EMERITUS | JULY 2021

RAEA - Retired Art Educators Interest Group

Artwork by Malcome Potek

From the President

Betsy Logan

Oh wow have you heard the good news yet? We have a new President-Elect and a
new NAEA Emeritus Facebook page. I want to welcome Nancy Walkup as our new
President-Elect, I am so happy that she has accepted this position—she is awesome.

A big shout out to Debi West (South Carolina) and Lorraine Poling (Delaware) for agreeing to set
up and administer our new Facebook page. I am so thankful that they stepped up to take on this
task. They have some great ideas for the Facebook page. The plan is to utilize it in many ways to
disseminate information, share ideas, mentor and keep in touch with each other on a more timely
basis than the NAEA Newsletter and E-Bulletin allow. So check it out and join us!

I have been spending my time contacting every state association to find out who their Retired/Emeritus division chairs are. I have
gotten a lot of great responses and it has been surprising to learn that many state associations do not have a dedicated Retired/
Emeritus position on their boards. My plan is to start sending a monthly email
to the state representatives and let them know what we as an interest group are
doing, find out what they are doing and then share what I learn with everyone via 1 From the President
this E-Bulletin and NAEA News. I want to thank one
of our newest Emeritus members, Kathryn Rulien- 2 Trivia
Bareis (Wisconsin), for gathering some information
as well. She was able to research and found out 3 In the Spotlight
that 24 of the 50 states plus British Columbia have
a Retired/Emeritus position on their board, 3 state 4 2021-22 Awards Program
associations have 2 people in this position and 4
have an open position that hasn’t been filled yet. 5 Thank you
I would love to see these numbers increase and

Debi West
hope that we can provide the help needed to 6 Contact Information
the state associations to involve and recruit their
Retired/Emeritus members.

I hope you are making plans for the 2022 NAEA National Convention in New York! I am excited that
it is in person this year. I want to remind everyone of the RAEA Silent Auction that is held during the
convention. We would love to have you participate. If you can’t make something to auction off, you
can donate money to sponsor a table. More information on that will be shared in the next E-Bulletin.
Have a great rest of the summer and I hope to see all of you on the NAEA Emeritus Facebook page!
Stay safe and take time to do what makes you happy!

Lorraine Poling

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Trivia

The trivia question from the last bulletin – Which artist inhaled
his own work was answered correctly by Connie Lutz and Jack
Davis! Thank you both for your quick response!

Answer: It was Willard Wigan. Wigan’s works are ‘micro-

sculptures’; so tiny they must be viewed through a microscope.
In creating his art, Wigan has to slow his heartbeat and work
between pulses. The work he inhaled was Alice, from Alice in
Wonderland, but apparently she was even better when remade.

The July trivia question is:

Which artist was struck in the face
with a mallet by an envious rival,
Send your a
disfiguring him for life? nswers to m
rbjlogan@b e at:
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 In The Spotlight
Nancy Walkup
Emeritus President-Elect
Art Educator

Nancy Walkup has been an art teacher for 40 years and has taught every grade level from kindergarten
to university, though she taught at the elementary level for the longest time. She has been the editor of
SchoolArts Magazine since 2005 and is also the editor of the SchoolArts Collections: Media Arts, STEAM, and
Early Childhood, all recently published. She is a contributing author for the first edition of Explorations in Art,
Davis Publications’ elementary textbook series.

Highlights of her experience include serving as project coordinator for the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts
(NTIEVA), a national art education initiative funded in part by the Getty Institute and the Annenberg Foundation. She returned to
NTIEVA to serve as director to the Institute after ten years teaching art at Ryan Elementary School in Denton, Texas.

Nancy's honors include serving as an invited teacher at an elementary school in Beijing, China; selection for the Japanese Fulbright
Memorial Teacher program; and being named 2007 Teacher of the Year for her elementary campus.

She has won numerous awards from the art education associations of Louisiana and Texas as well as the National Art Education
Association. Nancy was named Texas Elementary Art Educator of the Year by TAEA in 2010. In 2016 she received the NAEA Western
Region Art Educator. She has also served as the Elementary Director of NAEA and was recently named a Distinguished Fellow by
NAEA. Nancy was also the conference chair for the 2001 National Art Education Association conference held in New York City. In 2019
she was named a Distinguished Fellow by TAEA.

