News release Public Information Office   SLU 10880   Hammond, LA 70402   phone: 985-549-2341   fax: 985-549-2061 publicinfo@selu.edu     www.selu.edu/news Contact: Christina Chapple Date: 11/19/02 Click on image for publication quality photo  HONORED EDUCATOR – Southeastern Louisiana University Lab School art teacher Denise Tullier-Holly of Hammond, right, shows eighth graders Caroline Taylor, left, and Ricky Wells, center, how to attach plaster casting to their classmate Conrad Anderson’s face to make a mold for a decorative face mask. Mask-making is the Lab School eighth graders’ art project for Youth Art Month, which will be celebrated in March 2003. Tullier-Holly has been selected as the Louisiana Art Education Association’s nominee for the National Art Education Association’s Regional Art Educator of the Year award. TULLIER-HOLLY RECEIVES ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION HONOR       HAMMOND -- Southeastern Louisiana University Laboratory School art teacher Denise Tullier-Holly of Hammond has been selected as Regional Art Educator of the Year by the Louisiana Art Education Association (LAEA).       Tullier-Holly is the state organization’s nominee for the 2003 Regional Art Educator Award. The National Art Education Association presents the award in each of four regions to members “who have performed outstanding service.” Tullier-Holly will compete in the Southeastern Region.       According to the LAEA, Tullier-Holly is being recognized for the assistance, hard work and numerous tasks she has accomplished on behalf of her students and the LAEA.       A recipient of the National Youth Art Month Award of Excellence for the past three years, Tullier-Holly has worked diligently to promote arts education and the value of art in everyday life. Among her many honors, she was named 2001 Louisiana Art Educator of the Year by the National Art Education Association and received a Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities “Special Humanities Award” in 2001. The award honors “individuals who have significantly contributed to Louisiana scholarship.”       In 1999, Tullier-Holly directed an LEH-sponsored symposium on the importance of humor in art. Her Lab School students' works were displayed in 2001 on the Astrovision Screen in Times Square in New York City during National Youth Art Month.       Tullier-Holly’s works have been displayed in a number of juried shows and she has frequently presented at state, regional and national art education conferences. Return to News Releases