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Thursday, March 20
 

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Repositioning STEAM Education Practices From Global Perspectives
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Explore STEAM education from global perspectives featuring integrative pedagogical frameworks, school and community-based STEAM activities, and culturally responsive STEAM projects. Survey and discuss a range of innovative curricular ideas, instructional strategies, STEAM gadgets, and real classroom examples for students from elementary to graduate school to enrich STEAM practices.
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Yichien Cooper

Assistant Professor, Wsu Tri-cities
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Enhancing Special Education Art Education: A Framework for Inclusive Expression
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Gain valuable insights and learn practical strategies to create an inclusive, empowering art education environment for special education students while referencing IEPs and Behavior Plans. By incorporating these principles into their teaching practices, educators will contribute to their students' growth, development, and artistic expression.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Bridging Cultures: Integrating Asian Art in Museums and Classrooms
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Learn how five researchers with international backgrounds utilize Asian art as a cross-cultural bridge in museums and online contexts. Join us for an exciting session filled with distinct exhibition projects, insightful discussions, and practical tips for incorporating Asian art in both formal and community-based educational settings.
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Critical Perspectives on Embodiment: Relational and Socially Engaged Practices in Art Education
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Critically examine relational and embodied engagements in visual culture and social science through contemporary cases that inform a series of social practice provocations. Presenters and attendees will explore how these bodymind experiences may inspire socially relevant art teaching through unique, material engagements with the world.
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Leaning into Spirituality in Art Education
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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How do we define the spiritual? Acknowledging personal practice and navigating what it means to integrate spirituality in the classroom and nonclassroom teaching spaces, this presentation will look at current research and practical experience to support artist-educators and students.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Speaking Back and Looking Forward: Feminist Annotation as an Archival Practice
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Learn how to employ methods of feminist being in the archive(s) through wayfaring as a plural and collaborative format that invites participants to enter into feminist archives. Through a collaborative annotation and artmaking process, we will elicit dialectical thinking and intergenerational connections with materials, documents, and concepts from feminist eras.
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Hip-Hop's Transformative Connection to SEL and ED&I in Arts Education
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Join us on a journey exploring hip-hop's link to social-emotional learning (SEL) and equity, diversity, inclusion (ED&I) in arts education. Discover how urban communities and artists like Kendrick Lamar and Nipsey Hussle can inspire curricula and inform visual storytelling through inquiry as well as multimedia and traditional art approaches.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Mobile Art Studio Community Art Program: Removing Barriers and Increasing Access for Marginalized Populations
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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This free mobile art program takes art to children to break access barriers to BIPOC and economically disadvantaged youth's participation in community art programming. Learn about culturally responsive program planning, featuring BIPOC guest artists, funding, exhibits as advocacy, and how to empower children to see themselves as artists.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Misfit Memory Work: Challenging Sexism and Ableism in K-12 Self-Portraiture Lessons
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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This presentation aims to challenge gendered ableist assumptions about female students' bodymind in K-12 self-portraiture lessons. Based on themisfit theory from feminist disability studies, this presentation explores the researcher's memories of being misfitted as a female student with scars and illness and the K-12 self-portraiture lessons that idealize able-bodied femininity.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Nuestras Historias Siguen: Our Stories Continue in Art Through Children's Literature
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Discover the art of culturally respectful appreciation through a hands-on exploration of miniprojects inspired by Latin American artists and authors. Engage in drawing, mixed media, photography, writing, and printmaking to create your own interpretations, guided by principles that honor and celebrate cultural diversity without appropriating it.
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Yvonne Lopez Taylor

Visual Arts Educator, Aldine ISD
Mrs. Yvonne Lopez Taylor is an elementary art teacher and an advocate for art education. As the studio art teacher, she teaches art through literature, math, social studies, and science. She is constantly amazed by the work her students create and how they interpret the world. She... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Decolonizing Ecological Possibilities Through Critical Art-Based Research: A Case of the U.S. Arboretum
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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This presentation discusses decolonizing efforts in critical art-based research to unsettle the dominance of settler-oriented environmental and place-based views and practice as being in relation to the U.S. arboretum in particular. We provide Indigenous-centered, relational, anti-Anthropocene ecological knowledge and practice for justice-oriented environmental sustainability.
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Elementary Division: Conversations With Colleagues
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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What are the hot topics of elementary art education today? How do we handle them? In this session, we will discover and discuss the issues plaguing elementary art teachers across the nation in the form of a game!
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Teaching Difficult Histories Through Art: Understanding Korean Japanese Experiences and Promoting Social Justice
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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This presentation explores using visual arts to teach K-16 students about difficult histories, focusing on the oppression of Korean Japanese by Japanese governments since 1910. Highlighting artifacts from the 1923 Kanto Massacre, it emphasizes art's pedagogical value, respectful cultural representation, and fostering inclusive historical education.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Buzzwords to Action: Making Educational Jargon Meaningful in Arts Education
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Discover how to transform "equity," "inclusivity," and "innovation" from overused buzzwords into impactful, actionable strategies in the classroom. This session offers practical tools to genuinely embed these concepts into curriculum and teaching practices. Ideal for educators seeking to deepen their impact and foster inclusive, innovative learning environments.
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Robyn MacNair

Coord of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual and Performing Arts
Robyn MacNair Robyn MacNair is the arts administrator for Santa Ana Unified School district and has been an arts educator for 24 years. She is an ardent local, state, and national arts education advocate and champion.
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Sofia Cuevas

Teacher, Santa Ana High School
I am a hybrid English-Film teacher that uses academics, arts, and industry access through career technical education to make learning relevant and applicable.
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Equitably Teaching LGBTQ+ Artists in the Classroom
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Have you ever wanted to incorporate LGBTQ+ artists in your classroom, but you weren't sure where to start? In this session, we will look at works by diverse LGBTQ+ artists and discuss how to incorporate them in the classroom. Attendees will leave this session with ready-made resources for K-12 classrooms.
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Exploring Neuroqueering in Art Education: UDL Strategies for Reflexivity
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Explore a neuroqueering art curriculum integrating UDL to foster reflexivity in preservice art teachers to celebrate neurological diversity for creativity. A college-level art project emphasizing diversity, critical reflection, collaboration, and interdisciplinary practices will be introduced with the goal to empower future educators to advocate for neurodiversity and inclusive classrooms.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Unionization as Pedagogy: A Praxis for Solidarity Building in and Beyond Art Museums
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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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.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Customized Arts Learning: A Toolkit
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Customized arts learning (CALAT) is a process for developing authentic arts instructional approaches intended to recognize diverse traditions and experiences of individual students. Learn more about CALAT as a resource for guiding, empowering, and preparing learners to approach cultural arts traditions with understanding and use experiences to deepen personal artistic viewpoints through engagement, exploration, and expression.
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Joyce Huser

Education Program Consultant - Fine Arts, KSDE
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Cody Talarico

Arts Education Specialist, NDE
Cody Talarico, is a musician and supporter of arts education. Cody taught music in the Bellevue (NE) Public Schools and is currently serving Nebraska as the Arts Education Specialist at the Nebraska Department of Education where he leads and supports visual arts, media arts, dance... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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We Want to Thrive: Reconceiving Preservice Art Education in Critical Times
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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What does it mean to thrive as an art educator? As practitioners, we consider how we support, recruit, and retain the next generation. In this session, we offer insight into current experiences and practices in preservice art education to imagine how we all might thrive in this field.
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Leveraging Data and Documentation to Strengthen the Work of Arts Administrators
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Given that quantifying the impact of the arts risks sacrificing our essential value, but arts education data is increasingly valuable in times of crisis and funding cuts, it is beneficial for arts administrators to explore tools for simplifying the process of collecting and using data. This session provides administrators time to refine their toolkits.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Creating the Functional Art Student: Possibilities and Challenges for Preservice Elementary-Level Teachers
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Learn about research on visual arts education experiences of preservice teachers, and how class activities in artmaking at teacher-training institutions could be enhanced to motivate teachers-in-training to become functional art teachers at elementary school level. Research highlights include recommendations for program improvement.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Significant Factors for Evaluating PreK-12 Art Teacher Classroom Effectiveness
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Of concern to supervisors and administrators is the lack of attention given to evaluations and how systems may fail to capture the unique qualities and competencies effective art teachers are expected to exhibit. After a discussion of these evaluations, audience members will discuss art teacher evaluation methods they use in their schools.
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Robert Sabol

