Miller Gallery and NAEA presents their 3rd annual Student Exhibition! The opening reception will be held on Friday, April 26, 2013 in Miller Gallery. This event is free and open to the public.

The event features works by current student members of the National Art Education Association as well as the Student Art Association in a variety of mediums. 

Miller Gallery is located on the 3rd floor of Sprowls Hall. Come enjoy an eventful night with free snacks and refreshments!

IUP NAEA Gets Involved at the PAEA Conference

   

 Last semester, Dr. Ciganko announced to NAEA that he was going to be publishing a book. He said he was going to be giving a presentation on it at the PAEA conference in the Fall and asked if anyone was interested in doing a project with him involving his book and giving a speech at the conference. 

    Ally Crouse, Rachel Knopf, and Brittany Byrd all offered to help out. The assignment was to read certain chapters of his book and create an artwork that reflected what we learned or felt about the book. Dr Ciganko's book was about the art of landscapes and the connection of spirituality in them. It was about adding deep concept into landscapes. 

    It really was an amazing process of how each one of us took the project differently. We each gave a 10 minute presentation of our findings and it went wonderfully. People really connected to the fact that, Yes, there needs to be more concept in landscapes and that they do not need to just be simple case studies of your backyard. For some people it's a shock to learn that landscapes can actually mean something. It is something that needs to be stressed more in the classroom. 

  When we weren't presenting, we went to other sessions of talks and got to enjoy the vendors selling different art supplies for the classroom. We also took a break and went walking around Harrisburg enjoying the city. There was a cute German bar restaurant that we found to eat dinner at called the Gingerbread Man. The environment and food was wonderful.(Plus they gave a free gingerbread cookie as dessert) Overall, it was a great trip we will never forget! 

(Us eating lunch with all the other PAEA members)

(Downtown Harrisburg) 

  

Projects in the Works

NAEA met on Wednesday to talk about current projects and ideas. Here's what we discussed:

Current Projects

IUP Day

NAEA will have a booth at IUP Day, the annual student organization fair, taking place this Saturday Sept. 8 from 12-4 at the Memorial Field House. Hopefully we will be able to recruit some new members!

Murals

The YMCA would like us to do jungle-themed murals for a children’s playroom area. More information will come on this topic very soon.

T-Shirts

NAEA will be selling t-shirts again this year as our big fundraiser. This year we are going for something simpler and more appealing to the masses. If you’d like to make a design, remember that it must say IUP Art Department on it somewhere, though it doesn’t have to be prominent. Some ideas thrown around were paint splatters, and the Art Student Owl meme, though I think we might run into copyright issues with that particular idea. Any other ideas are welcome. Also remember to keep the color scheme to a minimum because the less ink colors we need, the cheaper we can get the shirts. If you come up with a design either post it to the Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/107556952646405/ or send it in an email.

PAEA Conference: Oct. 5-Oct. 7
Aly, Rachel, and Brittany will be presenting at the PAEA Conference in October. They will be discussing the connection between landscape art and spirituality, referencing Dr. Ciganko's in-progress book.

Possibilities:

Bright Ideas

There is currently a History of Indiana PA exhibit going on at the University Museum at Sutton Hall. We would like to put on a Bright Ideas event for children in the area. For Bright Ideas, we take the kids through the museum to learn about the artwork and then they create their own art based on what they learned. The exhibit runs from now until October 27. The tentative date for Bright Ideas is October 20.

Classes at the Artist’s Hand Gallery

The Artist’s Hand Gallery is providing elementary art classes for three Saturdays each month in October and November. This is a good opportunity for members of NAEA to get out into the community and do what we want to do: teach!

Trips

This year we are thinking of going on trips to artsy venues in Pittsburgh such as the Carnegie Museum, The Mattress Factory, the Warhol, the glass factory, and more.

IUP NAEA: Fall is here!

Fall semester is here and NAEA is about to embark on some great new projects! Our current ideas include:

• Teaching an Intro to Drawing course at the Indiana YMCA
• Teaching elementary art classes at the Artist's Hand
• Organizing the "Chalk on the Walk" Sidewalk Commentary Contest
• Designing Art Department shirts for our annual fundraiser
• Creating murals for community organizations
• Presenting guest speakers in the field of Art Education
• Holding campus art events such as tie-dying
• And more!

All you need to do to get involved is come to our first meeting on September 5 at 7:30pm in Sprowls Hall, room 213. If you're nervous about just showing up, shoot us an e-mail on the Contact page in advance letting us know you're interested.

Thanks for stopping by and remember to take a look around the rest of the website to read about our goals, events, officers, and more!