2025 NAEA National Convention: Full Schedule

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8:00am EDT

Getting Digital With Middle

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

This session focuses on a variety of engaging digital art experiments that connect students with work of contemporary creatives and current career paths. Apps used in these experiments are free, making them more accessible to learning communities. Attendees will come away with new ideas and experiments for their learning communities.

Presenters

Donald J Masse

TK-5 art teacher, zamorano fine arts academy

Don Masse has taught at Zamorano Fine Arts Academy for a real long time. He infuses his elementary art curriculum with the work of living artists because he believes students are more engaged when they have the opportunity to see how artists are applying what they are learning about... Read More →

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Middle, Skills Toolbox

12:00pm EDT

From Trauma Informed to Trauma Swept: A Journey to Empathy, Understanding, and Peace

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Join a veteran teacher and trauma survivor! Learn how their experience helped build a better window into the complexities of trauma and its aftereffects, and how to avoid stress and burnout. Gain insight that will strengthen your practice and help meet the needs of diverse learners with trauma-informed practices.

Presenters

Margo Wunder

Art Teacher, Martin Luther School

Margo Wunder began teaching 28 years ago as a volunteer painting instructor at the Inglis House, a wheelchair community in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. She currently teaches Art at Martin Luther School in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, a K-12 approved private school serving the needs... Read More →

NAEA From Trauma Informed to Trauma Swept pptx

Finding Your ACE Score (1) pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Art in Special Education Interest Group, Instructional Practice

1:00pm EDT

Mindfulness of Process: Teaching Art as a Contemplative Practice

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Contemplative pedagogy enhances learning, offering an alternative way of knowing that cultivates awareness and enhances creativity. Learn approaches and experience practices for integrating contemplation in an art classroom to enhance focus, attention, awareness, emotional regulation, and creative expansion.

Presenters

Jane Dalton

Professor of Art Education, University of North Carolina Charlotte

Jane Dalton is a 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 Educator (REACE). Creativity is at the... Read More →

Dr. Laurel Campbell

Friday March 21, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Caucus on the Spiritual in Art Education Interest Group, Instructional Demonstration

2:00pm EDT

Radical Hospitality: Building Connections in the Classroom

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

This presentation critically examines how teachers are responsible for maintaining healthy classroom environments that are socially and culturally sensitive. Together during this session, we will examine how you can find inspiration for classroom environment as well as creating a personal interactive zine for your classroom.

Presenters

Reilly Powers

Miami University, NAEA Preservice Western Regional Representative

Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Preservice, Big Art Education Questions

3:00pm EDT

All Children Are Foreigners: Challenging Myths and Misconceptions in Early Childhood Art

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

"Your image of the child is where teaching begins," according to Loris Malaguzzi. What myths or misconceptions about young children impede sensitive, authentic, culturally responsive art teaching? How can we look and listen to our youngest students in ways that honor their ways of knowing and being? Five panelists respond.

Presenters

Heather Kaplan

Christine Thompson

Hayon Park

Kristine Sunday

Sally Pirie

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Early Childhood Art Educators Interest Group, Deep Dive Research

4:30pm EDT

Cultural Dialogue Within Curatorial Practices: Integrating Critical Pedagogy in Art Education

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

This session is an exploration of Freire's critical pedagogy within curatorial practices in art education, focusing on enhancing critical engagement and fostering culturally sensitive curation.

Presenters

Somi Lee

Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

I am a Teaching Assistant Professor of Art Education. My research focuses on public pedagogy, equity, and social justice. Let’s talk about collaborative art projects, inclusive curation, and innovative approaches to learning in community spaces.

Umar Hameed

Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Higher Education, Instructional Practice

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