Congratulations to our newly elected President & President-elect!
February 6, 2022
President: Rebecca Weeks
With 35 years of public school service as an educator, I have a wide variety of experiences at the elementary and secondary level in visual arts and general education. I have been an art teacher for 19 years of those years. I have chaired visual art departments and assisted committees of all sizes with every type of arts-related event imaginable, serving thousands of students and arts teachers across districts, within my own district, my school and in my local community. I am also a visual artist, and have been a Board member and a gallerist for a local non-profit, City of the World Art Gallery in Las Vegas.
During the middle years of my career, I was an administrator in North Carolina. I have participated in task force work, facilitated annual school planning, designed smaller learning communities and grade level academies, worked on retention and graduation rates and created master schedules for all curricular areas k-12. I have knowledge of the national and state standards and have mentored teachers with regard to implementing them throughout my career. I have also supervised teachers, substitutes, non-licensed staff, and pre-service teachers. I have been involved with IEP/SST/504 meetings and processes as a teacher, administrator and parent.
In addition,I am a published author/researcher, and with my former principal, traveled around the country providing professional consulting services to several larger school systems nationwide, prior to the recession in 2008. I also served as a professional staff developer for AVID Center for many of those years, working with teachers, counselors and other administrators at their Summer Institutes in three locations. I am a trained facilitator for 7 Habits (Franklin Covey), and have led building and district-level trainings in diversity, PBIS, literacy, math, science and the arts.
Last year, I was honored to be recognized by the National Art Education Association as the Pacific Region Middle Level Art Educator of the Year. I am currently the NAEA Middle Level Pacific Regional Director and have been actively involved with the Pacific Region Leadership Team all year.
During the middle years of my career, I was an administrator in North Carolina. I have participated in task force work, facilitated annual school planning, designed smaller learning communities and grade level academies, worked on retention and graduation rates and created master schedules for all curricular areas k-12. I have knowledge of the national and state standards and have mentored teachers with regard to implementing them throughout my career. I have also supervised teachers, substitutes, non-licensed staff, and pre-service teachers. I have been involved with IEP/SST/504 meetings and processes as a teacher, administrator and parent.
In addition,I am a published author/researcher, and with my former principal, traveled around the country providing professional consulting services to several larger school systems nationwide, prior to the recession in 2008. I also served as a professional staff developer for AVID Center for many of those years, working with teachers, counselors and other administrators at their Summer Institutes in three locations. I am a trained facilitator for 7 Habits (Franklin Covey), and have led building and district-level trainings in diversity, PBIS, literacy, math, science and the arts.
Last year, I was honored to be recognized by the National Art Education Association as the Pacific Region Middle Level Art Educator of the Year. I am currently the NAEA Middle Level Pacific Regional Director and have been actively involved with the Pacific Region Leadership Team all year.
President-elect: Alpha Nash
Born and raised in the Bay Area of Northern California, Alpha Nash holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from U.C. Berkeley, and a teaching degree from University of Ca, Davis. Transplanting from Kodiak, Alaska to Las Vegas, Nevada, Alpha has now taught in CCSD for more than 26 years, and earned a Masters in Science Education at UNLV, as well as completing several Master’s level CTE programs at Southern Utah University. She has taught a variety of subjects from English remediation to Science, to finding her ‘home’ in teaching Art. She has been teaching art for more than twelve years at the middle and the high school Level. She has served as a mentor teacher to fellow art teachers for the last four years in CCSD, and has served as the department chair for Electives at Del Sol Academy of Performing Arts High School, where she currently teaches Ceramics. She is the Art club advisor, the Archery club advisor, and is actively involved with the non-profit educational organization, The Society for Creative Anachronism. As an art teacher, her emphasis is currently Ceramics, but she has a passion for all things fiber and stained glass, and has been described as, “a person who never found an art form she didn’t like.” She is dedicated to furthering her professional knowledge and her knowledge of art, and is a firm believer in volunteering, and mentoring new teachers.
I would like to be considered for president-elect because I am a veteran teacher who would like to get more involved with the art education community. I see a need to pull our vast population together in new ways, to help foster more of a mentoring relationship between our veteran teachers here in Nevada and our newest art teaching members. Wanting to see change means to be part of that change, and I understand how that dedication can help encourage growth to our sense of community. I volunteered with the organization of our local conference in November, 2019, and feel I should take a step further in dedicating my time to our valuable group.
