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Thursday, March 20
 

12:00pm EDT

Alternative Photo Process: Cyanotypes
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Participants in this workshop will learn about the cyanotype process, from mixing solutions to developing finished prints. All materials, including cyanotype papers, negatives, and objects for photograms and pictures will be provided. Cyanotypes provide a way to engage students in photographic processes without a darkroom, using only sunlight and water!
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LG
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

12:00pm EDT

Transformative Trauma-Informed Artmaking: Supporting All Students, Especially At-Promise Youth
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Discover how trauma-informed artmaking transforms classrooms and supports at-promise youth. Learn practical strategies to nurture social-emotional learning and design standards-aligned art lessons to create a safe, creative environment. Engage in hands-on activities and explore the powerful impact of trauma-informed art for all students. Join us for an inspiring session!
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AB
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

1:00pm EDT

Leveraging Art Honor Societies to Solidify an Artist's Identity and Capacity for Growth
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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National Art Honor Societies afford purposeful interventions, both in and out of school to broaden curriculum exposure and solidify an artist's identity and self-directedness. In this presentation, teachers will review sociocultural trends and examine factors impacting artistic achievement to reflect on current programming and develop practical approaches framed by talent development.
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avatar for Cappie Dobyns

Cappie Dobyns

Art & TAG Teacher, Ames Community School District
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Instructional Practice

3:00pm EDT

"Mounds" of Personal Narratives
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Participants will explore personal narratives while creating their own "mounds" that are inspired by the work of artist Trenton Doyle Hancock. The session will encourage self-reflection techniques and allow the participants to create a piece of two-dimensional art that is a product of this personal journey.
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AE
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

3:00pm EDT

Nature Maker's Workshop: Creating Art Materials With Materials Found in Nature
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Are you wondering how to bring nature into your classroom studio? This session will provide participants with a detailed experience in creating art materials from nature and environmental application through artmaking.
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SV
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

3:00pm EDT

Wrecking and Rebuilding: A Weekly Approach to Encouraging and Developing Creative Problem-Solving Skills
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Examine a semester-long project taught in an introductory high school course aimed toward developing creative problem-solving skills through engaging, investigative visual journal prompts. Participants will create a stab-bound book, use supplies to "wreck" their book, and explore materials and prompts to "rebuild" pages into works of art.
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CM
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

4:30pm EDT

Using Art History to Strengthen Empathy and Connection
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Have you noticed your students struggle to connect with others? Come learn how to use art history warm-ups to develop students' empathy and understanding of others and give them a global perspective on the art world. Warm-ups and strategies will be shared with participants.
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AO
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Skills Toolbox

5:00pm EDT

Sketchbooks Reimagined: Procedures Leading to Innovative Ideation
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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This workshop focuses on how to use sketchbooks to empower students to explore and develop their own ideas. Step-by-step procedures for sketchbook research will lead to more meaningful artmaking. How can students use sketchbooks more mindfully? Implement a streamlined sketchbook process while empowering students to develop meaningful ideas.
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LS
SP
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Skills Toolbox

5:00pm EDT

Surreal Digital Photomontage: Using Technology in the Art Room to Promote Contemporary Studio Practices
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Introduce contemporary studio practices through the integration of technology as tool for students to use in their creative process by using free platforms like Picsart and Canva. Gain access to lesson resources, create a digital photomontage, and leave with a new way to bring tech into the art room.
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LD
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Skills Toolbox

5:00pm EDT

Thinking Differently: Breaking Stereotypes About Dyslexia in Art Education
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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As we unravel the stereotypes surrounding neurodiversity, culture begins to delve into the cognitive advantages associated with dyslexia. Including heightened spatial awareness, ability to understand complex patterns and innovative problem-solving. Creating pedagogical change, through highlighting the transformative power of thinking differently, while paving the way to a more inclusive future.
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JC
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Instructional Demonstration

5:30pm EDT

Amplify Diverse Voices in Your Art Room With Disabled Artists
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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Tired of the same art history faces? Expand your curriculum and ignite student curiosity with this dynamic session that explores the world of contemporary disabled artists. You will discover a wealth of fresh lesson ideas across various mediums to foster a more inclusive art room that reflects diverse voices and empowers ALL students.
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PH
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Big Art Education Questions
 
