Monday, March 31
8:00 - 8:25 AM
Elementary
Using Digital Portfolios to Assess Students' Growth and Showcase Creativity
Janice Kuchinka
Learn how students can create their own digital portfolios to showcase their creativity and growth.
Student work will include social and environmental issues to discuss. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30B/Upper Level
Public Policy and Arts Administration (PPAA)
Olympic Cultural Components: Investigating Exercises in Cultural Diplomacy and Playing for Impact
Tiffany Lewis
Explore how the cultural elements of the Olympics are exercises in cultural diplomacy—and how image
and perception, cultural vibrancy and sustainability, and arts access and participation are indicators of
impact. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29C/Upper Level
Secondary
Off the Wall Art: One-Day Site-Specific Art Projects
Phyllis Burstein, Matt Milkowski
Art projects students make and install in just one day! Window photo decals, unmarked treasure maps,
guerrilla micro-murals, paper-house subdivisions, 3-D wallpaper, kinetic mobiles, and grass drawings.
Energize your classes. Delight your school. Instant art! Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 32A/Upper Level
8:00 - 8:50 AM
Advocacy
Issues Group Leadership Conversation
Deborah Reeve and NAEA Board Members
Annual dialogue with Issues Group Leaders to share updates on goals, activities, and plans for advancing
the work of Issues Groups. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 23B/Upper Level
Advocacy
Implementing a District-Wide Fine Arts Festival
Karen Popovich
Shares the process of implementing a district-wide Fine Arts Festival that showcases the many creative
talents of thousands of pK-12 students. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 16B/Mezzanine Level
Art Education Technology (AET)
Merging Digital Technologies With Art Education: Training University Teacher Candidates
Joanna Black
Explore experiences training university teacher candidates using digital technologies within art
education. Examine methods of developing curricula and examples of student teachers' digital artworks.
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25A/Upper Level
Assessment
Using Assessment Data to Improve Curriculum and Teaching Practice
Doug Boughton, Kerry Freedman
Discover ideas and processes for collection of valid and reliable assessment data for the visual arts, the
use of assessment to improve curriculum, and key questions about assessment in the enhancement of
future learning. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28D/Upper Level
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Disabling Empowerment: Critiquing the Ableist Rhetoric of Empowering Photography
Mikko Koivisto
The rhetoric of empowerment is critiqued through disability studies. The Loveliest Girl in the World
project is viewed as an example of ableist discourses on mental disabilities within art education.
Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 14A/Mezzanine Level
Committee on Multiethnic Concerns (COMC)
How Does the Visual Culture of Music Videos and Social Media Manifest in Your Classroom?
Zerric Clinton
In this interactive session, participants will discuss how the visual culture of music videos and social
media sites weaves itself into the lives of youth. Come and share your experiences! Interactive
Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 15B/Mezzanine Level
Community Arts
Teaching Art in Nicaragua: Art as Cross-Cultural Learning Tool to Address Social and Cultural
Disparities
SeungYeon Lee
Consider the roles of art as a cross-cultural teaching and learning tool to address social and cultural
disparities while working with at-risk children in Nicaragua. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 24C/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Curious Curators Creating Community: Asking Bigger Questions
Juliet Araujo, Kim Dahlheimer
Two art educators from different cities share their collaboration involving upper elementary and MS
students as artists/curators/critics creating, curating, and exhibiting their own art using free online social
media sites. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 12/Mezzanine Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Creating Interactive Online Art Appreciation Through Teamwork and Innovative Technologies
Yuha Jung, Amy Ingalls, Victoria Eudy
A professor, an instructional designer, and a teaching assistant share their experiences developing an
interactive online art appreciation course that uses innovative technologies. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29D/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Bend it Like Beckmann: Making Historically Based Artwork Relevant Through Artists' Meaning-Making
Processes
Margaret Walker
Engage K-12 students in studio work that is historically based but still relevant today. Participants
analyze artists’ intentions and create lesson seeds for classrooms. Examples provided. Interactive
Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 11A/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Virtual Travel: Around the World Through Art Service Learning
Anne Walker, Christine Plumer
Experience the empowerment of connecting with underserved communities through high school
students' artwork—addressing social justice issues, engaging students in process artmaking, and
promoting growth in new technologies. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 26A/Upper Level
Elementary
From Bric-a-Brac to Contraptions to Creation: Using the Arts, Science, and Technology to Design
Jaimeson Daley, David Rufo
Presenters discuss/demonstrate use of STEAM and artistic design to construct functional Rube Goldberg
machines. Modeled by a 4th-grade class, documentation will explore unconventional, creative use of
found objects. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30D/Upper Level
Elementary
So What's the Story?
Connie Ferguson, Beth Rolfe
Two teachers share their successful lessons incorporating writing and art. Projects combine writing,
traditional artmaking, and technology. Writing in the art room does not mean giving up your projects!
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30C/Upper Level
Higher Education
Fieldwork With Online Logs Enhances Learning in Art and Human Development
Annie Buckley
Learn how students gain valuable hands-on experience making art with people of all ages and
backgrounds in this hybrid art and development course integrating fieldwork, online logs, collaboration,
and writing. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 15A/Mezzanine Level
Higher Education
From Monster High to Skelanimals: The Rise of the Cute and the Creepy
Susan Livingston
The Cute and the Creepy are an emergent trend, combined in popular forms like Monster High and
Skelanimals. Explore these aesthetics, their forms, and the implications of their combination. Research
Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 33A/Upper Level
Higher Education
How Socially Engaged Art (SEA) Transformed a Digital Artmaking Service-Learning Course
Ruth Smith
Demonstrates the ways that socially engaged art was integrated into an undergraduate service-learning
curriculum and affected student experiences and work in the course. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28B/Upper Level
International
Preparing Students to Become Active Citizens Through Contemporary Art
Martina Riedler
Through issues-based ideas inherent in contemporary art and enhancing socially activist education,
Turkish student teachers challenge sociocultural issues and gradually learn to become active citizens.
Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29A/Upper Level
Media Arts
2.1. Videography in Teaching as an Artistic Tool for High School Students
Erica Lyon, Mark Graham
Teaching videography, using a flipped classroom approach and using video as an artistic medium, with
readily available technology and equipment. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 33B/Upper Level
Middle Level
Sparking Empathy Through Perspective-Taking and Poetry Writing With the Shaw Memorial
Julie Carmean, Sara Lesk
Bring a Civil War monument to life with National Gallery educators and develop empathy in students,
using Project Zero thinking routines, drama techniques, and poetry. Posters and image CDs available.
Hands-On Demonstration
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25B/Upper Level
Middle Level
Teaching With Thinking Routines
Heidi Hinish, Elizabeth Diament
Using Thinking Routines (developed by Harvard's Project Zero) to frame this interactive session,
presenters will model how carefully exploring works of art can promote critical thinking and support
group learning. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 14B/Mezzanine Level
Museum Education
Using Interactives to Activate Student Learning
Hajnal Eppley, Seema Rao
How can museums use interactive technology with students and teachers? Explore two hands-on
lessons incorporating installed interactives and mobile technology in an art museum setting. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30E/Upper Level
Museum Education
Beam Me Up, Scotty! Teleporting Museums Into Classrooms Through Video and Web Conferencing
Wendy Ng, Denise Roberts, Briana Zavadil White, Nancy Strickland
Learn from three art museums how to create a dynamic virtual visits program by choosing appropriate
video and web conferencing technology, developing relevant cross-curricular content, and increasing
student engagement. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31B/Upper Level
National Association of State Directors of Art Education (NASDAE)
Racing to Assess: One State's Plan to Effectively Evaluate Teachers
Deb Hansen, Maryjane Long, Jennifer Boland
Delaware's art educators are balancing instruction with evidence of student learning. Explore teacher
evaluation including one state's plan, progress to date, and strategies for second year refinement and
implementation. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 26B/Upper Level
Professional Development
Visual Literacy and the Art of Great Presentations
Lynell Burmark
Come discover insider tips for creating visuals-based lessons and presentations. Get free, updated,
digital copy of Visual Literacy (ASCD book), and enter to win LCD projector and other valuable prizes!
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 11B/Upper Level
Professional Development
Press Play: Art Teacher as Game Designer
James O'Donnell
Learn what video games know that art teachers don't—discover strategies for instruction, grading, and
classroom management that can improve engagement, reduce discipline issues, and foster agency. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 24B/Upper Level
Research
Analyzing Studies in Art Education: Merging Human and Technological Resources for New Inquiries
Chris Grodoski, Sarah Wilcox, Samantha Goss
Meet three doctoral researchers conducting a content analysis of Studies in Art Education and how they
are using new technologies to accomplish their work. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 7B/Upper Level
Research
Sp/pl/acemaking: The Cultivation of Spaces and Places Inside a Saturday Art School Classroom
Donna Murray-Tiedge
Review findings of a QquanUAL study that examined the qualities and overlap of six spatial domains
inside a Saturday Art School classroom, identifying strategies that invite space to place transition.
Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 17A/Mezzanine Level
Secondary
Hot Wax 3: Digital Photography Meets Encaustic Painting
Kristin Heynen
Explore safe, unique approaches for incorporating digital photography and encaustic painting. Students
love the spontaneity of these media. A showcase of encaustic artists, lessons, websites and suggested
materials provided. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25C/Upper Level
Secondary
21st-Century Pen Pals
Susan Silva, Erica Wright
Innovative multimedia artworks generated 3,000 miles apart. Technology paired with snail mail creating
cross-country dialogue, collaboration, and artworks. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31C/Upper Level
Seminar for Research in Art Education (SRAE)
Much Ado About Policy? The Past, Present, and Future of Art Education
Timothy Garth
Confronting contemporary issues in national education policy, this presentation contextualizes the arts
relationship to standards, standardization, and the common core initiative. Discussion includes
implications for national, state, and local policy. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30A/Upper Level
Technology
Social Media in the Art Classroom
Alexandra Overby
Do you use social media in your classroom? Why not? Come learn how to safely include social media in
your art classroom for communicating with students, parents, and the community. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 32B/Upper Level
Technology
SoundCloud and QR Codes: Creating Interactive Art Experiences
Meghan Zanskas
Learn how to use SoundCloud and QR codes as effective and engaging integration of technology through
art projects, reflection, and displays. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 7A/Upper Level
8:30 - 8:55 AM
Elementary
Art Detectives: Clues For Making Art History Engaging
Rebecca Carleton
Create a dynamic and participatory Art History program encouraging students to solve Art History
mysteries supplementing your curriculum. Reproducible and adaptable print/online materials focus on
cultural and visual literacy. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30B/Upper Level
Media Arts
Paintings That Move and Groove: Using Photoshop to Make Artwork Come Alive
Cindy Hasio
This step-by-step demonstration teaches how to use Photoshop filters and the animation feature with
scanned or photographed artwork. Examples of student work will be explored with a provided rubric.
Hands-On Demonstration
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29C/Upper Level
9:00 - 9:25 AM
Early Childhood Art Educators (ECAE)
Press Play: Welcome to Our Art Show
Marta Cabral
Digital media are explored by preschool-aged artists/curators as ways of interacting with visitors in
school and professional art-exhibition contexts. Examples of recordings are shown and connections with
standards are addressed. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29B/Upper Level
Elementary
Facebook Groups: The Secure and Easy Way to Show Off Your Art Program
Linda Skelton, Abby Richardson
Doesn't everyone use Facebook? Come learn how to use a Facebook Group to show off what is
happening behind your art room door! Instantly improve communication, advocacy, and awareness.
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30B/Upper Level
Secondary
The Portable Art Gallery: Fostering Ownership Through Exhibiting Student Artwork
Jethro Gillespie
To help students find a more authentic sense of autonomy and ownership with their own AP Studio Art
projects, the presenter has constructed a portable art gallery space designated for the exhibition of AP
student concentration projects. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 32A/Upper Level
9:00 - 9:50 AM
Advocacy
Leader in Me Murals
Kim Soule
Come find out how to fund your project and learn how to use student ideas to create beautiful murals
for your school. Use a blog to share the progress of your murals. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 16B/Mezzanine Level
Business Meeting
Submitting a Book Proposal to NAEA's Professional Materials Committee (PMC)
Sheri Klein, Debrah Sickler-Voigt, Mary Elizabeth Meier, Heidi Mullins
An advisory session to discuss submitting book proposals to the NAEA Professional Materials Committee
(PMC) from the panel and committee member Cathy Smilan. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 22/Upper Level
Business Meeting
USSEA Business Meeting
Steve Willis, Alice Wexler, Allan Richards
Discuss USSEA interests, initiatives, and future opportunities such as the Child Art Exchange, Online
Juried gallery, annual NAEA exhibition, Diversity Resources, Scholarship Mentors, and a contemporary
issues Newsletter. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 24A/Upper Level
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Standards in Art Education and the Making of Sense
Donal O'Donoghue, Charles Garoian
Consider political imperatives for accountability and standardization in schools. Examine examples of art
teachers' creative interpretations of standards that enable a multiplicity of standards to emerge.
Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 14A/Mezzanine Level
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Minding the Gap: Experimentation In-Between
Jack Richardson, Juuso Tervo
Drawing ideas from radical politics and philosophy, the presenters will discuss the experimental
potential for art and art education in the gaps between dichotomies such as art/life, practice/theory,
and subject/object. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 14B/Mezzanine Level
Caucus on the Spiritual in Art Education (CSAE)
Women's Art of Morocco: A Spiritual Journey of Ethnic Identity
Nancy Brady
Tour Morocco! Learn about the life, arts, spirituality, and community practices of Berber women.
Includes slide show and video of an amazing journey with discussion of connections to CSAE, women's
rights, and global education. Questions answered during presentation. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 26B/Upper Level
Community Arts
Jovenes Artistas: Motivating At-Risk Youth Through After-School Arts Program
Laura Brino, Jean Orzech
Learn ways to motivate and engage at-risk students through the arts. Acquire tools that will help you
create a safe environment for young artists to express their personal stories and discover their inner
voice. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 24C/Upper Level
Community Arts Caucus (CAC)
Computer Art Lab: Technology Connecting Kids to Community
Krista Robinson, Luzia Ornelas
Learn how to connect new open source software programs to meaningful community-based curriculum.
Projects allow middle school students to critically think about issues in their community and propose
dynamic solutions. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 10/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
The Digital Quilt: Stitching Families Together
Michael Ariel, Suzanne Canali
Using a scanner, Adobe Photoshop, and Digital Ink Jet Printable Fabric, students create one-of-a-kind
quilts that explore family history in imaginative and creative ways. Hands-On Demonstration
Convention Center/Meeting Room 26A/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Effective Classroom Management for Art Teachers
Ellen Beck
Learn how to use proactive management strategies for a variety of situations; motivate all students by
sending high expectation messages; and create a positive, safe, and inclusive classroom climate. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 12/Mezzanine Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Create an Arts Cafe
Elizabeth Bowles
Consider creating a course that explores a culture through both its art and food. Combining English,
social studies, math, and technology skills, build student collaboration in a real world project. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 11B/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Using Twitter as a Catalyst in the Classroom to Spark, Engage, and Empower Students
Lisbeth Bucci
Share presenter's enthusiasm and success utilizing Twitter as a tool for engaging and empowering
student learning. Includes tips utilizing Social Media in a friendly and safe manner for students, teachers,
and administrators. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 21/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
How to TAB: Tips for Transitioning to a Choice-Based Arts Studio Classroom
Christina Reeves
Explore the innovative practice of Teaching for Artistic Behavior and gain practical tips for transitioning
to a learner-directed art studio. Learn evidence-based strategies for structure, management, and
advocacy. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30A/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Technology Meets Paint: A Love Story
Amy Ruopp, Kathleen Unrath
Gain strategies to creatively combine technology with traditional media. From Middle to higher
education, discover collective experiences and outcomes which celebrate traditional forms of expression
while embracing the digital world. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28A/Upper Level
Design Issues Group (DIG)
The Decade of Design Education
Martin Rayala
Join this interactive discussion reviewing the Decade of Design Education's new national organization,
conference, school, standards, resources, and the design-themed 2015 NAEA Convention. Interactive
Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29A/Upper Level
Elementary
There’s No Place Like Home: Connecting Local Senior Artist Brings Pride, Culture, and Perspective!
Pam Day, Liz Langdon, Audra Miller, Valerie Clare Ross
Action research can bring local visual culture and artists into the classroom to make a meaningful art
experience for students—one that challenges stereotypes and enlivens lessons. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30D/Upper Level
Higher Education
A PhD in Hand: Now What?
Kymberly Cruz
Ponder this: what's life like after research? After the celebration it’s time to consider what’s next.
Participate in a candid discussion exploring your options after receiving your PhD. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 15A/Mezzanine Level
Higher Education
Art in Science/Science in Art: Piloting a Course on Artistic Exhibition of Scientific Images
Julie Voelker-Morris
How do arts and sciences intersect through creative culture? Learn about the impetus, process, and
outcomes of a pilot undergraduate course examining confluences of scientific visualizations and art
exhibition. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28B/Upper Level
International
Global Connections in Learning: Western Sahara Project
Cindy Maguire, Devin Thornburg, Federico Guzman
Learn about a course where students and faculty from the US, Spain, and film school in a refugee camp
used technology for collaborative learning on the role of arts in human rights initiatives. Interactive
Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29C/Upper Level
Media Arts
Virtual and Real World Art: Similarities, Differences, and Uses for Unique Artmaking Opportunities
Linda Krecker
Sculptural festival art and digital art from virtual worlds represent new art forms and can be the subject
of a unique educational unit—includes the art, history, and artmaking. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 33B/Upper Level
Middle Level
Learn How the Common Core State Standards, Music, and Art Combine for Songs in Surrealism
Jacqueline Cassidy
Common Core State Standards and Innovative Art Education? Learn how the lesson "Songs in
Surrealism" combines music with Surrealist art, to meet the Common Core State Standards with your
middle level students. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25B/Upper Level
Middle Level
Silkscreen Printing: Enhancing Creative Expression and Production
Louise Napier
Silkscreen printing offers many opportunities for creative expression, allowing multiple images, color
and value manipulation and layering. Demonstration of inexpensive silkscreen construction and printing,
with many student examples. Hands-On Demonstration
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25A/Upper Level
Museum Education
History of Children's Spaces in Art Museums
Brigid Globensky
A history of children's spaces in art museums through the 20th century. Based on research conducted at
the Getty Research Institute, Winter 2013. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30E/Upper Level
Museum Education
Art Speaks: Creating Safe Spaces for Difficult Dialogue
Samantha Kelly, Anne Taylor
How can museums create spaces where art speaks and visitors can comfortably respond? Educators
share ideas for bringing visitors to the center of conversations about race, class, and civil rights. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31A/Upper Level
Museum Education
Pencils and iPads and 3-D Printing, Oh My! Technology and Sensory Engagement in the Museum
Rachel Ropeik, Adelia Gregory
Learn how the Brooklyn Museum's Access Team uses a variety of technologies to engage adults on the
Sensory Tour, a twice-monthly program for both sighted and non-sighted visitors. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31B/Upper Level
Professional Development
Next Generation Visual Arts Standards for Museum Education – A First Glimpse!
Dennis Inhulsen, Olivia Gude, Betsy Logan
Get an in-depth look at the next generation visual arts standards and meet members of the Visual Arts
writing team. Learn all about the new Enduring Understandings, Essentials Questions and Performance
Standards. Spend time with colleagues discussing possibilities for implementation and integration into
your teaching. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 16A/Mezzanine Level
Professional Development
A New Vision for Professional Development: Exploring the Intersection of Teachers' Identity and
Practice
Rebecca Borrelli
Learn how a group of art teachers created and exchanged artwork as a way to reflect on the intersection
of their identity and teaching practice. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 24B/Upper Level
Research
Historical Stepping Stones Across the Currents of Art Education
Ami Kantawala, Paul Bolin, Mary Ann Stankiewicz
The critical approach to investigating the past helps demonstrate living, dynamic, and contested nature
of history. Explore historical stepping-stones for a framework of a new art education history textbook
authored by the presenters. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 7B/Upper Level
Research
Narrative Methods in Art Education Research: Continuing the Conversation
Shari Savage, Laura Evans, Vittoria Daiello, Candace Stout
Participants share research challenges and successful strategies concerning storytelling and narrative
methodologies. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 17A/Mezzanine Level
Secondary
Strategies for Preparing to Teach the Revised AP Art History Curriculum
Dana Howard
Let's explore content of the revised AP Art History course. Participants will emerge with ideas and lots of
resources to make teaching the new curriculum a rich and meaningful process. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25C/Upper Level
Secondary
Design as a Catalyst for Creative Thinking and Innovation
Paul Sproll
Discusses a curriculum framework for design teaching and learning in the K-12 art classroom and
examines a variety of examples of assignments and instructional resources. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31C/Upper Level
Super Session
Teaching for Creativity: Using Videos to Master Art Concepts and Build Creative Confidence
Phil Hansen
Phil Hansen is a multimedia artist who works at the intersection of traditional visual art, pointillism, and
offbeat techniques. His TED talk “Embrace the Shake” has gone viral! Join Phil as he shares his approach
to creativity and digs into Goodbye-Art Academy, a new online instructional tool for students to build a
solid foundation by mastering art concepts, and also for teachers to facilitate creativity in the classroom.
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Ballroom 20CD/Upper Level
Technology
Open iPad Studio IV Session
Susan Gabbard
Bring your iPad! Share and review your apps with job-alike peers, and contribute your apps to a
summary list for all. Discover current trends with iPads in teaching art. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 8/Upper Level
Technology
Distance Learning and the Art Museum
Anne Kraybill
Examine the current state of distance learning and art museums and discuss implications for the future
that were the culmination of a Distance Learning Summit hosted by Crystal Bridges Museum of
American Art. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 7A/Upper Level
9:30 - 9:55 AM
Curriculum and Instruction
Strategies for Success: Implementing Technology-Based Art Practices Into the Secondary Curriculum
Stephanie Silverman
Learn how one secondary art educator is exploiting technology and digital artmaking tools to enhance
and extend the secondary studio art experience. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30B/Upper Level
Early Childhood Art Educators (ECAE)
Encounters With Art Materials in Early Childhood Education
Sylvia Kind, Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw
Presenters discuss a 3-year art-based collaborative inquiry into materiality in early childhood education,
and consider the role that art materials play in early childhood learning. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29B/Upper Level
Secondary
Making Art That Matters: Collaborations Through Digital and Social Media
Stephanie Wirt, Stephanie Pickens
Two high school art teachers share how easily accessible creative digital and social media merge with
traditional, contemporary, and collaborative artmaking approaches to engage students in social justice
issues. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 32A/Upper Level
10:00 - 10:25 AM
Secondary
Open Source Software: Sparking Innovative Teaching and Learning for All
Rebecca Williams
Open source culture sparks innovate teaching and learning. Discover several platforms freely accessible
to stimulate students' personal exploration in graphic design, photo-manipulation, animation, and 3-D
design. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 32A/Upper Level
10:00 - 10:50 AM
Advocacy
Saturday Studio Outreach: Igniting the Art Spark in Young Learners
Pam Stephens, Erin Gooch, Chelsea Tinklenberg,
Learn strategies for establishing and promoting an art outreach program to advocate for the visual arts
while engaging young learners. Examples and instructions for art activities that engage K-3 children will
be shared. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 16B/Mezzanine Level
Art Education Technology (AET)
The Good, the Bad, and the Inequity: Exploring Field Experiences in Digital Communities
Joana Hyatt
Explore spaces of inquiry within anonymous digital communities, focusing on art teacher candidates'
field experiences that recognize alternative forms of evaluation and mentoring through performative,
arts-informed, and narrative discourses. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25A/Upper Level
Assessment
The Title Game and Other Assessment Critiques Students Crave
Virginia Encila
Learn compelling, high-level thinking assessment games originating from the middle school studio that
may be meaningfully adapted for other developmental levels. Enjoy evaluations that support and
engage all students. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28D/Upper Level
Business Meeting
HE Issues Forum: Higher Education Division Membership Meeting
Jeff Broome, Shari Savage, Robert Quinn, John White
An opportunity to meet with Higher Education members and brainstorm issues for discussion in breakout sessions. Potential topics include changes in preservice evaluation/certification, technology/distance
learning, and the NAEA Research Commission. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 15A/Mezzanine Level
Business Meeting
LGBTIC General Membership Meeting
Mindi Rhoades
General meeting of the LGBT Issues Caucus and anyone interested in joining or supporting this group. All
are invited to attend. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 11A/Upper Level
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Waging Non-Violence: A Socio-Cultural Curriculum Unit for High School Students
Erica Richard
Explore nonviolent philosophies and contemporary art, through a three-part curriculum unit enabling
students to discover their own realistic nonviolent solutions to challenges that confront students daily.
