Virginia Art Educator's Association Conference 2017...

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RVA Lightman

VAEA president Linda Conti

Hanging out in the Chill out room

STEAM with Tiffany Floyd

Parabolic curves

Northern Lights

Dressing up your shoes

Art Advocacy meeting with Lee Darter...that's me!

My Felting is Fun workshop. Thank you Cassie Stephens for the training to be able to teach this 

awesome class. It was a big hit.

My 3rd workshop of the weekend...STEAMing through Elementary Art....

Creating Acrylic pours

That's me with the blue glove on teaching acrylic pours

Everyone got to use fire...

3rd grade gears lesson...my favorite lesson to teach!

Me with the VAEA president Linda Conti

Northern Virginia Regional Meeting

Painting with light in photography class...so much fun!

Great lesson plans from Dick Blick

Bob Ross showed up

Creating a Scrappy creature with Virginia Art Educator of the Year Sarah Matthews!

OMG so much fun!

This is me and Pedro and Sarah

A bare bones Pedro

My Pedro!

Kate McClannahan our keynote speaker talking about the great subject of art advocacy

Art Teachers wear the coolest things.

Book binding with the master Ginna Cullen

The Artisans' Gallery

More happy customers of my student's acrylic pour paintings! Thank you Amy!

Cedar Points acrylic paint pours sold by donation to raise money to buy more supplies for the art club.

We made .10 cents

Scott Russell buying one of my students acrylic pour paints. Thank you Scott!!!

Martin Cervantes was our guest presenter and showed us how to make medatative dots.

This was a fantastic presentation! 

A sign of the times....photos photos photos everywhere!

The night ended with an amazing Art Party

The fun things art teachers wear!

More amazing photo's from Martins Meditative Dots workshop!

All the donated art supplies will be donated to the Takeo orphanage in Cambodia through the

Ron Abney Educational Fund.  You can read more about the charity HERE or go to www.ronabneyeducationalfund.org The kids will create some great art with all these 

supplies I am sure.

I can not wait to see what they come up with. 

Thank you VAEA members for all your donations. 

The Northern Virginia conference committee