Nancy presents regularly at NAEA and regional and state conferences

and has served as an art education consultant for school districts and
as a presenter for professional development. She has given keynote
addresses and other art education presentations in Texas, Louisiana,
New Mexico, Arizona, Arkansas, Alaska, California, Idaho, Wyoming,
Michigan, Florida, Indiana, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Tennessee,
Washington, and Vermont. She often presents on social justice issues,
advocacy, and STEAM. In addition, for many years, Nancy led annual
summer seminars for art educators in Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico,
with Stevie Mack.

Nancy now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she is a docent at the
Indian Arts Research Center and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and
an education volunteer at the Museum of International Folk Art. Her
interests in artmaking center around textile arts and photography.
Email Nancy at [email protected].
Artwork by Nancy Walkup

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 THE 2022 AWARDS
Now is the time to encourage your peers. If you know of a member who has been retired for 3 or more years
and remains actively supporting arts education, then that individual needs to be recognized.
The STATE EMERITUS AWARD can lead to the NATIONAL EMERITUS AWARD:

If the retired member has continued to be actively engaged in supporting arts education on the local, city, or state
levels, then that name needs to be submitted to your state’s award chairman by the submission date (in the summer).
The awardee selected at the state level can then be submitted to NAEA from that state by the NAEA deadline.

Nomination packets must be digitally submitted to the NAEA National Office on or before October 1, 2021. If that
individual has also continued to contribute regionally and nationally to NAEA, then that individual could be considered
for the National Emeritus Award. Often the name submitted to national has been a previous state awardee, but not
always. Any state winner is eligible to be submitted to NAEA for a national level award. The key to see if you, or a
colleague, are eligible is to find and follow the National Rubric for your award found on the NAEA website under
Opportunities.

The National Emeritus Award recognizes contributions made both before and after retirement, however, the emphasis
for this award is aimed more heavily to recognize those individuals still contributing after retirement on a local,
statewide, regional and national level. For the NAEA Emeritus Award, there is a very precise and well-written Rubric
that should be considered. When submitting on the national level, the applicant should be short and concise listing
all, important contributions by the year accomplished and divided into “before” and “after” retirement. If you are not
recognized the first time you are nominated, please try again. Most of you are still contributing in some way. If your
colleague encourages you to put your foot in the ring, please do not hesitate. You are probably terribly busy doing for
others but take time to update your resume and contemplate where you are. All of you have given your lives in the
service of our young people.

We salute you and thank you.

The official forms and deadlines will be posted on the NAEA website in July 2021.

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 Thank You!

A special thank you to the Nebraska Art Teachers Association (NATA) for the
wonderful Emeritus Zoom Conference on June 5.

Kathryn Rulien-Bareis of Wisconsin and Linda Popp of Maryland were outstanding presenters.
Betsy Logan was present and led a short discussion with attendees concerning the direction that
the RAEA is taking to help present teachers. We have a wealth of information and providing a
source for mentors for these teachers is a considered goal. If you missed it and would like to see
the presentations and the artwork produced by attendees, go to: https://drive.google.com/drive/
folders/11zp04QDEU1JfP4agfuvjxhz9WtOL1dU8?usp=sharing

Again, thank you Bob Reeker and your staff for a wonderful experience!e!

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CONTACT INFORMATION
RAEA Board
President: Betsy Logan, Alabama, [email protected]
Past President: Kathryn Hillyer, Illinois, [email protected]
President-Elect: Nancy Walkup, New Mexico, [email protected]
Emeritus E-Bulletin Co-Editors:
Donna Anderson, Tennessee, [email protected]
Flowerree McDonough, Tennessee, [email protected]
Secretary: Becky Blaine, Illinois, [email protected]
Treasurer: Pam Signorelli, Michigan, [email protected]
Awards Chair: Emily “Boo” Ruch, Tennessee, [email protected]
Silent Auction Chair: Anne Becker, Illinois, [email protected]
Membership Chair: Patsy Parker, Virginia, [email protected]

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RAEA MISSION STATEMENT

The purposes shall be to define and establish the role of the retired art educators as an interest group of NAEA;
to conduct programs of professional activities for state and national events; to encourage continued personal
involvement and development in art education; to inform State Associations and NAEA of concerns relevant to
members of long-standing; and to encourage and support, as well as provide mentorship for student members of
the NAEA.

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