Friday, March 21
 

8:00am EDT

Fascinating and Fearless Female Artists: 10 Artists You Should Teach
Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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This presentation will cover important female artists and examples of how their work can be included in middle and upper school art curriculum. Includes a brief background on each artist as well as aligned student artwork and writing, sketchbook, assessment, and field trip ideas.
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CN
SE
Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Skills Toolbox

8:00am EDT

Leading With Creativity: Strategies to Help AP Students With MPI, Inquiry, Writing, and Revision
Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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This interactive AP Art and Design session explores teacher-tested strategies that use creativity and curiosity to improve MPI, inquiry, writing, and revision. The student-centered strategies help address the why behind their artistic choices, synthesize their writing with creative endeavors, and revise and expand their material usage.
Presenters
avatar for Kerry Parrish

Kerry Parrish

Art Educator and Instructional Technology Coach, D155
Kerry Parrish has been teaching Visual Arts for 25 years and has been an Instructional Technology Coach for 6 years. She has presented at ISTE, ISTE Creative Constructor Lab, CUElive, IDEA/TCEA, ITC, LTCIlliois, NAEA, and IAEA. As an art teacher, she frequently looks art edtech through... Read More →
AC
KL
Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Skills Toolbox

8:00am EDT

Photo Embroidery- Adding Texture and Meaning
Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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This session will teach basic embroidery stitches that will enhance photos. Through intuition and innovation, stitching will be used to create a new image and meaning. Bringing the styles of different artists, their culture, and the history of embroidery as inspiration for a new personal tradition or techniques to teach.
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MG
Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Skills Toolbox

8:00am EDT

Portraits and Scanograms: Unconventional Representations of Self and Others
Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Personal stories are worth seeking, hearing, and interpreting. Student-conducted interviews deepen interpersonal connections with important people in their lives as they artistically inform innovative portraits using photography and scanography. Designed for teachers of any discipline, you will hear strategies for adapting this narrative photography-centered experience in your disciplines and classroom.
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CA
RH
Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Instructional Practice

8:00am EDT

Printmaking + Photography = Printography: The Best of Both Worlds
Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Changing the traditional photography curriculum to include printmaking allows for more in-class student engagement. This provides more varied artmaking experiences and recognizes that photography is a type of printmaking. It highlights how accessible and flexible printmaking is in the classroom and how it can be combined with photography.
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avatar for Julie Denison

Julie Denison

Art Teacher, Cobb County School District
Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Instructional Practice

8:00am EDT

Secondary Superstars: Award-Winning Secondary Art Educators Share Their Secrets
Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Award-winning secondary educators share their best practices, ideas, tips, and secrets. They bring varied experiences as well as many years in the field, with expertise working with different populations across different regions in the country.
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CH
LK
LM
RB
Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Instructional Demonstration

8:00am EDT

Sketchbook and Visual Journal Speed Date
Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Bring your sketchbook or visual journal and participate in our interactive session, a speed date where we'll share a series of quick opportunities to learn and meet someone new!
Presenters
avatar for David Modler

David Modler

Artist/Researcher/Educator and Associate Professor of Art Shepherd University, Journal Fodder Junkies
David R. Modler is an artist/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 elementary art for fifteen years. David has since earned a Master of Fine Arts in Drawing... Read More →
SP
DL
DJ
DS
Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Instructional Practice

12:00pm EDT

Decorating the Ceramic Surface: How to Apply Drawing and Printmaking Processes to Clay
Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Are you a sketcher or printmaker uncertain how to incorporate clay into your classroom? Have you wondered how ceramic artists decorate forms with printed imagery? Do you want to learn creative strategies for decorating clay surfaces in the classroom? Learn practical ways to draw and print on clay!
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SH
Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

12:00pm EDT

Eco-Printing
Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Eco-printing is a technique where plants, leaves, and flowers leave their shapes, color, and marks on fabric or paper. Use plants and other botanical matter to create unique prints with this lesser-known form of printmaking and learn about possible applications to other content and art forms.
Presenters
CD