Associate Head of the Rueff School of Design, Art, and Performance, Purdue University
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Art in Special Education Awards Ceremony
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
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Join us as we celebrate this year's Art in Special Education Awardees, who include our Larry Marone Grant recipients; NAEA, CEC, VSA Peter J. Geisser Art Educator of the Year Award; and our NAEA, CEC, VSA Beverly Levett Gerber Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
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Middle Level Division Conversations With Colleagues: Exploring Current Topics
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
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A session for all Middle Level Division educators to join together and discuss our unique students. Fellow ML art educators will give information on current topics, such as AI, ED&I, and NJAHS, through short presentations. These presenters will bring their best practices and current information on these topics that can be applied to the participants' classrooms. Other topics and information will be explored in the question-and-answer time. Door prizes and ML swag will be given out during the session.
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
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Conversation With Colleagues: Building Connections Across Regions
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
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Join us for an interactive session to connect with museum education professionals nationwide. Engage in icebreakers and small-group discussions to build relationships and share experiences. Explore common challenges, exchange ideas, and discover involvement opportunities in the NAEA Museum Education Division. Targeted breakout groups for colleagues with similar audience focuses will foster deeper connections. Expand your network, gain new perspectives, and make a greater impact in museum education.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
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Leader 2 Leader Part 2 (L2L 2): All Region Leaders Coming Together Face 2 Face (F2F)
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
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Join us in this exciting opportunity for state and provincial leaders and future leaders to meet together! Leaders from the Eastern, Pacific, Southeastern, and Western Regions will come together to discuss moving forward with action plans. State and provincial leaders will be grouped by action plan goals aligned with the NAEA pillars. Additionally, we will be looking forward toward strategic planning at the state and provincial level. We will be using this work to guide upcoming L2Ls throughout the year.
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Kristi Oliver

Professional Development Manager, Davis Publications
Kristi Oliver is currently the Professional Development Manager for Davis Publications, a company committed to helping art educators since 1901. She earned a PhD in Educational Studies from Lesley University where her research explored the perspectives of high school photography teachers... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
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ED&I Commission Business Meeting
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
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Every year, the ED&I Commission holds a business meeting at the NAEA Convention. These meetings are intended to share and reflect on the events of the conference and begin planning for the next year of Commission work. Business meetings provide an opportunity for all voices to be heard.
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Anna Pilhoefer

Director, Equity and Multilingual Learner Services, Santa Barbara Unified
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
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Student-Designed Textiles Using Infusible Ink
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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This hands-on workshop is packed with ways to incorporate textile design into your K-12 student-centered curriculum. Play with infusible ink through drawing and collage and explore multiple ways to design and print a piece of cloth. Bring an article of clothing to upcycle or embellish the materials we provide.
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Maggie Pasquan

K-12 Art Director for Westwood Public Schools, Town of Westwood
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Lines: Looking, Learning, Living: Weaving Neuroscience With Art, Architecture, and Design in K-16
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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School Zone Institute and NEXT.cc share activities tested in different cultures to reach imaginations across all U.S. states and in more than 150 countries with design opportunities from wherever users are. Sharing ideas and situations cultivates empathy and understanding of people from around the world with challenges of different biomes.
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Linda Keane

Professor of Architecture & Environmental Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Linda Keane, FAIA, NOMA, is an architect and design educator who graduated Summa Cum Laude from Ball State University College of Architecture and Planning receiving the ACSA/AIA School Medal,  She served a Fulbright in Turkey before becoming the first female tenure track professor... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Art Teacher Insights: Naming and Sharing Your Effective Instructional Practices
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Have you struggled to explain your differentiation or assessment strategies to a colleague or administrator? Creative instruction often comes naturally as artists, making it challenging to name our teacher moves. Come ready to explore, collaborate, reflect, and discuss naming the great art instruction already happening in your classroom!
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Amber Arnold

Fine Arts Instructional Coach, Gwinnett County Public Schools
I'm a former Visual Arts educator & now "hybrid educator" working with K-12 Fine Arts educators.  I'm passionate about life-long learning through collaboration and building community.
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Contemporary Paper Weaving: Practical, Purposeful, and Political
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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This workshop begins by exploring the work of political activist, artist, and Cherokee member Shan Goshorn, whose basketry educated viewers about the history and future of Native people. Participants will make connections to decolonizing their curriculum and learn a 2-2 twill pattern to create their own paper weaving.
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Coffee Talk: Drawing on Cups in Consideration of Drawing's Creative, Cognitive, and Communicative Qualities
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Apply drawing skills to a cup that becomes a 2025 NAEA Lifelong Learning memento of intergenerational conversation, inspired by a presentation from the author of the book, The Value of Drawing Instruction in the Visual Arts and Across Curricula: Historical and Philosophical Arguments for Drawing in the Digital Age.
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Lightscapes: Illuminating Art With LEDs
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Add an entirely new dimension to artwork by adding real LED lights! We will transform photographs or drawings into glowing masterpieces using semitransparent materials and strategically placed LEDs to make stunning visual effects. Delve into the intersection of art and technology as we discuss coding and animating the resulting artwork!
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Making Brush Magic
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Engage in a hands-on collaborative pass-and-paint activity that builds relationships. Learn painting techniques with Royal and Langnickel brushes. Participants will learn brush skills and share their own personal painting styles. This project is a great icebreaker to start off the year and create social engagement in the classroom.
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Scrappy Creatures
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Create a Scrappy Creature using wire hangers, plastic bags, cloth, and lots of ephemera. It is derived from the book One Plastic Bag, which is a powerful showcase of the impact one person's idea can have toward positive change. Start off with a mystery idea and leave with a Scrappy Creature.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Mock Interviews and Resume Review
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Are you preparing to interview this year? Join the Preservice and Supervision/Administration Divisions in rounds of mock interviews and receive feedback for developing your resume to ensure you get the gig! Come prepared as if this was a real interview: dressed to impress, resumes printed, and portfolio included. Submit your resumes by March 10, 2025, at https://forms.gle/5u3tutZ3sgVs94iVA
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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A Common Link
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Connect with a common art link. Workshop participants will create artworks that function independently and collaboratively. Generative artmaking, problem solving, and fluency are among the tenets we'll explore during the workshop. Participants will see how work can express individuality and collaborative group identity. This workshop supports personal and student instructional artmaking.
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Alternative Photo Process: Cyanotypes
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Participants in this workshop will learn about the cyanotype process, from mixing solutions to developing finished prints. All materials, including cyanotype papers, negatives, and objects for photograms and pictures will be provided. Cyanotypes provide a way to engage students in photographic processes without a darkroom, using only sunlight and water!
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Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Transformative Trauma-Informed Artmaking: Supporting All Students, Especially At-Promise Youth
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Discover how trauma-informed artmaking transforms classrooms and supports at-promise youth. Learn practical strategies to nurture social-emotional learning and design standards-aligned art lessons to create a safe, creative environment. Engage in hands-on activities and explore the powerful impact of trauma-informed art for all students. Join us for an inspiring session!
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Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Regenerative Eco-Art Practices: Heeding Indigenous Understanding of Place and Practicing the Honorable Harvest
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Centering place, identity, and environment can grow your understanding of Indigenous regenerative ecological knowledge and the Honorable Harvest. The presenter will share land-based experiences and eco-collaborations with Indigenous artists and communities to guide participants in an artmaking activity that includes creating an eco-printed nature journal using organic materials.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Professional Materials Committee Meeting
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
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The Professional Materials Committee will discuss upcoming proposals, procedures, and processes associated with the National Art Education Association's official published materials.
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
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Of Minds and Machines: A Critical Curriculum for AI in Art
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Learn more about an introductory high school curriculum unit that critically examines AI in artmaking. Guided by essential questions and responsive projects, students investigate AI's cultural, ethical, and creative impacts. Join this session to hear more about this unit and leave with ready-to-use unit resources for your classroom!
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Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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VR Art and Creation: New Media Arts and Applications for Art Education
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Immersive virtual reality (VR) technologies have opened incredible opportunities for contemporary art education. This research project examines the affordances and applications of VR for art education. Students' perceptions of VR art, their VR art creation, and lesson plans, as well as effective art practices, are presented and discussed.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Curating Theme-Based Asian Art VR Exhibits as Constructivist Art History Pedagogy
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Explore an Asian art virtual reality curatorial project that includes a hermeneutic method for interpreting art, project logistics, conceptual and technical curatorial steps, and examples of student curated thematic Asian art exhibits. Attendees will learn lesson ideas and tips to enhance student engagement and understanding of Asian art.
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Lanterns and Language: A Cross-Disciplinary Celebration of Lunar New Year
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Explore hands-on lantern-making techniques and strategies for integrating culture, language, and art education. Gain practical ideas for planning a spectacular Lunar New Year festival to enhance students' cultural understanding and collaboration skills, and leave with a goodie bag of planning materials, sample supplies, and mini-lanterns.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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We Will Draw With Anyone About Anything Speed Date
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Bring your sketchbook and drawing tools and participate in our interactive session: a speed date where we'll share a series of quick opportunities to learn and meet someone new! We will begin by discussing an arts-based research project and work it into a collaborative experience for all attendees.
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David Modler

