2025 NAEA National Convention: Full Schedule

12:00pm EDT

Decolonizing Ecological Possibilities Through Critical Art-Based Research: A Case of the U.S. Arboretum

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

This presentation discusses decolonizing efforts in critical art-based research to unsettle the dominance of settler-oriented environmental and place-based views and practice as being in relation to the U.S. arboretum in particular. We provide Indigenous-centered, relational, anti-Anthropocene ecological knowledge and practice for justice-oriented environmental sustainability.

Presenters

Ye Sul Park

Keisha Oliver

Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis

Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Ecology and Environment Interest Group, Professional Paper Presentation

2:00pm EDT

Creating Balance as a Teacher and Administrative Leader in Art Education

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Join graduates of the NAEA School for Art Leaders, doctoral candidates, and working professionals as we share insights on balancing leadership programs, teaching, and personal priorities, referencing our own stories to provide valuable strategies for navigating diverse professional paths.

Presenters

Lydia Atubeh

NBCT, EdD Candidate, Visual Arts Program Director, DeKalb Early College Academy

Angie Kucharski

Elementary K-6 Intervention teacher, School City of Mishawaka, Indiana

Benjamin E. Hoffman

High School Visual Arts Teacher, Kutztown Area High School

Leigh Drake

Middle School Visual Arts Educator (Gifted and Talented), Virginia Beach City Public Schools

BalanceLeadership NAEA wrkbk Atubeh Drake Kucharski Hoffman pdf

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Leadership, Instructional Practice

3:00pm EDT

Digital Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Media Arts in U.S. K-12 Art Education

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Discover the latest trends in digital technology and AI integration in K-12 art education through a detailed analysis of nationwide survey data and interviews with art teachers across the United States.

Presenters

Christine Liao

Professor, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Bob Sweeny

Professor of Art Education

Tomi Slotte Dufva

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Research, Deep Dive Research

4:30pm EDT

The Case for COIL-ing a Graduate Arts Teacher Preparation Program

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Learn more about a COIL project between arts teacher training programs in Santiago, Chile, and Minneapolis, MN, with an aim to enhance understanding of language acquisition in arts education by connecting students across continents. See how the use of technology and AI helped overcome language barriers, while promoting culturally relevant K-12 arts learning.

Presenters

Betsy Maloney Leaf PhD

Isabel Besser Verastegui

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Higher Education, Instructional Practice

5:00pm EDT

Adventures in Stop Motion Animation

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Stop motion animation, anyone? Discover approaches to developing skills and ideas while encouraging students to innovate and find creative ways to tell their own stories. We will explore this process together, so you will leave with resources, and be ready to try this with your students!

Presenters

Karen Edwards

Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Elementary, Skills Toolbox

8:00am EDT

Secondary Superstars: Award-Winning Secondary Art Educators Share Their Secrets

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Award-winning secondary educators share their best practices, ideas, tips, and secrets. They bring varied experiences as well as many years in the field, with expertise working with different populations across different regions in the country.

Presenters

Cathy Heller

Coordinator of Fine Arts, Peach County School District, GA

Linda W. Kieling, M.Ed.

Art Educator/NAEA Secondary Director, Adrienne C Nelson High School

I live outside of Portland, OR and I am in my 35th year of teaching. We have 5 kids, 4 grandchildren and a Shiba Inu named Miku. I am passionate about family, friends, art and travel.

Lora Marie Durr

Robin Brewer

NAEA Secondary Division Director-Elect, Garnet Valley High School

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Secondary, Instructional Demonstration

12:00pm EDT

CANCELLED Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Youth-Focused Anticarceral Art Pedagogy for Transformative Justice CANCELLED

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

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This session unpacks punitive laws and policies that criminalize minoritized youth in public schools and conceptualizes anticarceral art and media-based pedagogy. This pedagogical orientation promotes youths' solidarity and collective healing through art and digital media narratives that disrupt the carceral logic of individualized harm and punishment.

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Presenters

Olga Ivashkevich

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Committee on Multiethnic Concerns Interest Group, Professional Paper Presentation

1:00pm EDT

Learning With Robots: Implications for Secondary Art Classrooms

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

How can we incorporate robotics into secondary art curricula? This presentation introduces the work of two contemporary artists, Patrick Tresset and Madeline Gannon, who use and cocreate with robots in their artistic and research practices. We'll share implications of their work for secondary art education practices.

Presenters

Borim Song

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

Ahran Koo

Friday March 21, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Secondary, Professional Paper Presentation

2:00pm EDT

Rest Lab: A Pop-Up Experiment for Intentional Rest in a University Art Museum

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Rest Lab is an ongoing creative collaboration and intervention that challenges capitalistic ideas of productivity, urgency, and hustle culture. Since 2021, six unique versions of Rest Lab have existed in and outside of the art museum that ask: How can we better acknowledge everyone's need for rest?

