Creating Change: Leadership Strategies in Art Education

July 18-25, 2008

NAEA Distinguished Fellows Leadership Institute
We are Looking for Our Future Leaders

You are invited to apply for participation in a National Art Education Association Distinguished Fellows Leadership Institute. NAEA Distinguished Fellows are recognized leaders in the field of art education. The purpose of the Institute is to contribute to participants' leadership capabilities and their application in supporting visual culture approaches to art education. The Institute is designed using a constructivist model and will include Distinguished Fellows speakers, group discussion, and artistic production as several methods of inquiry. The Institute members will be carefully selected by the Distinguished Fellows through application. Course credits will be included through Bemidji State University, Bemidji , Minnesota. The Institute will be held at Chateau Mer, a cottage on the beach in Sandy Point, Maine. The registration limit is 23.

The Workshop Leaders
(to view current projects and interests visit websites)

Doug Boughton, PhD Past-President, International Society for Education Through Art, Professor, Author – School of Art, Northern Illinois University
http://www.niu.edu/PubAffairs/RELEASES/2006/jan/visualculture.shtml

Kerry Freedman, PhD NAEA Higher Educator of the Year, Past-Editor, Studies in Art Education, Professor, Author – School of Art, Northern Illinois University
http://www.niu.edu/art/faculty/freedman/Freedman.html

Mary Ann Stankiewicz, PhD NAEA President (2003-2005), Professor, Author - School of Visual Arts, The Pennsylvania State University
http://www.personal.psu.edu/mas53/

Laurie E. Hicks, PhD Founder/Editor The Journal of Gender Issues in Art and Education, Professor, Printer/Photographer - Department of Art, University Of Maine
http://www.umaine.edu/art/faculty.htm

Pat Stuhr, PhD Department Chair, Leadership Specialist, Author – Department of Art Education, The Ohio State University
http://arts.osu.edu/ArtEducation/stuhr/stuhr.html

Barbara R. Bridges, PhD Minnesota Higher Art Educator of the Year, Online curriculum designer, Sculptor - Bemidji State University
http://www.bemidjistate.edu/dlite/
http://www.bridgescreate.com
bbridges@bemidjistate.edu

Madelynne Engle Conceptual Sculptor; US Embassy, Hilton Collection, Monsanto, E F Hutton, Bank of America; San Diego, California
http://www.englestudio.com/#start

The Institute

The theme of the Institute is Leadership. The goals of the institute include:

1. Learning about the historical and cultural contexts of leadership in art education
2. Empowering the participants as leaders who act as catalysts for curriculum change.
3. Enabling a free-flowing, dynamic dialogue among speakers and participants.
4. Designing leadership workshops in participants’ local regions.
5. Creating a visual culture artwork, focused on leadership, that will develop as a work-in-progress and travel to participant?s regions, finally displayed at the National Art Education Conference in 2009.
   
   The host will create a virtual community online and the participants will review selected readings, build community, and begin to work on leadership development BEFORE we meet in preparation for the Institute. Each day of the Institute will be spent with one or more of the speakers who will help you to develop strategies for leadership. The Institute schedule will also include periods of flexible time for relaxing activities, such as beach walking, social interaction, or alone time.

The host will create a virtual community online and the participants will review selected readings, build community, and begin to work on leadership development BEFORE we meet in preparation for the Institute. Each day of the Institute will be spent with one or more of the speakers who will help you to develop strategies for leadership. The Institute schedule will also include periods of flexible time for relaxing activities, such as beach walking, social interaction, or alone time.

The Facility

Chateau Mer is a cottage located in Sandy Point, Maine, a town of 50 people, at the mouth of Penobscot Bay. It is only 30 miles from a major airport in Bangor, Maine, and Camden and Bar Harbor. To see the beach, cottage, and surroundings, click here. Several different sleeping accommodations are available to provide access to participants regardless of economic status. The deposit for the rooms are first come, first served and are due after acceptance with the Institute fee. The Institute will include 7 nights: July 18 - 24, 2008

The Cost

The cost of the conference is $650.00 plus your choice of sleeping accommodations. The conference fee includes: * Conference Programs
* Seven light breakfasts
* Six light lunches
* One New England Shore Dinner
* Most art supplies
* Free Bemidji State University Credit

Graduate credit: Bemidji State University, in Minnesota, has agreed to create a virtual community course for our project. The course, Leadership in Art Education ED 4950/undergraduate or ED595/graduate (including embedded discussion options) will be open from July 2008 to May 2009 for our use as we prepare for the Fellows institute and as you develop your regional workshops and installation for the NAEA conference in the spring of 2009. You will have support as you plan! There will be a one credit UNDERGRADUATE minimum registration included in your registration fee to earn your place (to cover the cost of maintaining the course) in the class but you may enroll for up to 3 credits. YOU MUST PAY FOR EXTRA UNDERGRADUATE CREDITS AND ALL GRADUATE CREDITS. Undergraduate fee per credit: $228.93. Graduate credit fee: $316.43.

Tentative Institute Schedule

Application Proceedure