 Hi art teachers, thanks for joining me to learn a little bit more about this year's ESU8 art shows. I'm Steph Wannick, the ESU8 art coordinator. So let's start off by talking about some of the important dates for this year's show. For the K-8 formerly known as elementary art show, we need to have your registrations by March 17th, but then entries are due to the main office by March 31st. You can send those entries on our media van or drive them in yourself. And then the show is open to the public from April 7th through the 11th. It's open 10 30 to 5 daily except on Sunday where it will run 12 to 3. And we look forward to seeing so many of your families come view the show. The high school show, we will have registration due on April 14th. Schools will hang their artwork April 24th by 3 p.m. Lots of schools bring students to help the teachers hang those works. And we do it by 3 p.m. because we have judges coming in that evening to judge or later in the afternoon. The show will be open to the public all day on from noon till 8 p.m. on April 25th and then April 26th from 10 a.m. till 1 p.m. And after the at 1 p.m. then we start the critique where the judge might actually be there otherwise they write up some comments for the group. And after that's over we let you go ahead and tear down with your students. So the shows are always located at the Antelope County Fairgrounds building. It's right along Highway 275 on the southeast side of Nealy. So it's pretty easy to find and you'll see we moved the show here several years ago but it is a large well lit clean space for our artwork and we're very lucky to have such a wonderful place to show it. The registration information. So most of our information is actually located right on our website. If you go to esu8.org you can click departments and then select art. However, I have a link embedded right here for you. If you access our presentation you can just click this link as well. So let's go out to the art department page. Okay so here we go. This is our home page for the art department. Let's start out with a K8 Spring Art Festival information and I will click that link. So first off you see some basic information that we've already talked about and then if I click the registration form you have two options. One is interactive word and one is a PDF. On the interactive word you can actually type in that form and print it out all type written. For the PDF you could hand write in there and either fax it to us or mail it to us or scan it and email it. So I'll just go out to the PDF for now. So again it asks for this registration form by March 17th. You list your school and then your K8 enrollment. Now that is the total number of students you have in K through 8 in your school. We base the number of pieces that you are allowed to bring on that K8 enrollment. So please try to have that done for us in accurate. We try to make this process as fair as possible for all the participating schools. Okay so that is you send in that form before you do anything else. Don't send us any artwork until you have heard a number back from us and so we intend to get you that late in the day on March 17th. If you could have your registration form in even a day early that would help us out but we will email you as soon as possible with a number of pieces. At that point you will want to access the entry form and again we have it available in interactive word or PDF for your convenience. Okay so here again you're going to list your school name. By this point filling this out you will know how many entries you're allowed. So again that's the maximum that you're allowed. Maybe you're going to send in less so you'll list the total number of entries and how many pieces in the K through 2, 3 through 4, 5 through 6 and 7 through 8. And you will also you can indicate which category the pieces are in. Okay so this year we have a special category of Nebraska 150 which we'll deal with detail later but you will see that we have added that 13th category. So again you list the student's name, their grade and the type of media and if you use that interactive word form it's really nice because you can type all of that in. Alright I'm going to go ahead back to our previous page. Next what you'll want to use is that art festival tag sheet. Again we have the interactive word document where you can type right on the tags so you don't need to worry about hand writing all of the tags for your students. Okay that downloaded since I accessed the interactive word document. Okay so I could type right in this sheet for each of my students. The tricky part about tags for elementary is that different grade levels get different colors of tags. So let's go back to the website and take a look at which grade level should have which color tag. That is actually listed in the art festival guidelines here. And again the guidelines are a lot of the information that we're already going over. So kindergarten through second grade I'll get a yellow tag, pink is for third and fourth grade, blue for fifth and sixth and green for seventh and eighth. This really helps us sort out the art pieces. Last year I believe we had about 1,800 art pieces so when they have those colored tags we can easily sort them and get them in the right places as we hang all 1,800 pieces. So your help in that will really be appreciated. Okay so once you fill out your entry form and you complete your tag sheets you need to mount your artwork onto tag board or construction paper. I do have to say tag board is obviously a little sturdier and probably preferred but definitely construction paper works if that's what you have on hand. I would warn you against masking tape. Last year we had a lot of pieces falling off of their mountings because of that masking tape just being a weak adhesive. So if you can use maybe a marvelous tape or another medium that will hold the work on a little bit better that will help us out. Something else you can do for your students is you can print this poster that we have that will help advertise our show, hang it around your community, hang it in your school and maybe even send it home as a note with elementary students. You could also post this on your school website or have a link in a digital newsletter and we also have some certificates that you can print for each student to show that they participated in the art fair. Okay you can include their name and your signature and there's three different variations of this certificate to use. So let's now go back a page and check out the high school art show information. Okay just like the