Presenters

Kamila Glowacki

Assistant Curator of Community Engagement and Learning, Krannert Art Museum

Kamila Glowacki is a museum educator, musician, and multidisciplinary artist based in Champaign, Illinois. She is the Assistant Curator of Community Engagement and Learning at Krannert Art Museum, located at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In 2023, Kamila was named the... Read More →

Ishita Dharap

Education Coordinator, Krannert Art Museum

Ishita Dharap is an artist and art educator. Her cyclical teaching and art-making practice excavates personal and communal discomfort through a rigorous practice of reflection and play. Her work has manifested in drawing, collage, time-based media, performance, sculpture, and installation... Read More →

Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Museum Education, Instructional Practice

3:00pm EDT

Let’s Talk About "IT": Challenges and Opportunities for Sustaining ED&I Work in Art Education

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Participants join presenters in dialogue about the critical findings of NAEA's Cultural Competency Program and related ED&I efforts. Our goal is to build a purpose-driven session of relevant content impacting art educational practices today. How do ED&I aims impact your professional practice and persistence in the art education field?

Presenters

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.

Karen McGarry

Associate Professor, College for Creative Studies

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Equity Diversity and Inclusion, Deep Dive Research

4:30pm EDT

Banksy's Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem: Complicated Conversations on Palestine and the Wall

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

This presentation addresses the implications of Banksy's site-specific artwork, the Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem, which contains artwork by Banksy throughout the lobby, galleries of contemporary Palestinian art, and a museum on the Separation Wall. We'll share curriculum resources and the presenter's photos, which were taken on-site.

Presenters

Sue Uhlig

Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

United States Society for Education through Art Interest Group, Instructional Practice

5:00pm EDT

A Holistic Exploration of Choice-Based (Art) Education Across TAB, Montessori, and Reggio Emilia

Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

This dissertation research explores the core idea of "choice" in choice-based art education by comparing Montessori, Reggio Emilia, and TAB approaches. It reveals what "choice" means and how it manifests similarly and differently in these three educational models.

Presenters

Ke Xiao

PhD Candidate, Virginia Commonwealth University

presentation resource page Ke Xiao 25NAEA pdf

Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:25pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Choice Art Educators Interest Group, Professional Paper Presentation

8:00am EDT

Trauma-Informed Art Education: Ethics of Care in the Classroom

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Learn more about the impact of trauma on students' cognitive, social, and physical development, and how trauma-informed art education adopts and integrates multimodal art forms to help students feel empowered, self-actualize, heal, process, and form meaningful connections with their peers and teachers through art.

Presenters

Emily Wittenstein

Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Equity Diversity and Inclusion, Instructional Practice

12:00pm EDT

Circular Design Strategies in Product Design

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

This workshop explores circular design exercises for apparel, footwear, and CMF design. It covers a guided approach to integrating sustainability and its impact on design practices. A digital download will be provided for attendees.

Presenters

Haydee Franco

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

12:00pm EDT

Stand-Up: Facing My Own Disability While Teaching a Class on Inclusive Practices to Art Educators

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Hear this presenter’s brave, firsthand account of coming to terms with a lifelong disability and late-in-life neurodivergent diagnosis while teaching a preservice class on differentiation and inclusion. As a launchpad for greater discussion on faculty with disability, this story is a call for further work to be done in the field.

Presenters

Kate Wurtzel

Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Disability Studies in Art Education Interest Group, Professional Paper Presentation

1:00pm EDT

Three Keys for Building an Outstanding Teaching Artist Training Program

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

This presentation provides examples of how museums can train and foster a sense of community among their teaching artists for on-site and off-site museum programming. Presenters will demo training segments from their case study, and participants will leave with examples and templates of training sessions for building their own programs.

Presenters

Brandon Barr

Teen and Adult Programs Manager, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

Miriam Ruiz

Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Museum Education, Instructional Practice

2:00pm EDT

Developing a Visual Journal Practice for Your Middle-Level Classroom!

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Do you need a new practice for your middle-level classroom to help bridge skill gaps between students and foster authentic, safe, creative risk-taking? If your answer is yes, then why not try visual journaling? Learn helpful tools and tips for implementing visual journaling in your classroom.

Presenters

Jacqueline Jablecki

Middle School Art Teacher, Queen Annes County Public Schools

Visual Journaling NAEA 25 pdf

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Middle, Instructional Demonstration

3:00pm EDT

Indigenous Youth Voices

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

Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Explore an innovative three-part mural series that investigates complex contemporary issues through the cultural lens of federal Indian policy and tribal sovereignty. Engage in culturally responsive practices and instruction for Native students that fosters relationships. Through collaborative artmaking, students share authentic narratives, center healing, and work from their hearts.

Presenters

Teresa Heil

Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Kentucky International Convention Center, M111

Secondary, Instructional Practice