Couldn't make the Conference?

Did you know you can get many of the resource videos, presentations, and handouts from this year's National Conference online?

Click the link below and login with your NAEA info.

http://bit.ly/YIJLYf

No Homework in Finland

In my experience art teachers generally don't give much homework anyway (maybe the occasional sketchbook assignment?) but I thought this was an interesting graphic nonetheless. Nice design too!

Reblogged from slowrobot.com

From the Convention

A few snapshots from the Convention in Fort Worth.

Some VATA members (past and present) getting their Texas on...

Our Teacher of the Year, Alice Tragaser getting her award!

Dana Spencer and Barb Crandall.

Some art bikes!

Hope Flag Project Exhibit

The Hope Flag Project State House Exhibit is up from now until March 29th. Please join the student artists, families, friends and teachers on March 29th from 4-6 for a closing reception.

The Hope Flag Project

VATA's 2013 Youth Art Month 

Project Announces it's State House Exhibit

"Be an Artist, Right Now!"

Watch this amazing TED talk by Korean artist, Young-Ha Kim.

NAEA National Convention

Are you headed to the Convention?

Click here for the new Convention website. You can find more information, register (early bird registration has been EXTENDED until February 18th!), book a room, check out the schedule, and more!

Smartphone and tablet users don't forget to get the Convention App!

Click the image or scan the QR code to get it.

And...if the Convention won't keep you busy enough...

Check out these links to Fort Worth museums, galleries, and art "stuff."

Forth Worth Visitor's Guide

Arts Council of Forth Worth

Find Local Artists

Our First Post!

Welcome VATA Members and Friends!

Our goal is to host a plethora of ideas, lesson plans, images, strategies, how-to's, information and really cool art for art educators, pre-service teachers, parents, community members and schools. (Wow, that was a long list!)

This will be a place to CONNECT with your fellow educators, ASK QUESTIONS, be INSPIRED and (of course) find some great ideas and see some great ART.

We welcome feedback- just click on the Connect With Us tab.

Can't wait to get started!

And....since it's Friday here's the first Fun Friday post:

Michael Sowa's paintings are technically brilliant and his subject matter just makes us smile.

Michael Sowa (born 1945) is a German artist known mainly for his paintings, which are variously whimsical, surreal, or stunning. His paintings often feature animals and are titled in English and German. Sowa studied at the Berlin State School of Fine Arts for seven years and worked briefly as an art teacher before focusing entirely on his career as a painter and illustrator. -Wikipedia

Here's Kohler's Pig:

Wouldn't this be a great piece to show students and then have them write creatively about it?

It would also be a great conversation starter about adynatons—a figure of speech so hyperbolic that it 

describes an impossibility.

Let us know if this sparks a lesson plan- we'd love to share it here on Painted Tables!