2025 NAEA National Convention: Full Schedule

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12:00pm EDT

Unionization as Pedagogy: A Praxis for Solidarity Building in and Beyond Art Museums

Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Drawing from a research study of the art museum labor movement, this session focuses on pedagogical implications of unionization as a practice of solidarity building. Examining unionization as pedagogy bears implications for civic engagement, offering examples of and lessons in how to build solidarity across power differentials and toward greater equity.

Presenters

Amanda Ripley

Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Museum Education, Professional Paper Presentation

1:00pm EDT

2025 NAEA Coalition of Feminisms in Art Education Regional Artist Talk

Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Learn about the research-based artmaking practice of a Louisville-area artist selected by Coalition of Feminisms in Art Education (CFAE) Interest Group members and engage in a postpresentation dialogue about contemporary feminist art practice, issues, and concerns with the artist speaker. Exhibition Coordinator Laura Lee McCartney will facilitate discussion.

Presenters

Laura McCartney

Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Coalition for Feminisms in Art Education, Professional Paper Presentation

2:00pm EDT

Trans Histories of Art Education

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

This historiography examines trans studies (scholarship resisting gender and sexuality as stable categories) in art education. It draws on trans scholarship, art education research, and arts-based research. Trans studies offers radical potential for educators to destabilize oppressive constructs that enforce normativity and opens avenues for fluid, plastic, and relational ways of being.

Presenters

Brandi Lewis

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

LGBTQ+ Interest Group, Professional Paper Presentation

3:00pm EDT

Big Gay Church XV: The Final Act

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

We invite you to join us in this celebration of life for Big Gay Church. This year's gathering is a formal and final Big Gay Goodbye, celebrating BGC's history and impact with flashbacks and testimonials, while calling on the congregation to advance and reenliven this essential work in new ways.

Presenters

Erin J. Hoppe

PhD Student & Barnett Fellow, The Ohio State University

I'm writing my dissertation on the embodied experience of arts administration, its affects, and the spaces between bodies, policies, and practices. I am using an a/r/tographic methodology for co-meaning making - what does your arts admin work smell like? What object embodies your... Read More →

De'Avin Mitchell

James Sanders III

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

LGBTQ+ Interest Group, Deep Dive Research

4:30pm EDT

Embracing Culture and Creativity: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Higher Education and K-12 Art Classrooms

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

This presentation offers strategies for applying culturally responsive pedagogy in both higher education and K-12 art education. Through in-depth research on Asian cultures and its practical implementation, it demonstrates how to create inclusive and creative visual arts lesson plans, preventing cultural appropriation and fostering cultural diversity in visual art education.

Presenters

Nara Kim

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Asian Art and Culture Interest Group, Instructional Practice

5:00pm EDT

From Looking to Language: The Historical Shift to Visual Literacy in Art Education

Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Trace a paradigm shift from visual perception to visual literacy in the history of art education. Through a rhetorical analysis of primary source material, this presentation traces social, political, pedagogical, and policy shifts that reoriented looking to literacy, as well as implications for art education curricula and practice today.

Presenters

Cala Coats

Associate Professor, Arizona State University

Abigail Schmid

Graduate Student/Research Assistant, Arizona State University

From Looking to Language The Historical Shift to Visual Literacy in Art Education pdf

Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Higher Education, Big Art Education Questions