2025 NAEA National Convention: Full Schedule

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8:00am EDT

Thoughts From the Field: Practical Strategies for Inclusive Art and Design Education

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Join us for an in-depth exploration of inclusive art and design education in preK-12 classrooms. This session presents findings through data visualization from a national survey of over 1,000 art teachers, highlighting their experiences, challenges, successful strategies, and resources for supporting diverse students. Gain actionable insights and recommendations.

Presenters

Eva Coker

Kelly Gross

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Equity Diversity and Inclusion, Professional Paper Presentation

12:00pm EDT

Is Anybody Out There?

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

This project proposed a gentle partnership approach to observe what adults who live in our community are doing or have done to survive the last few years of the pandemic. We engaged participants by leaving welcoming envelopes in public spaces, inviting them to share visual reflective responses.

Presenters

Linda Helmick

Yi Gao

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Lifelong Learning Interest Group, Professional Paper Presentation

1:00pm EDT

Visual Arts Standards: Possibilities for Ecological Integration

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

How might visual arts standards support ecological art education? Learn about recent findings from a content analysis of U.S. national and state visual arts standards with implications for K-12 art education, including specific national standards that might be used to propel and justify ecological art pedagogies.

Presenters

Joy Bertling

Associate Professor of Art Education, University of Tennessee

Standards pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Ecology and Environment Interest Group, Professional Paper Presentation

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

3:00pm EDT

Present Here!

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

This session is an opportunity to present at the national level to your peers. The hard work and dedication of the Preservice members is celebrated by allowing them the chance to share and learn with each other. Accepting: 10- 7 minute presentations. https://forms.gle/tCavCYrx2hxkjQMY8

Presenters

Reilly Powers

Miami University, NAEA Preservice Western Regional Representative

Brittany Bradley

Jesse Todero

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Preservice, Deep Dive Research

4:30pm EDT

Chambers of Art and Wonder: A Teaching Project on Decontextualizing Artifacts and Crafting New Narratives

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

This presentation examines the development of students' creative abilities in an undergraduate art studio. Through creating pseudo-chambers of art and wonder, students recontextualize artworks and artifacts, generating narratives on social issues. The project emphasizes the importance of decontextualization in understanding artifact meaning and explores its role in teacher education.

Presenters

Maria Letsiou

Assistant Professor of Visual Arts education, Department of Early Childhood Education, The School of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Thessaly, Volos, Gr

The visual artist Maria Letsiou is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Education in the Department of Early Childhood Education at the University of Thessaly. During his tenure (from 2011 to 2023) at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, he taught undergraduate and postgraduate... Read More →

Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Higher Education, Professional Paper Presentation

5:00pm EDT

Decolonizing Arts Engagement

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

The goal for this presentation is to highlight in a practical sense how people are considering decolonizing practices in their classrooms, artwork, community spaces, and more. Presenters will engage audience members to consider what decolonization is and could be, or to work together to formulate more questions.

Presenters

Rebecca Bourgault

Amanda Alexander

Chair & Professor, Department of Art, Miami University

Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Research, Big Art Education Questions