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 14A/Mezzanine Level
Committee on Lifelong Learning (LLL)
Craft, Place, and Lifelong Learning: Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Art in Everyday Life
Liz Rex, Veronica Sahagun
Presenters engage in a cross-cultural conversation on contemporary approaches to vernacular crafts and
ways of making, including implications for current lifelong learning and community-based art education
practices. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 26B/Upper Level
Committee on Multiethnic Concerns (COMC)
Colorism and Visual Culture
Wanda Knight
Colorism refers to a form of skin tone bias that favors light skin over dark skin. Consider the implications
of colorism in U.S. society and its schools. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 15B/Mezzanine Level
Community Arts
Pointing the Way: A Student and Community Collaborative
Glen Sanders, Mike Jenkins
Explore ways to develop a project or program for your students and community. Examine one blueprint
for success. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 24C/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Choice Without Chaos: The Power of Student-Directed Learning
Anne Bedrick
Student-directed learning is the innovative teaching approach that motivates students and develops
traits we value: creativity, perseverance, flexibility, self-expression, and diligence. Learn strategies to
offer Choice without Chaos. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 26A/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Interpreting the Frames to Create Innovative Secondary Art Curricula
Colleen Brennan, Judith Briggs, Karen Maras
Art educators from Illinois State University and Australian Catholic University discuss their collaboration
to redesign secondary art curriculum to incorporate theoretical Frames, lenses for analyzing, studying,
and making art. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 12/Mezzanine Level
Curriculum and Instruction
A Common Core Toolkit: Instruction, Assessment, and Evaluation for Classroom Teachers
Yoon Kang-O'Higgins, Philip Yenawine
Presenters will demonstrate a VTS art discussion and then outline how teachers and trainers are
working together in various regions to produce growth in students' critical thinking. Hands-On
Demonstration
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29D/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
The Common Core in Action: How the Arts and the Common Core Converge
Pearl Schaeffer, Raye Cohen
Explore the intersection of the arts and arts integration with the Common Core State Standards, and
identify strategies for placing the arts at the center of Common Core Standards implementation. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28A/Upper Level
Elementary
Write On Art? Right On!
Ellen Hargrove
Enrich your art curriculum and your students' art experiences through writing (in the art room or the
computer lab). Explore Reflective Writing, Narrative, writing for assessment, and more. Best Practice
Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30D/Upper Level
Elementary
Using iBooks Author and the iPad to Make Curriculum Accessible to Students
Susan Hinkle
Learn how iBooks Author can be used to create and publish curriculum accessible to students with iPads.
Classroom video and student work will be shared to demonstrate authentic use hardware/software in
an elementary visual arts classroom. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30C/Upper Level
Elementary
How a Week at an Art Museum Strengthens Student and Teacher Relationships
Anne Sautman, Rusty Clevenger, Amy Johnson, Amy Lozar
Learn how an in-depth, participatory museum experience impacted the sense of community at three
different schools—including the relationship among students, between students and teachers, and
among teachers. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30B/Upper Level
Higher Education
Network Art/Network Pedagogy: Educating Artists Beyond Digital
Heidi May
Explore how a networked understanding of art and pedagogy may inform the work of art educators
working in the contexts of higher education. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 33A/Upper Level
Higher Education
Gamifying Art History
Josh Yavelberg
Examine the methods undertaken by an art history instructor to gamify his online art history courses
and the implications for on-ground and blended learning environments. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28B/Upper Level
International
Ring of Fire Forum: Traditional and Innovative Topics in Art Education Along the Pacific Rim
Masami Toku, Mary Stokrocki, Ryan Shin, Jin-Shiow Chen
In this forum, tradition and innovation in visual (pop) culture/media literacy will be discussed as mirrors
of youth's desires by representatives of various cultural regions around the Pacific Rim. Best Practice
Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29A/Upper Level
Leadership Series
State Board Restructuring S.O.S.
Lorinda Rice, Bob Reeker
As times change, many Boards need to do the same. Nebraska Co-Presidents will share their state’s
journey through restructuring: Slow, Open Dialogue, Strategic. Join the discussion. Share your ideas and
concerns. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 8/Upper Level
Media Arts
Media Arts: An Introduction
Dain Olsen
In this dynamic multimedia presentation, learn about media arts, its relationship to visual arts, and its
unique qualities and possibilities for the future of learning. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 33B/Upper Level
Middle Level
Middle Level Showcase: Sharing Excellence
Kimberly Cairy, September Buys
2013 NAEA National Middle Level Educator of the Year will share reflections from years of experience,
best practices, learning, connections, and building community. Gain tips and strategies from this
amazing educator. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25B/Upper Level
Museum Education
Art Carts Three Ways: Engaging Visitors in Museum Galleries
Melissa Gonzales, Kris Bergquist, Kristina Walker
The Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and Spencer Museum of Art share three
diverse approaches to gallery carts through activities, conversation, and iPads. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30E/Upper Level
Museum Education
Toward a More Inclusive Practice: Museum Education for All
Greer Kudon, Lindsay Smilow, Alyson Luck
Learn about best practices for developing differentiated curriculum from the planning stage (not merely
adapting existing curriculum) from 2 years of field research and explore ways to incorporate into existing
or new educational programming. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31A/Upper Level
Museum Education
Collaborating With Curators: The Changing Role of Educators in Gallery Interpretation
Emily Schreiner, Elizabeth Yohlin
Educators from the Philadelphia Museum of Art will discuss the successes and challenges of two
interpretive gallery projects on which curators and educators collaborated. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31B/Upper Level
Professional Development
Real Oil Paint: Clean, Cheap, and Beautiful
Debra Fitzsimmons
Love oils? Avoid oils in the classroom? Discover techniques for use that make traditional oils less
expensive, cleaner, safer, and easier to manage than you would ever imagine! Teach Oil Painting! Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 11B/Upper Level
Research
Author Series: Practice Theory: Seeing the Power of Art Teacher Researchers
Melanie Buffington, Sara Wilson McKay
Features authors from the book Practice Theory: Seeing the Power of Art Teacher Researchers. Art
educators will share ideas about how research can and does inform their practice. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 17A/Mezzanine Level
Research
Fellows Forum: Ask a Fellow
David Burton, Read Diket, Cindy Colbert
Ask a Fellow brings art educators with research questions together with NAEA Distinguished Fellows
who have expert advice and decades of experience. Explore the possibilities! Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 7B/Upper Level
Research
The Influence of Problem-Based Learning on Drawing Ability
John Krenik
Not knowing whether problem-based learning or skill-based learning increases drawing ability for 7thgrade students negatively impacts short- and long-term drawing ability outcomes. This dissertation
study informs important pedagogical practices. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 23B/Upper Level
Research
Writing for Studies in Art Education
Sydney Walker
An advisory session from the Editors and Editorial Board members of Studies in Art Education.
Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 22/Upper Level
Secondary
Over Exposed: Creating Contextual Narratives and Photographic Essays
Gino Molfino, Ashley Molfino
Explore how students research, plan, expose, compose, and refine contemporary personal narratives
that utilize various traditional and contemporary photographic essay practices. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25C/Upper Level
Secondary
IMPACT & IMPORT: Southern California Ceramics 1945-1975
Billie Sessions, Christy Johnson
Explore the history, impact, and import of mid-century southern California ceramics: education,
experimentation, and artistic expressions. Research reveals an approach that went viral, influencing an
entire nation. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31C/Upper Level
Seminar for Research in Art Education (SRAE)
The Pedagogy of Installation Art: Integrating Social Issues and a Contemporary Art Practice
Mary Stuart Hall
Participants are invited to engage in a conversation about how arts-based research can integrate social
issues into a contemporary art practice and a teaching practice. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30A/Upper Level
Student Chapter/Preservice (SC)
Going Beyond Local: Improving Your Student Chapter
Olivia Mays, Robert Ciganko, Rachel Knopf, Andrea Petrillo
Undergraduate art education students discuss ways to broaden innovative partnerships by exploring
technologies to expand their chapter visibility, grow support for arts education, and deepen personal
teaching experience. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29B/Upper Level
Supervision and Administration
Where Am I? Proficiency Assessment and Placement
Cheryl Maney, Margie O'Shea
Reflective technology-based performance tasks to assess learning and demonstrate proficiency level and
mastery of standards for placement. Authentic integration of HS CC, aligned with new HS Core Arts
Standards. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29C/Upper Level
Technology
Beyond the #Selfie: Connecting Teens and Art Through Social Media
Dana Allen-Greil, Michelle Harrell
Tweeting, Tumbling, snapping photos—how can we turn typical teen behaviors into meaningful learning
experiences? Share ideas with educators from the National Gallery of Art and North Carolina Museum of
Art. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 23C/Upper Level
Technology
Social Media Forays of Techno-Junkies, Nerds, and Noobies
Elizabeth Delacruz, Daniel Barney, Marjorie Manifold, Craig Roland, Mary Stokrocki
The Princess of Pinterest, King of Ning, Bread-Making Baron of Instagram, and Catlady of SecondLife
share their social media strategies, obsessions, and creative practices. Come! Follow us! Moderated by
Elizabeth Delacruz. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 7A/Upper Level
10:30 - 10:55 AM
Secondary
Charting Your Course: Maps & Meaning in Mixed Media Studio Art
Teresa Roberts
Discover how maps and meaning intertwine in a technology-enhanced studio project: students chart
their course by creating multi-layered mixed media pieces presenting multidimensional aspects of their
future plans. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 32A/Upper Level
11:00 - 11:25 AM
Secondary
Photo on the Fly: Field Trip Lessons in School, in City, and Around the World
Phyllis Burstein
Reality TV, social media, visual research, mapping, and photojournalism inspire provocative lesson
prompts for photo students on the fly! See student work via in-school mini-field trips, walking and public
transit excursions, and international school exchanges. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 32A/Upper Level
11:00 - 11:50 AM
Advocacy
The Influence of STEAM Education on Student Problem Solving
Evan Thomas
Learn about the connection between STEAM and creative thinking. Explore the impact of a STEAMbased unit on the problem-solving ability of middle school students. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 16B/Mezzanine Level
Art Education Technology (AET)
Teaching Digital Games Design: Strategies and Challenges
Lilly Lu
Showing students' work, the challenges and strategies of teaching game design for art and design
education will be presented and discussed. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25A/Upper Level
California Artist Series
Culture, Creativity, and Art—Nurturing Opportunity for Success
Simon Silva
Simon Silva—artist, author, and speaker—shares how curiosity and inventiveness can lead to a child
becoming a lifelong learner. Weaving in elements of his own compelling personal story, Silva offers his
view of how art and culture can be critical components of education and student achievement. His
message is broadly accessible to all types of educators, regardless of background. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 8/Upper Level
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Art on Social Injustice
Jennifer Shiberou
Explore how student art can be used as a vehicle to educate the school and community about social
injustice. Topics include the Rwandan genocide, the global drug trade, and human trafficking. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 14A/Mezzanine Level
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Transforming our Practices: Indigenous Art, Pedagogies, and Emerging Technology
Kryssi Staikidis, Christine Ballangee-Morris
Addresses what art education and art educators can learn from indigenous pedagogy and contemporary
art practices, as well as digital technologies and gaming that utilize indigenous perspectives to educate.
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 14B/Mezzanine Level
Caucus on the Spiritual in Art Education (CSAE)
The Spirit of Holistic Art Education: It's Elementary
Barbara Caldwell
Effective, holistic ways of teaching university art education methods courses are presented. Innovative
teaching methods, projects, assessments, and student work emphasize community, collaboration, and
personal growth. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 26B/Upper Level
Community Arts Caucus (CAC)
Community Matters: Art as Social Practice
Ross Schlemmer, Jonathan Miller, Kara Wilson, Sarah Beichner
Students reflect on their experiences with Service-Learning and the Community Arts through a unique
museum exhibit emphasizing social relevance and contextualizing practices within the community to
create greater social awareness. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 10/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Teaching Craft: How Do We Bring Contemporary Craft Practices Into the Classroom?
Jody Boyer
Presents an opportunity for K-12 arts educators to discuss folk craft, subversive craft, and craft as social
activism from the perspective of practicing arts educators. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 26A/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Integrating English Language Arts in the Elementary Art Curriculum
Cynthia Brown
Guide students to describe and interpret visual information critically and creatively as you integrate
Common Core. Build confidence when looking, thinking, and discussing art as a source of information.
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 11B/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Drawing Machines: An Arts and Engineering Collaboration
Erik Brunvand, Sandy Brunvand
Explore a curriculum (undergraduate, high school, and professional development) that involves arts and
engineering collaboration to design and build drawing machines: kinetic sculptures that make drawings.
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 12/Mezzanine Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Let's Play: From Play to Ideation
Carrie Nordlund, Amy Pfeiler-Wunder
Come play! Consider the journey from inspiration and imagination to ideation. Explore the history and
philosophy of play to infuse child play in your curriculum. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29D/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Their Work, Not Mine: The Student-Centered Studio Classroom
Rebecca Roberts
Explore how one high school teacher created a curriculum that allows students to research, through
artmaking, concepts that they discover and that interest them. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30A/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
EcoArt: Think Globally, Make Art Locally
Joanne Sowell, Shari Hofschire
Art activities are inspired by an understanding of global environmental issues and created using local
recycled and natural resources. Ideas include animal sculpture, found poetry, and site-altered paper.
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28A/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Living History Project
Ron Whitehead
Come learn and explore many different ways to serve our nation's veterans. Learn ways that you can
interact with veterans inside and outside of the classroom. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 11A/Upper Level
Design Issues Group (DIG)
Use the Design Thinking Process to Transform Your Teaching, Engage Students, Promote 21st-Century
Skills
Barbara Suplee
Transform your teaching and engage your students with design thinking: a dynamic, creative,
collaborative process through which problems are identified, framed, and researched, and solutions are
proposed, produced, and evaluated. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29A/Upper Level
Elementary
The Lerner School Compassion Project: A Cross-Curricular Approach
Julie Harris, Barbara Deena
The Lerner School Compassion Project culminated with an amazing art gallery opening. Come learn how
to integrate this theme into art, environmental, language arts, social studies, and music curricula. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30D/Upper Level
Elementary
The Super Alter Ego: Taking Students and Their Art to New Heights!
