OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO PAEA AWARD

Lisa Kelchner is a paraprofessional staff employee with the Williamsport Area School District in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Kelchner has shown her outstanding services to PAEA by her supportive efforts along the side of her late husband, Tom Kelchner, an art teacher in the Williamsport Area School District.

• Attends all conferences, both state and national levels
• Designs and sells her own line of Fimo clay jewelry along side of other member’s artworks at the Member’s Marketplace
• Congruent with issues and current events in PAEA and NAEA

Kelchner is well recognized as a true supporter of PAEA and the Arts. Her visibility at state and national conferences is noted by all members with enthusiasm and pleasure. She “builds relationships with art educators with her friendly encouragement, her wit, love of people and of visual arts. She is an art ambassador with her grace, honesty and positive words. She has attended and co-hosted yearly art exhibits ranging from the Scholastic Art Awards to District Exhibits. She has co-sponsored monetary awards for students and continues to do so today.

Recently, Kelchner worked with WASD art teachers to supervise and support the Milken Family Foundation sponsored series of History of Williamsport Murals, a project that pairs older students with younger students to design and create a series of murals that now hang in the WASD District Service Center. She has also initiated and continued over several years the Just Art with Senior Citizens where senior citizens are bussed to Jackson Elementary School and participated in weekly art lessons with elementary students for a final combined exhibit.