The document summarizes the agenda and discussions from a conference call between arts education managers in the Mid West region. It introduces three new managers to the group and provides brief biographies for each. It then covers state updates from various managers, including information on upcoming programs and initiatives in their states. It discusses the upcoming Professional Development Institute in Washington D.C. in October, including details on planned sessions and speakers. It also notes a decrease in funding for the cooperative agreement between NASAA and NEA for professional development activities.

1. Mid West Region
Arts Education Managers
Conference Call
April 30, 2012

2. Agenda
 Welcome and Introductions
 State Updates
 Professional Development Institute, D.C,
Oct. 2,3,4
 Action Items from Little Rock:
 Sketch Book
 Social Media Discussion
 Arts MidWest Discussion
 Anything else?

3. Welcome and Introductions
 New Managers
 Chiquita Mullins Lee
Arts Learning Programs Coordinator
Grant Programs and Services
Ohio Arts Council
 Connie Skildum
Program Officer
Minnesota State Arts Board
 Alison Loveday
Programs Manager
Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

4. Connie Skildum
 Constance Skildum is an
artist/educator with
comprehensive experience
in photography and multi-
media. She has taught and
administered art and gifted
programs in public schools,
museum settings and
worked with talent and
creativity development
throughout the United States
and internationally for over
25 years. She is currently a
Program Officer at the
Minnesota State Arts Board
http://www.arts.state.mn.us/

5. CHIQUITA MULLINS LEE
 Chiquita Mullins Lee is program
coordinator for Arts Learning at the Ohio
Arts Council (OAC). Recently, she
served as project coordinator for Ohio’s
Poetry Out Loud National Recitation
Contest and as a teaching artist for Ohio
Arts Council’s (OAC) Artist-in-Residence
program, teaching creative writing
throughout Ohio, at the Thurber House
and Wexner Center. Formerly of Atlanta,
she has over twenty years experience in
broadcast production and programming
and worked as a public television
producer/director in Nashville,
Tennessee. Her critically-acclaimed play,
Pierce to the Soul, about internationally-
renowned folk artist Elijah Pierce,
received its world premier at CATCO,
Columbus’ professional equity theater.
Chiquita won individual artist/excellence
awards from the Greater Columbus Arts
Council (GCAC) and OAC, and was the
2007 OAC summer writer-in-residence at
the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown,
Massachusetts. Chiquita earned her B.A.
from Vassar College, her M.A. from Ohio
University, and a second master’s from
Ohio State. A member of New Covenant
Believers Church, Chiquita contributes to
the church magazine and drama ministry.

6. Alison Loveday
 Alison Loveday
Programs Manager
Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs
300 N. Washington Square
Lansing, MI 48913
(517) 241-3968
LovedayA@michigan.org

7. Your Peers
 Susan Britsch
Community Development Manager
& Arts Education Coordinator
Indiana Arts Commission

8. Rebecca Engleman, aka Becky from
Bismark

9. Anne Pryor, Wisconsin

10. Rebecca DallaGrana, South Dakota
aka Goldfish Racing Champion of
Little Rock

11. Tatiana Gant, Illinois

12. Your fearless and confused leader,
Dawn Martinez Oropeza

13. State Updates
Becky from Bismarck

14. Poetry Out Loud North Dakota

15. Peer Coaching Training, ND

16. Teaching Artist, ND

17. Anne Pryor Wisconsin
 These images are from an
article recently published in a
book by University of Utah
Press on folk arts education,
“Through the Schoolhouse
Door: Folklore, Community,
Curriculum.” I and partners
have an article in there on the
Wisconsin Teachers of Local
Culture professional
development cultural tours we
offer each summer for K-12
teachers. These photos are
from the first two tours in 2006
& 07 (those are the years
featured in the article ) showing
teachers some of the various
places we visited and
investigated. The trip I’m on
now is researching this
summer’s tour – up in NW
Wisconsin, along the MN border
by Duluth and over to the UP by

18. Through the Schoolhouse Door

19. South Dakota: Educator Grants
 Educator Grants assist South Dakota teachers in presenting an activity or
project in any arts discipline(s) that serves to educate their students in the
arts.
 The funding category is designed to:
 Enable teachers to reach students more effectively through special arts
activities.
 Assist in the development of quality arts education programs in the
applicant’s school.
 Encourage arts activities that are especially creative or innovative.
 Assist teachers in obtaining professional development in arts education.
 Educators may request up to $1,000 in non-matching funds.
 South Dakota educators who are seeking funds for arts-related projects and
activities in their schools and who are employed by public, private, or tribal
K-12 nonprofit educational institutions may apply for the
grants. Homeschool educators may apply if they are members of a
homeschool association which is designated as a federally tax-exempt
nonprofit corporation under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS code, and must
demonstrate that multiple students throughout the association will benefit.
Teachers need not be arts specialists to apply.

20. Congressional Art Competition
Sponsored by US Rep. Kristi Noem, the South Dakota Arts Council and South Dakotans for the Arts
First Place – Lakota Woman
Charcoal on Wood Second Place – Catching
Dreams
Acrylic

21. Arts Education Institute
Each summer, the South Dakota Arts Council partners with South Dakotans for the
Arts to offer the AEI professional development workshops.
We have discovered an urgent need to redesign the
institute to better fit the needs of our teachers.
Attendance is waning and these funds should be used
more efficiently.
Are teachers finding it too expensive?
Is it difficult for people to devote an entire week to the institute?
Is it too far to travel for most teachers?
Are we not offering the kind of development teachers want or need?

