SUNDAY, MARCH 4
8:30 - 9:50 AM
4th General Session
Young Innovators Panel, Co-sponsored by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the nonprofit
organization that presents the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.
Anastasia Plakias, Lucienne Walkowicz, Jeremy Madl; Moderated by Kat Hendrix
What do an astronomer; an urban organic farmer and toymaker have in common? All were
recipients of Scholastic Art Awards when they were in high school and discovered disciplines
outside of the fine arts to apply creative and innovative thinking. Join Lucianne Walkowicz,
astromer; Anastasia Palakis, founder of the Brooklyn Grange; and Jeremy Madl,
founder/creator of MAD Toy Design for the second annual Young Innovators to learn more
about their past creative development and present professional innovation.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Grand Ballroom 3rd Floor
10:00 - 10:25 AM
CAUCUS ON SOCIAL THEORY AND ART EDUCATION (CSTAE)
Changing Faces, Transforming Places: City as Possibility in Contemporary Indian Art
Manisha Sharma
An exploration of the curricular potential of two contemporary Indian artists who employ
elements of the city as a visual resource critically examining the impacts of urbanization and
globalization.
Research Lecture
Hilton Concourse E Lower Level
10:00 - 10:50 AM
ART EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY (AET)
Star in Your Own Documentary: Video Production in the Arts Classroom
Kristin Farr
Teachers will explore fundamental uses of accessible, affordable video devices to initiate
media-rich projects in the arts classroom. They will also discover how video documentation
serves as an effective self-assessment tool.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Concourse F Lower Level
10:00 - 10:50 AM
ARTIST SERIES
Latoya Ruby Frazer
In her nine-year collaboration with her family, LaToya Ruby Frazier's position and role as
daughter, photographer and filmmaker transcends the objective practice in classic
documentary. Frazier's work has been written about in The New York Times, The New Yorker,
ArtForum, Artnet, Art Papers, Art Info, Art in America,The Brooklyn Rail, The Huffington Post,
The Wall Street Journal, and The Village Voice.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Gramercy Suite A 2nd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
CAUCUS ON THE SPIRITUAL IN ART EDUCATION (CSAE)
Imaginary Places as Sacred Spaces: Implementing the Spiritual in Contemporary Elementary Art
Education
Patricia Rain McNichols
Elementary art teachers learn to discuss and incorporate multi-media painting techniques,
historic architectural forms, and culturally diverse spiritual spaces, to create their own
interpretations of sacred spaces which include temples and cathedrals.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Concourse D Lower Level
10:00 - 10:50 AM
COMMITTEE ON LIFELONG LEARNING (LLL)
Generations of Green
Deborah Wall
Come explore current green artists and their intergenerational work. Learn ways to involve all
ages in eco-friendly projects.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Concourse C Lower Level
10:00 - 10:50 AM
COMMITTEE ON MULTIETHNIC CONCERNS (COMC)
(Re)Mapping the Black Female Body: Four Women’s Views on Gender, Race, and Visual Culture
Tanisha Jackson
Discusses the use of participatory action research in developing visual and written narratives
that explore visual culture, race, and gender.
Research Lecture
Hilton Morgan Suite 2nd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
COMMUNITY ARTS
A Service-Learning Experience With the Computer in the Visual Arts
Meaghan Brady Nelson, Karen Hutzel
An arts-based service-learning course highlighting challenges and opportunities for learning
with digital media through artmaking as an empowering tactic in the lives of college students
and urban youth.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Mercury Rotunda 3rd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION
Exploring and Interpreting Material Culture of Mexico in the Elementary Classroom
Maria Leake
Re-visits material culture studies of Mexico used as a form of research in the elementary setting
to inform students’ own artistic works of art.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Murray Hill Suite B 2nd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION
Clay, Chemistry and Arts Immersion
Lori Kearney, Janice Nigh
Teachers and artists jointly deliver the curriculum using unique teaching style called Arts
Immersion. Using the medium of clay and the technique of sculpture, students conquer science
concepts in chemistry.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Petit Trianon 3rd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
DESIGN ISSUES GROUP (DIG)
1.99 Real Housing—Mobilizing Participatory and Emergent Design Pedagogies
Drea Howenstein, Nadine Kalin
Shares how design pedagogy was mobilized within an emergent and collaborative inquiry to
enhance the capacity of design with/for/by residents to affirmatively invent alternative social
situations and relations.
