Union Co

Union Co

Hi
I am the am the guardian of the Journal for Union Co NC! My school email is kelly.edwards@ucps.k12.nc.us Please contact me if you would like to get on the schedule to have the journal! The list is filling up fast! I will post Pics soon!
Kelly Edwards

Region 3

If anyone knows of someone to become the Guardian of the vis. book for the counties of.....
Franklin
Northampton
Warren
Vance
Please contact me! Thank You....
Kelly Crocker
kellycrocker@johnston.k12.nc.us

Alamance County

Hi. The Alamance journal is underway. We had an amazing weekend showcasing student art at our Burlington Art D'Vine event-sponsored by Alamance Citizens for Education (we love them!). Lots of art teachers & friends of the arts hanging out admiring cool projects and talking about our Vis J. Jennifer Perkins worked on this page today at the event. We took a bunch of cool photos to add to the page soon.
Darcy

100 vis J's 4 NC : Region 3 -

Region 3 coordinator: Kelly Crocker
100 Journals for North Carolina
Guardians:
Johnston: Kelly Crocker- kellycrocker@johnston.k12.nc.us
Wake: Michelle Harrell- mharrell@ncartmuseum.org
Franklin:
Nash: Wendy Ferguson- wferguson2000@yahoo.com
Wilson: Jane Gargner- jane.gardner@mail.wilson.k12.nc.us
Edge combe: Kimberly Hayes- khays@ecps.us
Halifax: Patrica Barnes (mickey)-
Northampton:
Warren:
Durham: Juline Chevalier- julinec@yahoo.com
Vance:
Granville: Elaine McKelly- emckelly@nc.rr.com

Alleghany County

Hi. My name is Janet and I am the guardian for the Alleghany County journal. If you are interested and haven't already heard from me, please give me a call or send me an email. I love the ideas that JRo has planned for her county (check out her post to read the ideas.) I am creating a journal bag and then it will be on its way. We may be a sparsely populated county but we are filled with talented and creative people of all ages that will step up to make our journal spectacular.

Region 2!

Hi everyone! My name is Sara Gant, and I am the loving caretaker of Book #67 in Onslow County! I am also the Regional Guardian for Region 2. I am so excited about the possibilities for this book. We have a large military presence in our community- Camp LeJeune military base is located in Jacksonville, NC. The book will definitely travel to Camp LeJeune! We also have the Onslow County Museum, which tells the stories and heritage of the people of Onslow. I spoke with the director of the Museum today, Lisa Whitman- Grice. We have some ideas as to how the museum can be represented in Journal #67. I also plan to pass the journal around to the art teachers in the county, so that the students of Onslow can let their voices be heard and their visual stories told. I would like to have the journal out at the March Student Art Exhibit at the Council for the Arts, and share it with Coastal Carolina Community College.

The picture above was taken as David was distributing the many books to eager art teachers at the NCAEA conference in New Bern. The boxes and the many books represent such promise and excitement, and I couldn't help but think about what 365 days in the life of these journals would bring. I am looking forward to seeing them all come together at the 2011 NCAEA conference in Charlotte, but first, I am eager to embark on the journey of sharing, collaboration, journaling and artistic discovery that this journal will lead us on!

Sara

The Big Idea!!!

Okay... here is the Big Idea of the 100 Vis J's 4 NC!!! It is about being an artist and making art; it is about being an activist and getting others to make and share their creativity; and it is about being an advocate and getting citizens and leaders of North Carolina to witness the creative community that is our state.

ARTISTS=

It launched 23 October 2010 in New Bern, 100 6"x9" black bound journals donated by Cheap Joe's were handed out to find there way to each county of North Carolina. In case you did not know, NC has exactly 100 counties, and there is one journal for each one! Over the course of the next year citizens of each county will be invited to share their creativity in their counties book. But that is not all...

ACTIVISTS=

Each journal has a guardian, some one who will watch over the book and be sure it does not get lost in the sea of creativity. This guardian will also share the book with others in the county and encourage participation from anyone interested in making a mark and expressing and idea. In one year, the guardian and regional coordinators will make sure the journal for their county finds its way back to be reunited with all of the other books. But it does not stop there...

ADVOCATES=

In Spring 2012, the regional coordinators and I (and anyone else who wants to get further involved) will go to ARTS DAY in Raleigh to visit with all of our Representatives and Senators and share this project with them. The citizens who made these books endorsed these legislators and that is why they hold the office they have... now we want them to endorse the people back!!! There is a place for the rep or senator to sign in each book that is from a county they serve and then they will also be asked for a monetary donation to the project goal... which is... to create an endowment for the Teacher/Scholars Program at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT). The books will also be auctioned at the 2012 NCCAT Gala to raise more money and then find their final home as part of the permanent library collection at NCCAT.

