2025 NAEA National Convention: Full Schedule

12:00pm EDT

Unionization as Pedagogy: A Praxis for Solidarity Building in and Beyond Art Museums

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Drawing from a research study of the art museum labor movement, this session focuses on pedagogical implications of unionization as a practice of solidarity building. Examining unionization as pedagogy bears implications for civic engagement, offering examples of and lessons in how to build solidarity across power differentials and toward greater equity.

Presenters

Amanda Ripley

Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Museum Education, Professional Paper Presentation

1:00pm EDT

2025 NAEA Coalition of Feminisms in Art Education Regional Artist Talk

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Learn about the research-based artmaking practice of a Louisville-area artist selected by Coalition of Feminisms in Art Education (CFAE) Interest Group members and engage in a postpresentation dialogue about contemporary feminist art practice, issues, and concerns with the artist speaker. Exhibition Coordinator Laura Lee McCartney will facilitate discussion.

Presenters

Laura McCartney

Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Coalition for Feminisms in Art Education, Professional Paper Presentation

2:00pm EDT

Trans Histories of Art Education

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

This historiography examines trans studies (scholarship resisting gender and sexuality as stable categories) in art education. It draws on trans scholarship, art education research, and arts-based research. Trans studies offers radical potential for educators to destabilize oppressive constructs that enforce normativity and opens avenues for fluid, plastic, and relational ways of being.

Presenters

Brandi Lewis

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

LGBTQ+ Interest Group, Professional Paper Presentation

3:00pm EDT

Big Gay Church XV: The Final Act

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

We invite you to join us in this celebration of life for Big Gay Church. This year's gathering is a formal and final Big Gay Goodbye, celebrating BGC's history and impact with flashbacks and testimonials, while calling on the congregation to advance and reenliven this essential work in new ways.

Presenters

Erin J. Hoppe

PhD Student & Barnett Fellow, The Ohio State University

I'm writing my dissertation on the embodied experience of arts administration, its affects, and the spaces between bodies, policies, and practices. I am using an a/r/tographic methodology for co-meaning making - what does your arts admin work smell like? What object embodies your... Read More →

De'Avin Mitchell

James Sanders III

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

LGBTQ+ Interest Group, Deep Dive Research

4:30pm EDT

Embracing Culture and Creativity: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Higher Education and K-12 Art Classrooms

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

This presentation offers strategies for applying culturally responsive pedagogy in both higher education and K-12 art education. Through in-depth research on Asian cultures and its practical implementation, it demonstrates how to create inclusive and creative visual arts lesson plans, preventing cultural appropriation and fostering cultural diversity in visual art education.

Presenters

Nara Kim

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Asian Art and Culture Interest Group, 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

8:00am EDT

Thoughts From the Field: Practical Strategies for Inclusive Art and Design Education

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Join us for an in-depth exploration of inclusive art and design education in preK-12 classrooms. This session presents findings through data visualization from a national survey of over 1,000 art teachers, highlighting their experiences, challenges, successful strategies, and resources for supporting diverse students. Gain actionable insights and recommendations.

Presenters

Eva Coker

Kelly Gross

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Equity Diversity and Inclusion, Professional Paper Presentation

12:00pm EDT

Is Anybody Out There?

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

This project proposed a gentle partnership approach to observe what adults who live in our community are doing or have done to survive the last few years of the pandemic. We engaged participants by leaving welcoming envelopes in public spaces, inviting them to share visual reflective responses.

Presenters

Linda Helmick

Yi Gao

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Lifelong Learning Interest Group, Professional Paper Presentation

1:00pm EDT

Visual Arts Standards: Possibilities for Ecological Integration

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

How might visual arts standards support ecological art education? Learn about recent findings from a content analysis of U.S. national and state visual arts standards with implications for K-12 art education, including specific national standards that might be used to propel and justify ecological art pedagogies.

Presenters

Joy Bertling

Associate Professor of Art Education, University of Tennessee

Standards pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Ecology and Environment Interest Group, Professional Paper Presentation

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

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.

