OUTSTANDING REGIONAL CO-REPRESENTATIVE

Mary Elizabeth Meier is the Elementary k-5 Art Educator at Union City Elementary. She received her M.S. in Art Education from Florida State University. Meier has exhibited great commitment to PAEA:

• Since 2005, served on the PAEA Board of Directors as Regional Co-Representative
• received the 2006 Outstanding Elementary Art Educator Award, PAEA
• faculty, Governor’s Institute for Arts Educators
• Steering committee for the 2006 PAEA conference
• Chairperson of the committee that designed and launched PAEA’s new website unveiled past September
• Presented Artist Trading Card Family Night: Community and Collaboration at the NAEA conference
• Presented her thesis at the 2003 NAEA conference, Evaluating Multimedia for the Classroom using an Art Criticism Model

Meier passionately believes in integrating technology with classroom and community. To emphasize how the arts can build such relationships, Meier has initiated a community activity called Artist Trading Card Family Night that involves students, parents, and teachers in making and trading art.

Mary Elizabeth was an invited presenter at the workshop series for elementary classroom teachers, Enhancing Education through Technology where she demonstrated classroom integration and critical evaluation of education technology processes. In 2005, Meier received a Union City Area Foundation Grant to gather and maintain a permanent collection of professionally framed student art. In 2007, Meier presented Notan Japanese Designs at the Governor's Institute for Arts Educators. She has made 5 presentations at the National Art Education Association Conference.

Meier’s students were one of 22 schools to participate in the PAEA/Mural Arts Program project that erected a student painted mural at the PA Department of Education. Her photographic documentation of this mural project is being published in a Scott Foresman textbook last year.