2025 NAEA National Convention: Full Schedule

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Identity and Pattern With Roberto Lugo [TICKET REQUIRED]

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M103

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Work with NAEA25 Keynote Speaker and artist, ceramicist, social activist, poet, and educator Roberto Lugo! Engage in an experience that allows you to actively consider culturally significant imagery based on your lived experiences and learn how to translate these elements into a tessalating pattern.

Presenters

Roberto Lugo

Roberto Lugo is a Philadelphia-based artist, ceramicist, social activist, poet, and educator. Lugo utilizes classical pottery forms in conjunction with portraiture and surface design reminiscent of his North Philadelphia upbringing and Hip Hop culture to highlight themes of poverty, inequality, a... Read More →

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M103

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12:00pm EDT

Reaching Diverse Students: Create Tools and Resources That Enhance Access and Authenticity for ALL Learners [TICKET REQUIRED]

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L017/L018

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Do you know that your students would benefit from adaptive tools and culturally inclusive resources, but you don't have the experience or time to make them? Join us in this workshop where we will learn about and create them together! You will leave with tools and resources to use right away!

Presenters

April Malphurs

Elementary Art Educator, LeSueur Henderson Elementary School

Glass, fibers, and mixed media artist. Elementary Art Educator. Passionate EDI Advocate. AEM EDI co-chair. SAL class 2022. CAN participant. MN Culturally Responsive Arts Educator.

Kelley DeCleene

Adjunct Instructor, Content Creator, SME, Curriculum Writer, Art of Education University

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L017/L018

Art in Special Education Interest Group, Ticketed Studio Workshop

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12:00pm EDT

Releasing and Redirecting Using Art and Our Hands [TICKET REQUIRED]

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L005

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Learn to create a piece of art using your hands as the focus for moving energy through art materials to assist in letting go of that which no longer serves us and replacing it with a visualization of that which we desire.

Presenters

Raine Valentine

Art Educator and Green Leader, Baltimore County Public Schools

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L005

Caucus on the Spiritual in Art Education Interest Group, Ticketed Studio Workshop

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12:00pm EDT

Outlaws Versus Conformists: A Mixed-Media Abstract Collaboration Workshop [TICKET REQUIRED]

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L026

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Dive into a dynamic mixed-media abstract collaboration workshop themed around the clash between Outlaws and Conformists. Discover innovative approaches to ignite student creativity, utilizing mixed media like charcoal, watercolors, blindfolds, and music to evoke the senses. Embrace your rebel spirit or conformist flair and create unique artworks in fun, collaborative groups.

Presenters

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 →

Michael Bell

Supervisor of Fine Arts, QACPS

Michael Bell is a nationally renowned artist, TED speaker, award-winning arts educator, and visual journaling pioneer. As the 2024 NAEA National Supervisor of the Year, he has transformed Queen Anne’s County Public Schools as Fine Arts Supervisor, establishing NAHS Chapters, K-12... Read More →

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L026

Choice Art Educators Interest Group, Ticketed Studio Workshop

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12:00pm EDT

Modern Fabric Linoprints: Not Your Grandmother's Textile Workshop! [TICKET REQUIRED]

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L011/l012

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Learn how to create linoprints on fabric. We introduce you to traditional printmaking tools and techniques for carving linocut blocks and will use these challenge-based skills to transfer their inked designs onto fabric. Come away with materials, linocut blocks, and strategies for integrating linoprint lessons into the K-12 art curriculum.

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Teri Giobbia

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L011/l012

Design Interest Group, Ticketed Studio Workshop

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12:00pm EDT

Wonder and Curiosity of Place: Honorable Explorations of Nature Through Collecting, Eco-Printing, and Botanical Pigments [TICKET REQUIRED]

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M101/M102

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Discuss ways to explore and better connect to the natural world through a wonder-filled approach to collecting informed by Indigenous pedagogy, place studies, and eco-based philosophies. Participants will make eco-prints, botanical pigments, and a box or book that houses their eco-explorations.

Presenters

Lori Santos

Wichita State University

Sue Uhlig

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M101/M102

Ecology and Environment Interest Group, Ticketed Studio Workshop

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12:00pm EDT

Studio State of Mind [TICKET REQUIRED]

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

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Discover Kentucky's history and culture while creating a variety of projects that incorporate state resources, themes, and history. Explore the richness of Kentucky using a variety of media and come away with many projects that can also lead to connections to your own home state.