Artist/Researcher/Educator and Associate Professor of Art Shepherd University, Journal Fodder Junkies
David R. Modler is an artist/educator born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Education in Art Education from Towson State University, and taught elementary art for fifteen years. David has since earned a Master of Fine Arts in Drawing... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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2025 NAEA Coalition of Feminisms in Art Education Regional Artist Talk
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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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.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Centering Black Perspectives in Preservice Art Education
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Discover an MA research project that documented the lived experiences of Black art educators in predominantly White preservice programs, using arts-based research methods. The presenter will share project results, recommendations, and resources for supporting Black preservice art educators and best practices in art education programs.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Designing for Accessibility and Inclusion
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Focused on creating accessible and inclusive design, this session will explore the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, and the Universal Principles of Design. You will learn how to create accessible graphics, videos, products, and visual experiences as we look at relevant resources, tools, and examples of accessible design in multiple industries.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Considering the Body in Early Childhood Art Education
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Three early childhood art education researchers consider how art and the body coalesce to build new understandings, precipitate new practices, and contest everyday injustices. Through arts-based methodologies, we consider how politics, practices, and ethics are made visible, enacted on, or performed through the body.
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Art Practices for Art Educators' Self-Care, Well-Being, and Beyond
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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In this session, we emphasize the significance of attending to the emotional needs of art educators as a vital aspect of their well-being and self-care. We conduct an interactive discussion on artistic processes for self-discovery that can be adapted to a variety of educational environments to sustain inclusive relationships among art educators, students, and community members.
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Yichien Cooper

Assistant Professor, Wsu Tri-cities
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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ED&I Commission Topics
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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The NAEA ED&I Commission will bring current topics of interest for discussion and dialogue with NAEA members. This session will be collaborative and discussion based, and also share some of the recent work and initiatives the Commission has brought forward.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Making Room for Chance: Collaboration and Interdisciplinary Exchange in Arts Pedagogy
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Collaborative interdisciplinary curricula provide opportunities to balance breadth and depth across diverse student populations and learning styles but can be challenging to actualize. This presentation considers historical and theoretical models like world heritage shadowplay traditions, Surrealist and Fluxus games, and ambulatory arts in relation to practical executions in the classroom.
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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1:00pm EDT

Developing a Problem of Practice Statement for the EdD in Art Education
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Unlock the power of practitioner research and kick-start your doctoral journey! Enhance your skills by crafting and workshopping your problem of practice statement. Also learn about the CPED framework, adopted by the EdD in Art Education program at Florida State University, and its focus on equity, ethics, and social justice.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Make Art the Law In Your State!
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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If you have ever wondered what you can do to help ensure comprehensive, sequential, and equitable K–12 access to art education in your state, this session is for you! We will review Washington State's law, and you'll leave an action plan for legislative advocacy. Remember: The answer is YOU!
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Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Studio 55 Lifelong Learning in Art Museums Through Studio Programming
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Welcome to Studio 55: art and community for adults over 55. We'll explore their unique needs and share strategies to create an engaging, supportive learning environment. This session will share the tools and knowledge to build programs that inspire creativity and foster a love for art in older adults.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Crankie Contraptions: Activating SEL With Storytelling Machines
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Build a Crankie Contraption, an illustrated, scrolling "screen machine" to confidently integrate playful engineering strategies that measurably improve learners' social and emotional development. Participants receive research-backed assessment tools and a generous supply of Crankie materials for further classroom exploration. This is a visual arts workshop for preK-5 educators.
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Unleashing Student Potential: Digital Portfolios
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Discover the transformative power of digital portfolios! Learn how digital portfolios empower students, enhance reflection, and showcase growth with strategies, tools, and multimedia integration for engaging self-assessment and goal setting. Walk away ready to implement digital portfolios and witness the increased student agency and authentic assessment they offer.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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1:00pm EDT

Art Criticism: Fostering Creativity and Understanding in the Middle School Art Room
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Join this interactive session to discover how art criticism ignites creativity and deepens worldly understanding in middle school students. Following a concise overview, participants will explore inventive, critical strategies and be ready to seamlessly infuse art criticism into their lessons, fostering students' critical thinking, creativity, and cultural awareness.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Inquiring Minds Want to Know!
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Interactive presentation! Learn different strategies for using the inquiry method in your classroom. Engaging with art through inquiry results in increased learning, student ownership of learning, identifying personal responses to art, making personal connections to art, and retention of learning. Come learn best practices on implementing inquiry in your classroom.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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1:00pm EDT

Navigate the Arts-Based Research Process With an App Inspired by a Capstone Master's Course
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Explore an app inspired by the 6-year evolution of a master's-level capstone arts-based research course. Designed to assist students in exploring the complex parameters associated with conducting arts-based research, the app includes positionality, exposure to vocabulary and diverse methodologies, methods, analytical strategies, and avenues to meaning-making.
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Leveraging Art Honor Societies to Solidify an Artist's Identity and Capacity for Growth
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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National Art Honor Societies afford purposeful interventions, both in and out of school to broaden curriculum exposure and solidify an artist's identity and self-directedness. In this presentation, teachers will review sociocultural trends and examine factors impacting artistic achievement to reflect on current programming and develop practical approaches framed by talent development.
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Cappie Dobyns

Art & TAG Teacher, Ames Community School District
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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CSTAE Executive Board Business Meeting
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 2:20pm EDT
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Annual executive board meeting to discuss current CSTAE activities and future initiatives. All are welcome.
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 2:20pm EDT
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1:00pm EDT

USSEA Business Meeting
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
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In this meeting, the Executive Committee and Board will discuss policies and procedures for USSEA operations and share information from the Chairs of each office. We will review the year's successes and plan future goals, including pending board member changes. This is a closed business meeting. Those interested in learning more about USSEA, as well as learning about business meeting outcomes, are encouraged to attend the USSEA Engagement and Membership Event.
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Borim Song

East Carolina university, College of Fine Arts and Communication, School of Art and Design
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
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2:00pm EDT

Art & Media Technology Interest Group Business Meeting and Awards
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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The Art & Media Technology Interest Group will have their annual in-person meeting. During this meeting, we will review the group goals and discuss the group's future needs. Members will have an opportunity to share out and mingle with other members. We will also showcase the award winners with a short presentation.
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Kerry Parrish

Art Educator and Instructional Technology Coach, D155
Kerry Parrish has been teaching Visual Arts for 25 years and has been an Instructional Technology Coach for 6 years. She has presented at ISTE, ISTE Creative Constructor Lab, CUElive, IDEA/TCEA, ITC, LTCIlliois, NAEA, and IAEA. As an art teacher, she frequently looks art edtech through... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Forging Fabrication to Fabulous with Lasers in the Art Classroom
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Explore the transformative role of lasers in art education and how tools like Glowforge and XTool empower students to fabricate ideas into reality. From intricate product designs to museum worthy works of art, this session will tour the tools to foster critical thinking and inspire creativity in any classroom.
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Janine Campbell

Teacher, Byron Center Public Schools
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Catie Nasser

Elementary Art Educator, Middleton Public Schools
Catie Nasser has been working with children in the arts as an educator and art therapist for over 15 years. She recently presented on developing an arts based STEAM curriculum at MassCue’s fall conference and National Art Education Association’s annual conference. This summer... Read More →
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Sherri Kushner

Adobe Education Leader, Chute Middle School
Sherri has taught visual and media arts at the middle school level for 18 years. She currently teaches Media Arts at Chute Middle School in Evanston, IL. She is most passionate about using issue-based photography to empower student voices, fostering dialogue that raises awareness... Read More →
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Tim Needles

Technology Integration Specialist & Art/Media Teacher, Smithtown CSD
Tim Needles is an artist, educator and author of STEAM Power. He has been teaching art/media at Smithtown School District for over 20 years and his work has been featured on NPR, in the New York Times, Columbus Museum of Art, Norman Rockwell Museum, Alexandria Museum of Art, Katonah... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Differentiating Creativity for Exceptional Learners
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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It is daunting to design accommodations and construct universally accessible creative learning opportunities to meet all students' needs. This interactive investigation of differentiating instruction will present three students that have intellectual disability, emotional disturbance, and learning disability. Practice creating art-based accommodations and leave with a bank of cocreated resources.
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Guy Trainin

Professor of Education, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Dr. Guy Trainin is a Professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a leads the UNL Regional Partnership with code.org. With a Ph.D. in Education from the University of California, Riverside, he has an extensive background... Read More →
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Kimberley D’Adamo