Research Lecture
Hilton Holland Suite 4th Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
EARLY CHILDHOOD ART EDUCATORS (ECAE)
Winds of Change: A Collaborative Investigation
Sayward Blanc, Heather Dean, Janice Nigh
Young learners from a progressive urban arts immersion school collaborate with their peers
from a traditional rural school to explore seasonal changes using found materials and drawing
to learn.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Concourse H Lower Level
10:00 - 10:50 AM
ELEMENTARY
Integrating the Fine Arts With Creative Reading and Writing
Thomas Beck, Sue Gale-Beck
Shares a successful in-house elementary school program that explores combining art, creative
reading and writing, music, wellness, drama into a student-created interrelated fine arts
experience. Lesson plans provided.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Concourse G Lower Level
10:00 - 10:50 AM
ELEMENTARY
Emerging Perspectives on Classroom Design for Choice-Based Art
Anne Bedrick
The well-arranged choice art room can foster independence, creativity, and responsibility. But
student choice without a carefully organized structure can feel like chaos. Learn to set up
systems that consistently work.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Rendezvous Trianon 3rd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
ELEMENTARY
Art Teaching as a Creative Performance
George Szekely
A presentation of a new documentary film by George Szekely, demonstrating art teaching as a
creative performance.
Performance
Sheraton Central Park West 2nd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
HIGHER EDUCATION
A Successful Collaboration Between Student Teacher and Cooperating Teacher Results in
Professional Development for Both
Joyce Bucci
What are the essential components for successful collaboration during student teaching? Hear
teachers discuss strategies used to ensure a positive, meaningful, effective experience that
results in professional development for both.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Gramercy Suite B 2nd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
HIGHER EDUCATION
New and Old Media Artist/Teacher: Untangling the Role of Studio Practice and Teaching
Carole Woodlock, Peter Byrne
Creating transitions between new media and traditional studio practices in the classroom to
nurture an art, research, and teaching practice. An arts-based research inquiry into a
collaborative studio/teaching process.
Research Lecture
Hilton Murray Hill Suite A 2nd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
HIGHER EDUCATION
Transforming Theory Into Practice Through University/School Partnerships
Margaret Walker, Susan Hendricks
Learn the logistics behind how preservice art teachers are transforming theory into practice
through designing and executing an after school art program at an elementary school. Artwork
and lessons included.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Nassau Suite B 2nd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
HIGHER EDUCATION
Arte Es Vida: Visual Thinking Strategies, Popular Education, and Critical Pedagogy
Cara Lovati
Join our interactive colloquy to experience an unusual confluence of critical pedagogy, popular
education, and Visual Thinking Strategies. See for yourself how it poses important questions
about teaching and learning.
Hands-on Demonstration
Sheraton Riverside Ballroom 3rd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
HIGHER EDUCATION
Contemporary Art Practice as Pedagogy
Brad Olson, Karen Cast, Jorge Lucero, Jennifer O'Connor
Explore the pedagogical practices of contemporary artists through presentations focusing on
art discourses such as relational aesthetics, conceptual art, design installation, performance,
and new media practice.
Research Lecture
Sheraton Liberty 4 3rd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
HIGHER EDUCATION
Conceptualizing Arts-Based Research Methodology and Informed Technology Practice to Unite
Teaching and Learning
Karen McGarry, Renee Lentz
Intended for professional art educators and preservice educators, this session aims to foster
appreciation for research as a means to build collaborative learning environments.
Research Lecture
Sheraton Liberty 5 3rd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
MIDDLE LEVEL
Collaborative Travelling Sketchbooks for Schools Celebrates Student Diversity: DRAWn Together
Mary Ann Dobson, Jan Brown
Middle/secondary teachers share a collaborative travelling sketchbook project from conception
to completion. Presenters model how collaboration can foster student engagement inspire
participants to create similar projects on a shoestring budget.