Cayce Davenport

Teacher, ACHS - VPA
Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

12:00pm EDT

Paper Quilt Collaged Portraits
Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Become inspired to work in partnership with your local historical society to use photos to create paper-quilt-collaged portraits. You will also see how the works of contemporary fiber artist Bisa Butler can be used as inspiration for these paper portraits.
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avatar for Katie Smith-Johnson

Katie Smith-Johnson

Art teacher, Lakeside High School
KY
Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

1:00pm EDT

Intersecting Realities: Media Arts as a Lens for Visual Arts Reflection
Friday March 21, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Explore how media arts can reflect on and reinterpret visual arts. This session delves into innovative techniques, offering practical skills, creative inspiration, and critical perspectives. Engage with fellow artists and educators to enhance your practice and understanding of the evolving relationship between media arts and traditional visual art forms.
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avatar for Selena Ward

Selena Ward

Technical Resource Analyst for Creative Arts, Prince George's County Public Schools
Things I am passionate about: 1. Helping students be creative. 2. Working/Discussing/Sharing with other passionate educators 3. Gamification in the classroom, Media Arts, Arts Integration, Data for improvement
Friday March 21, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Skills Toolbox

1:00pm EDT

Learning With Robots: Implications for Secondary Art Classrooms
Friday March 21, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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How can we incorporate robotics into secondary art curricula? This presentation introduces the work of two contemporary artists, Patrick Tresset and Madeline Gannon, who use and cocreate with robots in their artistic and research practices. We'll share implications of their work for secondary art education practices.
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BS

Borim Song

East Carolina university, College of Fine Arts and Communication, School of Art and Design
AK
Friday March 21, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Professional Paper Presentation

2:00pm EDT

Building Student Artists Through 1-Day Workshops
Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Has the pacing of your class grown stale or too tightly project focused? Mix it up with 1-day workshop sessions to engage students and build artists. In this hands-on session, we will explore five strategies to build student confidence in artmaking from idea exploration to public exhibition.
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avatar for Laura LaQuaglia

Laura LaQuaglia

Supervisor, Learning Design & Visual Arts, Cobb County School District
Visual Arts K-12, Visual Arts PL, Arts Integration, STEAM, #cobbartrocks, #cobbartteacherscreate
Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Skills Toolbox

2:00pm EDT

Elaborating the Narrative of a Personal, Meaningful Photograph With Collage, Assemblage, and Sculpture
Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Creating a meaningful narrative with materials and techniques facilitates students using collections to express personal authentic stories and ideas. The process will engage learners, and the products will be as unique as each individual artist. Empower your students to learn about themselves and their world through their artmaking.
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LP
Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Instructional Practice

2:00pm EDT

Hack Your Habit: Spark Daily Art Practice With Sketchbook Prompts
Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Are you struggling to get your students in the habit of reaching for their sketchbooks? Join us as we dive into creative prompts to spark student passion and artistic exploration in visual journals. Leave with a pocket full of prompts to ignite student creativity and enhance artistic development!
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EW
SS
Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Skills Toolbox

2:00pm EDT

Teaching Native American Skateboards
Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Explore how Native American expressions are represented on skateboards to expand Native American representations beyond traditional arts and crafts. This session uncovers the history, culture, and identity embedded in Native American skateboard graphics while discussing teaching methods and providing examples of Native American visual culture for curriculum development.
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avatar for georgina badoni
Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Instructional Practice

3:00pm EDT

Chat and Create: A Secondary Meetup
Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Join NAEA Secondary leaders and other Secondary art educators to make art together and talk about any current issues. What questions do you have about NAEA leadership, programming, and offerings? Which supports best help you? How can NAEA provide resources you need? Do you want help with curriculum? Do you want to make connections? Come join your Secondary Division peers.
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CH
LK
LM
RB
GT
Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Business Meeting/Awards Ceremony

3:00pm EDT

Cosplay in the Classroom: Using Sculpture Techniques to Bring Superheroes to Life
Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Cosplay has become a huge artistic industry. But few classrooms have capitalized on its popularity. Join a nationally awarded cosplayer and art teacher as we discuss cosplay techniques and create work using thermoplastics and EVA foam. Attendees will leave the workshop with a leather-like foam pouch and sculpted Worbla feather.
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BH
Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