Lecturer, University of Nebraska Lincoln
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Youth Artists Advocate for Positive Social Change
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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How can educators foster a critical lens and address current events in the art studio? How can youth use art to advocate for their communities? Learn how BIPOC working-class students from the east side of Austin, TX, critically engage with contemporary global crises and express their solution-oriented visions through screen printing and mixed-media collage.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Embracing Choice Through Routines and Enhancing Engagement
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Become empowered to implement choice art by learning how to integrate structured routines for boosting engagement, respect, and classroom management. You will learn strategies for skill-building sessions, effective management, and fostering creativity as we discuss adaptable techniques, routines, and resources to support individualized learning and enhance students' artistic growth and expression.
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Aesthetic Education Coexistence - Special Action on Activating Local Cultural Genes of "Mountains, Seas, and Rivers"
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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By using "mountains, seas, and rivers" as clues and context, learn to explore local cultural resources containing various ecological sources, and how this can help create aesthetic education achievements by deeply exploring regional characteristics, cultural connotations, and the beauty of mountains to unleash artistic expression.
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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2:00pm EDT

Community Arts Caucus Award Ceremony, Roundtable, and Community-Led Conversations
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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This award ceremony will celebrate our Annual Travel Award winner and our new award to a practitioner or group working in the region of the current National Convention. This award ceremony will also include space for an open forum of short shareable stories from the field. We hope for a space to celebrate and share about the subtleties of our practices that emerge from and through paying attention to what is close to us that form out of the specific interactions and traces that form and inform us.
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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No Rubrics: Anti-Ableist Art Assessment
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Drawing on experience as a student, teacher, and teacher educator, as well as on the work of many artists and disabled activists, the presenter of this session argues for the need to reconsider approaches to art assessment to recognize and foster the assets of disabled students.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Ecology and Environment Interest Group Business Meeting
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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All NAEA members are invited to the Ecology and Environment Interest Group (EEIG) Business Meeting. As we embark on our 4th year, we will discuss what we have accomplished and our goals for the future. Please bring ideas about how we might proceed in the coming year, as climate/environment is a critical issue in our lives.
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Allison Rowe

Clinical Assistant Professor, Art Education, University of Iowa
Dr. Allison Rowe is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and researcher. She is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor and Area Coordinator for the Art Education Program at the University of Iowa. Allison loves working with teachers to figure out new ways to incorporate art into... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Uncommon Pedagogy: Nurturing Wonder and Building Community With Young Learners in Urban Environments
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Discover how interdisciplinary outdoor learning through art can nurture children's knowledge of environments, sustainability, and community care. This course revision incorporates art and environmental education into elementary classrooms to promote civic engagement and nurture wonder in young children living in urban environments.
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Playful Art Room: Supporting Play Through Art Activities and Projects
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Create a fun art room atmosphere and encourage creativity through play! This session focuses on play-based art activities and projects that will support young artists' social, emotional, and artistic development! We will discuss the importance of play and create a project to inspire your students to explore, imagine, and create!
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Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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smART Accessibility Supports for Exceptional Students
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Explore high-impact materials and tools, learn to create versatile supports, and discover assistive technologies and Universal Design principles that promote independence and accessibility. Investigate simple strategies that support diverse learners effectively, including those with physical accessibility, complex communication, and sensory needs. Engagement challenges, supports for English learners, and inclusivity considerations will be discussed.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Arm in Arm: Supervision and Administration and Higher Education United in Addressing Real-World Challenges for Art Programs
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Join the Supervision/Administration and Higher Education Divisions as we discuss issues impacting our field and solutions that can be achieved more quickly and meaningfully if we tackle them together. Attendees will gain tangible ideas they can take back to their communities to help address real concerns.
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Yichien Cooper

Assistant Professor, Wsu Tri-cities
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Channeling Reflexive and Inclusive Student-Centered Approaches in Postsecondary Visual Arts Classrooms
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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This interactive workshop introduces participating higher education arts educators to a new framework cocreated with students to incorporate more inclusive educational practices in their classrooms. Participants will engage in reflexive activities that elevate student voice through student-centered pedagogy in the organization and revision of their teaching materials and practices.
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Fellows Forum: Perspectives of New Materialism and Art Education
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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This Fellows Forum is a panel discussion among three NAEA Distinguished Fellows about different perspectives of new materialism(s) and its core ideas as they relate to research, theory, and teaching practices in art education. The session will end with an open discussion with the audience.
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Beyond the Margins: Inclusion of Self-Taught and Outsider Artists in Art Education Histories
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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This presentation addresses and questions the limited inclusion and trajectory of self-taught and outsider artists and artworks as content within art education's 20th- and 21st-century histories. We highlight notable scholars advocating for inclusion overtime. Also, a documentative literature review recognizes rare, existent examples and calls for greater inclusion of this marginalized yet significant content.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Trans Histories of Art Education
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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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.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Everyday-Cornerstones: Connectivity and Meaning-Making Experiences Through Photography
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Everyday-Cornerstones was inspired by a grassroots initiative that uses photography to combat stereotypical perspectives that alter our understanding of people and the world. The protocol exposes students to photojournalist techniques to make meaning and share narratives and counternarratives of their lived histories through social media and art exhibitions.
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Book Bans in Critical Times: Art Projects on Censorship in Middle School and Higher Education
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Co-presented by a middle school art teacher, school librarian, and researcher in higher education, this session will introduce book bans, banned graphic novels, censorship in art education, and art projects that revolve around the theme of book bans and censorship.
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Sensory-Friendly, Community-Driven: A Consortium Model for Inclusive Programming
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Are you creating sensory-friendly programming? Join our practical session! We'll share steps and benefits learned while we formed a consortium for neurodiverse events. It's a model that can be adapted to reflect diverse cultural centers. Leave empowered to seek institutions in your city that share your mission for inclusive, accessible spaces. 
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Anna Smith

Museum Educator, Nasher Sculpture Garden
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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NAHS and NJAHS Sponsor Meetup and Sharing Session
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Join us for a dynamic meeting for National Art Honor Society (NAHS) and National Junior Art Honor Society (NJAHS) sponsors. Connect with fellow sponsors, share best practices, and exchange innovative ideas. Whether you're experienced or new, gain valuable insights to enhance your chapter's success and student engagement. This open forum encourages interactive discussion and idea sharing. Bring your questions, success stories, and resources.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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University Art Ed Club Programming Brings Vibrancy, Diversity, and Community to the Art Education Program
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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A vibrant art education club can be key to students' success transitioning to a university program and to the health and sustainability of visual arts education programs, particularly in post-COVID environments. Involving students across campus and majors insures a diverse, inclusive club that enhances community connections and arts advocacy.
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Cultivating Identity Awareness Through Critical Reflection: Research and Strategies
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Like our students approach their learning, as educators we all approach our teaching with specific cultural and social identities. This session looks at four research studies that identify approaches to critical self-reflection. These will strengthen our capacity to teach across difference, encourage democratic teaching, and imagine creative ways of building community.
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Exploring Self-Care Among Arts Teachers in an Age of Burnout and Anxiety
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Teacher burnout is a cultural crisis. Self-care initiatives (touted as a solution) can be perceived by teachers as superficial... or worse, as more work. We surveyed and spoke with K-12 art educators to better define "self-care" and to critically examine better strategies to systematically support their well-being.
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Unified by Art: Diverse Roles in Promoting Art Education Across Settings
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Discover innovative art education practices integrating STEAM, cross-curricular programs, and community engagement strategies by exploring effective curriculum development and sustainable program management. You will gain practical insights into fostering cultural sensitivity and inclusivity in education. Ideal for educators seeking impactful teaching approaches aligned with contemporary educational trends.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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CFAE Business Meeting I: Feminist(s) Histories: Hindsight, Foresight, and Insight
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 3:20pm EDT
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This business meeting, open to all, providers a platform for existing and potential members to consider ways CFAE supports inclusive feminisms. Our annual panel discussion series focuses on the histories of CFAE leaders and members (past, present, future) in conversation with the people who mentored or inspired them, as well as individuals they have mentored or hope to mentor in the future. This year we will pay tribute to the legacy of CFAE members and leaders who have passed.
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 3:20pm EDT
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Visual Arts Research Author Roundtable: Radical Publications in Art and Design Education
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 3:20pm EDT
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This lecture distinguishes authors and mentors who have made outstanding contributions to the VAR special issue "Radical Publications in Art + Design Education." This session includes author presentations and dialogue with authors, editors, and mentors about the forthcoming special issue (summer 2025).
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 3:20pm EDT
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Canadian Society for Education Through Art (CSEA) Business Meeting
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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This business meeting will serve as an opportunity for current members of the Canadian Society for Education Through Art (CSEA), an NAEA Allied Group, as well as interested guests, to gather to discuss CSEA organization initiatives currently underway and to develop plans for the coming year. This meeting is open to anyone interested in attending. All are welcome!
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Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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SAL Class of 24: Group A
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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USSEA Engagement & Membership Event
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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This meeting is for USSEA members and prospective members to discuss interests, propose initiatives, and identify and explore beneficial opportunities such as the Child Art Exchange; diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility resources; scholarship; mentorship; and general membership issues or questions.
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Jenny Evans

