2025 NAEA National Convention: Full Schedule

12:00pm EDT

Creating the Functional Art Student: Possibilities and Challenges for Preservice Elementary-Level Teachers

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Learn about research on visual arts education experiences of preservice teachers, and how class activities in artmaking at teacher-training institutions could be enhanced to motivate teachers-in-training to become functional art teachers at elementary school level. Research highlights include recommendations for program improvement.

Presenters

Nickson Jack

I am a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where I completed a Masters in Arts Education. I now lecture at university level in the Caribbean, here I work with preservice elementary level teachers in the development of their art making skills. Statement of Purpose... Read More →

Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Seminar for Research in Art Education Interest Group, Instructional Demonstration

1:00pm EDT

Designing for Accessibility and Inclusion

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Focused on creating accessible and inclusive design, this session will explore the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, and the Universal Principles of Design. You will learn how to create accessible graphics, videos, products, and visual experiences as we look at relevant resources, tools, and examples of accessible design in multiple industries.

Presenters

Morgan Mittelbrun

Instructional Designer | K-12 certified Visual Arts Teacher, Everspring, Inc.

Hi! My name is Morgan! I am an Instructional Designer. I have a Master of Arts in Organizational Management (specialization in media management) and a Master of Arts in Teaching and Learning with Technology (specialization in Online Instruction) both from the University of Arizona... Read More →

Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Disability Studies in Art Education Interest Group, Instructional Demonstration

2:00pm EDT

CANCELLED No Rubrics: Anti-Ableist Art Assessment CANCELLED

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

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Drawing on experience as a student, teacher, and teacher educator, as well as on the work of many artists and disabled activists, the presenter of this session argues for the need to reconsider approaches to art assessment to recognize and foster the assets of disabled students.

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Presenters

Albert Stabler

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Disability Studies in Art Education Interest Group, Instructional Practice

3:00pm EDT

Graduate Research Session Marilyn Zurmuehlen Working Papers Session at NAEA

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

This annual session features the latest scholarly and creative research by doctoral students in of art education who are currently pursuing doctoral degrees at academic institutions in the United States and Canada.

Presenters

Dr. Sara Scott Shields

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Seminar for Research in Art Education Interest Group, Deep Dive Research

4:30pm EDT

Teaching Literacy With Visual Art

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Do you want to excite, engage, and include all students while building literacy skills? Discover methods for keeping your class inspired with access to visual arts across diverse periods in history and culture using informational texts. Attendees will receive a free copy of Scholastic Art magazine to get started right away!

Presenters

Janine Campbell

Since graduating from the University of Michigan-Flint in 2004 with a Bachelors of Science in Art Education, I have been interested in engaging students with new and innovative practices in the classroom. Over the past 21 years, I have used my classroom as a touchstone for what is... Read More →

Katie Brickner

Editor, Scholastic Art, Scholastic

2025 NAEA VisLit HR (1) pdf

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Equity Diversity and Inclusion, Instructional Demonstration

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

8:00am EDT

A Systematic Review of Intersectionality Studies in Art Education

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

A group of five art education researchers share a systematic review of 20 years of intersectionality studies in art education. The process and outcome of the systematic review, including theoretical frameworks and methodologies, will be shared, along with limitations and suggestions for critical theoretical and teaching practices related to intersectionality.

Presenters

Debrah Sickler-Voigt

Professor, Middle Tennessee State University

Debrah C. Sickler-Voigt, Ph.D. is a professor of art education at Middle Tennessee State University. Her professional practices reinforce “Yes, We Can” approaches to education. She has authored the widely-adopted art methods textbook Teaching and Learning in Art Education (2020... Read More →

Jeffrey Cornwall

Min Gu

Ryan Shin

Hyunji Kwon

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Equity Diversity and Inclusion, Professional Paper Presentation

12:00pm EDT

Artful Minds: Unleashing Creativity Through Design Thinking

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Dive into the incredible power of art and innovation through design thinking! Discover how to weave design principles into K-12 visual arts spaces, enhancing design-focused and traditional media lessons. Unleash creativity and problem-solving skills to transform your teaching and inspire students to find new solutions to real-world problems.

Presenters

Nate Breitholtz

Art/C&I, North Lakeland

Shared Artful Minds Unleashing Creativity Through Design Thinking pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Design Interest Group, Instructional Demonstration

1:00pm EDT

Podcasting in the Elementary Art Room

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

We all love podcasts, but what if your elementary students are the ones creating them? Join me as I take you through the world of the art podcast I created with my students titled Elementary Art Talk Podcast!

Presenters

Meera Ramanathan

Project Resource Teacher - Visual Art, San Diego Unified School District

My name is Meera Ramanathan and I am the Project Resource teacher for visual art at Zamorano Fine Arts Academy in San Diego and teach students UTK to 5th grade. I have a Master's degree in History of Fine Arts, drawing and painting from India and a Single Subject Teaching Credential... Read More →

NAEA 2025 Podcasting in the Elementary Art Room (1) pptx

Friday March 21, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Elementary, Instructional Demonstration

2:00pm EDT

Coping With Stress: Collaborative Autoethnography of Asian Immigrant Female Academics in a Writing Group

Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Grounded in collaborative autoethnography, explore how four Asian immigrant female art educators built a support community for coping with stress as minorities by facilitating a virtual writing group. Tips and suggestions for initiating a support community through a writing group will be discussed.

