2025 NAEA National Convention: Full Schedule

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12:00pm EDT

Mock Interviews and Resume Review [TICKET REQUIRED]

Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

TICKET REQUIRED
Are you preparing to interview this year? Join the Preservice and Supervision/Administration Divisions in rounds of mock interviews and receive feedback for developing your resume to ensure you get the gig! Come prepared as if this was a real interview: dressed to impress, resumes printed, and portfolio included. Submit your resumes by March 10, 2025, at https://forms.gle/5u3tutZ3sgVs94iVA

Presenters

Reilly Powers

Miami University, NAEA Preservice Western Regional Representative

Brittany Bradley

Jesse Todero

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 →

Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

Preservice, Ticketed Studio Workshop

Host Organization Ticket Required
Keywords Ticket Required

3:00pm EDT

Eliciting Empathy and Understanding Through Visual Literacy Across the Curriulum [TICKET REQUIRED]

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

TICKET REQUIRED
Explore how Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother can be used to teach visual literacy, fostering empathy and understanding in students. Learn practical, hands-on strategies for integrating this iconic photograph into various subjects, enhancing critical thinking and emotional engagement across the curriculum. Ideal for middle school educators.

Presenters

Rachel Losch

Instructional Specialist in the Fine Arts, Fayette County Public Schools

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

Middle, Ticketed Studio Workshop

Host Organization Ticket Required
Keywords Ticket Required

5:30pm EDT

Supporting Our LGBTQ+ Students and Ourselves Amid Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation

Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

This session is an opportunity for art educators to navigate current anti-LGBTQ+ legislation affecting students and educators. Through guided questions, presenters will help participants discuss and solve how to support each other and our students affected by this harmful legislation.

Presenters

Hannah Swanson

Kaitlynn Radloff

Teaching Artist

Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

LGBTQ+ Interest Group, 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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

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

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 →

Aaron Cummins

Kristen LaJeunesse Roach

AP Leading with Creativity pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

Secondary, Skills Toolbox

12:00pm EDT

Paper Quilt Collaged Portraits [TICKET REQUIRED]

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

TICKET REQUIRED
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.

Presenters

Katie Smith-Johnson

Art teacher, Lakeside High School

Before I was an art teacher, I was a fashion designer. I believe that my background influences the way that I teach art and is one of the reasons I was drawn to Bisa Butler and her masterful use of fiber arts in her portrait quilts. I have a laidback teaching style and this lesson... Read More →

Kristie York

Teacher, Lakeside school district

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

Host Organization Ticket Required
Keywords Ticket Required

3:00pm EDT

Side-by-Side Inclusion Style! Create a Painting, Collage, or Mixed Media From Student Inspiration! [TICKET REQUIRED]

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

TICKET REQUIRED
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!

Presenters

Jennifer Sims

Kim Soule

2025 LOUISVILLE NAEA CONFERENCE CO-CORDINATOR, ARTS FOR ALL KENTUCKY , ROSTER ARTIST

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

Secondary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

Host Organization Ticket Required
Keywords Ticket Required

5:30pm EDT

Quilt Index, Black Diaspora Quilt History Project: Documenting and Sharing Black Quilt Legacies

Friday March 21, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

This presentation will share the history and scope of the Quilt Index (QI) Black Diaspora Quilt History Project (BDQHP), an NEH-funded initiative. This presentation will document a BDQHP overview and identify free learning resources available to researchers, educators, and artists about Black quiltmakers on the QI website (www.quiltindex.org).

Presenters

Liv Furman

Friday March 21, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

Equity Diversity and Inclusion, Professional Paper Presentation

8:00am EDT

Draw an Elephant With Your Eyes Closed: TASK as Creative Play AND Assessment

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

Oliver Herring's TASK party is not only a form of creative play but can also be a practical and effective tool for curriculum assessment in art education. Come party with us as we explore a new framework for assessing the creative process.

Presenters

Chrissy LaMaster

Dr. Stephanie Baer

Associate Dean, Southeast Community College

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

Choice Art Educators Interest Group, Instructional Practice

12:00pm EDT

Studio State of Mind [TICKET REQUIRED]

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

TICKET REQUIRED
Discover Kentucky's history and culture while creating a variety of projects that incorporate state resources, themes, and history. Explore the richness of Kentucky using a variety of media and come away with many projects that can also lead to connections to your own home state.

Presenters

Carey Given

Laura Dant

Art Teacher Pre school - 8th Grade, Saint Agnes and St. Francis of Assisi Schools

Tiffany Whalen

Art Educator, St. Michael School

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

Elementary, Ticketed Studio Workshop

Host Organization Ticket Required
Keywords Ticket Required

3:00pm EDT

Pixels to Play: Level Up Your Art Classroom With Accessible Video Game Design Using Construct

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

Discover how to incorporate various aspects of video game design, including story and plot, character, animation, and level design into your art lessons. We will explore the design program Construct, which allows for the creation of video games without the use of coding languages.

Presenters

Nichole Kaplan-Rudolph

Art Educator, Clarkston High School

Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L014

Media Arts, Instructional Practice