2025 NAEA National Convention: Full Schedule

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General Session: Nate Powell

Thursday March 20, 2025 9:00am - 10:45am EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, Ballroom

Nate Powell is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist who began self-publishing as an Arkansas teenager in 1992. His work includes the new graphic novel Fall Through and a comics adaptation of James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me, civil rights icon John Lewis’s March trilogy, and more. Powell’s work has received American Library Association and Young Adult Library Services Association Awards, the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award, and he is a two-time finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

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Nate Powell

Nate Powell is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist who began self-publishing as an Arkansas teenager in 1992. His work includes the new graphic novel “Fall Through” and a new comics adaptation of James Loewen’s “Lies My Teacher Told Me,” civil rights icon John Lewis’s “Mar... Read More →

Thursday March 20, 2025 9:00am - 10:45am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, Ballroom

General Session

9:00am EDT

General Session: Guerrilla Girls

Friday March 21, 2025 9:00am - 10:45am EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, Ballroom

The Guerrilla Girls are anonymous artist activists who use disruptive headlines, outrageous visuals, and surprising statistics to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in art, film, politics, and pop culture. They work to undermine the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, the subtext, the overlooked, and the unfair. The Guerrilla Girls have done hundreds of projects (street posters, banners, actions, books, and videos) all over the world—including retrospectives, traveling exhibitions, and interventions that have attracted thousands.

Presenters

Guerrilla Girls

The Guerrilla Girls’ motto: Do one thing. If it works, do another. If it doesn’t, do another anyway. Keep chipping away!The Guerrilla Girls are anonymous artist activists who use disruptive headlines, outrageous visuals and surprising statistics to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in art, film, politics and pop culture. They work to undermine the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory... Read More →

Friday March 21, 2025 9:00am - 10:45am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, Ballroom

General Session

9:00am EDT

General Session: Roberto Lugo

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:00am - 10:45am EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, Ballroom

Roberto Lugo is a Philadelphia-based artist, ceramicist, social activist, poet, and educator who utilizes classical pottery forms in conjunction with portraiture and surface designs reminiscent of his North Philadelphia upbringing and hip-hop culture to highlight themes of poverty, inequality, and racial injustice. His work has been featured in exhibitions and/or has become part of the permanent collections of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, and more. He is the recipient of numerous awards including a Heinz Award, Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures award, and a Pew Fellowship.

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 9:00am - 10:45am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, Ballroom

General Session