Spend three days in beautiful Greenville, SC
We are thrilled to be back in Greenville, SC at the Hyatt Regency Greenville for three glorious days of speakers, workshops and vendors.
Last year we had over 275 participants and 14 vendors!
We have so much planned for 2019! You don't want to miss it!
Be on the lookout for more information on the conference website, as well as through our social media and SCAEA website!
Last year we had over 275 participants and 14 vendors!
We have so much planned for 2019! You don't want to miss it!
Be on the lookout for more information on the conference website, as well as through our social media and SCAEA website!
EVENT SPEAKERS
TONI SCOTT
Toni Scott’s exhibitions and installations weave together artistically powerful stories presented through installations, multi-media, photography, painting, sculpture and digital ingenuity, often referencing fraught histories. "Learning of my multicultural family heritage has inspired me to give life to the lost images and stories of history." Scott's "Bloodlines" series is a testament to her goals to inspire, educate, heal, engage, stimulate dialog, and bring together diverse cultures. "In every work, I create resides a commitment to themes that build and enrich humanity." Scott’s work has been awarded and celebrated internationally. In 2012, she created a solo mixed media installation, Bloodlines, for the California African American Museum. In 2015, she was selected as the solo artist for the Dame Jillian Sackler International Artists Exhibition Program, a prestigious invitation to install and exhibit her work in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University, in Beijing China. In 2016, she was featured as the First International Artist to exhibit a solo exhibition at the Changzhou Museum in Jiangsu Province of China. 2018, Toni exhibited a solo exhibit, "As warm with the Spirits of All Ages Here....", at the UNC at Chapel Hill, Sonja Haynes Stone Center. Currently her work is on exhibit at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Peking University, China for the 25th Anniversary of the Sackler Museum. She is featured in the recently published book "Creative Souls: African American Artists in Greater Los Angeles," by UCLA Professor Paul Von Blum and on exhibit at the Watt's Towers Art Center in Los Angeles. Fall 2018, Toni has been selected as Artist in Residence at the Squire Foundation in Santa Barbara, CA. and the prestigious CCS Artist in Residence, at UCSB. Knowledge acquired from the University of Southern California and Otis College of Art and Design, along with her natural talent and skill, have made Toni Scott the internationally renowned artist that she is today. She holds an MFA from the University of California at Santa Barbara, 2018. She is a Citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation, and part of a global traveling exhibition of Muscogee Creek Artists. |
Thomas Knab - NAEA President Thom Knab has been an Elementary Art Teacher (K-4) at Dodge Elementary since 1990. He earned his BS and MS degrees in Art Education from Buffalo State College in 1987 and 1992 respectively. Thom began a 1000 sq.ft. art gallery, called BRAG, at Dodge Elementary which has displayed over 200 student artworks at times. He has been a cooperating teacher for over forty student-teachers. He has been a boys volleyball coach since 1984 and was inducted into the WNY Boys Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2013. Thom is the current NAEA president and served as President-elect from 2018-2019. He was also the Elementary Division Director from 2015-2017. He has been honored as both the National Elementary Art Educator and the Eastern Region Elementary Art Educator at the 2018 convention. He was the keynote speaker at the Tennessee Art Education Association state conference in 2018 and the Eastern Region Summer Leadership in 2019. He has served in Delegates Assembly from 2011-2016. Thom has been published several times including: “BRAG: The Brick Room Art Gallery”, School Arts Magazine, 2015; “The Roadrunner Art Walk”, School Arts Magazine, 2015; Review of Every Leader is an Artist, O’Malley & Baker, NYSATA News, 2014; “Assessment”, School Arts Magazine, 2013; “Copper Family Crests”, School Arts Magazine, 2012; And Review of Reaching and Teaching Students with Special Needs through Art, edited by Gerber and Guay, NYSATA News, 2010. Thom was also a member of the NAEA, Design Standards for School Art Facility Review Committee, 2010 – 2013. Thom is an exhibiting artist and has exhibited his work in three solo shows over the past two years. In New York State, Thom has served as NYSATA President-elect, President and Past President from 2012-2016. He also served as Vice President from 2011-2012. He was honored as NYS Art Educator of the Year in 2018 and NYSATA Region One Art Educator in 2008. He has been an almost yearly presenter at the NAEA National Convention since 2004 and the NYSATA State conference since 2003. Thom is very excited to be here in South Carolina to learn, share about, and celebrate the visual arts education. |
JEROME B. MEADOWS
Jerome B. Meadows is a full time studio artist working and residing in an historic Ice House inSavannah, Georgia. Originally from New York City, he’s been living in Savannah since 1997. A graduate with a BFA degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA degree from the University of Maryland, Mr. Meadows has been self-employed as a visual artist and public space designer since 1992. His focus in the arts has been in the design and fabrication of large scale public art projects, including site layout, landscape issues, along with the conceptualization and fabrication of sculptural components all fully integrated into a cohesive whole. These projects are located throughout the United States. Mr. Meadows' sculptural work for the Portsmouth, NH African Burying Ground was awarded a 2013 NEA Art Works Grant for "The creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence." Mr. Meadow’s poetry, dance and mixed media performance event – Blank Page Poetry-Words & Shadows, being presented in Charleston, SC in October of this year, is being funded in part through an NEA Big Read grant provided to the city. In 2010 Mr. Meadows was the recipient of a Brown Foundation Residency Fellowship at the Dora Maar House in Menerbes, France - in residence along with the noted educator and poet Cleopatra Mathis and Rachel Stella, art critic, scholar and the daughter of famed artist Frank Stella. The Brown Foundation program is directed through the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In addition he was commissioned in 2009 to undertake a precedent setting exhibition at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia entitled: Reframing A Perceptual Paradigm (RAPP). The exhibition, like others taking place at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City and the Gibbes Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, afforded Mr. Meadows the opportunity to function as both artist and curator in selecting over 130 works from the Museum’s collection and juxtaposing them in a multi-gallery installation along with his own original artworks serving as both commentary and counter point to how people perceive art and experience museums. His academic background includes teaching positions and residencies at the University of Maryland, College Park, Howard University, the College of Charleston, Maryland Institute College of Art and a year long Fulbright Lecture Award to the National College of Art in Lahore, Pakistan, to name a few. He was also the recipient of a Fulbright-Hayes study tour of Pakistan, traveling throughout the country with other educators and artists while studying traditional crafts and processes. |