2025 NAEA National Convention: Full Schedule

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8:00am EDT

Fascinating and Fearless Female Artists: 10 Artists You Should Teach

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L004

This presentation will cover important female artists and examples of how their work can be included in middle and upper school art curriculum. Includes a brief background on each artist as well as aligned student artwork and writing, sketchbook, assessment, and field trip ideas.

Presenters

Carmen Noel

Susie Elder

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L004

Secondary, Skills Toolbox

8:00am EDT

Leading With Creativity: Strategies to Help AP Students With MPI, Inquiry, Writing, and Revision

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

This interactive AP Art and Design session explores teacher-tested strategies that use creativity and curiosity to improve MPI, inquiry, writing, and revision. The student-centered strategies help address the why behind their artistic choices, synthesize their writing with creative endeavors, and revise and expand their material usage.

Presenters

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 →

Aaron Cummins

Kristen LaJeunesse Roach

AP Leading with Creativity pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

Secondary, Skills Toolbox

8:00am EDT

Photo Embroidery- Adding Texture and Meaning

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L011/l012

This session will teach basic embroidery stitches that will enhance photos. Through intuition and innovation, stitching will be used to create a new image and meaning. Bringing the styles of different artists, their culture, and the history of embroidery as inspiration for a new personal tradition or techniques to teach.

Presenters

Meredith Giltner

Art Educator, Skyline High School Ann Arbor, MI

Embroidery on Photos NAEA 2025 pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L011/l012

Secondary, Skills Toolbox

8:00am EDT

Portraits and Scanograms: Unconventional Representations of Self and Others

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M105/M106

Personal stories are worth seeking, hearing, and interpreting. Student-conducted interviews deepen interpersonal connections with important people in their lives as they artistically inform innovative portraits using photography and scanography. Designed for teachers of any discipline, you will hear strategies for adapting this narrative photography-centered experience in your disciplines and classroom.

Presenters

Caro Appel

Rachael Hulme

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M105/M106

Secondary, Instructional Practice

8:00am EDT

Printmaking + Photography = Printography: The Best of Both Worlds

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L027

Changing the traditional photography curriculum to include printmaking allows for more in-class student engagement. This provides more varied artmaking experiences and recognizes that photography is a type of printmaking. It highlights how accessible and flexible printmaking is in the classroom and how it can be combined with photography.

Presenters

Julie Denison

Art Teacher, Cobb County School District

NAEA 2025 Printmaking+Photography presentation pdf

Photography Extensions handout for NAEA docx

Printmaking Photography Syllabus docx

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L027

Secondary, Instructional Practice

8:00am EDT

Secondary Superstars: Award-Winning Secondary Art Educators Share Their Secrets

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Award-winning secondary educators share their best practices, ideas, tips, and secrets. They bring varied experiences as well as many years in the field, with expertise working with different populations across different regions in the country.

Presenters

Cathy Heller

Coordinator of Fine Arts, Peach County School District, GA

Linda W. Kieling, M.Ed.

Art Educator/NAEA Secondary Director, Adrienne C Nelson High School

I live outside of Portland, OR and I am in my 35th year of teaching. We have 5 kids, 4 grandchildren and a Shiba Inu named Miku. I am passionate about family, friends, art and travel.

Lora Marie Durr

Robin Brewer

NAEA Secondary Division Director-Elect, Garnet Valley High School

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Secondary, Instructional Demonstration

8:00am EDT

Sketchbook and Visual Journal Speed Date

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L001

Bring your sketchbook or visual journal and participate in our interactive session, a speed date where we'll share a series of quick opportunities to learn and meet someone new!

Presenters

Samuel Peck

Artist - Researcher- Teacher, Independent Scholar

Samuel H. Peck is an artist, researcher, and art educator originally from Providence, Rhode Island, with over 16 years of art teaching experience at the K-12 and university levels. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Rhode Island and his Master ny of Studio... Read More →

David Modler

Professor of Art, Journal Fodder Junkies and tet[R]ad

David R. Modler is a maker/scholar/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 art on the k-12 level for fifteen years. David has since earned a Master of Fine... Read More →

Dr. Jenny Evans

Asst Professor Art Education, Valdosta State University

Laurie Gatlin

Professor, California State University Long Beach

Maker Painter Semi-retired Still curious

Dr. Sara Scott Shields

sketchbook assignments on youtube pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L001

Secondary, Instructional Practice

12:00pm EDT

Decorating the Ceramic Surface: How to Apply Drawing and Printmaking Processes to Clay [TICKET REQUIRED]

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L011/l012

TICKET REQUIRED
Are you a sketcher or printmaker uncertain how to incorporate clay into your classroom? Have you wondered how ceramic artists decorate forms with printed imagery? Do you want to learn creative strategies for decorating clay surfaces in the classroom? Learn practical ways to draw and print on clay!

