Art Education

Diana Stover, Glenelg Country School's middle school art teacher, has been selected Maryland Art Educator of the Year by the National Art Education Association.The award recognizes Stover's "service and contributions to art education," according to the association."Mrs. Stover exemplifies the high quality of individuals involved in the field of art education today," said Sarah Tambucci, the association's president.Stover has taught at Glenelg Country for 20 years.Pub Date: 2/27/97

North County High School senior Ashely Lim didn't intend to turn the school's hallways into her own virtual art exhibition. But there on a wall in the school's physical education area is a testament to her creativity, a colorfully painted sports mural she calls "Gym" that features athletic wear, sporting equipment and a foaming splash of waves that helps give the work its energy and radiance. "Pretty, isn't it? She did a good job," said North County physical education teacher Nick Cosentino as he walked by. Then he turned to Lim and said, "It's good to see you're being recognized.

Ruth Aukerman studied to be an English teacher in her native Germany, but marriage to an American and volunteer work at the Maryland School for the Deaf changed her career plans.She became an art teacher. Aukerman, who teaches at Elmer Wolfe and Taneytown elementary schools, recently was selected Art Educator of the Year by the Maryland Art Education Association."I wouldn't be an art teacher if not for my husband," Aukerman said of Dale, the man she met in Germany and married, and with whom she settled in Linwood, near Union Bridge.

Doris Brandt Bauer, an art educator and artist whose mixed-media collages incorporated found objects such as driftwood, died of pneumonia and respiratory failure July 17 at St. Joseph Medical Center. She was 86. Born Doris Caroline Brandt, she grew up in Southwest Baltimore and attended Western High School, said her eldest son, G. Andrew Bauer III of Towson. She graduated from the College of William and Mary with a degree in fine arts in 1946 and returned to Baltimore, where she began teaching.

Alvin J. Myerberg, a Baltimore home builder and real estate developer whose philanthropic interests included health, art education and helping endow an art museum at Duke University, died of lymphoma Feb. 11 at his Owings Mills home. He was 84. Born in Baltimore, the son of a developer and a homemaker, he was raised on Labyrinth Road in Northwest Baltimore. After graduating from Charlotte Hall Military Academy in 1943, he earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1947 from Duke.

Mark Coates hasn't forgotten how to pique the interest of a teen-ager."Here's a lovely intestine," Coates said, holding up a sketch for his students gathered in the River Hill High School art room. "Wouldn't this make a cool T-shirt?"The class could go the normal route of shading cylinder and cone shapes, but that would be boring -- and Coates doesn't do boring. Instead, he has substituted drawings of brains, circuit boards and arteries for the assignment. When you're part of a select group of nationally certified teachers and the national secondary art educator of the year, you know what works.

Like parents refusing a silly child that extra cookie, the Harford County Board of Education snubbed art education enthusiasts Monday -- kindly, but firmly.The art education supporters, who included parents and teachers, made a presentation at the board meeting Monday to press for more art instructors in public elementary schools. They argued money to expand art education in Harford schools must be found.But the school board insisted extra money for art education isn't available."It's not a question of commitment.

"We wanted to do something to ensure that art education will be publicized," says Jeanne March Davis, "and so that theteachers and the children can see the work travel beyond their classrooms and their parents' refrigerators."That's why Ms. Davis, curator of City Hall, and her assistant, Gigi Moore, decided to open a gallery specifically and exclusively for the artwork of Baltimore City's schoolchildren. Ms. Davis and Ms. Moore, who organize six exhibits a year in City Hall's first floor Courtyard Galleries, have established their newest idea in the rotunda area one floor below, and are calling it the Circle Gallery.

Age: 22 Hometown: Baltimore Education: Mt. Hebron High School and Penn State University Professional: NFL defensive-end/linebacker for the Buffalo Bills Community works: His charitable fund, Project Mayhem, promotes art education among inner-city youth. In February, Maybin will host his annual winter 'Celebration of the Arts,' which includes visits to local schools, an art workshop for children at area hospitals, and a benefit dinner. For more information, go to his website, aaronmaybin.