Brittany Schwarck
This elementary curriculum integrates art with language and composition. Students design a superhero
or villain; consider alter egos, anti-heroes, and relevant world issues; and learn how to illustrate a story.
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30B/Upper Level
Higher Education
Clothes Swap as Participatory Art and Education
Flavia Bastos
Examine socially engaged art practices to expand art educators' engagement with social action geared to
communication and understanding between individuals that can have lasting effects. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 15A/Mezzanine Level
Higher Education
Learning to Stitch, Sew, and Weave the Entangled Roles of Artist/Teacher/Researcher
Mary Elizabeth Meier, Amy Bloom, Laura Sapelly
Methods of learning fiber arts are conceptual tropes to consider the roles of artist/teacher/researcher.
Examine the learning processes of sewing and needlework as metaphors for learning. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 33A/Upper Level
Higher Education
NoVA: Developing an International Nordic Master's Degree in Visual Studies and Art Education
Kevin Tavin, Anette Göthlund, Mie Buhl, Kristin Bergaust
Learn about the development of a new international graduate program between universities in four
European countries, which educates international professionals in best Nordic practices and traditions in
art education. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28B/Upper Level
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered Issues Caucus (LGBTIC)
S/m/othering
Marissa McClure, Robert Sweeny
Presenters share the experience of infertility to argue for expanding representations of
motherhood/parenthood within art/art education, and map the infertility experience and queer
theories of motherhood. Performance
Convention Center/Meeting Room 15B/Mezzanine Level
Middle Level
How Fisher Went to the Skyland: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Iroquois Culture and Science
Jennifer Eiserman
Learn about grade 6 students and preservice art teachers working together for 5 weeks in 2013,
exploring historic and contemporary Iroquois culture and science through art. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25B/Upper Level
Museum Education
Encountering Process: Innovations in Museum-Based Artist Demonstrations
Michelle Hagewood, Ardina Greco
Learn about new approaches to artist demonstrations in museums. Consider the benefits of learning
through observing, encountering live artists in gallery spaces, and seeing traditional and technological
processes juxtaposed. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30E/Upper Level
Museum Education
Mobile Learning in Museums: From Strategy to Implementation
Anne Manning
Discover The Baltimore Museum of Art's innovative smartphone guide designed to connect objects,
artists, and community. Explore mobile strategy, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31A/Upper Level
Professional Development
Next Generation Visual Arts Standards for High School Students – A First Glimpse!
Dennis Inhulsen, September Buys, Cheryl Maney, Susan Gabbard
Get an in-depth look at the next generation visual arts standards and meet members of the Visual Arts
writing team. Learn all about the new Enduring Understandings, Essentials Questions and Performance
Standards. Spend time with colleagues discussing possibilities for implementation and integration into
your teaching. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 16A/Mezzanine Level
Professional Development
Make Your Classroom an Art School With Virtual Visits From Teaching Artists!
Kristin Farr
Discover new, free videos about art that are made for students! Teach your students how to cut stencils,
draw comics, or create Claymation using Art School videos as your guide. Hands-On Demonstration
Convention Center/Meeting Room 24C/Upper Level
Research
Affordances and Constraints of Mobile Computing in Art Education
Juan Carlos Castro, David Pariser, Martin Lalonde
Explore the findings of a 2-year study examining the affordances and constraints of mobile computing in
and outside of the art classroom. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 7B/Upper Level
Research
Living Indigenous Women's Epistemologies & the Backstrap Loom: Collaborated Embodiments of
Cosmos, Relationality, and Empowerment
Irma Rubio
Learn how backstrap looms and Mesoamerican women weavers co-create living indigenous curriculum.
Discuss ways this knowledge may restore and innovate understandings of women’s/girl’s roles from art
classroom to universe. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 17A/Mezzanine Level
Secondary
Haiku as Verbal Sketching
Nathalie Ryan, Paula Lynn
Explore practical strategies for connecting poetry and art using a thinking routine to encourage careful
observation and creative interpretation. Learn about the art of haiku and its relationship to drawing
practice. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25C/Upper Level
Special Needs in Art Education (SNAE)
You Teach at a Detention Center? You’re Crazy!
Daniel Humphrey
A young teacher working with at-risk, in-crisis, and/or incarcerated youth shares successful and effective
instructional methods and techniques for teaching distressed and troubled learners in any art classroom
setting. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 33C/Upper Level
Super Session
Young Innovators Panel, Sponsored by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers
Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, Jennifer Gutzmer, Timothy Lee, Monica Louie
Sponsored by the nonprofit organization that presents the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Join Jennifer
Gutzmer, licensed mental health counselor; Timothy Lee, studio artist; and Monica Louie, engineer, for
the fourth annual Young Innovators Panel. They participated in the Awards when they were in high
school and now apply creative and innovative thinking to their disciplines; learn more about their past
creative development and present professional innovation. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Ballroom 20CD/Upper Level
Technology
Autism & Technology: The Whys & Hows of Teaching Photography, iPads, Stop Motion, and DJing
Michelle Lopez, Jennifer Candiano, Sol Aramendi
Through a tested museum program model, discover practical structure for teaching technology skills in
photography, iPads, stop motion, and Djiing while incorporating educational and social goals for
students with autism. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 7A/Upper Level
Technology
Wall to Wall: Examining Street Art and Technology in the Studio Classroom
Benjamin Tellie, Josh Dracup
Examine two lessons connecting street art with digital technology. Reflect upon strategies for engaging
students through public wall spaces as part of your teaching repertoire. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 32B/Upper Level
11:30 - 11:55 AM
Secondary
Curate. Collaborate. Create. Harnessing the Collaborative Power of Web Technologies
Stephanie Wirt, Stephanie Pickens
Two high school art teachers share how they engage students in research-based art creation by merging
web technologies with traditional media experiences, creating collaborative learning opportunities. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 32A/Upper Level
12:00 - 12:25 PM
Technology
Digital Storytelling and Movie Making on iPads
Natalie Blake, Peggy Martinez
Integrate language arts and fine arts standards into digital storytelling lessons. Presenters will
demonstrate user-friendly software programs and provide lesson plans that guide student creativity.
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 23C/Upper Level
12:00 - 12:50 PM
Art Education Technology (AET)
Digital Tools for Personal Expression Addressing Common Core Standards
Robert Rigel
Using a combination of digital tools and traditional artmaking techniques, students respond to prompts
culminating in a journal reflecting their artistic journey, creative goals, and understanding of life. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25A/Upper Level
Assessment
Linking the Critical Eye to Language: Assessing for Theme in Works of Art
Camilla McComb, Melanie Antram Ingraham
Writing, criticism, and data—oh my! Learn how written assessment strategies can grow students’ ability
to analyze, form opinions, and identify themes in works of art. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28D/Upper Level
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Paradigmatic Relationships: Art (Education/History) + Visual (Culture/Theory)
Juuso Tervo, Verónica Betancourt
Reconsider the relationship between visual culture, art education, art history, and visual theory. Discuss
how these terms can be productively engaged to create innovative, globally aware, art education
pedagogy. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 14A/Mezzanine Level
Committee on Lifelong Learning (LLL)
Commonalities Through Intergenerational Artmaking: Theory and Practice
Susan Whiteland, Joana Hyatt, Liz Langdon
Presenters share their varied, intergenerational projects involving university students, senior adults,
practicing artists, and K-12 art educators. Intergenerational narratives, community building, and
reconstructionist benefits will be discussed. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 26B/Upper Level
Committee on Multiethnic Concerns (COMC)
Different Spaces, New Faces, Faraway Places: Engaging Difference in and out of School
Alexandra Kollisch, Sharif Bey
Charts efforts to provide preservice art teachers with opportunities to engage new demographics
through collaborations between a major research university and a local refugee resettlement program.
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 15B/Mezzanine Level
Curriculum and Instruction
(Paradigm) Shift Happens: Spiral Atlanta
Cynthia Campbell
The interactive discussion invites colleagues from across the country to share experiences, aspirations,
and war stories about meeting the challenge of change at the classroom level. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 12/Mezzanine Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Visual Analysis is Critical to Common Core Literacy
Sue Castleman
Learn how art teachers took Scholastic Art Magazines, a visit to a museum, and museum curriculum to
create a movie/PowerPoint presentation that utilizes Common Core Standards in Literacy. Best Practice
Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 21/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Fearless Clay Classroom: Introducing Clay to Your Art Curriculum
Kathy Skaggs
Starting a clay program can be a daunting task. In this workshop, learn how to load and fire student
work, easily recycle leftover clay, and identify the tools best suited for classroom projects. Best Practice
Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30A/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Arts-Based Research Journal: Make Learning Visable
Jennifer Stuart, Caren Andrews
Explore the use of arts-based research journals in the K-8 classroom. Learn to help students develop
their thinking and connect their intuitive processes with their ability to plan and deepen the skill and
meaning in their artworks. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28A/Upper Level
Elementary
Look Closely: Exploring Observational Techniques in the K/1 Art Classroom
Julia McTighe
Discover engaging observation drawing/painting strategies and practices for Kindergarten and 1st-grade
students. View and discuss students' in-process sketches and final artworks. Unit plans provided. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30B/Upper Level
Elementary
Unit Writing: Creative Process or a Chore
Lorinda Rice, Bob Reeker
Do you embrace unit writing as a creative process to meet student needs or a mundane chore you do to
meet administrator's requests? Learn how unit writing can be a creative outlet that helps to increase
student success. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 11B/Upper Level
Higher Education
The New Art Student: How Growing Up with Digital Technology is Changing Today's Art Students
Judith Mohns
Research indicates significant observable changes in the nature of today's art students, resulting from
exposure to digital technologies. Explore how teachers can best address these changes. Research
Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 33A/Upper Level
Higher Education
Teaching Fails
Josh Yavelberg
It is said that we learn from our mistakes, but how does one overcome challenges to teaching? Come to
hear about—and be prepared to discuss—failure. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28B/Upper Level
International
Global Connections Through International Service Learning
Teresa Unseld
International art education service learning promotes student learning and development while
responding to international community needs. Discuss the presenter's recent experience in West Africa.
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29A/Upper Level
Leadership Series
Conference Planning: Tips, Tools, and Tricks for a Successful State Conference
Melanie Dixon
Many components go into planning a state conference: site selection, securing speakers, contract
negotiations, and more! Explore the latest trends; exchange tips and tricks with colleagues; and expand
your conference planning toolkit with sample budgets, guidelines, and timelines. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 11A/Upper Level
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered Issues Caucus (LGBTIC)
NAE(g)A(y): Queer in the Classroom
Courtnie Wolfgang, Mindi Rhoades
Join us for an open forum to discuss issues facing LGBTQIAA teachers, students, and administrators
working toward tolerant and socially just classrooms and communities through media and the arts.
Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 14 B/Mezzanine Level
Media Arts
Truth and Photography: A Dialogue of Culture vs. Reality
Scott McMaster
Glance though the history of photography—from the false impressions of Daguerre-o-types to
contemporary digital manipulations—and help create a dialogue between students, visual culture, and
our notions of truth. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 33B/Upper Level
Media Arts
“Connecting” in Media Arts
Dain Olsen, Jeremy Holien
Explore the Connecting process in media arts (which supports higher-level concepts regarding its
inquiry-based nature), its ability to integrate across various domains, and new media literacies students
need for navigating and negotiating digital culture. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 10/Upper Level
Middle Level
Artorama a Unique Blend of Art and Drama
Caroline Hall, Lisa Houston
Explore how creating a co-curricular Art Alive course for middle schoolers has helped develop a
community of artists and actors. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25B/Upper Level
Museum Education
It's Intentional: Planning Exhibitions That Support 21st-Century Learning Outcomes
Jeanine Ancelet, Merilee Mostov
What happens when an art museum applies 21st-century learning outcomes to exhibition strategies?
How are visitors impacted? Educators and evaluators share their journey of experimentation and
evaluation. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30E/Upper Level
Museum Education
Inclusive Learning Through Technology in Art Museums and Classrooms
Rebecca McGinnis, Yue-Ting Siu
Discover the potential of existing and emerging technologies to create engaging learning opportunities
for museum visitors and students with disabilities. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31A/Upper Level
Museum Education
Finding Common Ground With the Common Core: Re-Thinking Museum Education Programs
Katherine Williams, Veronica Alvarez, Ami Davis
How will the Common Core affect your museums' programs? Join educators from the Getty Center and
Villa who will share experiences and brainstorm strategies on integrating these new standards.
Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31B/Upper Level
Professional Development
Then and Now…An Overview of Next Generation Visual Arts Standards
Dennis Inhulsen, Olivia Gude, Marilyn Stewart, Susan Gabbard
Get an in-depth look at the next generation visual arts standards comparing them to the 1994 standards
and contemporary trends in education. Join the discussion about how these standards reflect change
in the content of art teacher education programs. Spend time with members of the writing team and
colleagues discussing “then and now” strategies for implementation. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 16A/Mezzanine Level
Professional Development
San Francisco Teachers Integrate Art and Science to Strengthen Learning and Literacy Across Subjects
Kimberley Campisano, Emily Jennings
Shares teacher research findings and student work that demonstrates authentic assessment of deeper
understanding. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 24B/Upper Level
Professional Development
Revisiting SummerVision DC: A Professional Learning Community Reunion
Renee Sandell, Carole Henry
SummerVision DC participants and museum educators reconnect as a growing professional learning
community to network face-to-face, share personal and professional developments, explore new
teaching strategies, and more. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 9/Upper Level
Research
Re-Framing Hayden White to Interpret Art Education Histories
Ami Kantawala, Mary Ann Stankiewicz
Two art education historians reframe Hayden White's work on metahistory, arguing the need for using
theoretical frameworks to open spaces for interpreting art education histories from critical perspectives.
Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 17A/Mezzanine Level
Research
When STEM Became STEAM: Why Science Museums Need the Arts
Anne Thwaits
Learn how artists and artworks are contributing to informal science education efforts by examining case
studies of arts integration in science and natural history museums. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 23B/Upper Level
Research
VCU Art of Nursing: Research Findings From a Museum-Based Interprofessional Educational Model
Sara Wilson McKay, Jesse White, Meredith Hertel, Elizabeth Sampson
VCU Art of Nursing is a research initiative developed to improve clinical nursing students’ visual
assessment and critical thinking skills. Findings from the first year of funded research determine
program effectiveness. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 7B/Upper Level
Research
Lowenfeld Lecture
Cynthia Colbert
Annual lecture presented by the recipient of the Lowenfeld Award, which recognizes individuals who
have made significant contributions to the field of art education. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 8/Upper Level
Secondary
Art, Architecture, & Geometry: An Artistic Exploration of Mathematical Concepts Using New(er)
Media
Rachel Althof
An interdisciplinary curriculum explores the intersections of art, architecture, and geometry with
new(er) media. Presenter discusses conceptual themes, sources of inquiry, and curricular materials. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25C/Upper Level
Secondary
Striking a Balance: Technology as an Art Medium
Kimberly Thibodeaux, Angela Riehl, Rosalind Robertson
In the third year of a one-to-one laptop program, three high school art teachers demonstrate how
technology has become an integral tool for exploring, communicating, planning, and creating. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31C/Upper Level
Special Needs in Art Education (SNAE)
Encouraging Verbal, Emotional, and Social Skills Through Artmaking With Adolescents With Autism
Spectrum Disorder
Amanda Newman-Godfrey
Consider the importance of student-centered art experiences for adolescents with ASD, developing
innovative teaching strategies, and designing effective learning environments to support art teachers in
this field. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 33C/Upper Level
Supervision and Administration
Data Chats and Analyzing Assessment for Art Teachers
Ellen Beck
Improve teaching practice by using data to identify and analyze trends in student performance, and to
refine assessments and grading practices. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29C/Upper Level
Technology
Emerging Technologies Within Art Curriculum: Apps, iPads, Design Process, STEAM, and 21st-Century
Skills
Hether Hoffmann, Sheryl Peterson
Transform your art curriculum to allow students to unleash their creativity and construct solutions to
complex problems using design, STEM, 21st-century skills, and emerging technologies such as 3-D
printing. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 7A/Upper Level
Technology
Art and Social Media: Supporting Innovative Teaching by Incorporating Emerging Social Media Into Art
Curriculum
Sharon Steckel, Melinda Donelan
Incorporate folk and outsider art into your curriculum by exploring social media and art websites.
Discuss and share ways to make 21st-century technology part of your art education lexicon. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 22/Upper Level
United States Society for Education through Arts (USSEA)
Role of USSEA Children's Art Exhibitions: Development of Therapeutic Art Projects
Masami Toku
Join this discussion of opportunities for children's therapeutic art exhibitions through The United States
Society for Education Through Art (USSEA) programs, both in the US and abroad. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29B/Upper Level
Women's Caucus (WC)
Digital Sisters: Developing a Personal Learning Network Through Digitally Shared Arts-Based Research
Natasha S. Reid, Pattie Chambers
Showcases the results of a collaborative digital art exchange project that pinpointed links and
divergences in the lived experiences of two new art education Assistant Professors. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29D/Upper Level
12:00 - 1:50 PM
Professional Development
NAEA Distinguished Fellows Mentoring Session
David Burton, George Szekely
NAEA Distinguished Fellows have years of experience and expertise in art education. Discuss your
research and/or professional concerns one-on-one with a Distinguished Fellow. Interactive Discussion
Hilton Hotel/Indigo Ballroom A/Level 2
12:30 - 12:55 PM
Advocacy
STEM to STEAM: Art as the Critical Component, aka Design Rules the STEM World
Allison Fuller-Mulloy
STEM education is an incredibly hot topic in U.S. education. Where does that leave Art? Learn, discuss,
and share resources for the transition from STEM to STEAM. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 16B/Mezzanine Level
Technology
Video Blogs (Vlogs): Using Video and Internet to Enhance Learning in Art Classrooms
Ehsan Akbari
Presenter will highlight the educational potential of VLOGs with various examples, illustrate how media
literacy is gained by making a VLOG, and offer practical guidance on setting up a VLOG. Best Practice
Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 23C/Upper Level
1:00 - 1:25 PM
Art Education Technology (AET)
Internet Memes 101: Introduction to the Language of Internet Memes
Ernesto León De la Rosa-Carrillo
Internet memes are mischievous kittens, adorable puppies, and dancing crowds. But they can also be
insightful and engaging educational resources. Explore internet memes and the language they speak.
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 24C/Upper Level
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Drawing Alive!
Nina Scott Frisch
A sociocultural theoretical framework is seen as useful when a focus on the development of verbal tools
within the field of drawing teaching is presented. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 14A/Mezzanine Level
1:00 - 1:50 PM
Business Meeting
Public Policy and Arts Administration (PPAA) Annual Membership Meeting
Amanda Alexander, Kyungeun Lim, Eliza Lamb
All NAEA members are welcome to attend the Public Policy and Arts Administration (PPAA) annual
membership meeting. Discussion to include prior year research findings, NAEA/PPAA institutional
changes, and critical reflection on how this special issues group might be of greater value to NAEA. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 27B/Upper Level
Business Meeting
Western Region Leadership Meeting
Laura Milas, Elizabeth Harris Willett
A business and planning meeting for all Western Region presidents, officers, and anyone interested in
leadership in art education. Topics include planning for the NAEA Leadership Development Conference.
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 17B/Mezzanine Level
Business Meeting
Eastern Region Leadership Meeting
Linda Popp, Peter Geisser
A business and planning meeting for all Eastern Region presidents, officers, and anyone interested in
leadership in art education. Topics include the new NAEA Leadership Development Conference. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 16A/Mezzanine Level
Business Meeting
Southeastern Region Leadership Business Meeting
Debra Pylypiw
A business and planning meeting for all Southeastern Region presidents, officers, and anyone interested
in leadership in art education. Topics include planning for the NAEA Leadership Development
Conference. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 17A/Mezzanine Level
Business Meeting
Pacific Region Business Meeting
Penelope Venola
Members of the Pacific Region will discuss the upcoming NAEA Leadership Development Conference
and share important information from their states. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 16B/Mezzanine Level
Caucus on the Spiritual in Art Education (CSAE)
Adult Day Care Holistic Mural Project: An Inspirational Model for Artists and Students
Jane Kunzman
Carefully documented community-based project includes original proposals, grants, partnership funding,
interviews with senior citizens suffering from dementia, support from the MoMA's education
department, all stages of installation w/community response. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 26B/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Don't Just Teach; Inspire Global-Minded Students
Audrey Cisneros, Stacy Rodriguez
Explore the classrooms of four teachers. Discover how they use a wide array of methods and resources
to inspire underprivileged students to be global learners beyond the art room. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 21/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Building Middle School Curriculum From the Core Up
Dana Orton, Andrea Slusarski
Two middle school teachers show how they responded to changes in requirements to rebuild their
program from the bottom up. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29D/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Fused: Encaustics in the Middle School Art Studio
Debora Supplitt
Explore the rich history and primary source of encaustic art. Discover how to establish an encaustic art
studio and what supplies, tools and equipment, exemplars, and assessment are needed. Best Practice
Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28A/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
How to Create a Standards-Based Art Curriculum Without Selling Your Soul
Jessica Balsley
Learn a proven formula for creating a standards-based art curriculum and assessment plan, without
sacrificing your autonomy and passion. Complete with planning matrixes and resources to get you
started. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 11A/Upper Level
Early Childhood Art Educators (ECAE)
The Art of Seeing Art for Little Children in a Museum Setting
Kathy Danko-McGhee
Participants will learn about the various ways that the Toledo Museum of Art encourages closer looking
experiences for young children and their families. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29B/Upper Level
Elementary
Thinking, Making, Reflecting, and Revising: A Continuum of Critique for Elementary Artists
Julie Toole
Presenter shares climbing and scaffolding reflective practices into her Choice-Based art classroom to
help students refine ideas, develop craft, and self-reflect to push their work forward. Best Practice
Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30C/Upper Level
Higher Education
Helping Graduate Students Develop Their Own Philosophies of Teaching Through Historical Research
and Artmaking
Shyla Rao
How might art education students develop their unique philosophies of teaching? Learn ways in which
art education research and personal artistic practice can help students find their voices as teachers.
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 33A/Upper Level
International
Of Schools, Society, Sex, and Cuban Cigars
Bradford Venable
A rich culture is flourishing in Havana schools, studios, and back-alley galleries. Cuban contemporary life
will be shared, including perspectives on art education and its ongoing relationship with the US.
Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29A/Upper Level
Media Arts
From Consumer to Prosumer: Interrogating Popular Toys Through Animation Films
Olga Ivashkevich
In their stop-motion animation filmmaking, preservice art educators used popular consumer toys to
rework their dominant scripts through re-contextualization, narrative disruption, and parody. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 33B/Upper Level
Middle Level
Art is Elemental III
Karen Kiick
Earth, Water, Fire/Air: Environmental education through art! Learn how the works of Demuth, Leger,
Goldsworthy, and Diego Rivera have inspired a thematic middle school curriculum called Art is
Elemental. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25B/Upper Level
Museum Education
A Better Yes: Working Towards Impact in Challenging Times
Elizabeth Benskin, Anne Manning
Join Baltimore Museum of Art educators and discuss creating impact in times of economic and
institutional transition. Participants will explore tools for analyzing program commitments, allocating
resources, and vetting partnerships. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30E/Upper Level
Museum Education
Finding Our Way: Digital Technology for Engagement
Lisa Borgsdorf, Ruth Slavin, Marianna Adams
What are the issues when developing new media experiences in art galleries? A community-created
multi-media project serves as impetus for conversations about how and why we use technology in
museums. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31B/Upper Level
Museum Education
Not Business as Usual: Professional Development Programs in Art Museums
Sheila McGuire, Emily Holtrop, Amy Kirschke
Art museums engage business communities in unique professional development programs that help
participants hone skills, strengthen teams, earn credits, and delight in personally connecting art to their
own lives. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31A/Upper Level
Professional Development
Leap Ahead: Grow Personally and Professionally Through Travel Study Abroad Programs
Nicole Caracciolo, Pearl Lau
Learn how to search for grants, complete an exceptional application, be a successful participant, and
apply the knowledge gained from a travel abroad study tour to create new curriculum. Best Practice
Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 24B/Upper Level
Professional Development
Mentoring as a Relational Technology of Art Education Pedagogy
Laura Gardner, Brooke Hofsess
Reflect on mentoring as a reciprocal, flexible, and dynamic relationship; explore the connection between
pedagogy and mentoring; and discuss the implications for art educators. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 11B/Upper Level
Research
Elliott W. Eisner Lifetime Achievement Awardee: Traveling Against the Tide: A Conversation About
the Ebb and Flow of my Past, Present, and Future Excursions in Art Education
Enid Zimmerman
A Conversation with Enid Zimmerman, recipient of the 2014 Eisner Lifetime Achievement Award.
Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Ballroom 20CD/Upper Level
Retired Art Educators Association (RAEA)
Artistic, Professional, Personal: RAEA Members Speak Up!
Robert W. Curtis, Donna Banning, Dean Johns, Jackie Thomas
Share and learn as RAEA members highlight their journeys of community connections, self-discovery,
challenges, and successes. Begin building your legacy and shape (or re-shape) your own best practices.