Presenters

Sarah Horn

High School Art Teacher, Walton-Verona High School

I am an artist and an educator in Northern Kentucky! I've been teaching for 20 years and am currently at a small, independent school district just south of Cincinnati. I also am a professional artist! I converted my detached garage into a studio space where I run Sarah Horn Ceramics... Read More →

2025 NAEA Decorating the Ceramic Surface Workshop pdf

2025 NAEA Decorating the Ceramic Surface Workshop (2) no notes pdf

Narrative Ceramics pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L011/l012

Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

Host Organization Ticket Required
Keywords Ticket Required

12:00pm EDT

Eco-Printing [TICKET REQUIRED]

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M105/M106

TICKET REQUIRED
Eco-printing is a technique where plants, leaves, and flowers leave their shapes, color, and marks on fabric or paper. Use plants and other botanical matter to create unique prints with this lesser-known form of printmaking and learn about possible applications to other content and art forms.

Presenters

Cayce Davenport

Teacher, ACHS - VPA

High school art educator in rural Ky. I teach by day and make by night.

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M105/M106

Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

Host Organization Ticket Required
Keywords Ticket Required

12:00pm EDT

Paper Quilt Collaged Portraits [TICKET REQUIRED]

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

TICKET REQUIRED
Become inspired to work in partnership with your local historical society to use photos to create paper-quilt-collaged portraits. You will also see how the works of contemporary fiber artist Bisa Butler can be used as inspiration for these paper portraits.

Presenters

Katie Smith-Johnson

Art teacher, Lakeside High School

Before I was an art teacher, I was a fashion designer. I believe that my background influences the way that I teach art and is one of the reasons I was drawn to Bisa Butler and her masterful use of fiber arts in her portrait quilts. I have a laidback teaching style and this lesson... Read More →

Kristie York

Teacher, Lakeside school district

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

Host Organization Ticket Required
Keywords Ticket Required

1:00pm EDT

Intersecting Realities: Media Arts as a Lens for Visual Arts Reflection

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M108

Explore how media arts can reflect on and reinterpret visual arts. This session delves into innovative techniques, offering practical skills, creative inspiration, and critical perspectives. Engage with fellow artists and educators to enhance your practice and understanding of the evolving relationship between media arts and traditional visual art forms.

Presenters

Selena Ward

Media Arts Supervisor, Prince George's County Public Schools

Things I am passionate about: 1. Helping students be creative and amplify their voices. .2. Working/Discussing/Sharing with other passionate educators 3. Media Arts, Arts Integration, Data for improvement

Friday March 21, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M108

Secondary, Skills Toolbox

1:00pm EDT

Learning With Robots: Implications for Secondary Art Classrooms

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

How can we incorporate robotics into secondary art curricula? This presentation introduces the work of two contemporary artists, Patrick Tresset and Madeline Gannon, who use and cocreate with robots in their artistic and research practices. We'll share implications of their work for secondary art education practices.

Presenters

Borim Song

East Carolina university, College of Fine Arts and Communication, School of Art and Design

Ahran Koo

Friday March 21, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Secondary, Professional Paper Presentation

2:00pm EDT

Building Student Artists Through 1-Day Workshops

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M100

Has the pacing of your class grown stale or too tightly project focused? Mix it up with 1-day workshop sessions to engage students and build artists. In this hands-on session, we will explore five strategies to build student confidence in artmaking from idea exploration to public exhibition.

Presenters

Laura LaQuaglia

Supervisor, Learning Design & Visual Arts, Cobb County School District

Visual Arts K-12, Visual Arts PL, Arts Integration, STEAM, #cobbartrocks, #cobbartteacherscreate

LaQuaglia, Building Student Artists, NAEA 2025 png

Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M100

Secondary, Skills Toolbox

2:00pm EDT

Elaborating the Narrative of a Personal, Meaningful Photograph With Collage, Assemblage, and Sculpture

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Creating a meaningful narrative with materials and techniques facilitates students using collections to express personal authentic stories and ideas. The process will engage learners, and the products will be as unique as each individual artist. Empower your students to learn about themselves and their world through their artmaking.