Asst Professor Art Education, Valdosta State University
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Reimagine and Restore Arts Positive Effects on Health and Well-Being From Toxic and Traumatic Stress
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Learn how creative arts practices can help mitigate toxic and traumatic stress in the learning environment. Reimagine meaningful connections for our students and ourselves through the arts, and gain restorative practices and resources that the arts provide for boosting students' hope, sense of well-being, and self- confidence.
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Inclusive Pedagogy in the "Third Space": Decolonization and Transformation in Art Education
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Explore decolonization and transformation in art education through the representation of body and identity in visual culture with non-Western-style strategies that create a "third space." Participants will acquire practical tools for implementing inclusive pedagogy practices in art education classrooms.
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Committee of Multiethnic Concerns Business Meeting & Awards Ceremony
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Join COMC officers in expanding the plan of action for the upcoming year and engage in interactive dialogue and making with COMC members for our business meeting and awards session! This session will be a chance to connect and collaborate with fellow members as well as honor our COMC awardees for their contributions to the field!
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Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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CAN Open Space
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Are you in a CAN PLC this school year? Join us for open conversations! You pick the topic: action research, curriculum development, your new favorite art material to use, etc. Feel free to switch to different small groups as you choose. Ask questions, offer feedback, and get to know the CAN NAEA team better through energizer activities. We can't wait to see you in person! Open to only current CAN Teacher Leaders and PLC Participants.
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Design Interest Group's Annual Gathering: Business, Awards, and Networking
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Whether you're a current DIG member or are interested in design education, all are welcome to NAEA's Design Interest Group's annual gathering. During this gathering we will give announcements, talk about our goals, have a work session on the vision, present the annual award, and host a networking social hour.
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Stories of Care: Navigating Disability and Differences Through Creative Practices
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Each from diverse cultural backgrounds, hear three female BIPOC art educators share their personal experiences on caring pedagogies to generate conversation on caring for marginalized and (dis)abled bodies. As artmakers, researchers, and educators, the speakers will examine, deconstruct, and reflect on their experiences in classroom and community settings and through artmaking.
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Distinguished Fellows Business Meeting
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Annual business meeting of the Distinguished Fellows.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Early Childhood Art Educator Student Panel
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Learn from university students engaged in issues and ideas involving early childhood art education as they share their work in a deep-dive research circle. Attendees will be invigorated by voices and ideas that are new to the field as the panelists share their work with art education's youngest members.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Decolonizing Art Educational Research and Practice to Build Non-Indigenous Allyship
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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This presentation invites art researchers and educators to a discussion on critical Indigenous theories and settler colonial critiques to reconsider and advance art educational research and practice providing an understanding of self-reflexivity and refusal to settler colonial logics as non-Indigenous allies for social equity.
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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NAEA Affinity Group: Multiracial
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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This space will be specifically for those who personally identify as mixed race, multiracial, biracial, transracial adoptees, and/or third culture kids of the Global Majority. If you are not a part of that group, please locate a different space that accommodates your identity(ies). Participants will network and build relationships with each other and plan future engagements.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Research Commission: BIPOC Perspectives: The Intersections of Creative Practice and Curriculum
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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This session, sponsored by the Research Commission, centers community building as a curatorial practice crossing into active and collaborative critical, contemplative, and reflective work to rewrite our challenged and empowered stories.
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Critical Pedagogies in Online Spaces
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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There is no single approach to online teaching. Three online educators discuss research informing course design, including disability justice, critical access, and digital equity; asset-based community development and transformational community; and gamification, and offer practical strategies for other educators to reconsider the relationship between pedagogy, research, and e-learning.
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Learning Together: The Reggio Emilia, Italy Municipal Schools as a Site for Art Education Research
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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How can the Reggio Emilia approach influence U.S. preservice art education? A community of practice shares action research projects, including a professor-and-student study week at the Reggio Emilia, Italy, municipal preschools. Expressive rights, collaborative inquiry, and art materials as language provide valuable insights for all art education contexts.
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Teaching and Learning on the Edge: Art Education in Rural and Remote Settings
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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What are the problems and challenges of being geographically remote from culturally rich centers when it comes to art education? This session will highlight various topics related to art teaching and learning in rural and remote areas of the Mountain West. All experience levels are welcome to join us for meaningful discussions!
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Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Wonder-Full Art Education: Amplifying Awe Through Community-Based and Collaborative Artmaking
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Wonder-full education surfaces less widely studied emotions, such as awe and wonder, as pathways to learning and well-being. We examine the implications for art education and ask: How does collective artmaking activate transformative and connective inquiry through awe? How can community-based art education infuse our lives and teaching with wonder?
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Big Gay Church XV: The Final Act
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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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.
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Empowering the People: The Role of Museums in Shaping a Democratic Public Sphere
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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What classifies "democratic practices" within 21st-century museums? This session presents theories, case studies, and mapping strategies to gain an understanding of how to shape ethical, egalitarian programming that welcomes open conversations and active community histories into museum settings, as well as examine how power is distributed within cultural community ecosystems.
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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All Division Awards Ceremony
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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We'll be honoring this year's award winners from all NAEA Regions and Divisions. A special presentation will highlight the achievements and accomplishments of each recipient.
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Curiosity Lab
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Join your Elementary and Middle Level Research Commissioners as we spin the wheel of possibilities! This interactive, game-show-inspired session strives to help practitioners reframe creative practice to discover the underlying thread of research that drives it. Expect fun, relevant, and lively discussions about intertwining research and creative work!
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Reengaging the Disengaged Art Classroom Learner
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Lack of student engagement is a challenge for most educators. Among the many reasons for lack of motivation includes how students are taught. This session addresses the causes and obstacles impacting students in the art classroom and effective strategies that can help them reengage with learning.
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Tracey Hunter-Doniger

The College of Charleston
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Borim Song

East Carolina university, College of Fine Arts and Communication, School of Art and Design
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Reimagining Curriculum Design by Leveraging Standards and Metaphor: Action Research in Motion
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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What does action research look like when an entire district redesigns their curriculum? A metaphorical hamburger. Truly, the metaphor of a hamburger is applicable for anyone trying to wrap their head around how to lean into standards-referenced outcomes, Universal Design, and student-centered outcomes. We have something for everyone, even vegans.
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Want to Write a Book? Learn Expert Guidance to Get Your Book Published
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Gain expert advice on how to become a published book author and editor. This presentation clarifies all aspects of publishing, including how to get started, how to develop a successful book proposal, and how to write efficiently, all while staying motivated. Gain insights on the ins and outs of the editorial and review processes, book royalties, and marketing.
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Art as Social Practice: Research Into Programs and Curricular Practices
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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This research presentation explores art as social practice in higher education, artist residencies, and arts institutions to examine effective programming and curricular strategies, emphasizing art education's important role in developing and applying socially engaged curricula and pedagogy in social practice art.
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Graduate Research Session Marilyn Zurmuehlen Working Papers Session at NAEA
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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This annual session features the latest scholarly and creative research by doctoral students in of art education who are currently pursuing doctoral degrees at academic institutions in the United States and Canada.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Not Burned Out, Just Burning the Candle at Both Ends: Challenging Simplified Teacher Retention Narratives
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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This session invites dialogue moving beyond identified teacher retention and recruitment issues to challenge oversimplified narratives that tax equity, work conditions, mental health, and value for art. We will explore joy and mental wellness as resistance, building networks to navigate unsupportive institutions, and find partners and resources through community collaborations.
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Cappie Dobyns

Art & TAG Teacher, Ames Community School District
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Intro to Creative Coding: Be Your Own Video DJ
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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In this workshop, absolute beginners will be introduced to coding for artists through the programming language p5.js. Participants will use code to create interactive, dynamic artwork in a safe, supportive environment facilitated by a passionate creative code educator and video DJ. No experience necessary!
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Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Dye-namic Batiks: Revitalizing Craft in Art Education
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Discover the vibrant world of modern batik! This workshop honors traditional Indonesian techniques and artists, addresses factors leading to the neglect of fiber arts in education, and empowers you to integrate fibers into your curriculum. Leave with your own batik, new skills, and lesson ideas!
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Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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The Mindful Studio: Exploring Creativity and Mindfulness in the Art Classroom
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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The mindful studio blends mindfulness and art to cultivate present moment awareness of the breath, the body, thoughts, emotions, and creative impulse. In this session we will discuss the value of silence, reflection, focus, and awareness through expressive arts practices that support mindfulness and creative expression.
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Kristi Oliver

