Congratulations to all the Awardees and those nominated.
We truly have great art teachers in Washington State.
You should all be proud!
Awards Video is linked below, Enjoy!
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WA STATE ART TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
We are proud to present Cynthia Gaub
as the 2021 Washington State Art Educator of the Year!
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Cynthia Holds a Fine Arts Degree from The Evergreen State College and Masters in Teaching from City University of Seattle (Tacoma Campus).
Active in WAEA, Cynthia has held both committee chair and executive board positions, acting as co-president from 2016-2018. She has also served in leadership and committee roles for the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction and the National Art Education Association. She was the recipient of the WAEA Middle Level Art Teacher of the year for 2009, and in 2018 received national recognition as the NAEA Pacific Region Middle School Art Teacher of the year. |
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Cynthia shares her ideas, lessons and methods in various art education publications including School Arts, Arts & Activities and Splatter. For many years she has also presented at local, state and national conferences, including WAEA, NAEA, the Northwest Council for Computer Education.
Cynthia is also well known for teaching art and sharing her knowledge with other educators using the Teaching for Artistic Behavior pedagogy. TAB classrooms are structured studio environments with high expectations for self-directed learning in choices of varied workspace and media. Cynthia was an instructor for the TAB Institute in Boston in 2018, and the keynote speaker for TAB Colorado in 2019.
Cynthia currently teaches art and computer technology at North Middle School in the Everett School District. Students in her Visual Arts class engage in a variety of media in the Teaching for Artistic Behavior Classroom by accessing studios and meeting challenges based on themes and genres. In Digital Art, students explore media that require technology, such as animation, photography, video filming and podcasting. As a Technology Mentor in her district, Cynthia has taught over 100 district teachers how to use podcasting, blogging and video in their classrooms.
When Cynthia is not teaching, she loves reading, gardening, playing with her dogs, and creating art that can be found on her art website at Art and Cloth and Instagram. She has both managed and shown her artwork in several Seattle art galleries.
Congratulations Cynthia!
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WA STATE SECONDARY ART TEACHER OF THE YEAR
The WAEA Secondary Art Teacher of the Year is Becky Broyles!
Becky is a National Board Certified Teacher who holds degrees from Washington State University in History and Digital Technology and Culture, and a Masters of Education.
She has worked for the Battle Ground Public School District for 12 years, currently teaching high school visual art and media art classes at River HomeLink, a public K-12 parent-partnership alternative school for Washington State.
At school, she has developed a student-choice art program, modeled as a working design studio, that allows student artists the freedom to choose their creative pathway for learning. Her students have won numerous awards and have had their work published while working as artists and designers on projects that will enrich their futures.
Becky is actively involved at the local, state, and international levels of arts education. As part of the OSPI Arts Cadre and the OSPI Statewide Arts Guidance on Reopening Schools Committee (2020-21), she worked to establish that all the arts were essential and created a crowd-sourced database for media arts teachers during the pandemic.
Becky currently facilitates the Washington Art Education Association monthly Virtual Workshops. Each summer she heads the Crafts Department at the American School in Japan Summer Day Camp in Tokyo.
Becky’s warm spirit and ongoing passion for art are seen through her love of photography, collage, and fashion. She recently exhibited a photograph in a gallery show at the Maryhill Museum of Art and the Tacoma Art Museum.
Becky would like to acknowledge her students, their families, her family, friends, fellow teachers, artists, and WAEA members as a main driving force that encourages her to follow her passions, to continue to dream big!
Congratulations!
Becky currently facilitates the Washington Art Education Association monthly Virtual Workshops. Each summer she heads the Crafts Department at the American School in Japan Summer Day Camp in Tokyo.
Becky’s warm spirit and ongoing passion for art are seen through her love of photography, collage, and fashion. She recently exhibited a photograph in a gallery show at the Maryhill Museum of Art and the Tacoma Art Museum.
Becky would like to acknowledge her students, their families, her family, friends, fellow teachers, artists, and WAEA members as a main driving force that encourages her to follow her passions, to continue to dream big!
Congratulations!
WA STATE MIDDLE LEVEL ART TEACHER OF THE YEAR
The WAEA Middle Level Art Teacher of the Year is Olivia Smaciarz!
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Olivia is the North Thurston Public Schools’ Visual Art Educator at Salish Middle School in Lacey, WA. She currently teaches 6th, 7th and 8th grade Studio Art and Digital Photography classes. Additionally, Olivia serves as the Secondary Visual Art Facilitator. She was born and raised in the community where she teaches, and graduated from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Native and Indigenous Studies & Visual Arts, and a Master in Teaching with K-12 Visual Arts endorsement. |
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With a culturally responsive and warm yet demanding pedagogy, Olivia strives to foster an inclusive artist community that supports –
-creative, critical and reflective thinkers
-students who learn and think for themselves and
-artist collaboration across differences with cultural awareness and self-expression.
She bridges students’ lived experiences with visual art curriculum and places herself as facilitator over expert to shed light on student strengths for the collective processes to flourish.
