2025 NAEA National Convention: Full Schedule

12:00pm EDT

Leaning into Spirituality in Art Education

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

How do we define the spiritual? Acknowledging personal practice and navigating what it means to integrate spirituality in the classroom and nonclassroom teaching spaces, this presentation will look at current research and practical experience to support artist-educators and students.

Presenters

Andrea McDonough

Chair of Faculty Development | Instructor, AOEU | Lycoming College

Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

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

1:00pm EDT

Tips and Tricks for Teacher Sanity

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

With a combined 44 years of experience, the presenters of this session will share valuable tips and tricks to maintaining teacher sanity in the art room. These tips and tricks include planning, setup, organization, and behavior management. Run a more sane and emotionally healthy classroom for both the students and yourself.

Presenters

Aletha Keogh

Miriam Cutelis

Thursday March 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Elementary, Skills Toolbox

2:00pm EDT

Everyday-Cornerstones: Connectivity and Meaning-Making Experiences Through Photography

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Everyday-Cornerstones was inspired by a grassroots initiative that uses photography to combat stereotypical perspectives that alter our understanding of people and the world. The protocol exposes students to photojournalist techniques to make meaning and share narratives and counternarratives of their lived histories through social media and art exhibitions.

Presenters

Stephen Newbold

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Media Arts, Instructional Demonstration

3:00pm EDT

Critical Pedagogies in Online Spaces

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

There is no single approach to online teaching. Three online educators discuss research informing course design, including disability justice, critical access, and digital equity; asset-based community development and transformational community; and gamification, and offer practical strategies for other educators to reconsider the relationship between pedagogy, research, and e-learning.

Presenters

Jennifer Eisenhauer Richardson

Associate Professor, The Ohio State University

Dr. Eisenhauer Richardson is an Associate Professor in the Arts Administration, Education and Policy Department and an affiliated faculty member in the Disability Studies program at The Ohio State University. She received a dual-Ph.D. in Art Education and Women’s Studies from The... Read More →

Ruth Smith

Clayton Funk

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Higher Education, Deep Dive Research

4:30pm EDT

Assessment Practices in Design Education: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Cultural Influence

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Join a thought-provoking session exploring the impact of cultural influences on assessment practices in design education. Discover practical strategies for culturally sensitive teaching and learn how to foster inclusive learning environments that value diversity and promote student success.

Presenters

Johnson Kwame Wor

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Research, Professional Paper Presentation

5:00pm EDT

Post-AI Modalities of Creative Practice

Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

This presentation examines the sociomaterial implications of generative AI for creative practice and critical media education, exploring the intersection of postdigital conditions, performative materiality, and algorithmic bias. Presenters speculate on the evolving landscape of creative practice in post-AI times, centering on cocreation with humans and machines and critical understanding of AI.

Presenters

Ye Sul Park

Aaron Knochel

Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Research, Professional Paper Presentation

8:00am EDT

Getting Digital With Middle

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

This session focuses on a variety of engaging digital art experiments that connect students with work of contemporary creatives and current career paths. Apps used in these experiments are free, making them more accessible to learning communities. Attendees will come away with new ideas and experiments for their learning communities.

Presenters

Donald J Masse

TK-5 art teacher, zamorano fine arts academy

Don Masse has taught at Zamorano Fine Arts Academy for a real long time. He infuses his elementary art curriculum with the work of living artists because he believes students are more engaged when they have the opportunity to see how artists are applying what they are learning about... Read More →

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Middle, Skills Toolbox

12:00pm EDT

From Trauma Informed to Trauma Swept: A Journey to Empathy, Understanding, and Peace

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Join a veteran teacher and trauma survivor! Learn how their experience helped build a better window into the complexities of trauma and its aftereffects, and how to avoid stress and burnout. Gain insight that will strengthen your practice and help meet the needs of diverse learners with trauma-informed practices.

Presenters

Margo Wunder

Art Teacher, Martin Luther School

Margo Wunder began teaching 28 years ago as a volunteer painting instructor at the Inglis House, a wheelchair community in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. She currently teaches Art at Martin Luther School in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, a K-12 approved private school serving the needs... Read More →

NAEA From Trauma Informed to Trauma Swept pptx

Finding Your ACE Score (1) pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Art in Special Education Interest Group, Instructional Practice

1:00pm EDT

Mindfulness of Process: Teaching Art as a Contemplative Practice

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Contemplative pedagogy enhances learning, offering an alternative way of knowing that cultivates awareness and enhances creativity. Learn approaches and experience practices for integrating contemplation in an art classroom to enhance focus, attention, awareness, emotional regulation, and creative expansion.

