Events

hello! thanks to everyone who attended this week's meetings. we have come up with some ideas for this semester that we would like to share.

first, anyone in Practicum should have received an email regarding involving your teacher in the Arts in Education Week. we should have information regarding what teachers are interesting in participating and will be organizing events by next Wednesday. because this is on such short notice, we will need lots of help! so even if you are not in practicum, we would love to have you help out! anything we organize will be along the line of an art room open house, arts fair, community project, bake sale to raise funds for their art class, etc. so please let me know if you are interested in helping with that.

also, the next event is the SGA sponsored school supplies drive. we will have a collection bin set up in the Todd building and a list of supplies is attached. this is a great way to help out our poorly funded art programs around Murfreesboro and Rutherford county. the dollar tree is an excellent source! most of their school supplies (scissors, glue, erasers, comp. notebooks) are sold in multiples for $1. so if everyone would spend $5-$10 we would make a great impact on this supplies drive!

a later event will be the Nashville Art Crawl on October 2nd. it is a free event with shuttle buses available and is a great opportunity to get together and enjoy the Nashville art scene. for more information and to RSVP, visit the facebook event page here and let us know you are coming! everyone and their friends are welcome.
the grant for the Nashville TAEA conference on Nov. 4-6 has been written and is awaiting approval.information on that can be found here and the grant is asking for the registration for ten (10) students to be covered. we will need to fund raise to help with the initial money, as grants work through reimbursement only.
information on the spring Seattle NAEA conference is attached and we will focus on that more in the spring.

there is also a middle Tennessee conference in Dickson in March, information on that can be found on the 1st meeting agenda, which is attached.
all of the bake sale dates are included there as well, please be looking for sign up sheets outside of Dr. Sickler-Voigt's office as those times near and be ready to bake some delicious and beautiful goods!

also, we still need people to help with the Student Organization Fair next Wednesday the 8th, from 10-2. we have some volunteers for 11:30-12:30 and from 12:30-2. so we will need someone to open it and be there from 10-11:30. we will supply you with fliers, candy, a tri-fold display and sign to hang and a table will be ready for you outside the KUC knoll. you just have to sit there, smile and tell everyone how great NAEA is and why they should get involved! they don't have to be an art education major, we can collaborate with other groups on community projects and events.

so that's everything we went over in the first meeting, all documents are attached and ready to print. if you are serious about getting involved, please pick up a yellow folder from Dr. Sickler-Voigt's mailbox by her office which already contains this information. please do not take one if you are only slightly interested in helping out.
thanks and i hope to see many of you at future meetings and events!