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 7A/Upper Level
Secondary
The Experimental Darkroom: Analog to Digital and Back Again
Michael Ariel
Old school meets new school in this unique presentation. Come see how to combine the traditional
darkroom with today's digital technology and more. Hands-On Demonstration
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25C/Upper Level
Secondary
Picture This
Kim Meneses
Learn how daily ordinary becomes innovatively extraordinary. This proven teaching technique
emphasizes advanced conceptual investigation prior to the school year allowing students to become a
treasure box of ideas. Performance
Convention Center/Meeting Room 32A/Upper Level
Secondary
Contemporary Art in the High School Classroom: Nontraditional Materials and Contemporary Themes
Julie Tonkovich
The contemporary arts can prepare students for the 21st century as creative problem solvers, critical
thinkers, and collaborators. Explore three contemporary art projects: packing tape sculpture, postcard
art, and yarn bombing. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31C/Upper Level
Seminar for Research in Art Education (SRAE)
Contemplating Challenges and Possibilities of Participatory Action Research (PAR) in Art Education
Karen Hutzel, Kate Collins, Melissa Crum, Ruth Smith
Panelists will discuss limitations, challenges, and possibilities of participatory action research
methodology's idealized goals for a collaborative process and liberating outcomes, particularly within
the field of art education. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30A/Upper Level
Special Needs in Art Education (SNAE)
Disability and Emerging Assistive Technologies in the Art Classroom
Sarah Parrish, James Laville
Learn about new, emerging ideas for integrating assistive technologies for disabled learners into the art
classroom. Explore resources beyond adaptive traditional media, access, and applications. Best Practice
Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 33C/Upper Level
Technology
Blending Art throughout the Curriculum for 21st Century Success
Melinda Kolk
Today's students need to be media producers and not just consumers! Explore ideas, samples, and
lessons created using Pixie, Wixie, Frames, and more that demonstrate how creative technology tools
utilize and promote visual skills to enhance learning across the curriculum. See the latest creation tools
from Tech4Learning. Best Practice Lecture.
Convention Center/Meeting Room 10/Upper Level
Technology
Grand Theft AutoEthnography: Re-Imagining Video Games for Arts-Based Research
Jeremy Blair
The session will encounter and explore self and the lives of others through designing and playing
autoethnographic video games. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 32B/Upper Level
1:00 - 2:20 PM
Super Session
The Intersection of Arts Education and Special Education
Beverly Gerber, Sharon M. Malley, Juliann B. Dorff, Lynne Horoschak, Susan D. Loesl
Join Beverly Gerber and members of NAEA’s Special Needs Issues Group as they present findings from
“Examining the Intersection of Arts Education and Special Education: A National Forum,” held at the
Kennedy Center in 2012. Information about The Kennedy Center arts/SED website, online resources for
special education and art therapy, and information about NAEA’s art/special education publications will
be provided. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 8/Upper Level
1:00 - 2:50 PM
Business Meeting
Community Arts Caucus (CAC) Annual Membership Meeting
Ross Schlemmer, Krista Robinson, Meaghan Brady Nelson, Natalia Pilato
The annual business meeting of the Community Arts Caucus to welcome new and existing members,
elect/appoint officers, review goals, develop more active membership, and discuss all relevant issues.
Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25A/Upper Level
Higher Education
Studies Invited Lecture
Paul Duncum
Annual Studies in Art Education Lecture presented by a leading scholar in the field. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 7B/Upper Level
1:30 - 1:55 PM
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Young People Doing Dead Time: Unveiling the Biopolitical Oppression of Juvenile Justice Youth
Derek Fenner
Bodies of youth in the juvenile justice system are the site for biopolitical oppression, serving capitalism
as profitable resources that can be shaped into surplus for the Prison Industrial Complex. Research
Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 14A/Mezzanine Level
Higher Education
Projects in Art Education: Teaching Art Students to Authentically Envision Themselves as Art
Educators
Linda Ferrell
Freshmen art students learn to see themselves as authentic art educators when they integrate current
technology, theory, teamwork, community resources, and meaningful artmaking into Projects in Art
Education. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28B/Upper Level
2:00 - 2:25 PM
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Experimenting With the Immeasurable: Nomadic Art Education
Lillian Lewis, Cala Coats
Engage in a performative encounter with process-focused pedagogy. Using the concept of nomadic
education, this session will spark ideas about the potential for learning that pushes boundaries.
Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 14A/Mezzanine Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Ignite Creativity! Transform Your Art Room Into an Innovative, Choice-Based Art Studio!
Kim Dahlheimer
Learn how to transform your art room into a student-driven learning environment filled with creative art
opportunities. Observe student artists exploring, collaborating, creating, and presenting. Resources
shared in handout. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 12/Mezzanine Level
Higher Education
Using Social Media to Document and Share Student Learning
Aileen Castro
Discover how social media can be used to create a supportive peer-learning network during student
teaching placements. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28B/Upper Level
2:00 - 2:50 PM
Advocacy
Innovate or Fail: Making a New Case for Arts Education
Lauren Fretz, Jennifer Beradino
It's time re-establish the relevancy of the arts. Ann Arbor Art Center and the MFA Houston discuss the
framework of habits of mind to build a case for arts education. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 16B/Mezzanine Level
Art Education Technology (AET)
Learning Observational Drawing With Science
Wei Xu
Learn how observational drawing can be accomplished with an innovative scientific approach that is
based on math theory and emerging computer graphic technologies. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25A/Upper Level
Assessment
EdTPA: An Examination of the Peaks and Pits in This Multimodal Assessment System
April Munson, Diana Gregory
Explore EdTPA, the multimodal assessment system sweeping the nation. Examine the relevance and
impact of this system, and how teachers in training, higher educators, and professional partners will be
impacted! Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28D/Upper Level
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
How We Know Frida: Visual Art, Pre-Adolescent Girls, and Entry Points for Father-Daughter Moments
Sharif Bey
Through anecdotes and images the presenter articulates how discussions revolving around Frida Kahlo's
autobiographical self-portraits and other works of art can bridge communication between early
adolescent girls and fathers. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 14B/Mezzanine Level
Committee on Multiethnic Concerns (COMC)
Rethinking Multicultural Art and Museum Education in Light of Hybridity and Narrative Research
Andres Peralta, Rina Kundu
Discusses strategies for multicultural education that emerged from the experiences of people with
hybrid cultural identities and focuses on how subjectivities get created in response to negotiated spaces.
Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 15B/Mezzanine Level
Curriculum and Instruction
The Barnes Foundation 5th-Grade Art of Looking Program and the School District of Philadelphia
Carolyn Berenato, Jennifer Nadler
Examine how 5th-grade students from the School of Philadelphia examined art from the Barnes
Foundation from both an artist's and scientist's perspective about light and shadow. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 26A/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Fellows Forum: Mario Torero: An Activist at the Border
Doug Blandy, Paddy Bowman
In 1970, Mario Torero created murals protesting destruction of a Chicano neighborhood near the
Coronado Bay Bridge. Torero will discuss his murals and connecting such art to the curriculum. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 9/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
An Interactive Tree of Wishes: Integrating Visual Arts Curriculum With New Media Technologies
Mousumi De
Learn about a project of a mythical wish-fulfilling tree that integrated children’s drawings and verbal
narratives of their wishes with an interactive tree made of recycled materials. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 21/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
How Art Education is Uniquely Suited to Support English Language Learners and the CCSS
Barbara Place
Learn concrete strategies for meeting the needs of ELLs. Art Education is uniquely suited to supporting
ELLs by providing accessible contexts/images to develop language skills. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29D/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Linking Traditional and Digital Art Processes and Practices in the Middle School Art Classroom
Kaye Buchman, Rob Bondgren
Continuing Studies at SAIC will discuss the innovative teaching and learning strategies that connect art,
design, and technology in the Middle School Program and share the significant educational outcomes.
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 11B/Upper Level
Elementary
Un/Becoming Labels and Self-Fulfilling Prophesies
Wanda Knight
At-risk, slow learner, under achiever, learning disabled, emotionally disturbed, behaviorally challenged—
labels carry stigmas of deficiencies and deficits. Considers strategies art teachers might use to counter
unbecoming labels. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30D/Upper Level
Elementary
A Roadmap for Art Teachers: Navigating the Common Core Standards
Naomi Lifschitz-Grant
Explore ways art teachers and classroom teachers can collaborate to support classroom curricula and
how the visual arts can support the Common Core Standards. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30B/Upper Level
Elementary
Integrating Van Gogh Across the Curriculum
Suzanne Wright
Explore The Phillips Collection's game-based, interactive Web tools and discover ways to infuse
curriculum with van Gogh using the Prism of Arts Integration, a nationally tested set of teaching
strategies. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30C/Upper Level
Higher Education
Launching a Saturday Art School Program
Roy Reynolds
Learn about the development and launching of a new SAS program at a Midwestern University:
designing, securing support, budgets, physical space, community support, program and curriculum
design, successes. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 33A/Upper Level
Higher Education
Mapping the History of Art Education: Visualizing Our Professional Roots
Renee Sandell, Jacque Kibbey, Kim Sheridan, Mary Ann Stankiewicz
The interactive use of marking and mapping the history of art education helps solidify and expand
teachers' skills, knowledge, and understandings in becoming reflective practitioners while discovering
professional roots. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 15A/Mezzanine Level
Leadership Series
Action With Traction—An Approach to Arts Advocacy in Illinois
Christopher Grodoski, Anne Becker, Theresa McGee, Brad McKinney
Discover a strategic approach to arts advocacy and policy improvement underway in Illinois and
applicable to other states. Recent actions of the Illinois Art Education Association have repositioned its
role in policy and education conversations, leading to statewide initiatives with partner organizations.
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 10/Upper Level
Media Arts
Primary Care: Public Intervention, Using Flip Cameras to Make iMovies
Kim Schwartzhoff
Explore the use of Flip cameras to make iMovies, documenting performative public acts of intervention
made by art education graduate students. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 33B/Upper Level
Middle Level
Creating a Spark: Divergent Thinking in the Middle School Art Room!
Stacy Lord
Where do your lesson ideas come from? Do they spark creative thinking? Explore proven and successful
projects that promote divergent thinking, ignite creativity, and appeal to middle school students. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25B/Upper Level
Museum Education
Gaining STEAM: Museum Education, Arts Integration, and STEM
Gavin Andrews, Camille Tewell, Emily Hermans
Discover current research in the STEAM movement, learn how museum educators may support STEM
educators interested in arts integration, and explore three STEAM-based museum education programs
for K-16 educators. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31B/Upper Level
Museum Education
The Un-Tour: Crafting Visitor Experiences With Contemporary Art
Laurel Fehrenbach, Susan Musich, Cris Scorza, Alexander Jarman
Are you ready to mix things up in the galleries? Learn about the creative ways that educators from four
museums engage visitors with contemporary art by thinking outside the tour. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30E/Upper Level
Museum Education
Bringing Studio Learning Into the Galleries: What It Looks Like and Why It Matters
Neely McNulty, Ilene Mojsilov
Examine how museums are bringing studio experiences into the galleries and how the goals of studio
learning relate to gallery teaching more broadly. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31A/Upper Level
National Association of State Directors of Art Education (NASDAE)
Teacher Evaluation and Student Assessment: Practices in Art Education From a NASDAE/SEADAE
Perspective
Lynn Tuttle, Limeul Eubanks
Discuss teacher evaluation, its connection to assessment of student learning, and practices evolving in
response to new teacher evaluation requirements. Learn how to be more effective in your own state
and classroom practice. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 26B/Upper Level
Professional Development
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Creating a Job Portfolio/Application
Joyce Centofanti
Portfolios/Applications go on the top of the pile or the bottom. Learn vital information about writing a
resume, cover letter, and teaching philosophy, as well as other aspects of creating a distinguished
portfolio/application. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 24B/Upper Level
Professional Development
National Art Education Foundation Grant Program
Dean G. Johns, Kathi Levin
To familiarize participants with 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. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 16A/Mezzanine Level
Professional Development
Art Association SOS! Two State Leaders Share Their Adventures
Robin Wolfe, Michelle Lemons
Discuss the essential components of running and sustaining various sized successful State Associations.