Presenters

Carey Given

Laura Dant

Art Teacher Pre school - 8th Grade, Saint Agnes and St. Francis of Assisi Schools

Tiffany Whalen

Art Educator, St. Michael School

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

Elementary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

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12:00pm EDT

Roll the dice: Play Your Way Into Higher Education (Art) Teaching [TICKET REQUIRED]

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M109/M110

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Come play! This game will help you transform your courses into semester-long narrative games that place students at the center of adventures adaptable to any type of course. Consider ungrading strategies and game-design principles as you set up a transformative higher education course.

Presenters

Marta Cabral

Associate Professor, City University of New York (CUNY)

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M109/M110

Higher Education, Ticketed Studio Workshop

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12:00pm EDT

Artfully Suited for Spacewalking: Sewable Electronics "Suited" for Mars! [TICKET REQUIRED]

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

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Let's go to Mars with sewable electronics! Design and fabricate an e-textile with an integrated sensor that can be beautiful and functional... maybe even for Mars! You will gain access to lesson plans and resources to bring these hands-on, "hard-fun" activities into your own visual arts or media arts classroom.

Presenters

Angela Batten

Barbara Liedahl

Director, BJLFELTCLAYMAKER LLC

Barbara Liedahl of BJLFELTCLAYMAKER LLC specializes in Educational Consulting, Professional Development, and Makerspace Support. She is a Professional Development Provider for Infosys Foundation USA’s Online Pathfinders Summer Institute, where she facilitates her “Space Suits... Read More →

Camille Dogbe

03 NAEA 25 Artfully Suited for Spacewalking Sewable Electronics Suitable for Mars! pdf

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

Media Arts, Ticketed Studio Workshop

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12:00pm EDT

Character Development and Storytelling in Art: A Complete Unit of Study [TICKET REQUIRED]

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L009

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Explore character development and storytelling through this engaging unit of study that students love! Design your own 2D character, transform it into a 3D sewn artwork, and bring it to life with a comic. We will discuss planning, creation, collaboration, and display in a way you can easily implement.

Presenters

Allison Cole

Elementary Art Teacher 🎨

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L009

Middle, Ticketed Studio Workshop

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12:00pm EDT

Games People Play [TICKET REQUIRED]

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M105/M106

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With a past rooted in trade and value, and a future increasingly based in AI, board games offer a wide range of interpretations for student content while encompassing a wealth of media! Explore, design, play, and bring ideas home for your classroom!

Presenters

Debra Hannu

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M105/M106

Middle, Ticketed Studio Workshop

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12:00pm EDT

Storytelling to Connect to Self: Oral History and Bookmaking Workshop [TICKET REQUIRED]

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L007/L008

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Discover a simple hardcover bookmaking technique, as well as how to guide students in conducting their own oral history projects as part of a unit on storytelling. Attendees will make their own hardcover book and leave with a detailed step-by-step unit plan on the topic.

Presenters

Elizabeth Healey-Mainoo

Assistant Professor of Art Education, Utah Valley University

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L007/L008

Middle, Ticketed Studio Workshop

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12:00pm EDT

Cultivating Creativity With Simple and Effective Challenges [TICKET REQUIRED]

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L015/L019

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How do you get your students to open themselves to create imaginative, meaningful art? Learn engaging exercises that do just that in this hands-on studio workshop using simple materials, and leave with fresh ideas to implement immediately in the classroom, and perhaps in your own artmaking.

Presenters

Eric Scott

Art Teacher, Loudoun School for Advanced Studies

Cultivating Creativity QR pdf

Get to Work Sign pdf

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L015/L019

Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

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12:00pm EDT

Trash to Treasure: Creating Sculptures With Dynamic Form and Texture Using Cardboard [TICKET REQUIRED]

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L010

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This workshop will introduce how material limitations encourage students to explore capabilities of simple materials to create dynamic 3D artworks. We will focus on manipulating cardboard to create different textures and forms, and how to make armatures in a cross-contour format to support surface details.

Presenters

Amy Henke

Amy Henke - Art teacher at West Forsyth High School in Cumming, GA @artroom_1420 on Instagram

Cardboard Sculpture Workshop Resources pdf

Trash to Treasure Sculpting with Cardboard pdf

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L010

Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

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