Presenters

Borim Song

East Carolina university, College of Fine Arts and Communication, School of Art and Design

Ahran Koo

Eunjung Chang

oksun Lee

Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Asian Art and Culture Interest Group, Professional Paper Presentation

3:00pm EDT

Playful Learning: Designing and Redesigning Art Gallery Board Games

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Help redesign a classic game and explore how board games can add a new dimension to your classroom or art museum's gallery facilitation. We invite attendees to join a conversation about alternative, ludic museum and art education strategies that bring a fun and critical focus to the museum experience.

Presenters

Ashley Williams

Curator of Exhibitions & Collections, Gadsden Arts Center & Museum; Ph.D. Candidate at Florida State University

Audrey Jacobs

Graduate assistant, Florida State University

Dianna S. Bradley

Special Collections & Archives Metadata Supervisor, Florida State University Libraries

DesigningGames NAEA 2025 pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Museum Education, Deep Dive Research

4:30pm EDT

Seeing the Other: Interactive Art Exhibition, Curriculum, and Pedagogy

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Seeing The Other is an art exhibition that demonstrates how DEI is a critical part of any art program. This exhibition is currently in a major museum in this city and features 150 portraits and video interviews with people across 29 countries sharing stories of their spiritual journeys.

Presenters

Gina Alicea

Director, Corvus Gallery, University of Chicago

I’ve been teaching art for 28yrs and curating exhibits for 40 yrs. I have an MFA, M Ed, and Rev degrees.

Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Caucus on the Spiritual in Art Education Interest Group, Instructional Practice

5:00pm EDT

Museums and Universities Collaborating to Increase Participation in Reciprocal Programs

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

How can museum educators collaborating with higher education professors work to build new learning opportunities that are both content knowledge building and fun? The Cincinnati Art Museum and Mount St. Joseph University have been working together to build stronger art educators in art history and art expression.

Presenters

Samantha Gaier

Museum Division Chair, Cincinnati

2020 OAEA Virtual Conference Presenter

Michaelann Kelley

Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Museum Education, Big Art Education Questions

8:00am EDT

The Ugly Doll Project: Student Social Engagement Through the Four Loves Framework

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

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.

Presenters

Dr. Melissa Leaym-Fernandez

Assistant Teaching Professor of Art Education, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Secondary, Professional Paper Presentation

12:00pm EDT

A Case for the Arts and STEAM: Providing Students Passion and Purpose to Prevent Absenteeism

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

All around the country, schools are dealing with chronic absenteeism post-COVID. Districts want to know: How do we get the kids to come back? Art educators have the answers and strategies. Come learn how arts integration, artistic expression, and STEAMy project-based learning can reengage our learners at all levels.

Presenters

Courtney Bryant

Senior Director of Fine Arts and STEAM, Drew Charter School

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Leadership, Instructional Practice

1:00pm EDT

Making Beautiful Music Together: What to Do When Your Administrator Doesn't Come With a Visual Arts Background

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Do you report to a leader who doesn't come from a visual arts background? This is a reality many of us face. Gain strategies for leading upward and helping upper leadership better understand, and in turn, better advocate for the visual arts classroom.

Presenters

Sarah Ackermann

Andrew Frey-Gould

Director of Media, Fine & Performing Arts, Oceanside UFSD

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 →

Cesar Torruella

Executive Director of Arts Education, Chicago Public Schools

Jaimie Abney-Giraldo

Making Beautiful Music Together pdf

Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Supervision and Administration, Big Art Education Questions

3:00pm EDT

Home and Belonging: Affirming Students' Identities With Diverse Artists and Inclusive Language

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Learn how two educators experience belonging and engage students with contemporary artists. You will leave with ways to cultivate inclusivity and plan a culturally responsive and sustaining art lesson that prioritizes students' funds of knowledge.

Presenters

Marie Huard

Richard Agbeze

Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Middle, Instructional Practice

4:00pm EDT

Time to Roll Up Our Sleeves! Tackling Tough Problems in Supervision and Administration

Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Join members from the Supervision/Administration Division to discuss issues impacting the field today. You will have a say in which topics we talk about first and to what depth. Come ready to complete a quick poll at the start of the session to help steer our time together. Panelists will include Laura Mitchell, Gino Molfino, Gerry James, Erin Garrity-Duffey and César Torruella.

Presenters

Laura Mitchell

Arts Education Specialist, Buncombe County Schools

Laura Mitchell is the Arts Education Specialist for Buncombe County Schools in Asheville, NC. A former middle school art educator, Laura is a National Board Certified Teacher in Early Adolescence Through Young Adult Art, earning her Master’s in Art Education from Western Carolina... Read More →

Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L028

Supervision and Administration, Big Art Education Questions