2025 NAEA National Convention: Full Schedule

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8:00am EDT

Achieving the Collaborative "C" in CASEL: A Journey From Museum to Classroom and Back Again

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L003

How might we better leverage partnerships between museums and classrooms? This hands-on session focuses on a collaborative effort to adapt an interactive gallery display into a classroom project. Through prompt-based responses, visitors and students expanded beyond the traditionally limited scope of historic American art to engage with relevant themes that affect us today.

Presenters

Anne Cochran Grey, Ph.D.

David Matteson

Associate Curator of Education, Rollins Museum of Art (Rollins College)

David Matteson (he/him) is the Associate Curator of Education at the Rollins Museum of Art. In this role, David oversees the Museum’s academic and public programs. Prior to joining the staff at RMA, David was the Associate Curator of Education and Outreach at the Orlando Museum... Read More →

American Visions Lesson Plan pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L003

Museum Education, Instructional Practice

8:00am EDT

Reaching Beyond the Museum Walls: Approaches to Museum Visit Extensions

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L006

Learn about a museum's efforts to develop an activity kit that allows students to take their field trip experience home. This presentation will highlight the trial and innovation process, cocreation with classroom teachers, evaluation, and the many logistical challenges that will inevitably occur.

Presenters

Megan Wilson Krznarich

Manager of Gallery Teaching Programs, Amon Carter Museum of American Art

I am a museum educator, passionate about amplifying the voices of communities that have been historically underrepresented in the arts.

Shared Reaching Beyond the Museum Walls pptx

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L006

Museum Education, Instructional Practice

8:00am EDT

Recommitting to Engaged Collaborative Practice: Affirming the Roots of Museum Educator Tours

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M113

In 2023 Getty updated its Teaching and Learning Plan to focus on interactive engagement and a recommitment to education staff within galleries. Learn from case studies about the deployed activities, and the camaraderie and challenges experienced by the education team and the docents they support.

Presenters

William Zaluski

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M113

Museum Education, Instructional Demonstration

12:00pm EDT

Enriching K-12 Education Through Museum Partnerships: Insights and Experiences From Three Leading Institutions

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L027

Four museum educators share strategies for K-12 school tours. They will discuss fostering learning through interactive exhibits and hands-on activities and adapting to diverse student needs. Attendees will learn best practices, common pitfalls, and effective methods for creating meaningful museum experiences.

Presenters

Margarita Sandino

Director of Education, Dixon Gallery and Gardens

Becca Folkes-Lallo

Christine Ruby

Youth Programs Coordinator, Dixon Gallery and Gardens

Lucienne Auz

Director of Education and Outreach, Metal Museum

DixonTeacherBrochure2025 pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L027

Museum Education, Instructional Practice

1:00pm EDT

Scratch, Dab, Layer: Printmaking for All Ages, Budgets, and Spaces

Friday March 21, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M100

A fast-paced printmaking workshop open to all! Join art educators from large and small institutions who share their "greatest printmaking hits." See how these hands-on activities have been adapted for space, age, and abilities as you learn more about the exciting combinations of low-resource, high-impact interactive printing methods and media that are easily transferable.

Presenters

Caitlin Deutsch

Colleen Pickup

Lindsey Bloom

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Friday March 21, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M100

Museum Education, Skills Toolbox

2:00pm EDT

Rest Lab: A Pop-Up Experiment for Intentional Rest in a University Art Museum

Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Rest Lab is an ongoing creative collaboration and intervention that challenges capitalistic ideas of productivity, urgency, and hustle culture. Since 2021, six unique versions of Rest Lab have existed in and outside of the art museum that ask: How can we better acknowledge everyone's need for rest?

Presenters

Kamila Glowacki

Assistant Curator of Community Engagement and Learning, Krannert Art Museum

Kamila Glowacki is a museum educator, musician, and multidisciplinary artist based in Champaign, Illinois. She is the Assistant Curator of Community Engagement and Learning at Krannert Art Museum, located at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In 2023, Kamila was named the... Read More →

Ishita Dharap

Education Coordinator, Krannert Art Museum

Ishita Dharap is an artist and art educator. Her cyclical teaching and art-making practice excavates personal and communal discomfort through a rigorous practice of reflection and play. Her work has manifested in drawing, collage, time-based media, performance, sculpture, and installation... Read More →

Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Museum Education, Instructional Practice

3:00pm EDT

Playful Learning: Designing and Redesigning Art Gallery Board Games

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Help redesign a classic game and explore how board games can add a new dimension to your classroom or art museum's gallery facilitation. We invite attendees to join a conversation about alternative, ludic museum and art education strategies that bring a fun and critical focus to the museum experience.

Presenters

Ashley Williams

Curator of Exhibitions & Collections, Gadsden Arts Center & Museum; Ph.D. Candidate at Florida State University

Audrey Jacobs

Graduate assistant, Florida State University

Dianna S. Bradley

Special Collections & Archives Metadata Supervisor, Florida State University Libraries

DesigningGames NAEA 2025 pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Museum Education, Deep Dive Research

5:00pm EDT

Museums and Universities Collaborating to Increase Participation in Reciprocal Programs

Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

How can museum educators collaborating with higher education professors work to build new learning opportunities that are both content knowledge building and fun? The Cincinnati Art Museum and Mount St. Joseph University have been working together to build stronger art educators in art history and art expression.

Presenters

Samantha Gaier

Museum Division Chair, Cincinnati

2020 OAEA Virtual Conference Presenter

Michaelann Kelley

Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Museum Education, Big Art Education Questions