Presenters

Linda Popp

Retired secondary art educator Narrative found object assemblage sculptor NAEA Distinguished Fellow MAEA Distinguished Fellow

Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Secondary, Instructional Practice

2:00pm EDT

Hack Your Habit: Spark Daily Art Practice With Sketchbook Prompts

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M104

Are you struggling to get your students in the habit of reaching for their sketchbooks? Join us as we dive into creative prompts to spark student passion and artistic exploration in visual journals. Leave with a pocket full of prompts to ignite student creativity and enhance artistic development!

Presenters

Erica Wright

Susan Silva

Fairfax County Public Schools/GMU

Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M104

Secondary, Skills Toolbox

2:00pm EDT

Teaching Native American Skateboards

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M114

Explore how Native American expressions are represented on skateboards to expand Native American representations beyond traditional arts and crafts. This session uncovers the history, culture, and identity embedded in Native American skateboard graphics while discussing teaching methods and providing examples of Native American visual culture for curriculum development.

Presenters

Georgina Badoni, Ph.D.

Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M114

Secondary, Instructional Practice

3:00pm EDT

Chat and Create: A Secondary Meetup

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

Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon EFG

Join NAEA Secondary leaders and other Secondary art educators to make art together and talk about any current issues. What questions do you have about NAEA leadership, programming, and offerings? Which supports best help you? How can NAEA provide resources you need? Do you want help with curriculum? Do you want to make connections? Come join your Secondary Division peers.

Presenters

Cathy Heller

Coordinator of Fine Arts, Peach County School District, GA

Linda W. Kieling, M.Ed.

Art Educator/NAEA Secondary Director, Adrienne C Nelson High School

I live outside of Portland, OR and I am in my 35th year of teaching. We have 5 kids, 4 grandchildren and a Shiba Inu named Miku. I am passionate about family, friends, art and travel.

Lora Marie Durr

Robin Brewer

NAEA Secondary Division Director-Elect, Garnet Valley High School

Gayle Trueblood

Past President, Secondary WR Representative and EDI State Liaison to NAEA, OAEA

Sculpture/Ceramics, Jewelry, Wearable Arts, Art Club and Yearbook Advisor from Lima, Ohio. I’ve been teaching for 26 years at Shawnee High School. Currently serving as the Past President of the Ohio Art Education Association and EDI liaison to NAEA.

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon EFG

Secondary, Business Meeting/Awards Ceremony

3:00pm EDT

Cosplay in the Classroom: Using Sculpture Techniques to Bring Superheroes to Life [TICKET REQUIRED]

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L026

TICKET REQUIRED
Cosplay has become a huge artistic industry. But few classrooms have capitalized on its popularity. Join a nationally awarded cosplayer and art teacher as we discuss cosplay techniques and create work using thermoplastics and EVA foam. Attendees will leave the workshop with a leather-like foam pouch and sculpted Worbla feather.

Presenters

Brian Harmon

Campbell County High School

NAEA Workshop pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L026

Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

Host Organization Ticket Required
Keywords Ticket Required

3:00pm EDT

Gelli Arts Printing in the Classroom Setting [TICKET REQUIRED]

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L005

TICKET REQUIRED
Play with the many methods from simple to complicated in this printmaking process. Experiment with recycled and found objects, textural items from nature, and layering and photo transfers and deliver your new confidence to your K-12 classrooms. Lesson plans provided!

Presenters

Jo Ellen Nix

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L005

Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

Host Organization Ticket Required
Keywords Ticket Required

3:00pm EDT

Nature's Blueprint: K-12 Eco-Friendly Cyanotype Techniques [TICKET REQUIRED]

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M105/M106

TICKET REQUIRED
This session explores cyanotype techniques that integrate environmental education with art by using natural materials and sustainable practices. Learn practical skills and creative strategies to engage K-12 students in art projects promoting environmental stewardship, including adapting with UV lights on cloudy days.

Presenters

Natalie Jones

VP of Creative Education, Brookgreen Gardens

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M105/M106

Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

Host Organization Ticket Required
Keywords Ticket Required

3:00pm EDT

Side-by-Side Inclusion Style! Create a Painting, Collage, or Mixed Media From Student Inspiration! [TICKET REQUIRED]

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

TICKET REQUIRED
Discover the ins and outs of creating a side-by-side show using the artwork of students with disabilities and an art teacher or artist work. You will receive a photo of student work, a 12-by-12-inch canvas, acrylic paint, and mixed media to create your piece!