Professional Development Manager, Davis Publications
Kristi Oliver is currently the Professional Development Manager for Davis Publications, a company committed to helping art educators since 1901. She earned a PhD in Educational Studies from Lesley University where her research explored the perspectives of high school photography teachers... Read More →
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Jane Dalton

Associate Professor of Art Education, University of North Carolina Charlotte
Instagram:@contemplativeartistJane E. Dalton is an Associate Professor of Art Education at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. She earned her Ph.D. in Expressive Arts in Education, and an M.F.A in Textile Design and Weaving. Jane is also a Registered Expressive Arts Consultant... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Natural Disasters, Material Vulnerability, and the Creative Process
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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In 2023, the presenter's home was destroyed by a tornado. Climate change is increasing the rate of natural disasters on the global level. All humans are vulnerable to such catastrophes. Attendees will discuss, experiment, and create mixed-media artworks that explore and grapple with this difficult topic.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Marvin Finn: Bird Sculptures
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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K-12 teachers will learn how to create an abstract bird sculpture in the style of Marvin Finn, Louisville's beloved urban folk artist, using mixed media and recyclable materials. His large-scale public art installation is a tourist attraction and focal point of Louisville Waterfront Park.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Protest Postcards!
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Make your voice heard by creating advocacy works of art! In this session, participants will create 10 works of art on prestamped, blank postcards. A rich assortment of collage materials will be provided, as well as resources for sending these cards to your representatives at state and national levels.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Start With Art: STEAM Learning With Paper Circuits
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Learn to build electronic circuits on paper with easy-to-use LED stickers, conductive tape, and craft materials. Explore circuit design intuitively, creating interactive sensors and switches for artistic projects. Discover free educator resources, curriculum, and digital design tools. Experience a variety of learning activities and customize the curriculum for your students.
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Brush Up on Brush-Lettering Techniques
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Learn the basics of brush lettering using ordinary broad-tipped markers. Attendees will practice warm-up exercises and lettering drills, and then combine them to create beautiful brush letters. This workshop is for educators seeking to increase their own artistic skills as well as those who teach upper elementary through high school..
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Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Building Classroom Community Through Collaborative SEL-Infused Artmaking
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Social-emotional learning is not just about empathy! It is a group of actions to help everyone feel like they belong. Come to this workshop as we demonstrate some community-building techniques through several projects and actions you can use right away in your classroom.
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Amber Arnold

Fine Arts Instructional Coach, Gwinnett County Public Schools
I'm a former Visual Arts educator & now "hybrid educator" working with K-12 Fine Arts educators.  I'm passionate about life-long learning through collaboration and building community.
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Eliciting Empathy and Understanding Through Visual Literacy Across the Curriulum
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Explore how Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother can be used to teach visual literacy, fostering empathy and understanding in students. Learn practical, hands-on strategies for integrating this iconic photograph into various subjects, enhancing critical thinking and emotional engagement across the curriculum. Ideal for middle school educators.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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"Mounds" of Personal Narratives
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Participants will explore personal narratives while creating their own "mounds" that are inspired by the work of artist Trenton Doyle Hancock. The session will encourage self-reflection techniques and allow the participants to create a piece of two-dimensional art that is a product of this personal journey.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Nature Maker's Workshop: Creating Art Materials With Materials Found in Nature
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Are you wondering how to bring nature into your classroom studio? This session will provide participants with a detailed experience in creating art materials from nature and environmental application through artmaking.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Wrecking and Rebuilding: A Weekly Approach to Encouraging and Developing Creative Problem-Solving Skills
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Examine a semester-long project taught in an introductory high school course aimed toward developing creative problem-solving skills through engaging, investigative visual journal prompts. Participants will create a stab-bound book, use supplies to "wreck" their book, and explore materials and prompts to "rebuild" pages into works of art.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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SAL Class of 24: Group B
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Thursday March 20, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Digital to Physical
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Learn how to incorporate laser cutters and 3D printers to prototype and produce decorative, functional objects as part of engaging experiments in visual and media arts classrooms. Examples are from elementary and middle levels. Leave with ideas for design challenges, tool management, after-school possibilities, and funding sources.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Embracing Culture and Creativity: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Higher Education and K-12 Art Classrooms
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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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.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Using Art Therapy Approaches and Techniques in College Art Classrooms for Asian International Students
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Explore the experiences of Asian international students' within U.S. institutions and suggests art therapy approaches and techniques for supporting these students in college art classrooms. Attendees are encouraged to think about integrating therapeutic perspectives into their teaching practices to foster an inclusive and supportive learning environment for all students.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Inclusive Education: Chumash Art, Disability, and Bilingualism Reconsidered
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Explore the intersection of societal perceptions of disability and bilingualism with Chumash Tribe art and teaching through archival research and reflections to foster a deeper understanding of disabilities and differences through the lens of critical disability theory.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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A Maker Studio Transformation: Exploring Constraint Versus Choice
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Explore the process and adventure of transforming a well-established traditional independent art studio for youth and adults into a vibrant maker studio. Key elements and benefits of a maker studio model will be shared along with suggestions on how to incorporate the model into classroom, museum, and community art environments.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Murals as Classroom Pedagogy
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Learn how community-based art, in the form of murals can teach students leadership, art and math skills, language culture, appreciation for community artists, as well as art's role in the developing community.
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Building an Inclusive Community in the Art Room
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Inclusive classrooms require more than adaptations and modifications to curriculum design. This presentation discusses how social relationships and environments contribute to inclusive art classrooms. Participants will discover how inclusive communities can be created and sustained in classrooms using existing practices within a community arts center for disabled individuals.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Exploring Neurodiversity in PreK-12 Art Rooms: Visual Inquiry Into Classroom Spaces and Niche Environments
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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This research examines the hidden curriculum of classroom spaces and its impact on neurodiverse learners in preK-12 art rooms. Using qualitative research methods and visual inquiry, the study explores how art teachers visually organize their classrooms and create niche environments.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Children's Drawing as Ecocultural Identity
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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This session presents an arts-based education research study of children's drawing(s) as an interrelated sociocultural and ecological phenomenon connected to the emergence of ecocultural identity and learning to inhabit place. Highlighting the challenges of ostensibly ecocentric education for children, this study offers critical insight on pedagogical practices.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Cross-Level Collaboration and the Importance of SEL in the Art Room
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Join us for an exploration of a collaborative initiative among Andover Public Schools teachers aimed at enhancing cross-level collaboration and SEL through artmaking. Discover how to structure cross-level projects and how using the "mood meter" has inspired artist intention and interpretation. Gain strategies to implement cross-level projects in your classrooms.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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No Kiln, No Problem: Exploration and Use of Various Air-Dry Clays
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Discover tried-and-true, no-kiln clay techniques in this informative session for art teachers. Learn about different air-dry clays and how to sculpt, decorate, and finish projects without a kiln. Gain practical ideas and lessons you can bring back to your classroom.
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Alyssa Navapanich

Art Educator, Lemon Grove School District
Alyssa Navapanich is an award-winning art educator who integrates art with history, STEAM, and cultural competence. She enriches student experiences by emphasizing diverse artists and techniques. Alyssa holds a B.A. in Art and an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership. She enjoys painting... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Disability Stigma in the Black Community and the Overdiagnosis of Behavioral Disorders
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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In schools focused on test scores over all else, neurodivergent Black children are some of the most marginalized when it comes to resource access because the fear of disability labels in African American communities fuel stereotypes that perceive Black children as an aggressive plague in our schools. Learn how art educators can advocate for our BIPOC students.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Teaching Literacy With Visual Art
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Do you want to excite, engage, and include all students while building literacy skills? Discover methods for keeping your class inspired with access to visual arts across diverse periods in history and culture using informational texts. Attendees will receive a free copy of Scholastic Art magazine to get started right away!
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Janine Campbell

