2025 NAEA National Convention: Full Schedule

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2:00pm EDT

Arm in Arm: Supervision and Administration and Higher Education United in Addressing Real-World Challenges for Art Programs

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L006

Join the Supervision/Administration and Higher Education Divisions as we discuss issues impacting our field and solutions that can be achieved more quickly and meaningfully if we tackle them together. Attendees will gain tangible ideas they can take back to their communities to help address real concerns. Panelists will include Andrew Watson, Jennifer Fisher, Mousumi De and Antonia Germanos.

Presenters

Sarah Ackermann

Yichien Cooper

Assistant Professor, Wsu Tri-cities

Jennifer Fisher

Associate Teaching Professor of Art Education, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Mousumi De

Associate Professor, University of Redlands

trinity villanueva

Founder, Diwa Soul

Current NAEA Board of Director. Future Associate Chair of NAEA EDI Commission. // I am a mother first and foremost, a proud Latina-NHPI queer woman. // A full time artist, musician, and Polynesian cultural ambassador. Multi-lingual English, Spanish, Hawaiian. // I’m the founder... Read More →

Andrew Watson

Antonia Germanos

Arm in Arm pdf

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L006

Higher Education, Big Art Education Questions

2:00pm EDT

Channeling Reflexive and Inclusive Student-Centered Approaches in Postsecondary Visual Arts Classrooms

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L004

This interactive workshop introduces participating higher education arts educators to a new framework cocreated with students to incorporate more inclusive educational practices in their classrooms. Participants will engage in reflexive activities that elevate student voice through student-centered pedagogy in the organization and revision of their teaching materials and practices.

Presenters

Beatrice Carey Carter

Elizabeth

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L004

Higher Education, Skills Toolbox

3:00pm EDT

All Division Awards Ceremony

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT

Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon EFG

Join us for the All Division Awards session, where we will honor this year’s award winners from all NAEA Regions and Divisions. A special presentation will highlight the remarkable achievements of each recipient. To kick off the ceremony, we are excited to welcome Jamaal Durr, known professionally as JQ, a multifaceted visual artist based in Louisville. JQ, whose work spans from detailed portraits to pop-culture illustrations, will open the awards with an inspiring address. His art, rooted in expressions of the human figure, challenges audiences to think critically and embrace their creative gifts. Through his journey, he encourages the next generation of artists to follow their dreams and make their mark on the world.

Presenters

Yichien Cooper

Assistant Professor, Wsu Tri-cities

Devon Calvert

Janis Nunnally

NAEA Middle Level Director/Art Educator, NAEA/Upperman Middle

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.

trinity villanueva

Founder, Diwa Soul

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon EFG

3:00pm EDT

Critical Pedagogies in Online Spaces

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

There is no single approach to online teaching. Three online educators discuss research informing course design, including disability justice, critical access, and digital equity; asset-based community development and transformational community; and gamification, and offer practical strategies for other educators to reconsider the relationship between pedagogy, research, and e-learning.

Presenters

Jennifer Eisenhauer Richardson

Associate Professor, The Ohio State University

Dr. Eisenhauer Richardson is an Associate Professor in the Arts Administration, Education and Policy Department and an affiliated faculty member in the Disability Studies program at The Ohio State University. She received a dual-Ph.D. in Art Education and Women’s Studies from The... Read More →

Ruth Smith

Clayton Funk

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Higher Education, Deep Dive Research

3:00pm EDT

Learning Together: The Reggio Emilia, Italy Municipal Schools as a Site for Art Education Research

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L004

How can the Reggio Emilia approach influence U.S. preservice art education? A community of practice shares action research projects, including a professor-and-student study week at the Reggio Emilia, Italy, municipal preschools. Expressive rights, collaborative inquiry, and art materials as language provide valuable insights for all art education contexts.