Best Practice Lecture
Sheraton Madison Suite 1 5th Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
MIDDLE LEVEL
Design Thinking: Guitars, Shoes, and the Classroom Company
Andrew Katz
Explore a mock classroom company as a means of inspiring middle school student artists.
Design thinking will be discussed as a catalyst for unique lesson ideas and strategies.
Best Practice Lecture
Sheraton Madison Suite 2 5th Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
MUSEUM EDUCATION
Bridging the Great Divide: Three Models for Education and Curatorial Collaboration
Emily Silet, Courtney Gerber, Stephanie Parrish
Three art museums explore the Education/Curatorial relationship through various models of
inter-department integration.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Nassau Suite A 2nd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
MUSEUM EDUCATION
Synergy!: Collaboration among Contemporary Artists, Museums Educators and K-12 Classroom
Teachers
Ai Wee Seow, Dorothy Bauhoff, Michelle Kurlan
Consider benefits and challenges of multi-point collaborations among artists, museum
educators, and classroom teachers. Learn about innovative curricula and creative teaching
strategies as a result of such collaborations.
Best Practice Lecture
Sheraton Lenox Ballroom 2nd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Professional Learning Community (PLC) Approach to Curriculum Development
Karen Popovich, Kathryn Parenti
Focuses on a Professional Learning Community (PLC) approach to curriculum development. Two
high school art teachers will discuss their journey through this process and their vision for
future PLC work.
Best Practice Lecture
Sheraton Carnegie West 3rd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
RESEARCH
Examining Murals as Socio-Political Mechanism and Aesthetic Movement Across Two Cultures:
South Africa and Philadelphia
Erin Elman, Gleny Beach, Lynn Flieger Countryman
Murals communicate social and cultural stories, weaving powerful threads of shared
experience. Presenters discuss four women artists/activists/preservationists who communicate,
instigate, agitate, and inspire through their public murals.
Research Lecture
Hilton Sutton Parlor Center 2nd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
RESEARCH
The Interplay of Self and Common Culture in Young Adolescents
Susan Cowles-Dumitru
Learn how recent research indicates the significant role of artmaking in sustaining an
adolescent's essential self while enabling them to engage in a relevant and creative dialogue
with the common culture that they often immerse themselves in.
Research Lecture
Hilton Sutton Parlor South 2nd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
RESEARCH
Six Sociological Concepts of Art and Perspectives for Researchers of Art
Chen-sung Chang
Six sociological approaches to understanding art provide theoretical basis for research. The
approaches and the philosophers attributed to them will be introduced and research
implications be delineated.
Research Lecture
Hilton Regent Parlor 2nd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
RESEARCH
Engaging Young Men: Enhancing the Literacy Skills of Boy Learners Through Visual Art
Mary Franco, Kathleen Unrath
Learn how child-centered art discussions and sketchbook activities impacted the literacy skills
of 27 boy writers. What might our findings mean for 21st-century art and literacy teachers?
Research Lecture
Sheraton Central Park East 2nd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
SECONDARY
Thematic Learning in AP Art History and AP Studio Art
John Gunnin
Participants will examine how one theme—Urban Experience—enriches learning in both AP Art
History and AP Studio Art. Examples of student projects in both classes will be shared.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Clinton Suite 2nd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
SECONDARY
Making the Contemporary Relevant: Using Emerging Artists' Intentionality to Make Meaning for
High School Artists!
Tracie Glazer, Karen Lanzafame, Kalie Beach
Learn and explore how to use emerging, contemporary artists' intentionality and artworks to
inspire high school students to research and create meaningful artworks of their own. High
schoolers may also be inspired toward Guerrilla art for advocacy!
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Gibson Suite 2nd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
SECONDARY
Portfolio Preparation for College Admission and Scholarship Consideration
Jenny Gifford, Hans Evers
Need help coaching students to prepare portfolios for college admission and scholarship
consideration?
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton New York Suite 4th Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
SECONDARY
Photography: Exploring, Interacting, Learning, and Reflecting
Lisa Parks
A secondary photography teacher will discuss her collaborative curricular explorations:
Focusing on the development of units that promote student learning based on community,
technology, and reflection. Resources will be shared.
Best Practice Lecture
Sheraton Liberty 3 3rd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
SECONDARY
What Does the Business Community Expect of Art Education Graduates?