3:00pm EDT

Gelli Arts Printing in the Classroom Setting
Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Play with the many methods from simple to complicated in this printmaking process. Experiment with recycled and found objects, textural items from nature, and layering and photo transfers and deliver your new confidence to your K-12 classrooms. Lesson plans provided!
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JN
Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

3:00pm EDT

Nature's Blueprint: K-12 Eco-Friendly Cyanotype Techniques
Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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This session explores cyanotype techniques that integrate environmental education with art by using natural materials and sustainable practices. Learn practical skills and creative strategies to engage K-12 students in art projects promoting environmental stewardship, including adapting with UV lights on cloudy days.
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NJ
Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

3:00pm EDT

Side-by-Side Inclusion Style! Create a Painting, Collage, or Mixed Media From Student Inspiration!
Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Discover the ins and outs of creating a side-by-side show using the artwork of students with disabilities and an art teacher or artist work. You will receive a photo of student work, a 12-by-12-inch canvas, acrylic paint, and mixed media to create your piece!
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JS
KS
Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

4:30pm EDT

Art Studio Investigations: Artmaking as Research
Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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Explore the link between artmaking and research by focusing on student-driven curricula for AP Art and Design and AP Research courses. Using student work as a guide, you will discover methods to empower students to apply inquiry skills to novel situations to enhance understanding and creativity in studio instruction.
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KE
PE
Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Practice

4:30pm EDT

Photography Teacher Turned Her CAR Into a Camera Obscura! Come See It! Don't Miss This!
Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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After successfully building and using camera obscuras in a high school photography class, one teacher had an innovative idea of turning a CAR into a camera obscura. Learn more about this historic composition tool AND get inside one! Don't miss this!
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avatar for Amanda Tutor

Amanda Tutor

Instruction, Bartlett City Schools
Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Demonstration

5:00pm EDT

Cultivating Creativity in the Natural Classroom: An Art Educator's Journey as a National Park Fellow
Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Embark on a transformative journey! Integrate science, art, and environmental stewardship into your curriculum. Discover how immersive experiences, collaborative learning, and creative strategies fostered a love for nature in my students. Leave empowered to cultivate the next generation of environmental stewards.
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HO
Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Practice

5:00pm EDT

Transforming Student Ideation Into Art: Exploring Mind Mapping in AP Studio
Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Every year, AP Studio students begin with enthusiasm and ambitious ideas, then face the sobering reality: "I've run out of ideas!" Sound familiar? Through the application of mind-mapping techniques and approaches, your students can conquer their fear of ideation and see mind maps as works of art in themselves.
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MA
Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Skills Toolbox

5:00pm EDT

Visual Literacy: The Gestalt Principles of Design and the Meaning-Making Brain
Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Discover painting processes that link the five design principles of gestalt directly into brain function and meta-understanding. This presentation serves as a response to the cultural need for visual literacy that studio art practices can address, and consequently teach, for successful student outcomes.
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DL
Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Demonstration

5:30pm EDT

Optimizing Creative Agency and Scaffolding for Success: A Backward-Designed Curricular Framework for AP Studio Art
Friday March 21, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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Learn how two AP Studio Art teachers have designed a choice-based, backward-designed AP Studio Art curriculum to optimize student-driven inquiry, creativity, and skill development, resulting in consistently high scores and success on the AP Studio Art Exam.
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RE
SS
Friday March 21, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Practice

5:30pm EDT

Tying Art Journal Assignments to Google Arts and Culture and Standards
Friday March 21, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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Discover 30 sketchbook prompts kids will actually look forward to! They tie to specific standards; create a weekly formative assessment; and dive deep into design, careers, research, culture, and personal design preferences while pushing students to sketch with more detail and written notes. REAL art and no more social media copies!
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NP
Friday March 21, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Practice
 
Saturday, March 22
 

8:00am EDT

Creating Curriculum: A Contemporary Approach to Teaching and Learning
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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What are you teaching? Developing a thoughtful, well-developed curriculum is an essential part of strong teaching, but it's no easy task. Participants will explore the benefits to teaching with contemporary art and begin developing a semester's curriculum.
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AP

Amanda Price

Art Teacher, Clarke Central High School
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Practice

8:00am EDT

Faux Real: Taking Polymer Clay to the Next Level
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Do you want to get students interested in jewelry, but do not have access to metals, tools, or torches? Join us for a new school approach on how to turn polymer clay into precious stones.
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MY