Jane Stricker, an art teacher at Shipley's Choice Elementary School, will be recognized by the Maryland Art Education Association today at Towson State University's Fine Arts Building Concert Hall for outstanding service to the field of art education.Stricker is being recognized for her work as an art teacher at Shipley's Choice for 12 years and an art resource teacher in charge of the county's graphics and technology program."I was honored," she said about being notified of the award last week.

Christine O'Neill is petrified by sharks. But when she came across a school of them recently, hungry for food, she knew what she had to do. "Facing My Fears I and II" are two paintings that O'Neill created to capture her encounter with the sharks. They're on display through Aug. 21 at the Annapolis Maritime Museum as part of an exhibit of paintings and illustrations by her and her husband, Dave O'Neill, two longtime Anne Arundel County residents-turned-sailors whose art celebrates life at sea. "I … am totally afraid of sharks," Christine says in a narrative that accompanies her shark paintings.

Ruth R. Marder, a Baltimore philanthropist whose charitable interests ranged from the arts to educational and medical institutions, died Jan. 28 of cancer at her Roland Park Place home. She was 83. Born in Pittsburgh, Ruth Rosenberg was the daughter of Henry A. Rosenberg Sr., who had been president of Crown Central Petroleum Co., and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg. She was the granddaughter of Louis Blaustein, founder of the American Oil Co. She was raised at Rainbow Hill, her family's Owings Mills estate, which had once been the home of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his first wife, Henriette Louis Cromwell Brooks, in the 1920s.

Emma D. Favazza, co-founder of a Baltimore construction company whose philanthropic and charitable interests included the arts and education, died Saturday of heart failure at St. Joseph Medical Center. The Timonium resident was 81. Emma Elizabeth Dalcin, the daughter of a bricklayer and a homemaker, was born the youngest of 11 children in Bethlehem, Pa., and then moved with her family to nearby Allentown, Pa. During the Depression, the family moved to the city's Pimlico neighborhood and later Catonsville.

Age: 22 Hometown: Baltimore Education: Mt. Hebron High School and Penn State University Professional: NFL defensive-end/linebacker for the Buffalo Bills Community works: His charitable fund, Project Mayhem, promotes art education among inner-city youth. In February, Maybin will host his annual winter 'Celebration of the Arts,' which includes visits to local schools, an art workshop for children at area hospitals, and a benefit dinner. For more information, go to his website, aaronmaybin.

Two Maryland schools are among five in the nation to be honored for excellence in arts education. Roland Park Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore City and Sudbrook Magnet Middle School in Baltimore County were named "national schools of distinction" Friday by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, according to a news release from the Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance. The award is presented annually to five public schools selected from around the country that have "made the arts an essential part of their students' education," the alliance said.

The retouching on the black-and-white photograph is a giveaway. The good looks of the suave young man peering out from one of Warsaw's Academy of Fine Arts student passbooks rival those of a movie star. The confident gaze, hint of a smile and darkroom-perfected complexion were all characteristic of portraiture in the 1930s and 1940s. Next to the headshot, a red ink stamp pinpoints the date first hinted at by the portrait's signature style: Oct. 31, 1939. That was the last time Jerzy Kajetanski used his bus pass in his native Poland, two months after the Sept.

The Carroll County Arts Council has announced the M. Anne Miller Scholarship for a graduating high school senior interested in a career in art education.The annual award, presented in memory of the lateCarroll County teacher, M. Anne Miller, is for $500. The money will be sent directly to the winner's college of choice for tuition or expenses.Students interested in applying for this scholarship should submit an essay of 100 or 200 words explaining their reasons for planning a career in art education.

"What do you see?" asks Noreen Scott Garrity, pointing to the painting. Hands shoot up. Voices call out."I see a boy sleeping and someone throwing up on him.""A boy sleeping and a monster beating on his head."After some gentle prodding, someone suggests that it is a sleeping boy and his guilty conscience.A guilty conscience, muses Ms. Garrity. "If you had to draw your conscience, how would you do it?""It would have blue hair, a blue face, three toes and three fingers."This is surely a widely accepted description of guilty consciences, circa 1993, because Ms. Garrity nods in assent before she and the 19 sixth-grade students are off to look at another painting.