2025 NAEA National Convention: Full Schedule

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8:00am EDT

Unleashing Creativity: Visual Journals as Catalysts for Dynamic Pedagogical Practices

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L027

Discover how visual journaling can transform your students' art education experiences by fostering creativity, cultural responsiveness, and independent thinking. Join our expert panel that spans preK-12 and higher education for practical strategies, student exemplars, and interactive discussions to enhance your teaching and ignite students' artistic voices.

Presenters

Samuel Peck

Artist - Researcher- Teacher, Independent Scholar

Samuel H. Peck is an artist, researcher, and art educator originally from Providence, Rhode Island, with over 16 years of art teaching experience at the K-12 and university levels. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Rhode Island and his Master ny of Studio... Read More →

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 Dodson

Teacher, Woodburn School District

Eric Scott

Art Teacher, Loudoun School for Advanced Studies

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 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L027

Choice Art Educators Interest Group, Big Art Education Questions

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.

Presenters

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

2:00pm EDT

Distinguished Fellows Mentoring Session 3

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 3:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L027

The NAEA Distinguished Fellows Mentoring Session 3 brings together researchers and educators who wish to offer their ideas, interests, and topical issues, especially those related to research, in lively, open discussion with NAEA Distinguished Fellows who have decades of experience and expertise to share, advise, and mentor.

Presenters

Debra Pylypiw

Pylstone, LLC & Coastal Carolina Community College

Debi West

Retired Art Educator / Owner Consultant / Graduate Instructor / Part-time Art Educator at SPMA cause why not!, WESTpectations Educational Consulting and AOEU and Sea Pines Montessori Academy

I’m a passionate, seasoned art educator…I firmly believe that #togetherweARTbetter and the ultimate winners will always be our kiddos!

Mary Stokrocki

Professor of Art Education, Arizona State University

I teach Digital Ethnography in Art on Second Life at NonProfit Commons and on OpenSim through University of British Columbia

Lisa Kay

David Burton

Linda Popp

Retired secondary art educator Narrative found object assemblage sculptor NAEA Distinguished Fellow MAEA Distinguished Fellow

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L027

Research, Big Art Education Questions

4:00pm EDT

CANCELLED Almost Got Arrested: My Adventure in Teaching Critical Socially Engaged Art in China CANCELLED

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L027

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By sharing my experiences teaching critical socially engaged art in an authoritarian society and how these references inspire the visual culture classrooms in the United States, you will gain insights and practical strategies for overcoming challenges in diverse educational environments and fostering inclusive, reflective, and socially conscious art education programs.

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Presenters

Ying CUI

Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L027

Asian Art and Culture Interest Group, Big Art Education Questions