2025 NAEA National Convention: Full Schedule

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8:00am EDT

From Cute to Creative: Documenting Infant and Toddler Explorations, Relationships, and Innate Sense of Wonder

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L011/l012

Young children's art shifts adult perspectives from celebrating children as objects to recognizing art as transformative, enjoyable processes that enhance human development. Participants will engage with a university case study, identify benefits of embedding child-centered art in early childhood settings, and be empowered to share insights with families and caregivers.

Presenters

Lisa Fiore

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L011/l012

Higher Education, Instructional Practice

8:00am EDT

Generating New Conversations for Educators Through Arts Research

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Authors in a newly published edited volume featuring a collection of practice-based research projects discuss their artistic explorations and research, illuminating how art education practices enrich and generate transformative approaches to art making, teaching, writing, and thinking.

Presenters

Rebecca Bourgault

Catherine Rosamond

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Higher Education, Professional Paper Presentation

8:00am EDT

Resilience in Art Education: Embracing Vulnerability for Innovative Artistic Practices

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L003

Discover how discussing personal challenges within a group of PhD students and a professor enhanced innovative practices in creative research and teaching of arts. We center the question: How does sharing personal experiences in narrative storytelling inspire new ideas and methods?

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.

Ava Maken Ali

PhD student, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Ava Maken Ali's research explores creative explosion and the expression of rage as an angry woman, as well as the role of animals in this expression. She engages with both traditional art forms, such as drawing, installation, video, fashion, and performance, and non-traditional practices... Read More →

Natalie F Smith

PhD candidate, Art Education, UIUC, Adjunct Lecturer in New Media, UNCG, The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), University of North Carolina, Greensboro (UNCG)

Book Designer, Typographer, PhD Candidate in Art Education (UIUC), Graphic Design Educator (MFA, Graphic Design, UIUC, 2020)

Rachel Gu

Umar Hameed

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L003

Higher Education, Professional Paper Presentation

12:00pm EDT

Mentorship Through Research: Exciting Collaborative Faculty and Student Projects and Analyses

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L027

This panel is composed of several teams of faculty and undergraduate or graduate university preservice art education students. A variety of research will be presented, ranging from the preservice experience to specific ontological and epistemological studies in which the faculty and students worked together for the betterment of art education. Presenters will include Beth Link, Abbie Rogers, Derek Fenner, Morgan Kitts, Diane Kuthy, Alexandra Garove, Karen Keifer-Boyd, Maggie-Rose Condit-Summerson, Bria Tyler, Elijah Chumley.

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Derek Fenner

Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina Upstate

Derek Fenner is an artist, educator, and researcher working in the Carolinas. He earned his MFA in writing and poetics from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. After a decade of experience as an art educator and administrator in the Massachusetts juvenile... Read More →

Yichien Cooper

Assistant Professor, Wsu Tri-cities

Dustin Garnet

Christina Bain

Hayon Park

Hazel Bradshaw-Beaumont

Karen Keifer-Boyd

Maggie-Rose Condit-Summerson

Beth Link

Abbie Rogers

Diane Kuthy

Alexandra Garove

Elijah Chumley

Morgan Kitts

Preservice Art Educator/Researcher/Artist

Bria Tyler

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L027

Higher Education, Deep Dive Research

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

TICKET REQUIRED
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

Host Organization Ticket Required
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1:00pm EDT

Blooming Together: Female Art Educators' Collective Renewal of Researcher Identities

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L013

Learn how female art educators in higher education individually and collaboratively explore and renew their research identities through weekly writing group sessions. Highlighting the collaborative autoethnographic study, presenters will share their live stories with lessons and suggestions, detailing how the renewal process empowered them in academia.

