Meet Art Educator Marjean Meadow!

STMA looks forward to hosting Marjean Meadow, one of two winners of The Charlie Boner Award for the Advancement of Art Education for Founder’s Day 2024!

When Marjean thinks about her journey as an art educator, she recalls fond memories of creating with her mother and grandmothers. Whether it was painting a Palomino horse or modeling salt dough figures, creating was a valued hobby and an enjoyable pastime in her life.

After attending the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, she considered teaching as her future profession. Inspired by many wonderful art professors, she learned first-hand the importance of art education programs. She especially loved the “never-a-dull moment” of teaching adolescents and the versatility to plan lessons to meet their unique and ever-changing interests and needs. She taught in multiple schools throughout her career, even in Fukuoka, Japan. Thousands of students and thirty years later, Marjean and her students collectively gained deeper insights into themselves and the world around them through the arts.

Recently retired from Morgan County Middle School (2021), she enjoys spending time with family, traveling, walking, yoga, gardening and learning to play the mandolin. Most of all, she enjoys making art with her granddaughters. She has earned a BSEd (‘85), MAEd (‘89), and Ed.S (2010) in Art Education from the University of Georgia.