Presenters

Ceinwen Carrejo

Gigi Schroeder Yu

Assistant Professor, Art Education, Art Department, University of New Mexico

Hayon Park

Kristin Vanderlip Taylor

Associate Professor of Art Education, California State University, Northridge

Ask me about the CSU Art Ed ColLab, a mentoring community of practice for beginning visual art teachers in California

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L004

Higher Education, Deep Dive Research

3:00pm EDT

Teaching and Learning on the Edge: Art Education in Rural and Remote Settings

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L001

What are the problems and challenges of being geographically remote from culturally rich centers when it comes to art education? This session will highlight various topics related to art teaching and learning in rural and remote areas of the Mountain West. All experience levels are welcome to join us for meaningful discussions!

Presenters

Mandi Little

Howe (Xuhao) Yang

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L001

Higher Education, Deep Dive Research

3:00pm EDT

Wonder-Full Art Education: Amplifying Awe Through Community-Based and Collaborative Artmaking

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, Conference Theatre (M112)

Wonder-full education surfaces less widely studied emotions, such as awe and wonder, as pathways to learning and well-being. We examine the implications for art education and ask: How does collective artmaking activate transformative and connective inquiry through awe? How can community-based art education infuse our lives and teaching with wonder?

Presenters

Carolina Blatt

Program Coordinator & 3/4 Faculty, Rowan University

WonderfullArtEducation NAEA2025 Blatt pptx

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, Conference Theatre (M112)

Higher Education, Deep Dive Research

3:00pm EDT

Protest Postcards! [TICKET REQUIRED]

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L026

TICKET REQUIRED
Make your voice heard by creating advocacy works of art! In this session, participants will create 10 works of art on prestamped, blank postcards. A rich assortment of collage materials will be provided, as well as resources for sending these cards to your representatives at state and national levels.

Presenters

Laurie Gatlin

Professor, California State University Long Beach

Maker Painter Semi-retired Still curious

Protest Postcards Louisville 2025 pptx

protest slogans docx

Peoples climate march slogans pdf

Blue Wave Analytics Postcard Best Practices Data and Analysis pdf

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L026

Higher Education, Ticketed Studio Workshop

Host Organization Ticket Required
Keywords Ticket Required

4:30pm EDT

Resilient Research: Navigating Art Teacher Burnout and Compassion Fatigue Through Slow Scholarship

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M108

Are you navigating demanding environments and researching emotionally charged topics? If so, come and examine researcher resilience through slow scholarship. Consider creative approaches and practical insights for emotional well-being in academic settings. Explore transformative and reflective practices to enhance researcher resilience.

Presenters

Libba Willcox

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M108

Higher Education, Professional Paper Presentation

4:30pm EDT

Shared Identity: Unpacking Sense of Community for Adult Learners in Online Graduate Courses

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L006

Explore the unique challenges of nontraditional students in online graduate programs. Learn practical strategies for fostering a sense of community to enhance engagement and retention. Gain insights from research findings and practical approaches for improving online learning environments.

Presenters

Theresa Gillespie

Chair of Graduate Student Retention, The Art of Education University

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L006

Higher Education, Professional Paper Presentation

4:30pm EDT

The Case for COIL-ing a Graduate Arts Teacher Preparation Program

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Learn more about a COIL project between arts teacher training programs in Santiago, Chile, and Minneapolis, MN, with an aim to enhance understanding of language acquisition in arts education by connecting students across continents. See how the use of technology and AI helped overcome language barriers, while promoting culturally relevant K-12 arts learning.

Presenters

Betsy Maloney Leaf PhD

Isabel Besser Verastegui

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Higher Education, Instructional Practice

5:00pm EDT

From Looking to Language: The Historical Shift to Visual Literacy in Art Education

Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Trace a paradigm shift from visual perception to visual literacy in the history of art education. Through a rhetorical analysis of primary source material, this presentation traces social, political, pedagogical, and policy shifts that reoriented looking to literacy, as well as implications for art education curricula and practice today.

