2007 Summer Executive Board Meeting
Hastings College Art Center
Hastings, NE
July 17, 2007
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 a.m.
Introductions and updates
Meeting was called to order by President, Phil Herrmann
9:00AM - 9:45AM
NATA 2007-2008 award selections-Jeff Stern, Awards Chairman
The Executive Board reviewed and discussed all of the award nominee materials provided by Jeff. The following awards will be presented to the following recipients at the 2007 Awards Banquet in Chadron:
- K-12 Art Educator of the Year- Donna Arnett (Wallace)
- Elementary Art Educator of the Year- Lorinda Rice (LPS)
- Middle School Art Educator of the Year- Karen Bertelsen (OPS)
- Secondary Art Educator o/t Year- Liz Langdon (OPS) and Christine Brown
- Supervision/Administration- no nomination materials were received
- Higher Education- Carolyn Schmitz (UNO)
- Museum Education- no applicant had a completed application
- Art Educator of the Year- Gina Tolstedt (OPS) and Jeanine Mohr (Chadron)
- Roscoe Shields Award- Kit Watson (Chadron)
- Prism Award- Nicole Palof- NAC
Phil will compose and send letters to all nominees to inform them of their award status and information on the Awards Banquet in Chadron.
9:45AM – 1:00PM
Job Descriptions/Filling Vacancies/Review NATA History Files
- Executive Board consists of the:
- President, Phil Herrmann
- President Elect, Debbie Kippley
- Past President, Angie Fischer
- Secretary, Christy Kosmicki
- Treasurer, Sr. Margaret Proskovec and Deb Kubic
All were present except Deb Kubic.
Job-descriptions were collectively created for:
The Administration/Supervision Division Representative, Higher Education Division Representative, and Educational Service Unit Representatives to be presented to the NATA Board this afternoon. The following job-descriptions still need to be produced: Webmaster, Newsletter Editor, YAM Co-Directors, Fall Conference Chairman, Museum Rep, Awards Chairman, K-12 Art Educators Representative, Elementary Division Representative, Middle Level Representative, Secondary Representative and Membership Chairman.
Christine Brown gave a short presentation on her success at compiling our state art educators list across NE. She organized information for each ESU Area Rep in a printed form and will make them available to each Rep via a CD. In the middle of creating this information, she discovered that we have some overlap in reference to art educators and their affiliation to Educational Service Units. Christine also created a massive listserv which is going to become a great advocacy and networking tool for NATA. There is still much work to do in updating our network of art educators and maintaining the listserv to expand communication throughout the state. The Executive Board decided to create a new NATA Board Position with the approval of the NATA Board this afternoon. The position would be titled Communications Director and Art ListServ Moderator. The Board generated a draft of the job-description to present to the full board meeting as well.
Some discussion of possible NATA Board replacements began at the end of the meeting and will be continued at the Summer Board meeting this afternoon. Phil will try to fill the vacancies this summer.
The Executive Board did not have time to discuss the history of NATA by discussing what is included in the NATA files. We need to plan a time another separate Executive Board meeting to tackle this project and decide what materials need to be archived on the NATA web site.
The Executive Board continued working through lunch, right up to the NATA Summer Board Meeting which began around 1:00.