HISTORY
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NAEA Women's Caucus Past Presidents and WC members:
You are invited to record or write text to share with others concerning the history of the Women's Caucus.
- Register with VoiceThread at http://voicethread.com with an email and password, add an image if you'd like. It is free to register and to use VoiceThread.
- After you register with VoiceThread, go to http://voicethread.com/share/581860/ or click on the comment button to sign
in the VoiceThread on the WC website. - Click "comment" and then the "record" button to record your voice message.
- You can listen to your recording before you decide to save or cancel. If you save it you can also delete it later.
- If you have questions email Karen at kk-b@psu.edu. There are easy to follow instructions at VoiceThread for options to record with your telephone if you do not have a built-in mic in your computer. It takes a few minutes for your icon to show up on this WC history webpage. A refresh to your browser or quit and reopen will be a fast way for your icon to show up for you and others to click on and listen to what you recorded.
Begin your recording with your name, the years you served as WC president (or other WC role), and the date of your recording. Below are some reflective questions to stimulate your memory about your term as WC president (or from your participation in the WC).
- Why did you feel it important to serve in this role? (or to be a member of the WC?)
- What did you gain/benefit from serving as WC president? (or from participating as a WC member?)
- What was your leadership style like in serving as WC president? (or how do you characterize WC leadership from your experience as WC member?)
- In what ways did the WC benefit from you serving as WC president? (or from your participation as WC member?)
- Can you paint a verbal picture of one of the business meetings or other WC event during your WC presidency term? (or from your participation as WC member?)
- What do remember as significant issues and projects that the WC has engaged?
NAEA Women's Caucus Presidents
1976-77 Sandra Packard (OH)
1977-78 Sandra Packard (OH)
1978-79 Marylou Kuhn (FL) — died January 4, 1999
1979-80 Rogena Degge (OR)
1980-81 Enid Zimmerman (IN)
1981-82 Ann Sherman (KS)
1982-83 Ann Sherman (KS)
1983-84 Renee Sandell (MD)
1984-85 Christy Park (MA)
1985-86 Mary Ann Stankiewicz (ME)
1986-88 Heather Anderson (CA)
1988-90 Anne Gregory (CA) — died 1997
1990-92 Carmen Armstrong (IL)
1992-94 Kristin Congdon (FL)
1994-96 Kathleen Connors (CT, deceased) & Laurie Hicks (ME)
1996-98 Elizabeth Garber (AZ) & Yvonne Gaudelius (PA)
1998-2000 Debbie Smith-Shank (IL) & Elizabeth Ament (MI)
2000-2002 Kathy Desmond (MA)
2002-2004 Cynthia Colbert (SC)
2004-2006 Elizabeth Saccá (CANADA, retired Emerita from Concordia in 2009)
2006-2008 Maryl Fletcher de Jong (OH) (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. Click here to comment on Maryl's Tribute blog.)
2008-2010 Read Diket (MS)
2010-2012 Karen Keifer-Boyd (PA)
Women's Caucus Mission & Policy Development History
1975 WC Bylaws drafted by Judy Loeb
1976 Mission statement adopted and presented to NAEA. NAEA WC officially approved by NAEA.
1983 Mission statement revised
2010 WC Bylaws revised
Women's Caucus Publications:
1975The Report was inaugurated in 1975 with 3 issues per year up to 1996, then less often, with missed years.
1982 Zimmerman, E., & Stankiewicz, M. A. (1982). Women Art Educators. Mary Rouse Memorial Fund at Indiana University and the NAEA Women's Caucus.
1984 Collins, G., & Sandell, R. (Eds.). (1984). Women, art and education. Reston, VA: NAEA
1985 Stankiewicz, M. A., & Zimmerman, E. (Eds.). Women, art and educators II. Mary Rouse Memorial Fund at Indiana University and the NAEA Women's Caucus.
1993 Congdon, K., & Zimmerman, E. (Eds.). (1993). Women, art and educators III. Mary Rouse Memorial Endowment, Indiana University Art Education Program, and the NAEA Women's Caucus.
1996 Collins, G., & Sandell, R. (Eds.). (1996). Gender issues in art education: Content, contexts, and strategies. Reston, VA: NAEA.
1997 Michael, J. (1997). The National Art Education Association; Our History--Celebrating 50 years 1947-1997 (pp. 128-132). Reston, VA: NAEA. Used with permission of the National Art Education Association.
1998 Zimmerman, E., & Saccà, E. (Eds.). Women art educators IV: Herstories, ourstories, future stories. Reston, VA: National Art Education Association.
2001 The Journal of Gender Issues in Art and Education, volume 1 (Laurie Hicks, ed.)
2002-2003 The Journal of Gender Issues in Art and Education, volume 2 (Laurie Hicks, ed.)
2003 Zimmerman, E., Grauer, K., & Irwin, R. (Eds.). Women Art Educators V: Conversations Across Time. Reston, VA: NAEA.
2008 Vote 2008: What Should an Art Educator Do? Journal of Art Education, 61(4), 51-52. (Authored by 16 art educators who met at the WC Lobby session at NAEA in New Orleans. Copyright 2008. Linked with permission of the National Art Education Association)
- 2010 Annual NAEA Women's Caucus President's Report (PDF)
- 2011 Annual NAEA Women's Caucus President's Report (PDF)
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.