Presenters

Cala Coats

Associate Professor, Arizona State University

Abigail Schmid

Graduate Student/Research Assistant, Arizona State University

From Looking to Language The Historical Shift to Visual Literacy in Art Education pdf

Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Higher Education, Big Art Education Questions

5:00pm EDT

Manuel Barkan Award Lecture

Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Conceived as a tribute to Manuel Barkan, this award is presented to an individual who, through their published work in either Art Education or Studies in Art Education, has contributed a product of scholarly merit to the field of art education. The 2025 Manuel Barkan Award Lecture will be given by gloria j. wilson. The title of the presentation is “Cartographies of Black Life: Meditations on a Black Sense of Place in and Through the Arts in Education.” This dialogical engagement explores how Black Geospatial Inquiry and Aesthetic Praxis converse across disciplines, engaging Black studies, the arts, geography, environmental humanities, and education. Through discussions of spatial liberation and aesthetic praxis, this conversation examines how Black life navigates the spatial, material, and environmental conditions that shape, constrain, and reimagine possibilities for movement, and self-determination. Drawing from recent work, we consider how Black compositional thought functions within education and the arts as both spatial consciousness and refusal, as well as a generative force for Black ways of knowing, being, and doing. Participants are encouraged to bring questions, insights, and provocations.

Presenters

gloria j. wilson

Dustin Garnet

Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Higher Education, Professional Paper Presentation

5:00pm EDT

Writing for Studies in Art Education

Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M108

An advisory session about Studies in Art Education, facilitated by the editors and editorial board members. This session is for prospective authors interested in submitting manuscripts for review.

Presenters

Amy J. Barnickel

Kryssi Staikidis

Mira Kallio-Tavin

Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M108

Higher Education, Instructional Demonstration

8:00am EDT

2024 Higher Education Educator of the Year Lecture

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT

Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon X

Join us for a meaningful and inspiring lecture by Amy Pfeiler-Wunder, the 2024 NAEA National Higher Education Educator of the Year. Traversing the complexities of the social, cultural, and political educational landscape, this session shares how teacher identity and positionalities intersect with the multilayered and storied lives of preK lifelong learners to illuminate essential curricular components in visual arts and education: play, meaning-making, and critical conversation. The session concludes with an open dialogue on the lecture.

Presenters

Amy Pfeiler-Wunder

Associate Dean College of Visual and Performing Arts, Kutztown University

I serve as the chair and graduate coordinator in the Art Education Department at Kutztown University!I am in my second semester as chair and also serve as the Higher Education Division Director for the National Art Education Association.

Yichien Cooper

Assistant Professor, Wsu Tri-cities

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon X

Higher Education, Business Meeting/Awards Ceremony

8:00am EDT

Bending Toward Justice: Interrogating Narratives Embodied in Public Monuments and Memorials

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M116

Explore methods for interrogating narratives in public monuments using Bell's Storytelling Project Model and emerging VR technologies. This session highlights examples from Richmond, VA; Montgomery, AL; and Jackson, MS, and provides practical strategies for classroom application, fostering critical engagement with public art and its complex histories.

Presenters

Brittany Myburgh

Assistant Professor, Jackson State University

Mary Soylu

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M116

Higher Education, Professional Paper Presentation

8:00am EDT

How Can the Experiences of 1st-Year Art Teachers Help Inform and Improve Educator Preparation Programs?

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M100

What did you learn in your teacher preparation program that supported you in your early teaching career? What do you wish you learned? Join new art teachers to hear their critical reflections on teaching today and discuss ways higher education institutions can better support this work.

Presenters

Grace Harrison

Teacher-Art, Baltimore City Public Schools

Gabriella Nichole Contreras Santos

Lisa Hochtritt

Rosemary McGeady

Adriane Pereira

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M100

Higher Education, Big Art Education Questions

8:00am EDT

Research as Leadership and Advocacy: Research as a Critical Element of Teacher Education

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M115

Explore different approaches and activities to incorporate research skills for art teachers in university teacher education programs. This session will also collectively explore why research is a core leadership and advocacy skill for all arts educators.

Presenters

Sohee Koo

Marit Dewhurst

Susan McCullough

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M115

Higher Education, Instructional Practice

8:00am EDT

Student Story-Building Toward Understanding, Belonging, and Community in the Art Classroom

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L015/L019

Learn narrative strategies that demonstrate how students unpack individual storied landscapes and grow in empathy for self and others through collective storytelling. Lessons shared provide opportunities for authentic artmaking and include mapping stories of place, time-based "I am" story exchanges, narrative memory books, learning story postcards, and more.