Olivia is a proud wife and mother who enjoys medicinal gardening, crafting, cruising, listening to music and playing games with her family. When she creates her own artwork, Olivia’s preferred mediums are graphite/drawing, oil painting, printmaking and jewelry/beadwork.
Congratulations Olivia – your students are truly fortunate to have you!
-creative, critical and reflective thinkers
-students who learn and think for themselves and
-artist collaboration across differences with cultural awareness and self-expression.
She bridges students’ lived experiences with visual art curriculum and places herself as facilitator over expert to shed light on student strengths for the collective processes to flourish.
Olivia is a proud wife and mother who enjoys medicinal gardening, crafting, cruising, listening to music and playing games with her family. When she creates her own artwork, Olivia’s preferred mediums are graphite/drawing, oil painting, printmaking and jewelry/beadwork.
Congratulations Olivia – your students are truly fortunate to have you!
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WA STATE ELEMENTARY ART TEACHER OF THE YEAR
The WAEA Elementary Art Teacher of the Year is Cynthia Moore!
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Cynthia recently retired from Spokane Public Schools, where she was the Elementary Art Specialist at Moran Prairie Elementary School teaching Kindergarten through 6th grade artists. During her long career, she has also taught art at the middle school level, for young adults with developmental impairment, and served as an artist-in-residence at various public and private school settings. Cynthia earned a degree in Art and teaching credentials from California Lutheran University. She also earned her elementary teaching endorsement with courses completed through Gonzaga and Whitworth Universities. She has received several arts education awards including the Arts in Education Award from the Spokane Arts Commission and an Artsonia Art Education Leadership Award in 2019. |
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Within her district, Cynthia has presented hands-on art workshops to specialists and classroom teachers, and curriculum classes to art specialists for Spokane Public Schools Summer Institute.
She has promoted arts in the community through local arts festivals, serving as the art display coordinator for the Spokane Airport and Spokane Public Schools, and organizing the Kress Gallery Elementary Art Exhibit. Students and families enjoyed their work in a museum gallery setting. Every year since 2016 Cynthia planned and produced the Family Art Night at her school.
Cynthia’s art students loved attending her classes where they found their safe space to experience and explore the world of visual art.
Congratulations Cynthia!
She has promoted arts in the community through local arts festivals, serving as the art display coordinator for the Spokane Airport and Spokane Public Schools, and organizing the Kress Gallery Elementary Art Exhibit. Students and families enjoyed their work in a museum gallery setting. Every year since 2016 Cynthia planned and produced the Family Art Night at her school.
Cynthia’s art students loved attending her classes where they found their safe space to experience and explore the world of visual art.
Congratulations Cynthia!
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WAEA DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
This year, we honor Cece Badda
with the WAEA Distinguished Service award.
with the WAEA Distinguished Service award.
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Cece is a National Board Certified Teacher who holds a degree Art/K-12 education from Central Washington University and a Master’s in Education Leadership from the University of Portland. She taught K-12 Physical Education, Health and Visual Art with the Easton School District for forty years. The Easton School District, located in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, serves around 100 students each year. Many districts of this size do not have resources to give their students wide and varied experiences, but this did not stop Cece from bringing opportunities to students during her career. She offered an array of traditional and non-traditional creative outlets with the hope that each student would find a media to resonate with, including cement sculpting, landscape architecture, boat construction and fly tying. |
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Cece obtained grants for Artist in Residence programs that brought experienced creative professionals from theater, visual arts, music, and dance to work with students. Field trips were taken to artist studios, galleries, glass companies and museums. A visit to an architectural firm in Seattle allowed the students to see career options in architecture, interior design, and engineering, with a chance to view and discuss architectural features seen in historic Pioneer Square.
Cece also led community projects with students for the benefit of local natural areas and state parks, alumni memorials and annual art creations for permanent display at the school. With the K-12 students all in one building artists of all ages were able to work together for many of these experiences.
Students in Cece’s photography classes learned to produce the school yearbook while incorporating graphic design, writing and developing public speaking skills to acquire sponsors for publication. Cece gave back directly to her school community by taking senior photographs with no cost to the students or families.
Cece’s dedication to her students and contributions to arts education community make her remarkably deserving of this award.
Congratulations!
Cece obtained grants for Artist in Residence programs that brought experienced creative professionals from theater, visual arts, music, and dance to work with students. Field trips were taken to artist studios, galleries, glass companies and museums. A visit to an architectural firm in Seattle allowed the students to see career options in architecture, interior design, and engineering, with a chance to view and discuss architectural features seen in historic Pioneer Square.
Cece also led community projects with students for the benefit of local natural areas and state parks, alumni memorials and annual art creations for permanent display at the school. With the K-12 students all in one building artists of all ages were able to work together for many of these experiences.
Students in Cece’s photography classes learned to produce the school yearbook while incorporating graphic design, writing and developing public speaking skills to acquire sponsors for publication. Cece gave back directly to her school community by taking senior photographs with no cost to the students or families.
Cece’s dedication to her students and contributions to arts education community make her remarkably deserving of this award.
Congratulations!
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