2025 NAEA National Convention: Full Schedule

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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

12:00pm EDT

CANCELLED Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Youth-Focused Anticarceral Art Pedagogy for Transformative Justice CANCELLED

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

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This session unpacks punitive laws and policies that criminalize minoritized youth in public schools and conceptualizes anticarceral art and media-based pedagogy. This pedagogical orientation promotes youths' solidarity and collective healing through art and digital media narratives that disrupt the carceral logic of individualized harm and punishment.

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Presenters

Olga Ivashkevich

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Committee on Multiethnic Concerns Interest Group, Professional Paper Presentation

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

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

Let’s Talk About "IT": Challenges and Opportunities for Sustaining ED&I Work in Art Education

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Participants join presenters in dialogue about the critical findings of NAEA's Cultural Competency Program and related ED&I efforts. Our goal is to build a purpose-driven session of relevant content impacting art educational practices today. How do ED&I aims impact your professional practice and persistence in the art education field?

Presenters

Flavia Bastos

Distinguished Research Professor and Provost Fellow, University of Cincinnati

I am a creative educator who leverages art's potential to promote dialogue and civic engagement.

Karen McGarry

Associate Professor, College for Creative Studies

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Equity Diversity and Inclusion, Deep Dive Research

4:30pm EDT

Banksy's Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem: Complicated Conversations on Palestine and the Wall

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

This presentation addresses the implications of Banksy's site-specific artwork, the Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem, which contains artwork by Banksy throughout the lobby, galleries of contemporary Palestinian art, and a museum on the Separation Wall. We'll share curriculum resources and the presenter's photos, which were taken on-site.

Presenters

Sue Uhlig

Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

United States Society for Education through Art Interest Group, Instructional Practice

5:00pm EDT

A Holistic Exploration of Choice-Based (Art) Education Across TAB, Montessori, and Reggio Emilia

Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

This dissertation research explores the core idea of "choice" in choice-based art education by comparing Montessori, Reggio Emilia, and TAB approaches. It reveals what "choice" means and how it manifests similarly and differently in these three educational models.

Presenters

Ke Xiao

PhD Candidate, Virginia Commonwealth University

presentation resource page Ke Xiao 25NAEA pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Choice Art Educators Interest Group, Professional Paper Presentation