Presenters

Nicole Romanski

Assistant Professor, Kutztown University

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L015/L019

Higher Education, Instructional Demonstration

12:00pm EDT

An Intergenerational Community of Practice to Support Preservice and Emerging Teachers

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M115

Since 2023, a community of practice meets at a Midwestern university, including preservice art teachers, recent graduates, and teachers. Our sessions tackle teaching challenges, guided by guest expert teachers. By addressing gaps in early career training, and fostering collaborative mentorship, we contribute to retention strategies and promote sustained professional growth.

Presenters

Devon Calvert

Beth Dobberstein

Verónica Soria-Martínez

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M115

Higher Education, Big Art Education Questions

12:00pm EDT

Exploring How Universities Can Prepare K-12 Teachers to Cultivate Local Civic Engagement

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M114

Join us to explore how higher education can empower K-12 teachers to foster local civic engagement through collaborative art education models. Highlighting best practices and innovative approaches, we examine how universities might equip educators to inspire civic participation and integrate it into K-12 curricula, promoting engaged, informed, and active citizens.

Presenters

Minki Jeon

Rachel Fendler

Dr. Sara Scott Shields

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M114

Higher Education, Professional Paper Presentation

12:00pm EDT

Exploring Novice Art Teachers' Diverse Approaches to Culturally Responsive Teaching in Urban High Schools

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, Conference Theatre (M112)

Learn more about a 2023-2024 study on novice urban high school art teachers' understanding and implementation of culturally responsive teaching. Highlighting diverse definitions and goals among teachers from the same education program, you will see the emphasized distinctions between abstract ideas and artistic techniques. Findings will be informative to administrators and teacher educators.

Presenters

Susan McCullough

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, Conference Theatre (M112)

Higher Education, Professional Paper Presentation

12:00pm EDT

Conversations With Colleagues: Connecting With Higher Education Art Educators

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT

Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon D

Join your colleagues in higher education for interactive conversation related to initiatives and concerns related to NAEA’s Higher Education Division. Connect with other members and brainstorm issues for discussion. Come meet the Division's awardees and enjoy door prizes and networking.

Presenters

Christina Bain

Yichien Cooper

Assistant Professor, Wsu Tri-cities

Dustin Garnet

Hayon Park

Hazel Bradshaw-Beaumont

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon D

Higher Education, Business Meeting/Awards Ceremony

1:00pm EDT

Access in Community-Based Preservice Practicums: After-School Art Classes as Alternative to Saturday Art School

Friday March 21, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M115

This presentation discusses after-school art programs as a preservice art educator practicum from two different universities. These programs create high-quality experiences of curriculum development and classroom management for preservice art educators and highly accessible community art education for children.

Presenters

Jeffrey Cornwall

Jennifer Bergmark

Friday March 21, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M115

Higher Education, Big Art Education Questions

1:00pm EDT

Top 10 Lessons Learned About Teaching an Art Elementary Methods Course

Friday March 21, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M114

Explore 10 lessons and best practices gained from years of developing, collaborating, reflecting, refining, and teaching art education methods courses in high education. Attendees will be introduced to an engaging elementary methods course framework and contemporary curriculum ideas for preparing preservice art educators.

Presenters

Nicole Romanski

Assistant Professor, Kutztown University

Friday March 21, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M114

Higher Education, Instructional Demonstration

3:00pm EDT

Coping With Toxic Stress Using Restorative Art Practices

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M116

Discover how creative arts practices can help mitigate toxic stress in the learning environment, and gain resources for implementing restorative art practices. Learn how to make meaningful connections for our students and ourselves and restore meaningful connections through the arts. Gain evidence-based strategies that can be utilized in any setting for restorative art practices.

Presenters

Dr. Donalyn Heise

Beverley Johns

Presenter, ABC

Bev Johns worked in the public schools with students with significant behavioral challenges for more than 30 years. She also served as a professional fellow at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois. She is the author or co-author of 23 books in the field of special education... Read More →

Lisa Kay

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M116

Higher Education, Deep Dive Research

3:00pm EDT

Invited Studies in Art Education Lecture

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, Conference Theatre (M112)

The annual Invited Studies in Art Education Lecture will be presented by Bob Sweeny, The Bend Before the Break: Postdigital Art and Art Education.

