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• The 2010 WC NAEA Board and Business Meeting Minutes were approved on June 9, 2010 by a quorum of members at the WC Board meeting using skype conference call. They are linked as pdf files below.

  NAEA Women's Caucus Board Meeting Minutes: Women's Caucus Making a Difference (April 15, 2010, 7:00-8:50 p.m. in Hilton Baltimore)
  An open invitation to join WC board members to discuss the year's work, and special theme: negotiating tenure, promotion, and employment.

  NAEA Women's Caucus Business Meeting Minutes: Women's Caucus Think Tank (April 17, 2010, 7:00-7:50 p.m. in Hilton Baltimore)
  Women's Caucus Board Members facilitate an open meeting concerning policies, systems, infrastructures, and institutions as an issues-oriented session.

• NAEA Women's Caucus Outreach Coordinators, Jen Allchin and Caryl Rae Church invite you to twitter and blog concerning issues of gender equity and social justice. Join the dialogue in the Voices Project at http://naeawcvoices.wordpress.com or twitter at http://www.twitter.com/naeawc
  

Welcome to the National Art Education Association Women’s Caucus Voices Project! We are excited to share this venture with you and look forward to the dialogue we hope to create about issues in gender equity and social justice in the context of the art classroom and beyond.

“Wait,” you may be saying, “Who is we, what is this venture, and just what is all of this about?”

Fair enough.

We are Caryl and Jen. We are feminists who are in the art education field and find our community in the National Art Education Association’s Women’s Caucus. Caryl is a K-6 art teacher (and a national award winner) and Jen is a recent art ed grad that works in the non-profit sector (and is a state winner). Jen is also seeking a full-time art teaching job – hint, hint.

Together, we serve as Outreach Coordinators for the NAEA Women’s Caucus. Our role is to reach out to a greater population outside of our membership to hold the important gender and social justice discussions that affect our every day. It is hard in today’s material, popular, and connected world to not avoid issues of gender and gender identity – especially as art teachers. It is in the art we teach, the art forms we come across in our visual and popular culture, the messages our students receive from their media-infused world, and the lifestyles we lead as women and men educators.

It is our hope that this blog will serve as your connection spot to discuss about these issues and others you may come across with a greater community of art teachers, feminists, educators, like-minded, and other-minded people. Have something you want to talk about? Contact us about contributing an article, a picture, a movie, audio, or anything else you want to share. If you ever need to contact us outside of posting to this site, feel free to email us at naeawcoutreach[at]gmail[dot]com.

Your voice can lead feminism into the 21st century and contribute in defining what a "third wave" feminist actually is. So, let's talk.

• WC is on Facebook! Please join us here to post announcements, share ideas and resources, and communicate with each other in a public forum.

• 2010 Annual NAEA Women's Caucus President's Report (PDF)
  

• Survey of Art Educators' Perceptions of and Relationship to Feminism
  Please respond by July 1, 2010 to the 15-minute survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GBQV8Z6

The purpose of this survey is to learn of art educators' perceptions of and relationship to feminism in their work in the field of art education today. What are the reasons that art educators identify with or reject feminism? What are the differences of ideology and teaching practices between those who consider themselves to be feminists and those who don't?

This was the focus of the 2010 NAEA WC lobby session, facilitated by Karen Keifer-Boyd, Read Diket, and Joanna Rees, in which current, previous, and future NAEA Women's Caucus (WC) members, as well as those who do not intend to join the NAEA WC, engaged in a dialogue on the meaning, practices, and rejection of feminism in art education. If you missed the 2010 lobby session in Baltimore, contribute your views by responding to the survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GBQV8Z6. A transcript of the lobby session will be posted at the WC website in August 2010. Photos coming soon!

• Bylaws: The Bylaws of the NAEA Women’s Caucus (1978/1995/2010)
  were ratified with a Majority WC Member Vote on February 17, 2010.
  (Click here to download the WC Bylaws as a pdf.)

• Past president (2006-2008) Maryl Fletcher de Jong (OH) passed on August 8, 2009. She is greatly missed. Maryl was also WC Secretary from 1982-94, and designed the WC logo. Linked here is her August 8, 2009 obituary notice, which includes a poem by her sister. She is the first recipient (April 2009) of the WC service award named in her honored.Click here to comment on Maryl's Tribute blog.)

Photo left to right: Graeme Sullivan, Maryl Fletcher de Jong, Marjorie Cohee Manifold, Enid Zimmerman,
Teri Marche, and Mary Stokrocki at Enid's 2006 retirement party in Chicago organized by Deborah Smith-Shank.

• Visual Culture & Gender Journal: Call for papers
  
  
• 2009 Enacting change: What we can learn from each other?

Recipients of the 2010 women's caucus awards are:

June King McFee Award 2010: Kristin G. Congdon

Kathy Connors Award 2010: Linda Louis

Mary J. Rouse Award 2010: Stephanie Springgay

The Maryl Fletcher de Jong Service Award 2010: Mary R. Golubieski