South Carolina H 3824: SC Art Education Association's 100th Anniversary

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2025-2026 Bill 3824 Text of Previous Version (Jan. 29, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 3824

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A house RESOLUTION

TO RECOGNIZE AND HONOR THE SOUTH CAROLINA ARTS 
EDUCATION ASSOCIATION FOR ITS PIONEERING WORK IN THE STATE AND TO CONGRATULATE 
THE ADMINISTRATORS AND STAFF ON THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ORGANIZATION.

Whereas, the South 
Carolina House of Representatives is grateful for the profound work of the 
South Carolina Art Education Association (SCAEA) in the State, and the members 
join in celebrating with its administrators and staff at the one hundredth 
anniversary of its founding; and

Whereas, in the heyday 
of the progressive era, SCAEA was founded by Clara Barratt, a graduate of 
Winthrop College, South Carolina's college for training teachers; and

Whereas, the SCAEA was 
founded under the auspices of the South Carolina Education Association (SCEA) 
in 1924 as one of numerous departments of pedagogical interest; and

Whereas, in most of its 
years, SCEA provided workshops for art educators at the state teachers 
conference. Teachers from all disciplines attended the state conferences, 
breaking off into their respective subject areas for specific professional 
development, during which sessions with one or more disciplines were often held 
to facilitate interdisciplinary teaching and learning. Workshop topics in the 
early era show a correlation with current educational issues and practices; and

Whereas, by the 1930s, 
art educators were providing sessions at the conferences to emphasize the need 
for art teachers to ally themselves with school administrators for support of 
arts in the school curriculum; and

Whereas, in 1933, 
interest in art from other cultures expressed remarkable insight into the needs 
of children, and by 1936, there was a pressing need to justify art education in 
schools as the country battled the Great Depression; and

Whereas, from 1943 to 
1945, wartime efforts suspended or curtailed many activities of SCEA and its 
departments. Later, the 1951 conference emphasized interest in a statewide 
program evaluation and offered the first exhibition of elementary art; and

Whereas, in 1962, the 
Palmetto Education Association, which represented South Carolina's Black 
educators as an affiliate of NEA, organized their first art departmental 
meetings. Following the 1967 conference, the Palmetto Educators Association 
(PEA) unified with the SCEA to facilitate desegregation, which maintained 
separate officers for the two organizations only in the first year; and

Whereas, in 1972, the 
South Carolina Department of Education published the Administrator's Manual: 
Art Education, prepared by state art consultant Thomas A. Hatfield. The manual 
served as a guidebook for administrators in the development and implementation 
of art programs; and

Whereas, SCAEA 
continued as a part of SCEA until unification with the National Art Education 
Association (NAEA) in 1975. NAEA had been organized in 1947 with assistance 
from the National Education Association (NEA), along with regional art 
education associations; and

Whereas, the South 
Carolina House of Representatives appreciates the century of enduring 
commitment that the South Carolina Art Education Association has provided in 
the education of the state's citizens. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House 
of Representatives:

That the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives, by this resolution, recognize 
and honor the South Carolina Art Education Association for its pioneering work 
in the State and congratulate the administrators and staff on their one 
hundredth anniversary.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution 
be presented to the South Carolina Art Education Association.

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