Matt Young

OAEA President, Ohio Art Education Association
Carrie Barnett lives in Cincinnati with her husband, two college-aged children, and pup. She has 27 years of teaching experience, ranging from public school to private school and 1st grade to college level, with the last 19 years in secondary education. Barnett’s passion for art... Read More →
GT
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Demonstration

8:00am EDT

Makes Me Wanna Holler: Black Male Art Educators Speaking Identity and Culture
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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This workshop equips art educators with tools to integrate diversity, multicultural practices, and inclusion into their curriculum. Participants gain insights from Black male art educators and learn strategies for reflective, competent leadership. The goal is to foster an inclusive learning environment that celebrates diverse cultural experiences and perspectives.
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CS
SC
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Practice

8:00am EDT

Robots as Agents of Student Creativity and Sculptural Designs
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Discover how diverse high school students employed transdisciplinary methods to study NASA innovations and utilize user-friendly Edison robots as agents to foster their creativity and produce original sculptural artworks. Leave with guidance and resources to get started.
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DS
LL
ML
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Practice

8:00am EDT

The Ugly Doll Project: Student Social Engagement Through the Four Loves Framework
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Through the framework of The Four Loves, the Ugly Doll Project illustrates how teen learners become agents of change for young children in shelters for intimate partner abuse (or any shelter) by designing, making, and donating hand-sewn felt dolls. Learn how to complete the project in your community.
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DM
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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  Secondary, Professional Paper Presentation

8:00am EDT

Unlocking Potential: Exploring Literacy in Arts Education
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Explore the transformative power of art education in fostering literacy skills. Discover practical strategies to integrate reading, writing, and critical thinking into the curriculum. Ideal for educators seeking innovative approaches to enhance student learning and academic achievement through the arts.
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avatar for Veronica Martin

Veronica Martin

Teacher, Hall County Schools
I have enjoyed teaching art for 20 years, 18 at the high school level. I enjoy mentoring up-and-coming art educators and developing programs and new events. In my free time, you can find me in the garden updating the landscaping with transplants or new arrivals I've acquired from... Read More →
avatar for Jennifer Griner

Jennifer Griner

Teacher, Hall County Schools
I love art advocacy! I love rescue animals! Teaching art is my passion!!GAEA District 2 Co-President (since 2019), GAEA Scholarship Chair (2023-2024), GAEA Business Rep (2017-2022), GAEA Conference Committee (2019, 2022, 2025)I will be presenting at the 2024 GAEA Conference:
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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  Secondary, Skills Toolbox

8:00am EDT

Utilizing Altered Book Lessons to Discover and Enrich Art Basics
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Explore how altered books can be used to introduce each element and principle of design and create mini-lessons to jumpstart larger units in beginning high school art classes.
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avatar for Julie Denison

Julie Denison

Art Teacher, Cobb County School District
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Practice

12:00pm EDT

Classroom Critique Methods and Strategies
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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We've all been a part of critiques and know that some are more effective than others. This fast-paced session provides a myriad of real-world examples: both tried-and-true critique methods and some more experimental ones to add to your arsenal.
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BH
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Practice

12:00pm EDT

Creative Professional Mentorship in High School
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Join a conversation around how mentorship experiences in high school art and design programs impact perceptions and possibilities around careers in the arts. I will share how I have utilized community partnerships to build opportunities for students while situating the work in research regarding mentorship, work-based learning, and arts-based careers.
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KT
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Practice

12:00pm EDT

Curating as Making
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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By making mini-exhibits in small groups during this session, participants consider galleries as learning spaces beyond the studio. Through curatorial skills, explore ways students can extend making and message, amplify voices, promote collaboration, expand empathy, and develop leadership. Discussion incorporates contemporary artists, institutional and cultural practices, and authentic project-based learning.
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AJ
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Skills Toolbox

12:00pm EDT

Foolproof Fabulousness: Cultivating an Attitude of Excellence in the Art Classroom
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Learn strategies for establishing a community of engaged learners from Day 1. Free, simple, and easy to implement, we'll show you how to bring your students together under one umbrella of success for everyone. We will provide daily processes and consistent procedures that support a common mission and mindset toward excellence. These classroom management strategies will have you looking forward to Monday every single week!
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TF
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
TBA
  Secondary, Instructional Demonstration