Collaborate on strategic goals, membership, programs, conferences, communication, and Board
restructuring. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 22/Upper Level
Professional Development {Ticketed Event}
Cultivate a Creative Mind
Simon Silva
Engaging hands-on projects and discussion challenge participants to do some thinking and problem
solving while gaining insight into a variety of approaches they can use to support creative development
with their own students. (Limit: 75) Hands-On Workshop Studio
Hilton Hotel/Indigo Ballroom C/Level 2
Research
Studying Dialogue in Art Education: A Problem of Methodology and Content
Rachel Althof
Seeking insight into possibilities created through dialogical learning, this case study explores recursive
and expanding discussions focused on adolescent artwork. Presenter discusses the research problem,
methodology, and initial results. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 23B/Upper Level
Research
Qualitative Observations and Comparisons: The Art Teacher and Homeroom Teachers at a Multi-Age
School Site
Jeff Broome
Explore in detail qualitative research initiated to characterize mixed-age instruction for an art teacher
and homeroom teachers at a multi-age school, with the intent of comparing congruity in the teachers'
practices. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 17A/Mezzanine Level
Secondary
Get Them Talking: Find the Spark to Engage High School Students
Lorena Baines, Elisa Patterson
In this workshop, museum educators from the National Gallery of Art will share strategies they have
found effective in encouraging teens to actively analyze ideas expressed in works of art. Interactive
Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25C/Upper Level
Secondary
3 Basic Printmaking Techniques
Kirby Meng
Discover three types of printmaking—Linoleum, Intaglio, and Monotype—focusing on materials
management and cost effectiveness. Student examples and step by step photographic presentation
included. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 32A/Upper Level
Secondary
Literacy in the Visual Arts? Absolutely! A Painting IS Worth 1,000 Words.
Carla Tuetken
Discover how literacy can be integrated into meaningful art lessons. Learn how to develop lessons that
will satisfy both students and administrators. Examples and lessons are provided. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31C/Upper Level
Seminar for Research in Art Education (SRAE)
Thinking With the Flâneur: Affective and Sensorial Wanderings in Art Education Research
Elsa Lenz Kothe, Marie-France Berard, Blake Smith
The concept of the flâneur offers an embodied methodological metaphor for art education research by
addressing notions of affect, desire, movement, and photo-flâneurial wanderings in museum spaces and
urban places. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30A/Upper Level
Supervision and Administration
There's an App for That: Using Technology as a Means of Visual Reflection
Downi Griner
Explore a variety of digital tools, discuss how these tools can facilitate visual thinking and
communication, and learn how to implement these tools into meaningful curriculum. Best Practice
Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29C/Upper Level
Technology
Program Your Art: Reimagining the Digital Art Classroom With Visual Programming Languages
Steven Ciampaglia
Transform your classroom into an art and technology lab where students use visual programming
languages to create video games, animations, and kinetic sculptures that interact through light, sound,
motion, and touch. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 32B/Upper Level
United States Society for Education through Arts (USSEA)
Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education Business Meeting
Elizabeth Garber, Erica Richard
Annual business meeting for Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28A/Upper Level
2:30 - 2:55 PM
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Pedagogical Potentialities of Participatory Art: A Case Study
Helene Illeris
Explore the aesthetic and pedagogical potentialities of a participatory artwork to establish a social and
sensuous event and learn about the praxis-based concept performative experimental community.
Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 14A/Mezzanine Level
Curriculum and Instruction
No More Bulky Binders: Mission = Professional CD/DVD Teacher e-Portfolios
Christina Chin
Transitioning from hardcover to CD/DVD e-Portfolios is a conquerable challenge. Explores exemplary
preservice teacher practicum e-Portfolios; benefits and challenges; and recommendations on e-Portfolio
structure, content, and packaging. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 12/Mezzanine Level
Higher Education
Collaborate: Arts Integration Curriculum With Cross College Particiaption
Sandy Brunvand
Explore collaboration between Fine Arts and Education at the University of Utah in a program
specifically for elementary education majors. Details regarding organization, challenges, and outcomes
will be discussed. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28B/Upper Level
3:00 - 3:50 PM
General Session {Ziegfeld Lecture}
WHOAREWE? WHEREAREWEGOING? WHATISOURFUTURE?
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Born on the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Indian Reservation in Montana, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
is an internationally renowned painter, printmaker, and artist. In this inspirational and insightful session,
she explores the role we play as Arts Workers and how we can step up to the plate using the process of
art to prepare critical thinkers for the future of our country. Best Practice Lecture
The Ziegfeld Lecture honors Dr. Edwin Ziegfeld and is presented during the NAEA National Convention.
Ziegfeld (1905-1983) has the unique distinction of serving as the Founding President of the National Art
Education Association (1947-1951), and was a major leader and contributor to both the national and
international art education communities. Ziegfeld has been described as a great pioneer in art
education. In referring to the NAEA organization, he said, “We have started well, we will continue to
make our contributions to education and culture.”
Convention Center/Ballroom 20CD/Upper Level
4:00 - 4:25 PM
Art Education Technology (AET)
Video Games in the Art Classroom
Darlene García Torres
Learn how to integrate software such as Gamestar Mechanic and Scratch to create video games with
students in the classroom. Explore lessons that focus on self-esteem building and positive selfempowerment. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 21/Upper Level
Assessment
I Am the Sum of My Experience: A Qualitative Case Study
Siobhan Nolan
Examine the findings of a case study conducted with urban 4th-grade students that investigated visual
journals and constructivist curriculum as a viable authentic assessment. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28D/Upper Level
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Desire in the Gallery Space: Thinking the Art Encounter With Deleuze and Guattari
Marie-France Berard
Explore preliminary findings in research interested in rethinking the art encounter in a museum context
with Deleuze and Guattari's (1983, 1987) concept of desire. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 14A/Mezzanine Level
Higher Education
Developing Artist/Teacher/Leaders as Future Leaders of Creatives
Delane Ingalls Vanada
Innovative strategies for preparing 21st-century artist/teacher/researchers with a balance of creative,
critical, analytical skills and dispositions for success. Re-examine how to foster deep, connected, and
reflexive creative leaders. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28B/Upper Level
Media Arts
Using Social Media as a Research Tool
Nina Bellisio
Learn how to use social media as a research tool to enhance the realism of student design projects.
Hands-On Demonstration
Convention Center/Meeting Room 33B/Upper Level
4:00 - 4:50 PM
Advocacy
A Way to Infuse Contemporary Art Culture With School
David Ingenthron
How a campus gallery served student display needs and exposed the school to local contemporary art
culture. This model builds community, develops digital resources, and connects current practice to
curriculum. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 16B/Mezzanine Level
Business Meeting
Special Needs in Art Education (SNAE) Issues Group: Business Meeting II
Lynne Horoschak, Juliann Dorff
Special Needs in Art Education Business Meeting II focuses on current isues and concerns about teaching
special needs students and future direction. New members are welcome! Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 22/Upper Level
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Critical Visual Literacy
Sheng Kuan Chung
Explore conceptual underpinnings of teaching critical visual literacy and discover several approaches to
developing critical visual literacy in youths to promote social justice and cultural democracy. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 14B/Mezzanine Level
Caucus on the Spiritual in Art Education (CSAE)
Art Education With a Sense of Wonder: A Spiritual Journey
Ruth Starratt
The visual arts offer ample opportunities for educators to teach to the soul. Explore the mystery and
wonder involved in teaching the visual arts! Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 26B/Upper Level
Committee on Multiethnic Concerns (COMC)
Grounding Histories of Hybridity: A Research-Creation Project With Pedagogical Applications for
Community Education
Veronica Sahagun, Natasha Reid
The presenters will share their experiences of developing artistic research into their hybrid cultural
identities. Possible research and educational applications for community contexts will be discussed.
Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 15B/Mezzanine Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Creating Art Teacher e-Portfolios: Stellar, Easy, and Free With Weebly.com
Christina Chin
E-Portfolios can powerfully showcase job-seeking art teachers’ expertise; Weebly.com makes
professional quality e-portfolio creation fast, easy, and free. Shares examples, recommendations,
demonstrations, and pros and cons. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 12/Mezzanine Level
Design Issues Group (DIG)
Design + Common Core in the Art Room
Alison Crane
Explore ways of effectively incorporating national content standards into the art curriculum using the
design process. Share lessons, stories, and support with an online design learning network. Best Practice
Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29A/Upper Level
Elementary
Art Centers for Extended Learning
Sheryl Depp
From art centers to learning stations, find out how you can make every minute in your art class count!
Includes suggestions for a variety of centers and stations. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30B/Upper Level
Elementary
Art & Technology Integration: Easy as A-B-C-D
Lorinda Rice, Bob Reeker
Allow yourself time to explore ideas. Be prepared to experiment, successes and difficulties. Connect
with others who are also integrating art and technology. Dive in and learn! Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 11B/Upper Level
Higher Education
The MFA: An Ascendant Site of Arts-Based Research
Kristopher Holland, Noel Anderson
Explore how the MFA degree can become a transformative site for studio inquiry and a foundational
encounter with arts-based research. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 15A/Mezzanine Level
Higher Education
Collaborative Learning With/Through Contemporary Art in an Online Class
Sunny Spillane
Discover multiple strategies for facilitating collaborative learning in an online contemporary art class,
including: student blogs, multimedia lectures, workshopping assignments in progress, and facilitating
productive online discussions. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 33A/Upper Level
Museum Education
Building the Visitor-Centered Model: A Dialogue about Change, Collaboration, and Impact
Karleen Gardner, Jennifer Czajkowski, Kelly McKinley
New models of collaborative, cross-departmental teams are innovatively connecting visitors with art.
Investigate different organizational structures for interpretation, ideas for building institutional support,
and prototypes for co-creating visitor-centered exhibitions. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30E/Upper Level
Museum Education
21st-Century PD: Integrating Technology in Programs for K-12 Educators
Claire Moore, Lisa Mazzola
Join us for a discussion exploring ways technology can be used to enhance or amplify K-12 professional
development programming at your museum. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31A/Upper Level
National Association of State Directors of Art Education (NASDAE)
What is Going on in Arts Education in Your State?
Nancy Carr, Vicki Breen, Ana Cardona
Interactive Discussion will share state approaches to arts education in their schools, including
partnerships, collaborations, organizational teaming, research, strategic planning, and vibrant and
vigorous advocacy. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 24B/Upper Level
Research
Four Key Elements for Success in Student Art Teaching
Jaehan Bae
Explore an 18-week-long student art teaching experience in a Midwest suburban area to extract key
elements for successful student art teaching from the viewpoints of student teachers, their cooperating
teachers, and supervisors. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 23B/Upper Level
Secondary
10 Contemporary Artists You Need To Know
Rebecca Belleville
Learn about 10 Contemporary Artists you should discuss in your classroom and the larger themes they
address in their work. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25C/Upper Level
Secondary
Your Inner Hero: Students Using Graphic Novels Learn About Themselves
Ian O'Brien, Mario Moran
Appealing to society’s fascination with comic books and superheroes, two public school teachers use
graphic novels so students can develop their own inner hero through journaling, sketching, and digital
media. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 32A/Upper Level
Secondary
Instructions Enclosed: Contemporary Approaches to Collaboration and Artmaking
Jack Watson, Joe Fusaro, Don Ball
In an international collaboration, three secondary teachers use video and online technologies to create a
community of student-artists working within an inquiry-based, conceptual process modeled after
contemporary artist practices. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31C/Upper Level
Seminar for Research in Art Education (SRAE)
Narrative Inquiry: Exploring, Questioning, and Performing Narrative Methods of Arts-Based Research
Mary Elizabeth Meier, Christine Liao
Narrative inquiry is well-suited to exploring the complexity of interactions that are entwined in
time/duration, space/place, and social relations. Methods of analyzing, interpreting, and presenting
storied data are shared. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30A/Upper Level
Supervision and Administration
Leading Effective Art Team Meetings
Sarah Dougherty, Jessica Balsley
Learn the secrets of managing an art department from two experienced department facilitators. Gain
tips to run effective meetings, come to consensus, and have a little fun along the way. Best Practice
Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29C/Upper Level
Technology
Cell Phone Photography and Storytelling
Chris Cochran, Eric Lyons
Explore the relationships between cell phone photography and students' ability to tell stories through
their artwork, while discussing new methods and apps for taking cellphone photos. Interactive
Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 32B/Upper Level
Technology
Smart Phone Technology and the Art Classroom
Bret Lefler, Steven Tette
Learn how Smart Phone technology can be used to effectively enhance teaching and learning in the Fine
Art classroom. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 7A/Upper Level
United States Society for Education through Arts (USSEA)
Developing Adult Women’s Artistic Voice and Identity in a Collage Art Workshop
Annette Luycx
Can adult women learn to make art that reflects their artistic voice? This case study describes women's
artistic development in a Collage Art Workshop conducted in Athens, Greece. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 29B/Upper Level
4:00 - 5:50 PM
Curriculum and Instruction {Ticketed Event}
Exploring the Art of Object Stories
Danae Hutson
Through Object Stories, create a unit of study using innovative art teaching strategies, techniques, and
technology to explore the meaning and stories of personal and museum art objects. Hands-On
Workshop Studio
Hilton Hotel/Indigo Ballroom B/Level 2
Curriculum and Instruction {Ticketed Event}
Remembering the Students of Sandy Hook Elementary
Mark Moilanen
Participants will create, by hand, a beautiful weaving like the one this professors' undergraduates
crafted (a loom made out of drinking straws!?!) for the students of Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Hands-On Workshop Studio
Hilton Hotel/Indigo Ballroom H/Level 2
Elementary {Ticketed Event}
Shadow Puppets
Grace Hulse
Use a variety of mixed media to create imaginative shadow puppets. Learn ways to incorporate shadow
puppetry into your curriculum using digital cameras, document cameras, and overhead and LCD
projectors. Hands-On Workshop Studio
Hilton Hotel/Indigo Ballroom A/Level 2
Elementary {Ticketed Event}
Re-Inventing the (Color) Wheel: Color Mixing With LEDs
Heather Montilla, Anja Hernandez, Cherubim Cannon, Rute Venura
Challenge what you know about the color wheel by exploring the subtractive color system through
experimentation with LED light color mixing. Targeted at Upper Elementary and Middle School Grade
Educators. Hands-On Workshop Studio
Hilton Hotel/Indigo 202A/Level 2
Elementary {Ticketed Event}
Gardenscapes: Exploring the 3-D Paper Installations of Lauren Fensterstock
Liz Rex, Nan Waterstreet, Christine Woywod
Inspired by Lauren Fensterstock's enchanting 3-D paper installations depicting delicate, garden
environments, examine concepts related to notions of “natural” gardenscapes through the creation of a
paper design. Hands-On Workshop Studio
Hilton Hotel/Indigo 204B/Level 2
Media Arts {Ticketed Event}
Stop Motion Animation: A Platform for Collaboration
Jade Owen
Learn how to collaboratively design, build, shoot, edit, and share a stop motion animation using new
techniques and digital technologies. (Note: Cameras and apps are supplied by the presenter.) Hands-On
Workshop Studio
Hilton Hotel/Indigo 202B/Level 2
Middle Level {Ticketed Event}
How to Make and Use a Tabletop Printing Press
Linda Krecker, Patricia Bomberg-Roth
Learn how to make a table-top printing press for classroom use and inexpensive printmaking methods.
