In years past, fortune seekers from all over the world came to the beautiful San Francisco Bay to make their fortune. This year, art teachers from all over the state of California are invited to descend upon this historic landmark to talk about and experience the significance of how, “art bridges the gap” with an emphasis on creative expression across the curriculum.

BRIDGING THE EDUCATION GAP WITH ART
Burlingame’s conference will offer you as much or as little as you like, but one thing is for sure…there will not be any shortage of things to experience. If anything, there will be some pretty tough choices because there is such a large and varied list of options to choose from. Sign up EARLY! Three master class workshops will be given away to three lucky people who are in the first 150 members to register in full for the conference by Sept. 15th 2008.

SPECIAL FEATURES
Registration includes standards based instructional workshops, three outstanding keynote speakers, exhibitors, student art exhibits, a lesson plan CD and being a participant in our Thursday keynote speaker-Harriete Estel Berman’s installation piece! Wow! Opportunities for professional growth through Master Art classes is offered from a Who’s Who list of guest artists in clay, hot glass beading making, encaustics, book art, improvisational bead embroidery, wood cuts, silk painting, felting, kinetic sculpture, and glass fusing. Take an all day workshop with International artist and sculptor, Tony Natsoulas, our Saturday keynote speaker.

But, don’t just come for the classes, join our roundtable discussions on current issues in art and share your students’ artwork in the Student Art Show. Sign up to attend one of our three professional strands: Digital Arts, Administrative, and Elementary strands. Be sure to attend The Friday Night Gala Event and enjoy some great food, wine, entertainment and the Teacher as Artist Show! But that’s not all! Don’t miss out on Saturday night’s spirited Silent Scholarship Auction. Come prepared to place your bids in this annual fundraising event. And last but not least, celebrate the accomplishments of CAEA members at the Sunday Award Breakfast with keynote speaker, author and artist, Mike Venezia!

TOURS
Take a tour, walk the halls of the newly renovated de Young Museum, or see an outstanding collection at the Asian Art Museum. Experience the sites, sounds, and tastes of Asia by walking the streets of one of the largest and most unique Chinatown in the United States. If murals are your passion, take the walking mural tour through the Mission District or, if your taste tends toward the modern, visit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). However, one of the best experiences of all—whether you know the name of the people around you or not is that you will be walking and talking with kindred spirits—because we are all coming together for just one thing—the love of art. The co-chairs and conference committee are working hard to make this a memorable if not spectacular event.

Remember—Art Bridges The Gap!
Gini Gyorkos & Susan Manbeian
Conference Co-Chairs