2025 NAEA National Convention: Full Schedule

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12:00pm EDT

A Common Link [TICKET REQUIRED]

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

TICKET REQUIRED
Connect with a common art link. Workshop participants will create artworks that function independently and collaboratively. Generative artmaking, problem solving, and fluency are among the tenets we'll explore during the workshop. Participants will see how work can express individuality and collaborative group identity. This workshop supports personal and student instructional artmaking.

Presenters

Anne Becker

Joan Mills

Laura Milas

Clinical Assistant Professor, Illinois State University, Wonsook Kim School of Art

Semi-retired artist/art educator; Past NAEA VP, Western Region; Past President, Illinois

Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

Retired Art Educators Interest Group, Ticketed Studio Workshop

Host Organization Ticket Required
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3:00pm EDT

Start With Art: STEAM Learning With Paper Circuits[TICKET REQUIRED]

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

TICKET REQUIRED
Learn to build electronic circuits on paper with easy-to-use LED stickers, conductive tape, and craft materials. Explore circuit design intuitively, creating interactive sensors and switches for artistic projects. Discover free educator resources, curriculum, and digital design tools. Experience a variety of learning activities and customize the curriculum for your students.

Presenters

Angela Batten

Barbara Liedahl

Director, BJLFELTCLAYMAKER LLC

Barbara Liedahl of BJLFELTCLAYMAKER LLC specializes in Educational Consulting, Professional Development, and Makerspace Support. She is a Professional Development Provider for Infosys Foundation USA’s Online Pathfinders Summer Institute, where she facilitates her “Space Suits... Read More →

Camille Dogbe

01 Start with Art STEAM Learning with Paper Circuits NAEA25 pdf

01 Start with Art Workshop Resources NAEA25 pdf

Chibitronics Educators Guide Identity Portrait Lesson pdf

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

Media Arts, Ticketed Studio Workshop

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Keywords Ticket Required

5:30pm EDT

Design Thinking Activities to Increase Quality of Life for People With Memory Loss

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

Meaningful, enriching activities supporting older adults experiencing dementia are crucial for their well-being. Art educators can enhance their quality of life by using design thinking activities. We share a case study with a participant in a memory care unit, exploring how design activities improved her quality of life.

Presenters

Linda Hoeptner-Poling

Kent

2020 OAEA Virtual Conference Presenter

Robin Vande Zande

Professor, Kent State University

Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

Design Interest Group, Skills Toolbox

8:00am EDT

Navigating AI in Art Education

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

As education institutions adopt AI-specific software for educators, two TAB teachers reflect on their experience planning lessons and teaching using AI. They also share how they guide 5th-grade students in leveraging AI for idea generation within their different art studios utilizing an education framework for AI use in the classroom.

Presenters

Denise Aldridge

Amy Sery

Visual & Media Arts Teacher, Briarlake Elementary School

I am the Visual & Media Arts teacher at a Pk-5 elementary school in Dekalb County. My classroom is a choice-based art studio where the student is the artist and (Teaching for Artistic Behavior and Studio Habits of Mind). I am also an adjunct professor at The Art of Education University... Read More →

Sery.NAEA.ConferenceNavigatingAI pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

Elementary, Instructional Demonstration

12:00pm EDT

Bookbinding Basics: Creating Sketchbooks and Visual Journaling [TICKET REQUIRED]

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

TICKET REQUIRED
Bookbinding! What's that?! Join us in this interactive workshop that will give you the basics on incorporating the Japanese stab-binding technique Yotsume Toji into your classroom or practice. Learn how to make or have your students make a sketchbook. This session offers additional video and paper resources for the classroom!

Presenters

Reilly Powers

Miami University, NAEA Preservice Western Regional Representative

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

Preservice, Ticketed Studio Workshop

Host Organization Ticket Required
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3:00pm EDT

Craftivism as Community Practice [TICKET REQUIRED]

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

TICKET REQUIRED
During this workshop, participants will learn about historical and contemporary works of craftivism and ways craft methods have been used individually and collectively to communicate personal and global stories, from politics to social or environmental issues, family histories, or community narratives. Participants will then create their own community quilt square.

Presenters

Ana Guzman

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

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

Equity Diversity and Inclusion, Ticketed Studio Workshop

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5:30pm EDT

Tying Art Journal Assignments to Google Arts and Culture and Standards

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

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!

Presenters

Nicole Plymesser Nelson

High School Art teacher Hampton Dumont CAL, Iowa

Nicole Plymesser Nelson has lived all over the U.S and now lives in Clear Lake, Iowa. Nicole has been teaching art since 1997: preschool to adults, public schools to private lessons and homeschooling, small groups in stores and large groups at conferences. She now teaches high... Read More →

NAEA version Sketchbook Assignments Nicole Nelson pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 5:30pm - 6:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

Secondary, Instructional Practice

8:00am EDT

Lettering for Literacy: Ideas for Incorporating Typography Into Your Elementary Art Curriculum

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

Gain ideas for incorporating language arts concepts into your curriculum. Discuss why and how lettering and writing have a role to play in your visual arts curriculum. This presentation includes over a dozen elementary projects that can be adapted and expanded for middle school, high school, and adult students.

Presenters

Heidi Wineland

Heidi How

I post instructional videos on YouTube as Heidi How.

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

Elementary, Instructional Practice

12:00pm EDT

Artfully Suited for Spacewalking: Sewable Electronics "Suited" for Mars! [TICKET REQUIRED]

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

TICKET REQUIRED
Let's go to Mars with sewable electronics! Design and fabricate an e-textile with an integrated sensor that can be beautiful and functional... maybe even for Mars! You will gain access to lesson plans and resources to bring these hands-on, "hard-fun" activities into your own visual arts or media arts classroom.

Presenters

Angela Batten

Barbara Liedahl

Director, BJLFELTCLAYMAKER LLC

Camille Dogbe

03 NAEA 25 Artfully Suited for Spacewalking Sewable Electronics Suitable for Mars! pdf

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

Media Arts, Ticketed Studio Workshop

Host Organization Ticket Required
Keywords Ticket Required

3:00pm EDT

Inspiring Student Art Journals

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L020

Art journals! How can you use them in your classroom? You'll learn how art journals are used to inspire 4th through 6th graders to start their own art journaling journey. You'll walk away with ideas on how to create an art journal with kids, as well as techniques and applications.

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