Lesson plans and hints for grant applications will also be included. Hands-On Workshop Studio
Hilton Hotel/Indigo Ballroom C/Level 2
Professional Development {Ticketed Event}
Bring the Empty Bowls Project to Your School!
Katherine Longinotti
Explore fun and simple techniques for making handcrafted ceramic pottery bowls for the Empty Bowls
Project in your area. Receive templates and handbuilding strategies suitable for children and adults.
Hands-On Workshop Studio
Hilton Hotel/Indigo Ballroom D/Level 2
Technology {Ticketed Event}
It's Alive!! How Arduino Can Bring Life to Your Art Projects
Philip Robbins
Learn how to integrate LEDs, switches, and sensors into your next classroom art project using the
Arduino micro-controller. This is a practical demonstration of the Arduino hardware and software.
Hands-On Workshop Studio
Hilton Hotel/Indigo 206/Level 2
Special Session
Curriculum Slam! New School Art Styles: Contemporary Art as Contemporary Pedagogy
Olivia Gude, Marissa Reyes, James Rees, NAEA Teachers
Forget the old-time curriculum fair. NAEA teachers from around the country will share projects that
intertwine contemporary art and contemporary pedagogy. Learn to use this fast-paced and fun format
developed at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago to shake up curriculum thinking in your
hometown. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 8/Upper Level
4:30 - 4:55 PM
Assessment
Documentation in the 21st Century: The Art Display as a Learning Object
Mary Jo Allegra
Discover how informative documentation boards are utilized in the Reggio Emilia approach through
engaging text and process photos, learn how to create a display that is an interactive experience for the
viewer, and discuss the components and attributes of successful art documentation. Best Practice
Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28D/Upper Level
Higher Education
Arts-Based Education and Education-Based Art: Examples From a Trans-Disciplinary Master’s Degree
Helene Illeris, Tormod Wallem Anundsen
Explore and discuss concrete examples from a small Norwegian Master's program that is both projectbased and trans-disciplinary. Learn how contemporary art practices can inspire educational projects and
vice versa. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28B/Upper Level
Media Arts
Let Me Figure This Out! Play in the Media
Cindy Borgmann, Dan Rushing
Executive Producer of Tumbleaf, the stop-motion preschool series from Bix Pix Entertainment/Amazon
Studios, and an art educator share collaborative work including research on play/intentionality that
sparked foundation of this hit series. Performance
Convention Center/Meeting Room 33B/Upper Level
Student Chapter/Preservice (SC)
Redefining Boundaries: Using Art to Alter Cultural Perceptions
Barbara Atkins
Focusing on the artwork of Lalla Essaydi, Ahmed Mater, and El Seed, presenter discusses a multicultural
lesson plan that introduces students to contemporary Islamic art practices. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 21/Upper Level
5:00 - 5:25 PM
Higher Education
Improving Research Through Art: BFA Students and Arts-Based Research
Gabriela Duran, Gabriela Duran
Reports on the experience of conducting arts-based research with five BFA students. Observations and
interviews were used to document improvements in research and artmaking skills. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28B/Upper Level
5:00 - 5:50 PM
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Educational Aesthetics: Conversations About Educational Design and Effective Teaching Practice
Shana Cinquemani, Traci Quinn, Leon De la Rosa
Introduces the notion of educational aesthetics, which emphasize the affective and relational processes
that affect learning experiences. It aims to reconsider educational design from an aesthetic stance.
Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 14B/Mezzanine Level
Community Arts Caucus (CAC)
Dumarka Soomaaliyeed Voices Unveiled: A Nomadic Model of Collaborative Community Arts Practice
Ruth Smith
Examining Dumarka Soomaaliyeed—a participatory photography project with Somali women in three
cities—a nomadic model of arts-based participatory action research is proposed for community arts
practitioners and action researchers. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 10/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Student-Centered, Theme-Based Pedagogy at a High School for At-Risk Students
Barbara Bjerring
An experiment in art teaching methods at a small Buddhist HS for at-risk students uses a studentcentered approach that leads to rich and powerful theme-based works of art. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 11A/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Sparking Creativity Through Design Thinking
Kim Dahlheimer, Deborah Brock, Amy Cranfill, Laurie Herrman Myers
Explore the Design Thinking process and learn how to create innovative challenges for empowering
students to collaborate, empathize, and build creative confidence. Four art educators share processes,
challenges, and resources. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 21/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
STEAM: Mapping Integrates Math With Art
Joanne Sowell, Shari Hofschire
How can teachers integrate art and mathematics in a significant and creative way? Use ratio, proportion,
and close observation to map real and imaginary worlds. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 28A/Upper Level
Curriculum and Instruction
Utilizing Visual Culture to Deconstruct and Defeat Gender-Based Cyberbullying
Geena Teodecki, Katelyn Cleaver
Discuss gender-based bullying/shaming in our schools and its societal causes. Connect a visual culture
approach to help students understand and overcome cyberbullying with the power of art. Interactive
Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30A/Upper Level
Elementary
Sketchbooks and e-Portfolios: Assessment Tools for the Elementary Art Room
Susie Elder, Sarah Schuyler
Presenters will share four exemplary lessons from planning stages to assessment, including technology
demonstrations that support teaching and student understanding in the elementary art room. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30B/Upper Level
Elementary
Two Places, Two Projects, One Goal: Reinvigorating Place as a Context for Meaningful Art
Molly Neves, Malia Andrus
How can an understanding of place be a meaningful foundation for artistic inquiry? Explore the
experiences of two art educators from Hawaii and Utah, seeking to understand place through artmaking.
Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30D/Upper Level
Higher Education
Navigating the edTPA
Jennifer Snyder
An in-depth exploration of the tasks within the edTPA with a focus on providing real world examples of
successful edTPA portfolios submitted by current student teachers. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 33A/Upper Level
Middle Level
Digital Portraits That Pop: This is NOT Your Usual School Picture!
Teresa Nagel
Tired of the same old self portraits? Try digital photography and push those boundaries! Learn which
shareware programs are available and how to push your students creative responses! CD included! Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25B/Upper Level
Middle Level
Identity Crisis? Meet Logo Design With 5 Spinoff Lessons!
Linda Wheat
Get Famous? Excite middle school students with branding themselves. Slip in some reality and art
lessons too! Get going with Logo Design plus very cool extra lessons! Videos for flipping. Best Practice
Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25A/Upper Level
Museum Education
From the Ground Up: Creating Teen Learning Labs in Museums Through Connected Learning
Jennifer Beradino, JC Bigornia, Hannah Moots
Museum educators discuss the evolving approach to teen engagement in museums. By equipping youth
with digital media tools and mentors, teens become creators and makers of ideas and content. Best
Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31B/Upper Level
Museum Education
Teens in the Art Museum: Co-Creating an Adolescent-Aimed Audio Guide
Casey Goldman, Amanda Driver
Learn how an iPod audio guide, developed collaboratively between an art museum and area teens,
creates hands-on experiences and audience-targeted opportunities for learning and making meaning
from art. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 30E/Upper Level
Museum Education
Making Room for Participation: The Changing Space of Art Museum Education
Maria Mortati, Anne Manning, Susan Diachisin, Mike Murawski
Explore innovative museum platforms that defy the traditional classroom or gallery and engage new
groups. Learn techniques that bring together visitors and artists, share expertise, and expand program
development skills. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 31A/Upper Level
Professional Development
Teacher-Artist, Artist-Teacher: Finding a Balance
Karen Cummings, Susan Elson, Diane Papageorge
Real-life experiences from art educators provide insight into the realities of creating and teaching.
Includes discussion of balancing the life of an artist with life of a teacher. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 24B/Upper Level
Research
The Big R: Bringing Research Into the Hands of Art Educators
Amy Pfeiler-Wunder, Diane Jaquith, Alissandra Seelaus, Melinda Mayer
Art educators are innately curious about their practice, students, and facilitating student growth.
Research, or clarifying one's questions, can be fulfilling and fun! Conversation on research strategies is
invited. Interactive Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 7B/Upper Level
Research
Craft and Fiber Art: Supporting Meaningful Connections, Investigations, and Collaborations
Joslyn Winkler
Engage in an action research project involving the use of craft and fiber media to create a collaborative
environment for young girls. Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 17A/Mezzanine Level
Secondary
Exploring Visual Culture to Promote Social Change
Barbara Bourne, Lauren Bourne
Explore online resources and instructional strategies that engage high school art students in issues of
social justice and visual culture. Lesson plans and digital resources will be shared.
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 25C/Upper Level
Secondary
Media Arts School Grades 6-12 Curriculum and Assessment Model
Nancy Pauly
Explore exemplary curriculum and assessment at the New Mexico Media Arts Collaborative Charter
School. All subjects are integrated with media arts and focused on New Mexico media arts industries
(http://nmmediaarts.org/). Research Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 32A/Upper Level
Special Needs in Art Education (SNAE)
Artism & Task Analysis for Students With Autism
Megan Rudne Hoffecker, Beverly Levett Gerber
Meaningful artmaking experiences are structured and shared, including reassuring steps, schedules,
rules, and visual supports from a successful university-based art program for young adults with autism.
Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 33C/Upper Level
Technology
The Invisible Hybrid
Sarah Cress
Learn how online discussion boards, Voicethread, video creation, and Pinterest can raise awareness and
participation in the traditional college classroom. Best Practice Lecture
Convention Center/Meeting Room 32B/Upper Level
Technology
Autism: Sensory Artmaking, Technology, and Distance Learning
Michelle Lopez, Michelle Lopez, Jennifer Candiano, Sol Aramendi
Explore distance learning for museum programs for families affected by autism—that incorporate
educational and social goals while providing both sensory-rich materials and technology. Interactive
Discussion
Convention Center/Meeting Room 7A/Upper Level
6:30 - 8:20 PM
Curriculum and Instruction {Ticketed Event}
Visual Literacy and the Common Core: Using Works of Art as Text
Kristin Smith, Camille Tewell
How is a work of art a text? Explore strategies for using the visual arts to support the Common Core
Anchor Standards for Reading and Writing. Hands-On Workshop Studio
Hilton Hotel/Indigo 202B/Level 2
Curriculum and Instruction {Ticketed Event}
Contemporary Artists and Augmented Reality: Demonstration of Integration and Creation of
Contemporary Art Through Self-reflection
Sharon Steckel, Melinda Donelan
Break out of tradition and explore 21st-century artists. Experiment with a variety of mediums and apply
contemporary, culturally diverse, and technologically advanced curriculum. Create a Serene-inspired
recycled artwork. Hands-On Workshop Studio
Hilton Hotel/Indigo 204A/Level 2
Media Arts {Ticketed Event}
Fotonovela: The Workshop
Michelle Wiebe, Michael Emme
Participants will combine drama, studio photography, graphic design, and comic culture to develop the
narrative and sequential artwork for a photo-based comic: A Fotonovela. Hands-On Workshop Studio
Hilton Hotel/Indigo 206/Level 2
Technology {Ticketed Event}
Fuse Existing Lessons With Technology to Create Efficiency
Deborah Sims, Julie Phillips
Turn existing lessons into video demonstrations. Participants will create a mini collograph and prepare
digital images. Develop an understanding of emerging technology knowledge to create a video suited to
your learning environment. Hands-On Workshop Studio
Hilton Hotel/Indigo 202A/Level 2