22. The AEI is the third week in July and can fulfill two graduate, undergraduate, or
recertification credits. Registrants are required to take one morning and one
afternoon class.
TIME SESSION
9 am – noon Interactive Classrooms: Teaching the arts
(Mon - Fri) through technology
9 am – noon Inspiring Creativity in the Classroom
(Mon - Fri)
1 pm – 5 pm Fire Up with Raku
(Mon – Thurs)
1 pm – 5 pm World Grooves! Exploring Rhythms
(Mon – Thurs)
1 pm – 5 pm Black Hills Storytellers
(Mon – Thurs)
AEI costs $350 for graduate or undergrad credits and $270 for recertification credits.
There is no registration fee. Hotel rates are $52/night, double occupancy.

23. Artists in Schools and Communities
- 209 weeks of residencies; $153,000; moved grant application deadline up
to March 1
President’s Council on the Arts and Humanities
- served on Youth Program Awards panel; finalists to be announced in May
Arts in Economic Prosperity
- surveyed statewide last year and will receive results/analysis in May; we’ll
be using that information for economic development, tourism and advocacy
initiatives
Legislature
- didn’t have any major battles this year, lots of conversations; gearing up for
two big issues next year
ELI
- building our team, spreading our message; presented at a lot of meetings
and conferences; held one public event of our own
Arts in Healthcare
- working on a new roster which will require professional development and
set some different guidelines that will be more appropriate for a healthcare
setting
OTHER STUFF

24. Illinois Arts Council
ILLINOIS UPDATE Leadership:
• General
Terry Scrogum resigned in April 2012
Rhoda A. Pierce is Acting Executive Director
• Arts Assessment
• Arts and Foreign Language Grants:
Program Grant
Alumni Project
700+ applicants in 13 program areas
• Education Leaders Institute Review panels between May and July
Alumni Convening Master Apprentice Program
38 applicants
Review panels in late May
Arts-in-Education Residency Program
Deadline of May 1
FY13 Budget:
GRF: $8m, pending
NASAA Midwest Regional Meeting
April 30, 2012
Down from $8.9m in FY12
Tatiana Gant
Director, Arts-in-Education Programs

25. Illinois Arts Council
ILLINOIS UPDATE Arts Assessment Toolkit:
• General www.artsassessment.org
• Arts Assessment
Developed by CAPE,
• Arts and Foreign Language implemented in Chicago
Alumni Project
• Education
IAC supported two regional
Leaders Institute
pilots in Champaign and
Alumni Convening Peoria in FY12
Developed 9 case studies
posted at website
In the process to select
additional sites for summer
implementation
NASAA Midwest Regional Meeting
April 30, 2012
Tatiana Gant
Director, Arts-in-Education Programs

26. Illinois Arts Council
ILLINOIS UPDATE AFL Grant Program is a
legislated partnership between
• General
the Illinois Arts council and the
• Arts Assessment Illinois State Board of
• Arts and Foreign Language Education
Alumni Project
Awards are for districts to
• Education Leaders Institute initiate or expand arts or
Alumni Convening foreign language learning
1 year planning grants followed
by 3 years of implementation
Using the Education Leaders
Institute inquiry model,
implementing a similar
NASAA Midwest Regional Meeting experience for one alumni
April 30, 2012
Tatiana Gant
Director, Arts-in-Education Programs
districts in July 2012

27. Illinois Arts Council
ILLINOIS UPDATE Recently notified that NEA
is renewing the cooperative
• General
agreement for the IAC to
• Arts Assessment convene alumni of the six
• Arts and Foreign Language Education Leaders
Institutes.
Alumni Project
• Education Leaders Institute Participants will be chosen
Alumni Convening through an RFP process.
Small teams will come to
Chicago in the fall to other
to share lessons learned,
describe current statewide
challenges, and provide
updates on activities.
NASAA Midwest Regional Meeting
April 30, 2012
Tatiana Gant
Director, Arts-in-Education Programs

28. Iowa
 National Poetry Foundation, Justine came for the
finals and was impressed.
 Partnering with Dept of Ed and AE Alliance for Art
Educators’ Leadership Institute
 On Dept. of Ed 21 Century Afterschool Grants Panel
 Last week was our Major Grant Panels.
 Today judging National History Day
And I am glad to work with great people like yourself!

29. Other States:
 Indiana
 Ohio
 Minnesota

30. Professional Development Institute,
D.C, Oct. 3 & 4
 Committee: Jamie Dunlap, Jenice Gharib,
Julie Hale, Carlyn Madden, Alex Nelson. Kim
Whitt, Kim Willey, and Nancy Daugherty,
Diane Daily, Dawn Martinez Oropeza, Joy
Pennington
 New NEA Arts Education Director
 One Meeting in DC
 NEA Staff Representatives

31. FY 2013 Cooperative Agreement
 The cooperative agreement between the NEA
and NASAA in support of professional
development activities for state arts agency
arts education managers has been decreased
from $118,000 to $100,000 for FY 2013,
which begins October 1, 2012-September 30,
2013

32. Wednesday Oct. 3
Models of Influence
 Jonathan Katz, NASAA Key Note
 Sandra Ruppert, LIVE

33. Thursday, Oct. 4
 New Strategies for Reflection
 Advocacy

34. Other Days
 Tuesday New Managers Meeting
 General Schedule is Posted in Website;
Looking how to maximize multi hats
 Saturday Networking Breakfast.

35. PD Dough
 There is a balance of $4,000.00 remaining in
the PD Dough fund.
 AEAG members should encourage their
regional managers to apply for funds.

36. Loose Ends
 Action Items from Little Rock:
 Sketch Book
 Social Media Discussion
 Arts MidWest Discussion
 Anything else?