Presenters

Jane Dalton

Professor of Art Education, University of North Carolina Charlotte

Jane Dalton is a Professor of Art Education at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. She earned her Ph.D. in Expressive Arts in Education, and an M.F.A in Textile Design and Weaving. Jane is also a Registered Expressive Arts Consultant Educator (REACE). Creativity is at the... Read More →

Dr. Laurel Campbell

Friday March 21, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

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

2:00pm EDT

Radical Hospitality: Building Connections in the Classroom

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

This presentation critically examines how teachers are responsible for maintaining healthy classroom environments that are socially and culturally sensitive. Together during this session, we will examine how you can find inspiration for classroom environment as well as creating a personal interactive zine for your classroom.

Presenters

Reilly Powers

Miami University, NAEA Preservice Western Regional Representative

Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Preservice, Big Art Education Questions

3:00pm EDT

All Children Are Foreigners: Challenging Myths and Misconceptions in Early Childhood Art

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

"Your image of the child is where teaching begins," according to Loris Malaguzzi. What myths or misconceptions about young children impede sensitive, authentic, culturally responsive art teaching? How can we look and listen to our youngest students in ways that honor their ways of knowing and being? Five panelists respond.

Presenters

Heather Kaplan

Christine Thompson

Hayon Park

Kristine Sunday

Sally Pirie

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Early Childhood Art Educators Interest Group, Deep Dive Research

4:30pm EDT

Cultural Dialogue Within Curatorial Practices: Integrating Critical Pedagogy in Art Education

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

This session is an exploration of Freire's critical pedagogy within curatorial practices in art education, focusing on enhancing critical engagement and fostering culturally sensitive curation.

Presenters

Somi Lee

Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

I am a Teaching Assistant Professor of Art Education. My research focuses on public pedagogy, equity, and social justice. Let’s talk about collaborative art projects, inclusive curation, and innovative approaches to learning in community spaces.

Umar Hameed

Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Higher Education, Instructional Practice

5:00pm EDT

Visual Literacy: The Gestalt Principles of Design and the Meaning-Making Brain

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

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.

Presenters

Duane Lutsko

Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Secondary, Instructional Demonstration

8:00am EDT

Generating New Conversations for Educators Through Arts Research

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Authors in a newly published edited volume featuring a collection of practice-based research projects discuss their artistic explorations and research, illuminating how art education practices enrich and generate transformative approaches to art making, teaching, writing, and thinking.

Presenters

Rebecca Bourgault

Catherine Rosamond

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Higher Education, Professional Paper Presentation

12:00pm EDT

Keys to Success With Kindergarten

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Are you feeling at a loss with your kindergarten classes? Do you need some practical ideas to bring back and use with your young artists? This session will provide ideas and inspiration, and you will return to your kindergarten students with a renewed hope of less chaos and greater success.

Presenters

Ted Edinger

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Elementary, Instructional Demonstration

1:00pm EDT

Faux Real: Taking Polymer Clay to the Next Level

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

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.

Presenters

Matt Young

NAEA Western Region Elect, Ohio Art Education Association

Visual Art Teacher, Pickerington Central High School, Grades 9-12 Matt Young is committed to student success inside of the classroom and out in the real world. With a 30 year career teaching Ceramics, Sculpture, Jewelry, Computer Graphics, and AP art. I also serve as the department... Read More →

Gayle Trueblood

Past President, Secondary WR Representative and EDI State Liaison to NAEA, OAEA

Sculpture/Ceramics, Jewelry, Wearable Arts, Art Club and Yearbook Advisor from Lima, Ohio. I’ve been teaching for 26 years at Shawnee High School. Currently serving as the Past President of the Ohio Art Education Association and EDI liaison to NAEA.

NAEA Faux Polymer Clay Jewelry pdf

Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Secondary, Instructional Demonstration

2:00pm EDT

The Value of Community Connection in Older Adult Learning

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Explore lifelong learning opportunities and learn how the visual arts can be used in K-12, university, and museum settings to build valuable relationships with diverse older adults through community partnerships. These partners include multigenerational learners, preservice teachers and their students, and older adults in culturally diverse communities.

Presenters

Sheila McGuire

Head of School and Teacher Programs, Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Deborah Wall

Kathy Dumlao

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Lifelong Learning Interest Group, Big Art Education Questions

3:00pm EDT

Overcoming Barriers to Access in the Art Room: Authentic Engagement for ALL Learners

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Do you have students who would benefit from adaptations or accommodations to make their art experiences more authentic and meaningful without paraeducators doing it for them? Come learn about academic, physical, and communicative barriers to access and easy ways to overcome them. Your students will thank you!

Presenters

Kelley DeCleene

Adjunct Instructor, Content Creator, SME, Curriculum Writer, Art of Education University

Commercial adaptive tools and materials docx

Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Art in Special Education Interest Group, 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

Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

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.

Presenters

Janet Taylor

JanetTaylor NAEA25 Sneaky Assessment QR Code to Presentation and Resources pdf

Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, L030

Secondary, Instructional Practice