elementary show we have an entry form that is due. I just downloaded the interactive word. I'm actually going to go out here to this PDF instead and this is due this year by April 14th. So this is a little bit different for the high school. We don't tell you how many pieces that you're allowed to bring however you would be allowed to bring no more than eight per category and if you see how many categories we have I think that that will definitely even in the large schools allow for enough for you to bring your students work. Now each piece will be charged out at 50 cents for the show. So just know that yes you can bring a lot but you also have to pay 50 cents per item and we don't want you to send in any money with your entry form. We will bill that out to your school at a later date. Now just like the elementary show we have a special category for high school this year and it's the Nebraska 150 as well. I will tell you all about that category later in this webinar. Okay so you're going to indicate the number of pieces in each category here for us and I'll go back to our art show information. Again that's due Friday April 14th. You will not send in your work with it because you will bring your own work as you set up and help us hang that work. So if we look at the contest and show categories and special category there there's a better description of each of those categories if you have any questions about that and we'll go back a page. Now we'll look at our guidelines for the high school show and general information. Again those dates that we've listed. Any student enrolled ninth through twelfth grade may participate and again there's eight entries per category for each school. Now tags can be printed off your high school tags are just white and we do have that interactive sheet that will help you type in those if that helps you out. Some schools I've seen do labels as well but one special note is that you do hang your own work and so we do need you to bring your own staple guns that's what schools tend to use. Some had hammer or hammer and nails for bigger pieces but we also need you to bring pliers and things for the removal of your work. We don't have a lot of extra tools to lend out so if you can bring your own tools and staple guns and things that will really help out. Also you might even want to bring in some extra tape and things in case your mountings do fall and like I said with the elementary masking tape just has proven to be not so reliable. All right we'll go back to our information. Again there's these tag sheets that you may fill out online or hand write and we do have posters to help us advertise the shows. Please hang those around your school. Again you can advertise in your school newsletters but we really want to make sure that your school community knows that they can come view this show. We do also advertise in local papers so that will be available as well. Okay as I go back okay so that's the information on our ESU 8 website. It is always available for you there and just gives you kind of the basics on what to do for the art show. After the art show there will be links here which will detail the award recipients at each show so you can click back to the same link and there will be another link right under each of these that tells about the show and who won the awards. All right I'm going to go back to our presentation and let's just recap this very quickly. For the K-8 it's really important to send in your registration form by March 17th then we'll contact you with the number of pieces that you're allowed to bring and then you send us in the entry form with the tag artwork by March 31st. Again you can send that artwork on our media van which comes to your school once a week or if you're at a school that's close by you can just drive it in yourself. For the high school art show we need your registration by April 14th. Don't send your payment now your district will be billed and then you come with your artwork on April 24th to hang. Just a note on those tags again for K-8 please use the correct color of tag per grade level but for the high school show they're just white tags and if your conference show is very close you know and you need to take work directly from our show to the conference show or whatever go ahead and just tuck the conference tag underneath ours. Okay a little information on our judging for kindergarten through eighth grade we have two best of show awards one is in the K-4 area and one is in fifth through eighth but every piece does get a ribbon we have blue red and white ribbons so every piece in K-8 does receive a ribbon. For the high school we really leave the number of ribbons up to the judge's discretion so we do have a best of show outstanding merit superior excellent and honorable mention so the superior excellent honorable mention are all the blue red and white ribbons and again we let the judge just decide on what he or she is seeing and what they want to award. Okay the special category that I was talking about earlier is the Nebraska 150 as we all know Nebraska is turning 150 years old on March 1st and so we thought we'd use that as inspiration for a special category this year. In the K-8 show we want students to fill in an outline of Nebraska with a design of your choosing and you all should have received an email about this or two probably two emails about this earlier this year. There is a link here to the outline that I sent you in that email but if you need it again it's there and we're printing this on legal size paper and we're just leaving it really up to creativity to fill in so I've done some work with some of our students and this is the different ways that one class filled it in so I just left it very open for them to decide whether it be a pencil drawing something based on agriculture in the state or symbolism you decide. For the high school show we are leaving this very open to creativity we just want students to create a piece inspired by Nebraska and whether that be Nebraska history culture symbolism you decide this we're looking forward to seeing the varied works that come out of students own creativity on this matter and so I want to just say thank you very much and please contact me at Steph Wanick at esu8.org if you have any questions at all you've probably had several emails coming out and you will get more emails with the registration forms and things but we always welcome your questions and thank you so much for participating and making this show all that it is your fabulous artwork is on display and we want to celebrate that thank you