Presenters

Amy J. Barnickel

Kryssi Staikidis

Mira Kallio-Tavin

Bob Sweeny

Professor of Art Education

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, Conference Theatre (M112)

Higher Education, Instructional Demonstration

4:30pm EDT

Chambers of Art and Wonder: A Teaching Project on Decontextualizing Artifacts and Crafting New Narratives

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

This presentation examines the development of students' creative abilities in an undergraduate art studio. Through creating pseudo-chambers of art and wonder, students recontextualize artworks and artifacts, generating narratives on social issues. The project emphasizes the importance of decontextualization in understanding artifact meaning and explores its role in teacher education.

Presenters

Maria Letsiou

Assistant Professor of Visual Arts education, Department of Early Childhood Education, The School of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Thessaly, Volos, Gr

The visual artist Maria Letsiou is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Education in the Department of Early Childhood Education at the University of Thessaly. During his tenure (from 2011 to 2023) at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, he taught undergraduate and postgraduate... Read More →

Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Higher Education, Professional Paper Presentation

4:30pm EDT

Cultural Dialogue Within Curatorial Practices: Integrating Critical Pedagogy in Art Education

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

This session is an exploration of Freire's critical pedagogy within curatorial practices in art education, focusing on enhancing critical engagement and fostering culturally sensitive curation.

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.

Umar Hameed

Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Higher Education, Instructional Practice

4:30pm EDT

What Art History Offers AI: Fostering Ethical Tech Development Through Humanities Insights

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L001

Explore the integration of generative AI in art history education, focusing on its transformative potential and ethical implications. This presentation explores AI image-generation tools by examining their impact on teaching methodologies and highlighting the importance of inclusivity and cultural sensitivity in AI development.

Presenters

Brittany Myburgh

Assistant Professor, Jackson State University

Mary Soylu

Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L001

Higher Education, Professional Paper Presentation

5:00pm EDT

How Five Contemporary Artists Are Modernizing Materials and Methods to Elevate Textiles Into Fine Art

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M115

Learn about five contemporary textile artists who use innovative materials, digital technology, mixed media, and experimentation in their textile designs to explore social and cultural themes relevant to their lives and communities. Come away with resources, artist information, and lessons for integrating textile-based art activities into the K-12 curriculum provided.

Presenters

Teri Giobbia

Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M115

Higher Education, Instructional Practice

5:00pm EDT

Walking to Enlightenment: Field Notes From the Himalayas

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L001

Discover a newly published book that examines postmodern methodologies for the art educator, including the spiritual dimensions of art and education. The book also serves as a field guide to meaningful artistic inquiry and exploration within critical issues in the field including ecology, social activism, and remote teaching.

Presenters

Mark Graham

Clark Goldsberry

Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L001

Higher Education, Instructional Practice

5:00pm EDT

Becoming an Art Concept-Building Coach: Replacing Lectures With Cooperative Team Learning and Guided-Inquiry Activities

Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, Boardroom BC

Immerse yourself in a process-oriented guided-inquiry learning (POGIL) experience. Explore how guided-inquiry activities can replace your concept lectures. Experience how team structures can support student sense making, communication, and community building. Assess whether this pedagogy might improve your own Grade 6 through 12 students' mastery of foundational art concepts.

Presenters

Mare Sullivan

Curriculum writing, teacher workshops, Consultant, retired teacher

- Co-author of "Elements of Art: A Guided Inquiry" cooperative team learning, inquiry-based activities. - Named the 2013 Washington State Secondary Science Teacher of the Year- Past Steering Committee Member of The POGIL Project, Lancaster PA, focusing on process-oriented guided-inquiry... Read More →

Tammy Ashworth

Teacher, CVUSD

Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, Boardroom BC

Higher Education, Skills Toolbox

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

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.

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

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
Keywords Ticket Required

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

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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