Presenters

Linda Popp

Retired secondary art educator Narrative found object assemblage sculptor NAEA Distinguished Fellow MAEA Distinguished Fellow

Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Secondary, Instructional Practice

3:00pm EDT

Present Here!

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

This session is an opportunity to present at the national level to your peers. The hard work and dedication of the Preservice members is celebrated by allowing them the chance to share and learn with each other. Accepting: 10- 7 minute presentations. https://forms.gle/tCavCYrx2hxkjQMY8

Presenters

Reilly Powers

Miami University, NAEA Preservice Western Regional Representative

Brittany Bradley

Jesse Todero

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Preservice, Deep Dive Research

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

5:00pm EDT

Decolonizing Arts Engagement

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

The goal for this presentation is to highlight in a practical sense how people are considering decolonizing practices in their classrooms, artwork, community spaces, and more. Presenters will engage audience members to consider what decolonization is and could be, or to work together to formulate more questions.

Presenters

Rebecca Bourgault

Amanda Alexander

Chair & Professor, Department of Art, Miami University

Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Research, Big Art Education Questions

8:00am EDT

Building Bricks for Digital Photography

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Have you ever been curious about how you can use, purchase, and fund building bricks in your art room? I was too! Let me share an engaging STEAM lesson using pixel bricks (small, round building bricks) and photography to inspire your future lessons!

Presenters

Tammie Clark

Elementary Art Educator, Decatur City Schools

Hello!! My name is Tammie. I’ve taught elementary art for 24 years on a cart, in a trailer, from a closet and in a classroom and I still love my job! It’s my second career- I was a visual merchandiser for 10 years. I’m an Army brat who lives in North Alabama and am the 3x... Read More →

NAEA 2025 Building Bricks for Digital Photography pdf

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Elementary, Instructional Demonstration

12:00pm EDT

Elementary Carousel of Learning: Managing the Mess

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Tired of the "organized chaos" in your art room? Join four experienced elementary art educators as they share their battle-tested strategies for creating a calm and productive learning environment.

Presenters

Devon Calvert

Leslie Grace

NAEA Elementary Sessions Survey pdf

Bob Reeker Carts, Trays, Zones pptx

Managing pptx

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Elementary, Instructional Practice

1:00pm EDT

Collaborative Research and Wayfaring of the Living Archive of Art Educator Mary Godfrey Through Conversation and Care

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Learn more about art education history and new insights on art educator Mary Godfrey, the first African American full-time faculty member hired at Penn State in 1957. This presentation discusses historical research and embodied, living archival research collaborations centered on care and conversation by an art educator and Godfrey's living relative.

Presenters

Ann Holt

Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

History and Historiography in Art Education Interest Group, Professional Paper Presentation

2:00pm EDT

Promoting Civic Engagement Through Art and Education

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Reflecting upon the continuous assaults on democracy and its institutions, we invite dialogue and ask: What is our responsibility as art educators to sustain democracy through meaningful engagement and critical activity? How can artists and creative citizens model an ethics of care that promotes desire to contribute to society?

Presenters

Doug Blandy

Flavia Bastos

Distinguished Research Professor and Provost Fellow, University of Cincinnati

I am a creative educator who leverages art's potential to promote dialogue and civic engagement.

9781032513973 USD pdf

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Caucus of Social Theory in Art Education Interest Group, Big Art Education Questions

3:00pm EDT

Making Public Art Accessible to Young Learners

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Public art is a meaningful and impactful tool for teaching accessibility to and awareness of art in our communities. Explore the development and delivery of a theme-based unit for students in upper elementary grade levels about public art from art problem and curiosities to creation, as well as final verification and synthesis.

Presenters

Bob Reeker

K-5 Visual Art Educator, Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln, Nebraska

Making Public Art Accessible to Young Learners pdf

Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Elementary, 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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

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.

Presenters

Amanda Price

Educator-Researcher

Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L029

Secondary, Instructional Practice