Teacher, Byron Center Public Schools
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Resilient Research: Navigating Art Teacher Burnout and Compassion Fatigue Through Slow Scholarship
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Are you navigating demanding environments and researching emotionally charged topics? If so, come and examine researcher resilience through slow scholarship. Consider creative approaches and practical insights for emotional well-being in academic settings. Explore transformative and reflective practices to enhance researcher resilience.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Shared Identity: Unpacking Sense of Community for Adult Learners in Online Graduate Courses
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Explore the unique challenges of nontraditional students in online graduate programs. Learn practical strategies for fostering a sense of community to enhance engagement and retention. Gain insights from research findings and practical approaches for improving online learning environments.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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The Case for COIL-ing a Graduate Arts Teacher Preparation Program
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Learn more about a COIL project between arts teacher training programs in Santiago, Chile, and Minneapolis, MN, with an aim to enhance understanding of language acquisition in arts education by connecting students across continents. See how the use of technology and AI helped overcome language barriers, while promoting culturally relevant K-12 arts learning.
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Collaborative Caring: Building a Student Art Council in an Elementary School
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Are you ready to create a student-led art council in your elementary school? Explore the practical steps for initiating and maintaining a group, discuss meaningful projects and collaboration, discover insights from a recent mural project, and learn how to get support from your community.
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Making Games With Mundane Tech: The Microsoft Office Suite and Google Workspace Edition
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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This presentation showcases media arts lessons on game making using everyday mundane digital technologies, such as Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Docs. Come learn how to include game making in your media arts classrooms WITHOUT learning a new application, coding language, or media technology!
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Preservice Teaching Tips to Thrive! Cultivating Artistic Behaviors and Inclusivity Through Transformative Art Education
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Share in the excitement of enriching your teaching with innovative, multicultural approaches through "Teaching Tips to Thrive!," cultivated through transformative art education. Learn how a preservice educator's workshop blended landscape painting, flowing energy, and digital art to challenge traditional perspectives, promote inclusivity, teach artistic behaviors, and inspire teacher and student transformations.
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Art Borderlands in Theory, Practice, and Teaching
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Responding to an absence of Latina/o/x and Chicana/o/x artist and teaching resources, we'll show you how artists and educators can use borderlands (in-between geographical, emotional, cultural, and conceptual spaces) in three ways: theory, art practice, and teaching.
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Assessment Practices in Design Education: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Cultural Influence
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Join a thought-provoking session exploring the impact of cultural influences on assessment practices in design education. Discover practical strategies for culturally sensitive teaching and learn how to foster inclusive learning environments that value diversity and promote student success.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Using Art History to Strengthen Empathy and Connection
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Have you noticed your students struggle to connect with others? Come learn how to use art history warm-ups to develop students' empathy and understanding of others and give them a global perspective on the art world. Warm-ups and strategies will be shared with participants.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Ecology and Environment Interest Group Awards Ceremony
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:20pm EDT
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The Ecology and Environment Interest Group welcomes all NAEA members to celebrate the 2024 awardees. Two awards will be presented this year, for Outstanding K-12 Practicum and Outstanding Thesis/Dissertation. The K-12 Practicum Award recognizes an exceptional, ecologically engaged art curriculum or curricular unit at the K-12 level. The Thesis/Dissertation Award recognizes an exceptional dissertation, thesis, or capstone project that addresses ecological/environmental art education.
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Allison Rowe

Clinical Assistant Professor, Art Education, University of Iowa
Dr. Allison Rowe is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and researcher. She is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor and Area Coordinator for the Art Education Program at the University of Iowa. Allison loves working with teachers to figure out new ways to incorporate art into... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:20pm EDT
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NAEA Affinity Group: Latin-x/a/e/o
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:40pm EDT
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These sessions are for individuals who identify as being Latin-x/a/e/o. If you are not a part of that group, please locate a different space that accommodates your identity(ies). The Latin-x/a/e/o Affinity Group seeks to provide space to amplify and celebrate the many voices, the many shades, and the many nuances within Latinidad. Our hope is to uplift our achievements, address the inequities we face, and offer camaraderie and support. This group is only for those that identify within Latinidad.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:40pm EDT
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NAEA Affinity Group: White Ally/Accomplice
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:40pm EDT
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This space is for those who identify as white and wish to engage in ED&I work as an ally or accomplice. An ally will mostly engage in activism by standing with an individual or group in a marginalized community. An accomplice will focus more on dismantling the structures that oppress that individual or group, and such work will be directed by the stakeholders in the marginalized group.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:40pm EDT
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Journal of Social Theory in Art Education Author Round Table
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Join a lively roundtable discussion with the editors and authors of the 2024 issue of the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education.
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:50pm EDT
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SAL Class of 24: Group C
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
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Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
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Art Media Technology PechaKucha 2025
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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This PechaKucha-style presentation is a fast-paced sharing of technology ideas from 10 to 12 practicing presenters. Learn about new tools and techniques! Each presenter has 5 minutes to share.
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Kerry Parrish

Art Educator and Instructional Technology Coach, D155
Kerry Parrish has been teaching Visual Arts for 25 years and has been an Instructional Technology Coach for 6 years. She has presented at ISTE, ISTE Creative Constructor Lab, CUElive, IDEA/TCEA, ITC, LTCIlliois, NAEA, and IAEA. As an art teacher, she frequently looks art edtech through... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Adventures in Stop Motion Animation
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Stop motion animation, anyone? Discover approaches to developing skills and ideas while encouraging students to innovate and find creative ways to tell their own stories. We will explore this process together, so you will leave with resources, and be ready to try this with your students!
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Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Ensuring All Students Are Seen and Valued: Introductory Lessons Grounded in Equity That Amplify Identity
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Learn more about an introductory unit that cultivates joy while showing students how much they are valued within the school community. A Connected Arts Networks (CAN) PLC facilitator shares her exploration of three projects that launched a year of learning and supporting elementary students in developing the language that surrounds their identity.
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Making Their Mark: The Importance in 2025 of Incorporating Contemporary Women Artists Into Instruction
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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An art gallery exhibiting work of contemporary women artists partnered with a large urban-area education department for professional development, follow-up class visits, and student art show. Learn about the exhibition's impact on instruction and students' stance on women artists. Receive information about replicating the partnership, along with rich curriculum resources.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Planning and Instruction of Social-Emotional Learning in Elementary Art Education
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Consider the findings of a recent research study exploring how elementary visual arts educators intentionally plan for and implement an SEL-integrated art curriculum. The descriptive findings will be shared to inform and inspire other elementary visual arts educators to provide SEL engagement in the art room through lessons, resources, and routines.
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Jonathan Juravich

2020 OAEA Virtual Conference Presenter
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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5:00pm EDT

Brave Space: What EDI and SEL Can Look Like in the Art Classroom
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Learn strategies, activities, and best practices for creating a brave space where equity, diversity, and inclusion align with social-emotional learning and the art standards. Participants will be able to develop a vision for what equity looks like in their space.
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Raine Valentine

Art Educator and Green Leader, Baltimore County Public Schools
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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5:00pm EDT

In-Between: Exploring the Diasporic Experiences of 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-Generation Immigrant Students of Color
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Gain insight on the experiences of African, Asian, and Latino/a/x immigrants and consider what role the arts can play in supporting immigrant and diaspora students in fostering community and belonging. Explore and discuss ways to support and sustain these students through art education practices.
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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5:00pm EDT

An Intergenerational Community of Practice to Support Preservice and Emerging Teachers
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Since 2023, a community of practice meets at a Midwestern university, including preservice art teachers, recent graduates, and teachers. Our sessions tackle teaching challenges, guided by guest expert teachers. By addressing gaps in early career training, and fostering collaborative mentorship, we contribute to retention strategies and promote sustained professional growth.
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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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
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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.
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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5:00pm EDT

Manuel Barkan Award Lecture
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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The 2024 Barkan Award Lecture is presented by an individual whose published work in either Art Education or Studies in Art Education has contributed a product of scholarly merit to the field of art education.
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Yichien Cooper

Assistant Professor, Wsu Tri-cities
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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5:00pm EDT

Create a Spectacular Journal With Gelli Printmaking!
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Join a Gelli Arts-sponsored workshop where you can learn about Gelli printing plates and printing techniques. Showcase your own printed designs to cover or fill your own journal in this workshop. Explore this versatile printing plate that can be utilized in your art classrooms or in your own professional artwork.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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5:00pm EDT

Refugee Stories in Pictures: Growing Student Empathy for a Social Justice Issue Through Portrait Photography
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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This presentation will show you how to implement a customizable photographic project for students to tell refugee stories and develop empathy toward this social justice issue. We share techniques for image analysis, sensitive interview tips, unique photography methods, and options for a community-building exhibit and collaborating with schools overseas.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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5:00pm EDT

Creative Connections: Developing Participatory Museum Programming for Adults With Dementia
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Learn the ins and outs of memory care programming! Get an inside look at the development of Creative Connections at the BMA, a participatory tour and artmaking program for adults with dementia. All participants will walk away with a toolkit for launching memory care programming at their own institutions.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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5:00pm EDT

