GAEA Conference Fall 2024

Local artist Grace Kisa presents about her work and life.

Grace Kisa is a Kenyan-American artist based in Atlanta, Georgia.
A multimedia artist whose primary expression is sculpture, her process is mprovisational, combination of creative play and problem solving. The materials that she uses vary from clay, metal, wood, fiber, and resin. with a focus on recycling and repurposing ordinary objects .
Her work draws inspiration from the experiences of a childhood spent in Kenya, Ethiopia, Botswana, Virginia, and as a practicing artist Georgia. By taking what is familiar and transforming it, she creates narratives that engage various histories while working through concepts of intersectional identities, examining the processes of migration and cultural exchange beyond borders. Particular attention is given to ideas of comfort, alienation, adaptation and assimilation. Set against how that relates in a globalized world.
Grace graduated from the Art Institute in Atlanta, Georgia and has worked as a professional artist for over 20 years exhibiting in Solo and group exhibitions across the United States.
​https://gracekisa.com/​​​

SCAD represenattive presenting about all the educator programs available for art educators.

The Dr. Helen Fleming Stone Scholarship is the highest honor and largest scholarship bestowed on a National Art Honor Society student by the Georgia Art Education Association.  Dr. Stone established and built the scholarship through diligent hard work and tireless effort.  As an artist she was a gifted sculptor and potter, so she sold her work to fund the scholarship.  By 2006, she had raised the impressive sum of $60,000 – one pot at a time.  Following her death in 2007, GAEA assumed responsibility for assisting the Stone family with the fundraising efforts, hosting a silent auction of donated artwork by GAEA members and their students.  The scholarship endowment has grown to more than $88,000 and will continue assisting Georgia’s young gifted artists in their studies for many generations to come.

Georgia Council for the Arts leads a session on resources for art educators.
Grants, programs, advocacy and more!

Join us as we honor this year's Helen Fleming Stone scholarship recipient, YAM TOTY, and GAEA award winners.  As we close out the conference, we will hear from our keynote artist Joseph Veazey talk about his artistic process, his success as the creator of the ATL Rap Map, and the art teachers who helped him develop his amazing illustration career.

http://josephveazey.com/about/