The 2011 WC NAEA Board and Business Meeting Minutes were approved on May 10, 2011 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: Educational Agents for Positive Change (March 19, 2011, 10:00-11:50 a.m. in Sheridan Seattle)
An open invitation to join WC Board members to learn how to develop personal stories as political actions for positive change using techniques of autoethnography, narrative inquiry, or arts-based research.
NAEA Women's Caucus Business Meeting Minutes: Women's Caucus Making a Difference (March 19, 2010, 4:00-5:50 p.m. in Sheridan Seattle)
Women's Caucus Board Members facilitate an issues-oriented open meeting about concerns, ideas, and
actions raised in the social networks formed throughout the year. Everyone is welcomed.
2010 Women's Caucus Second Life Event: InAEA (International Art Education Association) hosted a NAEA WC meeting and field trip in Second Life on December 4, 2010. Linda Hoeptner Poling facilitated the discussion on “How do we make feminism(s) visible in our teaching?” The chat log from the event is linked here at http://naeawc.net/SL.pdf
2010 Women's Caucus Inaugural Gift Exchange: Members brought gifts representing their feminist teaching pedagogy and exchanged the gifts as metaphors for their beliefs with old and new friends at the 2010 WC business meeting in Seattle. Joanna Rees initiated and facilitated the exchange.
Enacting Change Member Interviews
Interviews with members of the NAEA Women's Caucus demonstrate the variety of contributions to art education fostered through leadership, research, and pedagogy. Stage one of a new WC project initiated by Joanna Rees assembles a wide view of perspectives and relates perspectives to members' personal goals. (Click on the names below for individual responses to the surveys, which are posted with permission granted by each.) Those personal goals (aggregated as experiences, aspirations, cultural considerations, and shared and individual notions of identity as art educators) can inform ways to treat all art educators in fair and equitable ways. Current, previous, and future members are invited to continue from the interviews into a dialogue on enacting change. We are working toward developing an action plan to form a collective identity for socio-political mobilization of WC activism that began at NAEA WC Lobby Sessions in New Orleans in 2008, and Minneapolis in 2009.
Anonymous
Alison_Aune
Cynthia Colbert
Sylvia Corwin
Melanie Davenport
Read Diket
Nicole Gnezda
Anniina Suominen Guyas
Linda Hoeptner Poling
Karen Keifer-Boyd
Wanda B. Knight
Laurel Lampela
Lilly Lu
Cindy Maguire
Marjorie Manifold
Renee Sandell
Debbie Smith-Shank (blog)
Amy Brook Snider
Courtney Lee Weida
Enid Zimmerman
Interested members can contact Joanna Rees at reesjoanna@hotmail.com to schedule an interview by phone or complete the questionnaire through email. Or, respond to these questions in a blog (coming soon) at the WC website.
- What is your educational background and where did you complete your Ph.D.? If you have not completed your Ph.D. please provide information on your highest level of education.
- What are your current research interests and contributions to art education?
- Could you describe your leadership style?
- Could you describe your teaching pedagogy?
- What are your contributions to Women's Caucus and women's issues in art education?
- Could you describe your current identity as a woman and art educator?
- How has this identity changed and grown over time?
- Have you ever felt held back or discriminated against because of your gender?
- Have you seen other professionals in the field discriminated against in educational workplaces?
- What changes would you like to enact in art education
Videos of Women's Caucus Members:
- A Conversation with June King McFee (35:26 min., 1995 video)
Executive producers: Rogena Degge & Kristin Congdon
Production & director: Karen Keifer-Boyd
Copyright 1995, Arts and Administration Program, University of OregonExcerpts from the video, A Conversation with June King McFee:
Rogena Degge (1994 interview with June King McFee): "You have given so much to the field. ... You have been so influential over so many years working in the psycho-social aspects of art education and you have influenced thousands of students."Kristin Congdon (1994 interview with June King McFee): "The video came about as a request from many members of the National Art Education, particularly members of the Women's Caucus. ... It became really important to us, and to the Women's Caucus, that we had some kind of way to communicate to all these other people who have not had these personal experiences with you about who you are and what you have given all of us."
June King McFee - In Memoriam by Doug Blandy
- Maryl Fletcher de Jong speaking as the Distinguished Art Educator for 2008 in the John A. & Betty J. Michael Autobiographical Lecture Series in Art Education at Miami University
Linked to the above photo of Maryl Fletcher de Jong, is a video (coming soon), edited by long-time WC member Julia Lindsey, of Maryl Fletcher de Jong speaking as the Distinguished Art Educator for 2008 in the John A. & Betty J. Michael Autobiographical Lecture Series in Art Education at Miami University.The video is from, and published on the WC website with permission by, the Center for the Study of History of Art Education at Miami University. It is from the John A. and Betty J. Michael Autobiographical Series in Art Education at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and is located in the Miami University Archives, Fine Arts, Art Education Archives, Archives Autobiographical Lecture Tapes.
In the video, Maryl shares stories of life events that influenced her feminist beliefs toward teaching, research, and service. She speaks about her life and her activism to fight injustices against women. Maryl passed on August 8, 2009. Please comment on the Maryl Fletcher de Jong Tribute blog at http://maryltribute.wordpress.com/
- 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.