12:00pm EDT

Cultivating Creativity With Simple and Effective Challenges
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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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.
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ES
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

12:00pm EDT

Trash to Treasure: Creating Sculptures With Dynamic Form and Texture Using Cardboard
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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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.
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AH
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

1:00pm EDT

Bridging the Gap: From 2D Mastery to Powerful 3D Concepts in AP Studio Art
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Do you want to encourage your AP Drawing and 2D students to advance into the 3D portfolio and help them develop strong 3D conceptual works? This workshop will analyze top-quality perfect (6) 3D portfolios and guide participants through the process of enhancing art skills from drawing and 2D into AP 3D mastery.
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avatar for Stan Dodson

Stan Dodson

GAEA Past President / Awards Chair, GAEA
I currently serve as the GAEA Past President and Burke County High School Fine Arts Department chairAugusta University Adjunct professor AP Art & Design InstructorAP College Board ReaderGAEA Secondary Educator of the Year, 2015STAR teacher, 2019, 2016Blakeney Elementary School TOTY... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Skills Toolbox

1:00pm EDT

Understanding the AP Art and Design Rubric and Classroom Application
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Understanding the summative end-of-course rubrics is essential to teaching AP Art and Design. This presentation aims to demystify what students need to know and demonstrate in the Selected Works and Sustained Investigation components. The course rubrics will be broken down and explained using student samples to improve teaching practice learning.
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DC
RS
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Practice

2:00pm EDT

Dinner Is Served!: Moving Away From Traditional Tests in AP Art History
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Essays and multiple-choice questions are necessities, but are they always the most effective in assessing student understanding? Create a dinner party, build a museum wing, or weave a bag. By introducing hands-on projects that both assess and teach, your students will form lasting connections by engaging rather than memorizing.
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MA
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Demonstration

2:00pm EDT

Secondary Smash Hits: Shared Successes of Effective Practices and Student Engagement
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Learn from art leaders and educators offering varied experiences working with different populations to engage students. We will share practices that have proven effective at the secondary level. Bring your questions and successes.
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CH
LK
RB
GT
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Demonstration

2:00pm EDT

Show Your Work! Building Student Skill in Process Documentation
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Help students understand the power of showing their thinking. This session will show practical ways to teach your students how to document their process to help visualize their thinking, reduce plagiarism and AI reliance, and prepare them for portfolio exams and college or careers. Templates and assessment ideas will be shared.
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AO
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Skills Toolbox

2:00pm EDT

Utilizing Concise Language to Navigate Complex Content in Contemporary Learning Spaces
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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In the era of banned books and content censorship, educators need support to talk authentically and truthfully about the history, culture, and practices that make up art. This session seeks to give fresh perspectives on how to say what is necessary while validating concerns and keeping spaces safe for all.
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avatar for Latausha Cox
BH
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Big Art Education Questions

3:00pm EDT

AP for Process Not Product: LET'S PLAY!
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Develop your skills in practice, experimentation, revision, ideation, materials, and processes. Come play with new, innovative materials while developing written statements to connect ideas to discoveries. Help students become scientific investigators of creative thinking, initiators of sustained investigations with personal voice, and successful candidates for the AP Art and Design Exam.
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MK
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Skills Toolbox

3:00pm EDT

Art, Work, Family: Three High School Connected Arts Network Teachers Collaborate to Create Meaningful Student Projects Focused on SEL, Career Skills, and Personal Growth
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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This is an invitation to be inspired by Connected Arts Network (CAN) Teacher Leaders who collaborated on a student project intertwining SEL, DEI, career skills, and personal growth through art. Discover how students used photography to explore the intersection of work and family and the culminating student-centered curated show.
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avatar for Gayle Nicholls-Ali

Gayle Nicholls-Ali

Photography & Digital Communication, La Canada Unified School District
Passionate about digital storytelling, photography, giving clarity to the voice of students, educators and organizations responsible for the health and social welfare of other.
HM
CR
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Demonstration