Presenters

Jennifer Sims

Kim Soule

2025 LOUISVILLE NAEA CONFERENCE CO-CORDINATOR, ARTS FOR ALL KENTUCKY , ROSTER ARTIST

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

Host Organization Ticket Required
Keywords Ticket Required

4:30pm EDT

Art Studio Investigations: Artmaking as Research

Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M113

Explore the link between artmaking and research by focusing on student-driven curricula for AP Art and Design and AP Research courses. Using student work as a guide, you will discover methods to empower students to apply inquiry skills to novel situations to enhance understanding and creativity in studio instruction.

Presenters

Karen Edwards

Peter Edwards

Assistant Professor, Eastern Kentucky University

Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M113

Secondary, Instructional Practice

4:30pm EDT

Photography Teacher Turned Her CAR Into a Camera Obscura! Come See It! Don't Miss This!

Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L013

After successfully building and using camera obscuras in a high school photography class, one teacher had an innovative idea of turning a CAR into a camera obscura. Learn more about this historic composition tool AND get inside one! Don't miss this!

Presenters

Amanda Tutor

Instruction, Bartlett City Schools

Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L013

Secondary, Instructional Demonstration

5:00pm EDT

Cultivating Creativity in the Natural Classroom: An Art Educator's Journey as a National Park Fellow

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L027

Embark on a transformative journey! Integrate science, art, and environmental stewardship into your curriculum. Discover how immersive experiences, collaborative learning, and creative strategies fostered a love for nature in my students. Leave empowered to cultivate the next generation of environmental stewards.

Presenters

Heidi O'Donnell

Cultivating Creativity in the Natural Classroom. pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L027

Secondary, Instructional Practice

5:00pm EDT

Transforming Student Ideation Into Art: Exploring Mind Mapping in AP Studio

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M108

Every year, AP Studio students begin with enthusiasm and ambitious ideas, then face the sobering reality: "I've run out of ideas!" Sound familiar? Through the application of mind-mapping techniques and approaches, your students can conquer their fear of ideation and see mind maps as works of art in themselves.

Presenters

Martha Anne Kuntz

Art Educator, Notre Dame High School

I am the Visual and Performing Arts department chair at Notre Dame High School in Belmont, California. I teach AP Studio, AP Art History, and Sculpture, as well as a new Fiber Arts Course. I am also an AP Studio Art & Design mentor.

Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M108

Secondary, Skills Toolbox

5:00pm EDT

Visual Literacy: The Gestalt Principles of Design and the Meaning-Making Brain

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Discover painting processes that link the five design principles of gestalt directly into brain function and meta-understanding. This presentation serves as a response to the cultural need for visual literacy that studio art practices can address, and consequently teach, for successful student outcomes.

Presenters

Duane Lutsko

Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Secondary, Instructional Demonstration

5:30pm EDT

Optimizing Creative Agency and Scaffolding for Success: A Backward-Designed Curricular Framework for AP Studio Art

Friday March 21, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L011/l012

Learn how two AP Studio Art teachers have designed a choice-based, backward-designed AP Studio Art curriculum to optimize student-driven inquiry, creativity, and skill development, resulting in consistently high scores and success on the AP Studio Art Exam.

Presenters

Stephanie Silverman

Friday March 21, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L011/l012

Secondary, Instructional Practice

5:30pm EDT

Tying Art Journal Assignments to Google Arts and Culture and Standards

Friday March 21, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

Discover 30 sketchbook prompts kids will actually look forward to! They tie to specific standards; create a weekly formative assessment; and dive deep into design, careers, research, culture, and personal design preferences while pushing students to sketch with more detail and written notes. REAL art and no more social media copies!

Presenters

Nicole Plymesser Nelson

High School Art teacher Hampton Dumont CAL, Iowa

Nicole Plymesser Nelson has lived all over the U.S and now lives in Clear Lake, Iowa. Nicole has been teaching art since 1997: preschool to adults, public schools to private lessons and homeschooling, small groups in stores and large groups at conferences. She now teaches high... Read More →

NAEA version Sketchbook Assignments Nicole Nelson pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

Secondary, Instructional Practice