2025 NAEA National Convention: Full Schedule

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12:00pm EDT

Art in Special Education Awards Ceremony

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

Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon A

Join us as we celebrate this year's Art in Special Education Awardees, who include our Larry Marone Grant recipients; NAEA, CEC, VSA Peter J. Geisser Art Educator of the Year Award; and our NAEA, CEC, VSA Beverly Levett Gerber Lifetime Achievement Award.

Presenters

Mikaela Bachmann, PhD

Director of Undergraduate Programs - Art Education, University of North Texas

2025 ASE Awards Ceremony pdf

Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon A

Art in Special Education Interest Group, Business Meeting/Awards Ceremony

2:00pm EDT

Community Arts Caucus Award Ceremony, Roundtable, and Community-Led Conversations

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

Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon A

This award ceremony will celebrate our Annual Travel Award winner and our new award to a practitioner or group working in the region of the current National Convention. This award ceremony will also include space for an open forum of short shareable stories from the field. We hope for a space to celebrate and share about the subtleties of our practices that emerge from and through paying attention to what is close to us that form out of the specific interactions and traces that form and inform us.

Presenters

William Estrada

Angela Baldus

Carina Maye

Jennifer Bergmark

Tim Abel

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon A

Community Arts Caucus Interest Group, Business Meeting/Awards Ceremony

3:00pm EDT

Canadian Society for Education Through Art (CSEA) Business Meeting

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

Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon A

This business meeting will serve as an opportunity for current members of the Canadian Society for Education Through Art (CSEA), an NAEA Allied Group, as well as interested guests, to gather to discuss CSEA organization initiatives currently underway and to develop plans for the coming year. This meeting is open to anyone interested in attending. All are welcome!

Presenters

Peter Vietgen

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon A

Connected Arts Networks (CAN), Business Meeting/Awards Ceremony

4:30pm EDT

ED&I Commission Topics

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:20pm EDT

Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon A

The NAEA ED&I Commission will bring current topics of interest for discussion and dialogue with NAEA members. This session will be collaborative and discussion based, and also share some of the recent work and initiatives the Commission has brought forward.

Presenters

Ray Yang

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:20pm EDT
Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon A

Equity Diversity and Inclusion, Business Meeting/Awards Ceremony

8:00am EDT

National Art Education Foundation Grant Program

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

Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon A

This session is designed for NAEA members to learn about the National Art Education Foundation Grant Program. Presenters will discuss the Research Grant, the Teacher Incentive, the Ruth Halvorsen Professional Development Grant, and the Mary McMullan Grant. Grants support research at all levels and further the leadership and professional development of all grantees.

Presenters

Frank Juárez

Juárez brings over two decades of art education and arts management experience organizing local and regional art exhibitions, and community art events. He presents on art education at the state and national level, supports artists through grant programs, and offers professional development... Read More →

Cris Guenter

Chair, National Art Education Foundation

Professor Emerita, California State University, Chico; Retired Ask me about the National Art Education Foundation grant opportunities for NAEA members!

Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon A

NAEF, Business Meeting/Awards Ceremony

12:00pm EDT

Business Meeting: History and Historiography in Art Education Interest Group

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT

Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon A

Attend the business meeting of the HHAE Interest Group; all members and nonmembers welcome. Meet the board, network, learn of new initiatives, and create new ones. All art educators have a history to share, so please come build community with us!

Presenters

Margaret Walker

Associate Clinical Professor, University of Maryland

Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon A

History and Historiography in Art Education Interest Group, Business Meeting/Awards Ceremony

2:00pm EDT

Caucus on the Spiritual in Art Education Business Meeting

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

Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon A

The annual business meeting of CSAE will consist of reviewing board reports and discussing initiatives and goals for advancement of the CSAE mission. CSAE advocates for engagement, expression, and understanding of the spiritual in the visual arts and art education. This group seeks to advance pedagogy, research, scholarship, and artistic practices in diverse teaching and learning contexts as related to the spirit and the sacred through visual art. All CSAE and NAEA members are welcome to attend.

Presenters

Lark Keeler

Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon A

Caucus on the Spiritual in Art Education Interest Group, Business Meeting/Awards Ceremony

3:00pm EDT

CSAE Un-Business Meeting: Awaken and Connect the Mind, Body, and Spirit

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

Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon A

Join CSAE presenters for hands-on artmaking engagements and exercises designed to awaken and connect the mind, body, and spirit. Learn about how CSAE creates a professional community that is united in illuminating the spiritual in art education and art practice. CSAE defines spiritual as matters related to the spirit or soul including investigating the mysteries of life and beyond, self-realization, consciousness, rituals, well-being, and contemplative practices. All are welcome to attend.

Presenters

Lark Keeler

Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon A

Caucus on the Spiritual in Art Education Interest Group, Business Meeting/Awards Ceremony

4:00pm EDT

NAEA Affinity Group: Disability Justice

Friday March 21, 2025 4:00pm - 5:20pm EDT

Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon A

This space is for those who personally identify as a disabled person, as a person with nonnormative bodymind, as D/deaf, Neurodivergent/Neuroatypical, Mad, Autistic, Blind, Chronically ill or in Chronic pain, Crip, Kip, a Spoonie, etc. If you are not a part of that group, please locate a different space that accommodates your identity(ies).

Presenters

Ray Yang

Friday March 21, 2025 4:00pm - 5:20pm EDT
Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salon A

Equity Diversity and Inclusion, Business Meeting/Awards Ceremony