NEXT.cc is holding the first in a three part series of Design As Nature Teacher Workshops in Milwaukee, Madison and Racine supported in part by the Wisconsin Arts Board.

Join us in Milwaukee on January 24th, 4-6pm, at Arts@Large Gallery, 908 S. 5th Street. Cost for the workshop is $25 and includes handouts, materials, and access to NEXT.cc's award winning journeys and resources. Email your name, grades you teach, your school and school address to keane@uwm.edu to register. Please visit www.NEXT.cc for a preview.

Looking forward to starting new journeys,

Mark Keane

President, www.NEXT.cc

One way to get news out quickly and continually about whatʼs going on in and out of the art room is to maintain a classroom blog, so viewers can subscribe to your posts via an rss feed. Check out what these teachers are doing with their classroom blogs:

• Lincoln Middle School, La Crosse, WI. Art teacher, Lynnae Haerle Burns - http://underthebrush.blogspot.com/

• North Sheboygan High School, Sheboygan, WI. Art teacher, Frank Juarez - http://nhsartdept.wordpress.com/category/sheboygan-north-art-department

“Advocacy White Papers for Art Education” are a collection of 14 essays written in response to the NAEA report, Learning in a Visual Age: The Critical Importance of Visual Arts Education. These essays communicate the value of visual arts education in a constantly changing educational environment and demonstrate why visual arts education is important for meeting each student’s educational needs. We urge you to share the White Papers for Art Education with colleagues, policy makers, supervisors and administrators, preservice art educators, and parents.

Click here to read more on NAEA's advocacy page