze was selected as the theme for the visiting artists to enjoy and vote on the artwork the evening of the Chamber dinner for the participating craftsmen and women selected in the official art show.

Once the art is selected it is moved to store fronts for the weekend for all to see.  On the following Monday after Arts and Crafts is over all of the 3 foot by 4 foot wooden murals are moved to Andree's Deli to hang on display for the whole year and the project starts all over again.  

The schools come to pick up their art from the previous year and share it with libraries, offices and their school.  They have even sold it to a business for art supplies.

The 2013 winners are as follows:

1^ST------- FAIRHOPE HIGH

2^ND------- SPANISH FORT MIDDLE

  

3^RD-------BAYSIDE

HONORABLE MENTION—FAIRHOPE MIDDLE

HONORABLE MENTION- DAPHNE HIGH

SPANISH FORT HIGH SCHOOL

The Exceptional Foundation visits USA and Paige Vitulli

September 18th, Ricky Trione, Vicky Cook, and participants from The Exceptional Foundation of the Gulf Coast shared their talents with USA College of Education students and faculty!

EDU301 students joined participants from the Exceptional Foundation and learned about perseverance, character and art education while engaging in a collaborative finger-painting activity with Ricky Trione, blind artist. 

To read more about this exciting collaboration check out Paige Vitulli's blog.

http://ponderingpaige.blogspot.com/2012/10/exceptional-art-in-college-of-education.html

LEARN in Creativity, Learning and Sir Ken Robinson

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Without the Arts, It's Not Education

Earlier this spring Secretary of Education Arne Duncan wrote that "dance, music, theater, and visual arts" are essential to preparing our nation's young people for a global economy fueled by innovation and creativity." That may be the case, but thanks to education funding cuts, the arts are being systematically stripped from our schools. According to creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson, what's left can hardly be called an education.

"We may be providing something else, but it's not what we want to think of as education," Robinson told attendees at the recent Action Children's Art Conference in the U.K. Instead, says Robinson, our children are growing up in a fast-paced world "that's becoming more standardized," which means kids "live within education cultures that are more prone to testing, to conformity, and to compliance than ever before."

Indeed, what Robinson advocates for "are opportunities for self exploration" and the ability for "young people to explore the range of their own imaginations." Because the arts are intimately connected to our emotions, students also need a chance "to explore the depths of their own feelings and their connections to other people."

Without the connection to our emotions that music, dance, visual art, and drama provide, students' ability to cultivate their right-brain "soft skills" ends up being stunted. In a global society that needs people with the emotional intelligence to have both personal and working relationships with people from diverse cultures—and the ability to think creatively and entrepreneurially—that means denying kids access to the arts has less-than-desirable consequences.

It's not too late to get on the right track though, says Robinson, if we support a robust, child centered arts program in our schools, and if arts organizations in our community—the local ballet or symphony, for example—also develop programs specifically for students. 

ART CONTEST

Official Entry Form (Contestants must currently be in 6th – 12th grade)

You could win lots of great prizes for you and CASH for your school.

Create a piece of art following this year’s theme: “Music in Mobile”

To enter your artwork in the contest, just follow these three easy steps:

1. Fill out an entry form

2. Follow the guidelines listed on the back of the entry form.

3. Bring your artwork: GoDaddy.Com Bowl Office 1000 Hillcrest Road, Ste 115 Mobile, AL 36695

ENTRIES MUST BE DROPPED OFF BY 10/26/2012

National Arts in Education Week, September 9-15, 2012

A National Spotlight for Arts Education
In July of 2010 the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution designating the second week of September as “Arts in Education Week.” The resolution (H.Con.Res. 275) was proposed and introduced by Rep. Jackie Speier from California.

The resolution states: [...] Arts education, comprising a rich array of disciplines including dance, music, theatre, media arts, literature, design, and visual arts, is a core academic subject and an essential element of a complete and balanced education for all students.

Click here to view the HR275 Arts in Education Week Resolution

Congress designated Arts in Education Week to promote and showcase the immense role arts education has in producing engaged, successful, and college and career-ready students. You can read statements made by congressmen on the House floor regarding arts education HERE.

In May of 2011 arts education was again given a national spotlight with the release of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities report Reinvesting in Arts Education: Winning America's Future Through Creative Schools.

The culmination of 18 months of research, meetings with stakeholders, and site visits all over the country, this report represents an in-depth review of the current condition of arts education, including an update of the current research base about arts education outcomes, and an analysis of the challenges and opportunities in the field that have emerged over the past decade. It also includes a set of recommendations to federal, state and local policymakers.

Celebrating Art on the Gulf!

The Alabama Art Education Association 2012 conference will be held in Orange Beach. Please check out the link if you are interested in attending this event- It is not to be missed!               http://www.aaeaonline.org

Thank You LuLu's!!

Special thanks to LuLu's Homeport Marina for selecting Baldwin County Alliance for Arts Education as the recipient of their special events funds for the arts educators.   It is the honor of BCAAE to provide funds to the Baldwin County Public School fine arts educators just as they have received funds from LuLu's in the past.   Lucy Buffett is passionate about helping the arts educators of Baldwin County today as she has for the last seven years.  It is through the Boo Lu's Haunted events, bracelet sales, book sales and the Fresh Art Market plus the special Gee's Bend production that has  put instruments, music, art supplies, theatre lighting, sound equipment, ipads, professional development opportunities and funded honor band events.

THANK YOU LUCY AND STAFF FOR ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK TO HELP OUR K-12 ART, MUSIC, THEATRE AND DANCE PROGRAMS!

The first recipient of the summer of 2012 funds is Tripp Morris, band director of Spanish Fort High to use toward instruments.

March 2012 Arts and Crafts Festival

The 2012 Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce sponsors the Arts and Crafts Festival held in Fairhope, AL each year with a special inclusive art competition from the local eastern shore middle and high schools.  For the first time the event included the newly formed Exceptional Foundation of the Gulf Coast which proudly participated with the schools creating a piece of art for the theme "Reflecting on Sixty Years" and all of the pieces of art hang in Andree's Wine and Cheese in Fairhope on Fairhope Avenue.   

The murals are created by students selected by the art teachers from each school.  Some art the art club students, some art a selected class, or a group of art students that choose to work after school on the project.   Each year the competition becomes more and more competitive and more creative.   If you have not seen the art from the March 2012 Arts and Crafts Festival, you must go to Andree's, take a seat, order something special as you ponder over the art on the walls.    It is certainly a sight to behold.  There is a brief explanation from the schools about their piece or which group was selected to create it.   Andree's has been so gracious to allow the art to hang on their walls each year after the Artists' dinner selects the winning piece.   Store owners are now showcasing them on the Saturday and Sunday of Arts and Crafts for all to see.   Then for a year the artwork goes to Andree's as a reminder of the local talent our schools are working with while having a community based project that is beautiful, satisfying and brings locals and visitors to Andree's all year to awe at the art.  What happens to the artwork each year when new art is created to replace it?  Different things have happened each year.  It has been donated to the Fairhope and Daphne Public Libraries, donated back to the schools, auctioned and the money given to the art class and some even hang in a local doctor's office.   The NFL Building Supply Center has donated the foam core for the first few years of this project and now thanks to the craftsmanship of one of the art teachers, the projects are now created on NFL donated wood of which wooden canvases are made for the artwork.   Yes, this has become too much fun, too serious and too much great of art to just be on foam board anymore.  

Check out this blog- great advice for Art Teachers!

 This Week on the Art of Education!