Open Secrets: Revealing Who's Now Paying Museum Educators, How, and Lessons From Tour Staffing Transition
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Are you looking to transform your tour program and move toward paid, equitable staffing? Understand where your museum stands relative to peer institutions in the most comprehensive survey of tour staffing since 2013. Get benchmarking data, case studies, staffing models, and the longitudinal insight you need to advocate for change.
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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5:00pm EDT

Policy, Theory, and Practice: Global Currents in Art Museum Education
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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This session offers an introduction to contemporary policy, theory, and practice of global art museum education by noting policy trends from the International Council of Museums; elucidating a networked, technology-centered approach to communication and representation; while providing timely examples of issues in international education and public practice in international museum spaces.
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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5:00pm EDT

Art Curriculum Development as Living Artistic Inquiry
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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How is art curriculum development a creative and critical process of living artistic inquiry? In this session, art educators are invited to engage in creative activities and critical discussions about art curriculum development as a form of artistic research that has the power to address personal, social, and cultural dynamics.
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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5:00pm EDT

Distinguished Fellows Mentoring Session 1
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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The NAEA Distinguished Fellows Mentoring Session brings together researchers and educators who wish to offer their ideas, interests, and topical issues, especially related to research, in lively, open discussions with NAEA Distinguished Fellows who have decades of expertise and experience to share, advise, and mentor.
Presenters
RS

Robert Sabol

Associate Head of the Rueff School of Design, Art, and Performance, Purdue University
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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5:00pm EDT

Post-AI Modalities of Creative Practice
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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This presentation examines the sociomaterial implications of generative AI for creative practice and critical media education, exploring the intersection of postdigital conditions, performative materiality, and algorithmic bias. Presenters speculate on the evolving landscape of creative practice in post-AI times, centering on cocreation with humans and machines and critical understanding of AI.
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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5:00pm EDT

Searching for Critical Theory in Art Education Research: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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This presentation discusses the process of developing a systematic literature review to gauge the prevalence of critical theory in art education research over the past 5 years. Attendees can use this study for examples of decolonizing and indigenizing pedagogies in theory and practice, gaining skills in critically evaluating scholarly resources.
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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5:00pm EDT

Sketchbooks Reimagined: Procedures Leading to Innovative Ideation
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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This workshop focuses on how to use sketchbooks to empower students to explore and develop their own ideas. Step-by-step procedures for sketchbook research will lead to more meaningful artmaking. How can students use sketchbooks more mindfully? Implement a streamlined sketchbook process while empowering students to develop meaningful ideas.
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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5:00pm EDT

Surreal Digital Photomontage: Using Technology in the Art Room to Promote Contemporary Studio Practices
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Introduce contemporary studio practices through the integration of technology as tool for students to use in their creative process by using free platforms like Picsart and Canva. Gain access to lesson resources, create a digital photomontage, and leave with a new way to bring tech into the art room.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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5:00pm EDT

Thinking Differently: Breaking Stereotypes About Dyslexia in Art Education
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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As we unravel the stereotypes surrounding neurodiversity, culture begins to delve into the cognitive advantages associated with dyslexia. Including heightened spatial awareness, ability to understand complex patterns and innovative problem-solving. Creating pedagogical change, through highlighting the transformative power of thinking differently, while paving the way to a more inclusive future.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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5:00pm EDT

NAEA Affinity Group: Middle Eastern and North African
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 6:20pm EDT
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These sessions are for individuals who identify as being Middle Eastern and North African. If you are not a part of that group, please locate a different space that accommodates your identity(ies). Middle Eastern refers specifically to individuals of Middle Eastern and North African descent, including but not limited to nations located in South Western Asia and Northern Africa (SWANA), Central Asia, and Asia Minor. This also encompasses individuals of mixed race that hold MENA identities.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 6:20pm EDT
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5:30pm EDT

Disability Aesthetics: Challenging Ideas of "Excellence" in Anti-Ableist Arts Learning Spaces
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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Drawing on Disability Art and the disability aesthetics framework, this session will invite participants to unpack and reimagine what "excellence" means in art education. We will center disability in reflections on art and teaching, challenge dominant ideals of beauty, and cultivate practices for anti-ableist art teaching.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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5:30pm EDT

Cultural Sensitivity Through Cultural Engagement: K-Dramas as the Site of the New Global Fandom
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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Cultural sensitivity, also referred to as cross-cultural sensitivity or cultural awareness, is the knowledge, awareness, and acceptance of other cultures and others' cultural identities. Korean and American presenters explore the K-Drama phenomenon as a global engagement with Korean culture and cultural identities through their own fandom connections and curiosities.
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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5:30pm EDT

Trauma, the Brain, and Mindfulness in the Art Room
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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More studies are showing how trauma negatively impacts a student's physiological development, making it harder for them to concentrate and retain information at school. Explore integrating mindfulness practices into art education to enhance teachers' and students' well-being, creativity, and focus. Discuss practical strategies, benefits, and real-world applications.
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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5:30pm EDT

Play, Process, and Meaning-Making: Learner-Driven Creating
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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How do play and process drive student meaning-making? Join us for hands-on activities and discussions centering creative inquiry strategies and play-based multimodal experiences for all learners. We share various creative strategies for art educational settings using contemporary artists that represent a range of people, places, and cultures.
Presenters
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Amy Pfeiler-Wunder

Chair, Kutztown University
I serve as the chair and graduate coordinator in the Art Education Department at Kutztown University!I am in my second semester as chair and also serve as the Higher Education Division Director for the National Art Education Association.
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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5:30pm EDT

Community Art Organizations in the Art Room
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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Have you ever wondered how peers have been able to bring local artists or art organizations to lead projects in their classrooms? Learn about the ways these artists support school curricula, how to find them, how to fund them, and what to do if you can't find what you are looking for.
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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5:30pm EDT

Design Thinking Activities to Increase Quality of Life for People With Memory Loss
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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Meaningful, enriching activities supporting older adults experiencing dementia are crucial for their well-being. Art educators can enhance their quality of life by using design thinking activities. We share a case study with a participant in a memory care unit, exploring how design activities improved her quality of life.
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LH

Linda Hoeptner-Poling

Kent
2020 OAEA Virtual Conference Presenter
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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5:30pm EDT

Visual Arts and Climate Narratives: Envisioning New "Stories We Live By"
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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This interactive presentation introduces arts-integrated approaches to climate literacy and offers strategies for youth to create narratives that confront the way climate change disproportionately impacts marginalized communities. By situating student artistic practice as central to cultivating hope, participants will consider ways to facilitate climate literacy within their art classrooms.
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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5:30pm EDT

Student-Led Exhibition Strategies for K-12 Art Curricula
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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Discover standards-based strategies for involving students in curating, executing, and assessing K-12 exhibitions. Attendees will walk away with unit pacing guides and step-by-step outlines for teaching students to participate in all aspects of exhibiting their work at your school, including theme development, curating displays, publicity, and event assessment.
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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5:30pm EDT

Illuminating the Expanse of Black Chicago's Artist-Educator Networks, 1930s-1960s
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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Explore how friendships, mentorships, and educators helped bolster and sustain the Black artists and educators of the Chicago Renaissance (1930s through 1960s) and consider how these relationship networks helped sustain the careers of artists such as Chales White, Elizabeth Catlett, and Gordon Parks.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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5:30pm EDT

Supporting Our LGBTQ+ Students and Ourselves Amid Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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This session is an opportunity for art educators to navigate current anti-LGBTQ+ legislation affecting students and educators. Through guided questions, presenters will help participants discuss and solve how to support each other and our students affected by this harmful legislation.
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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5:30pm EDT

Middle Level Awardee Showcase: Distinction From the Middle
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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National and regional Middle Level award winners will provide a glimpse into their classrooms to share strategies for establishing successful art programs and the development of their leadership stories. Celebrate and learn from outstanding Middle Level educators. Door Prizes and ML swag will be given out during the session.
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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5:30pm EDT

State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education: Who We Are and How We Can Help
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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A panel of State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education will discuss their roles are in advocacy, policy, standards and curricula, professional learning, and funding, and how they came to be in their roles. There will be time at the end for Q and A.
Presenters
EA

Emily Atkinson

I’m just a fan. :). Of all things chocolate - from mole to truffles.
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Andy Meadows

Arts Education Specialist, ALSDE
Andy Meadows is a native of Montgomery Alabama where he received his undergraduate degree at Huntingdon College and then his Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) from the University of Alabama.  He taught visual arts and created the Fine Art Photography program at Booker T. Washington Magnet... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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5:30pm EDT

Amplify Diverse Voices in Your Art Room With Disabled Artists
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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Tired of the same art history faces? Expand your curriculum and ignite student curiosity with this dynamic session that explores the world of contemporary disabled artists. You will discover a wealth of fresh lesson ideas across various mediums to foster a more inclusive art room that reflects diverse voices and empowers ALL students.
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Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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