More to come on this!!!
David

Living and Learning

 Many have commented that the cover print is getting messed up when they try to put some matte medium or Modge Podge over it to seal it... if you have done that no worries. I would recommend printing the logo from the blog onto sticker paper and then just slap that over top of the blurred print. 


Like I said at the conference, this is all a new to me too, we learn as we go!!!


If your cover still looks good, maybe 3-4 coats of clear acrylic spray instead of brushing might work better.


Hope your journal is getting out there and starting to collect the fodder of your community!!!

Wake County Journal

I'm Michelle Harrell (n2art). I happily volunteered to facilitate the Wake County Journal and had several folks sign up at the Region 3 meeting at the NCAEA conference. Here is who already signed up to have it 2-4 weeks between now and November 2011:

• November: Kate Mabe for the Meredith College Senior Exhibition (Reception 11/14 2pm)
  
• December: Jeannette Stevenson at Sanderson High School for Holly Days 12/4-5
• January: Lisa Peszko at Zebulon GT Magnet Middle
  
• February: Elizabeth Rawls at Carnage GT Magnet Middle in Raleigh
• July: Jennifer Tatum at Endeavor Charter School
• September: Elyse Collins at Ligon GT Magnet Middle in Raleigh
  
• October: Melissa Poppe at Green Hope High School

I would love to have a few more groups for the months that do not have someone as well as some Wake County teachers (art or other subject area) that would like to do a poem, written reflection, drawing, or collage about their experiences at NCCAT. You can contact me as the official Wake County guardian at n2art@hotmail.com or with Jodi Aker jsaker@wcpss.net from SRMHS who will be our Wake County contact within the school system. We want to encourage private schools, local artists, art centers, colleges, and others to participate so feel free to invite others to play in it. We just need to know who is responsible for it at times so all this wonderful work isn't lost. I look forward to seeing this evolve!

An Idea for the Journals

Hi all, I'm J.Ro (Jennifer Robinson), the guardian for Yancey County's book. Just thought I'd share an idea that I'm working on. I'm putting together a journaling bag to go with the journal - inside will be colored pencils, a tray of watercolor paint, watercolor pencils, some glue sticks, skinny black pens, an old phone book, maps, flyers from our county, newspapers - anything that could be used as background papers.

My county is small but diverse in interests - I hope to get all walks of life in the journal, artists, farmers, local businesses, and regular old folks. My daughter is taking a current events course her second semester and I'm going to talk to her teacher about leaving it in his classroom. His students in that class could maybe work on local current events within the journal as an in-class assignment. I also plan to have it out at our local studio tour, drop it at our busiest hair salon for a day, the animal shelter, the courthouse, etc. etc.

What are others' ideas? I'll photograph and post the journal bag and contents once I get it together next week.

J.Ro

Region 4

Hello All! My name is Shannon Sissokho and I am your Region 4 Representative! I am also the co-guardian for Cumberland County. I am so excited about this project and seeing how it progresses over the next year. I am still searching for "guardians" for Richmond Co. and Columbus Co. I have a few contacts for them that I am going to try this week and hopefully have all journals taken care of for Region 4.

We have already begun journaling in Cumberland and have a line of people waiting for it to be sent their way! I will keep you posted on how our progress is going .

You can contact me at: ssissokho@yahoo.com or shannonsissokho@ccs.k12.nc.us

Attention all Coordinators!

If you are one of my wonderful Region Coordinators please post your contact info on the blog so others in your region will have an easy way to contact you. I would really like to use the blog as an information command center where we can all stay in touch. Keep in mind, I may have more than one coordinator in your region, and I think that will work fine and maybe we can even divide the region if that is the case. Hope you are working in the journal and starting to get others involved, post comments and images whenever you like so we can all see what is going on around the state!

Project Concept

100 Vis J’s 4 NC

The goal of this project is to provide a forum for citizens in the communities of North Carolina to creatively share with one another. This year long collaborative process will attempt to fill one visual journal for each county in our state.

You are invited to add to this journal. Write a story, poem, idea or opinion… Draw, paint, cut and glue something… Anything goes… REALLY!!!

The guardian of this journal will then chaperone it to another friend or soon-to-be-friend and the adventure will be encouraged to continue.

DO NOT BE AFRAID!!!

No one will judge you in here. You will have an entire community along for the journey. This journal is for your state. This journal is for your county. This journal is for your community. This journal is for you. Share a part of yourself with all of us.

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We are up and running!!!

100 Vis J's 4 NC has officially launched!!! The initial disbursement of journals at the North Carolina Art Education Association Staff Development Conference found 54 out of 100 guardians. Thank you to all the fantastic art educators of NC for stepping up and getting involved in the project. This blog will be the spot to communicate with other guardians and share the progress of this experiment.