3:00pm EDT

Implementing Creative Research Journals in the Art Room: A Teacher's Perspective
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Explore the implementation of creative research journals in the art room. Three art educators will share insights from lived experience. Presenters will share strategies, challenges, and successes, as well as how these journals have enhanced their student learning and creativity.
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avatar for Maggie Elsener

Maggie Elsener

Teacher-Secondary, Lincoln Northeast High School
KG
SG
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Practice

3:00pm EDT

Indigenous Youth Voices
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Explore an innovative three-part mural series that investigates complex contemporary issues through the cultural lens of federal Indian policy and tribal sovereignty. Engage in culturally responsive practices and instruction for Native students that fosters relationships. Through collaborative artmaking, students share authentic narratives, center healing, and work from their hearts.
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TH
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Practice

3:00pm EDT

Starting a Fiber Arts Class From Scratch
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Interested in teaching fiber arts? Don't know where to start? This session will show you where to begin and how to sequence lessons to engage students and build highly-adaptable skills. Leave with digital access to timelines, project guides, lesson plans, supply lists, and other resources.
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EW
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Practice

3:00pm EDT

Successful and Engaging Lesson Ideas for Every Art Teacher, AP and Beyond!
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Are you looking for successful lesson plans that emphasize creative learning strategies for your students? Look no further! We'll be sharing lessons that include AP, collaborative learning, STEAM, K-12 and more! You will leave with a better understanding of how to springboard these lessons into your teaching.
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DW
avatar for Stan Dodson

Stan Dodson

GAEA Past President / Awards Chair, GAEA
I currently serve as the GAEA Past President and Burke County High School Fine Arts Department chairAugusta University Adjunct professor AP Art & Design InstructorAP College Board ReaderGAEA Secondary Educator of the Year, 2015STAR teacher, 2019, 2016Blakeney Elementary School TOTY... Read More →
avatar for Ivey Coleman

Ivey Coleman

Art Teacher, Lady's Island Middle School
KM
DB
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Practice

4:00pm EDT

Attending to Affect: Rethinking Pedagogical Practices in a High School Art Classroom
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Learning and artmaking should be a challenging, vulnerable process full of experimentation, trust, support, and connection. This session shares research exploring pedagogy centering process, contentment, and connection as it considers affect. Participants will explore how pedagogy can center process and attend to affect through alternative ways of being.
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AP

Amanda Price

Art Teacher, Clarke Central High School
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Practice

4:00pm EDT

Play and Joy in the Democratic Classroom
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Where do art educators make space for play and joy and as a byproduct, curiosity, and transgression? This presentation examines how democratic pedagogy makes openings for students to make work that is urgently meaningful to their identity development and social imagination. Participants will leave with specific democratic classroom practice strategies.
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AC
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Practice

4:00pm EDT

Sneaky Assessment in the Art Room: Fostering Creativity Through Art Assessment
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Does the word "assessment" make you cringe? Rethink assessment in the art room with creative prompts, engaging mini-lessons, and sneaky scaffolding. Push students' creative thinking to inform your teaching. This presentation will reinvigorate your teaching and spice up even the most traditional art lessons with overlooked forms of assessment.
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JT
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Practice

4:00pm EDT

Social Justice: Empowering Passion, Voice, and Choice
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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This instructional practice workshop focuses on using the creative process and social justice to help learners find their passion and amplify their voice. We'll discuss variety of strategies, activities, and assessments. Attendees can adapt and adopt these ideas for their own purposes and implement them immediately.
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AH
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Practice

4:00pm EDT

The Sketchbook Project
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Explore a collaborative sketchbook project inspired by the exquisite corpse concept, enhancing community and understanding among students. Learn practical steps to implement this innovative approach that fosterers creativity and empathy. Discover how this project promotes cultural sensitivity and respect in an art classroom. Ideal for educators seeking engaging, inclusive teaching strategies.
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SS
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Skills Toolbox

4:00pm EDT

Why Exhibitions Matter: Teaching Students to Care About Curation
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Exhibitions are a powerful teaching tool, but getting students to care about curation is challenging! How do you get past the idea that exhibitions are just "sticking stuff on the wall?" This presentation offers classroom-tested strategies, resources, and activities to engage students with exhibitions as part of artistic practice.
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TA
CC
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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  Secondary, Instructional Practice
 
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