I would like to be considered for president-elect because I am a veteran teacher who would like to get more involved with the art education community. I see a need to pull our vast population together in new ways, to help foster more of a mentoring relationship between our veteran teachers here in Nevada and our newest art teaching members. Wanting to see change means to be part of that change, and I understand how that dedication can help encourage growth to our sense of community. I volunteered with the organization of our local conference in November, 2019, and feel I should take a step further in dedicating my time to our valuable group.
Nevada is part of the Pacific Region of the NAEA
Vice President: Michele Chmielewski: naeapacificvp@gmail.com
Mission Statement of the Art Educators of Nevada
Art Educators of Nevada promotes art education through advocacy, leadership, and professional development, the advancement in technology skills, and provides an interactive support system amongst art teachers of Nevada.
Current & Past Executive Board Members
President: February 5, 2022 - Oct. 2024
Rebecca Weeks: presidentaenv@gmail.com
President-elect: February 5, 2022 - Oct. 2024
Alpha Nash: presidentelectaen@gmail.com
Past President: Oct. 2021- Feb. 2024 & Oct. 2018 - Oct. 2020
Kristi Watson: pastpresidentaen@gmail.com
(702)757-7936
Treasurer: Re-elected Oct. 2019 - Oct. 2021
Also Oct. 2017- Oct. 2019
Amy Weishahn: amyweishahn@hotmail.com
Secretary Oct. 2018 - Oct. 2020
Jen Johanson: thejenhohanson@yahoo.com
Past President Oct. 2020 - Oct. 30, 2021 (Resigned)
Kim Gilman
Past President: Oct. 2015 - Oct. 2018
Ed Durand - ed_did_it@yahoo.com
Past President Oct. 2011-2015
Cindy Allen - artteacher777@gmail.com
Past President Oct. 2008-2010
Roz Knight: rozartz@cox.net
Past President Oct. 2005 - Oct. 2008
Kristi Watson: kristi.watson1@gmail.com
Membership Chair:
This is a vacant position.
10/2017- 4/9/2019 Roz Knight - rozartz@cox.net
Awards Chair:
Kristi Watson: kristi.watson1@gmail.com
Newsletter Editor:
Nanette Bratton: nbratton@gvchristian.com
YAM Chair Oct. 2019
Megan Mettmann
YAM Chair Oct. 2017 -2018
Kristi Watson: kristi.watson1@gmail.com
Webmaster
Oct. 2018 - present: Kristi Watson: kristi.watson1@gmail.com
Rebecca Weeks: presidentaenv@gmail.com
President-elect: February 5, 2022 - Oct. 2024
Alpha Nash: presidentelectaen@gmail.com
Past President: Oct. 2021- Feb. 2024 & Oct. 2018 - Oct. 2020
Kristi Watson: pastpresidentaen@gmail.com
(702)757-7936
Treasurer: Re-elected Oct. 2019 - Oct. 2021
Also Oct. 2017- Oct. 2019
Amy Weishahn: amyweishahn@hotmail.com
Secretary Oct. 2018 - Oct. 2020
Jen Johanson: thejenhohanson@yahoo.com
Past President Oct. 2020 - Oct. 30, 2021 (Resigned)
Kim Gilman
Past President: Oct. 2015 - Oct. 2018
Ed Durand - ed_did_it@yahoo.com
Past President Oct. 2011-2015
Cindy Allen - artteacher777@gmail.com
Past President Oct. 2008-2010
Roz Knight: rozartz@cox.net
Past President Oct. 2005 - Oct. 2008
Kristi Watson: kristi.watson1@gmail.com
Membership Chair:
This is a vacant position.
10/2017- 4/9/2019 Roz Knight - rozartz@cox.net
Awards Chair:
Kristi Watson: kristi.watson1@gmail.com
Newsletter Editor:
Nanette Bratton: nbratton@gvchristian.com
YAM Chair Oct. 2019
Megan Mettmann
YAM Chair Oct. 2017 -2018
Kristi Watson: kristi.watson1@gmail.com
Webmaster
Oct. 2018 - present: Kristi Watson: kristi.watson1@gmail.com