Presenters

Borim Song

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

Ahran Koo

Eunjung Chang

oksun Lee

Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L013

Higher Education, Professional Paper Presentation

2:00pm EDT

Making Room for Chance: Collaboration and Interdisciplinary Exchange in Arts Pedagogy

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L016

Collaborative interdisciplinary curricula provide opportunities to balance breadth and depth across diverse student populations and learning styles but can be challenging to actualize. This presentation considers historical and theoretical models like world heritage shadowplay traditions, Surrealist and Fluxus games, and ambulatory arts in relation to practical executions in the classroom.

Presenters

Johannes DeYoung

Sheika Lugtu

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L016

Higher Education, Instructional Practice

2:00pm EDT

Pre- and Postassessment in a Multicase Study of Antiracism Toward Racial Justice Art Education Modules

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L003

Discover how a research team developed and assessed lessons based on four guided art encounters to advance antiracist pedagogies as they aimed to cultivate the racial literacy of preservice art educators. The team will discuss the instructional approaches and strategies they implemented in addition to the outcomes of their curricula geared toward fostering racial justice.

Presenters

Marie Huard

Eunkyung Hwang

Assistant Professor of Art Education, State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz

Karen Keifer-Boyd

Maggie-Rose Condit-Summerson

Richard Agbeze

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L003

Higher Education, Instructional Practice

3:00pm EDT

Fostering Civic Responsibility Through Art: Innovative K-12 Interdisciplinary Curriculum Project

Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M113

Join us in exploring the successful outcomes of K-12 interdisciplinary arts and civics curriculum developed over 2 years between universities and K-12 schools. Highlighting student artworks from various schools, we showcase teaching resources. We also examine interdisciplinary projects that foster civic learning and local engagement through artmaking and place-based pedagogy.

Presenters

Minki Jeon

Rachel Fendler

Dr. Sara Scott Shields

Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M113

Higher Education, Instructional Practice

4:00pm EDT

Creating a Preservice Community for Networking and Empowerment Through a Regional Preservice Art Education Conference

Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M113

Explore topics and issues that arose at a regional conference designed for and by preservice art educators, dedicated to creating community, professional development, and opportunities for networking and leadership. We'll discuss organizational structure and takeaways, providing a model for others interested in connecting and empowering preservice programs.

Presenters

Reilly Powers

Miami University, NAEA Preservice Western Regional Representative

Isa Obradovich

Luke Meeken

Assistant Professor, Miami University

Stephanie Danker

Associate Professor of Art Education, Miami University

Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M113

Higher Education, Instructional Practice

4:00pm EDT

Teaching Social Practice and Community Engaged Art Education With Criticality in Coursework

Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L009

Hear an overview of critically aware course activities and syllabi that engages participants in considering core concepts. Reflections and questions from lived experiences in higher education will provide examples of successful community partnerships, strategies for student-driven projects, and assessment structures for big ideas to frame your future social practice with culturally sustaining perspectives.

Presenters

Patty Bode

Associate Professor / Coordinator Art Education, Southern Connecticut State University

Dr. Patty Bode weaves a tapestry of teaching and leadership art education experiences in both PK-12 public schools, and in higher education teacher preparation programs. She has worked in public schools for over 20 years as an art teacher, curriculum leader and middle school principal... Read More →

Kate Collins

Ramya Ravisankar

Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Columbus College of Art and Design

Social Practice Art Ed NAEA 2025 Bode Collins Ravisankar pdf

Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L009

Higher Education, Instructional Practice

4:00pm EDT

arTED Micropresentations: Circumnavigating Art Education Research

Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 5:20pm EDT

Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon VII

This energetic panel of short-burst, 5-minute micropresentations about teacher preparation program advancements or art education research provides quick presentational topics and outcomes. This session is designed to give a fast-paced glimpse of the important work being done in our field across the United States and beyond. Presenters will include Syed Faizaan Ahab, Floor Grootenhuis, Alice Yu-Chin Cheng, Steven Heil, Donna Jones, Amber Pitt, Kevin Tavin, and Peter Vietgen.

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