Robyn Montana Turner
This qualitative research presentation includes videotaped interviews of community
stakeholders in Austin, Texas, who discuss the skills and abilities they look for in graduates of
high school and college art education programs.
Research Lecture
Sheraton Madison Suite 3 5th Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
SECONDARY
Upcycled!
Jennifer Tiongson, Stephanie Romano
Explore the new trend of Upcycling, the art of reuse in fine arts. Learn how to create wonderful
works of art out of recycled materials.
Best Practice Lecture
Sheraton Madison Suite 4 5th Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
SECONDARY
Altered Art Journals Combine Community and Learning in a Messy Little Package
Cathy Tanasse
Using free repurposed, reusable, recycled materials forces students (and teachers) to think
creatively. It helps if you are messy but not required. Prezi, PowerPoint, Facebook, and Flickr
examples shared.
Best Practice Lecture
Sheraton Madison Suite 5 5th Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
SEMINAR FOR RESEARCH IN ART EDUCATION (SRAE)
So This Body That We Are Killing: Performing Public Pedagogies of Violence
Vicky Grube, Olga Ivashkevich, Christine Thompson, Marissa McClure
Using qualitative research and performances of subjectivity, this panel will consider forms of
violence in mainstream culture evidenced in the visual and verbal reactions of children.
Performance
Hilton Madison Suite 2nd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
SPECIAL NEEDS IN ART EDUCATION (SNAE)
The Third Approach: Examining the Dialogue and Artmaking of Adolescents With Classic Autism
Amanda Newman-Godfrey
This research study considered art experiences for adolescents with classic autism. It could
reveal the importance of engaging in verbal and visual dialogue and the inclusion of art in IEPs.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Bryant Suite 2nd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
STUDENT CHAPTER (SC)
More Than the Sum of Its Art: Using the Museum as Metaphor to Construct Community
Kelsey Nelson
Exploring the use of the art museum to stimulate self-reflection and identity-building among
teens in a foreign language class, we will investigate the institution’s potential as both forum
and metaphor.
Best Practice Lecture
Sheraton Riverside Suite 3rd Floor
10:00 - 10:50 AM
UNITED STATES SOCIETY FOR EDUCATION THROUGH ARTS (USSEA)
Puppetry Arts as Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Melanie Davenport
Social studies, language arts, music, art, technology, and more come together in these
sophisticated, cross-cultural puppetry productions. Learn how puppetry arts can serve as
pedagogical tool and performance-based assessment.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Concourse B Lower Level
10:00 - 11:20 AM
SPEAK OUT SESSION
Bridging the Theory/Practice Gap
Julia Marshall, Anne Thulson, Lois Hetland, Enid Zimmerman, Rachael Delaney
Come share your ideas for bridging the chasm between theory and practice. In this speak out
session, five scholar/educators from all levels of education consider current research and
theory in art and education, and how contemporary art practices can help to bridge the theorypractice gap. Theories about creativity, learning, art integration, and postmodern art and
culture come alive in learning experiences that employ frameworks or models such as
expeditionary learning, 21st-century learning, studio habits of mind, teaching for
understanding, issues-based art education, and arts-based research. Concrete, practical, and
innovative methods for curriculum development and teaching are suggested, and the audience
is encouraged to contribute their own interpretations and practices both during the session and
on a continuing “theory to practice” blog.
Best Practice Lecture
Sheraton Metropolitan Ballroom West 2nd Floor
10:00 - 11:50 AM
LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDERED ISSUES CAUCUS (LGBTIC)
Big Gay Church III: Hooking Up Queer Theory and LGBT Research in the Art Classroom
James Sanders, III, Mindi Rhoades, Kim Cosier, Courtnie Wolfgang
Following a moving service in 2011, an interactive exploration of saints and guardian angels,
hate-speech and forgiveness, Sister Sanders, Miss Jeanette, and Rev. Rhoades again invite
critical contemplations on religion and visual culture.
Performance
Hilton Mercury Ballroom 3rd Floor
10:30 - 10:55 AM
CAUCUS ON SOCIAL THEORY AND ART EDUCATION (CSTAE)
Studying the Unstudied Imagination of the Avant-Garde: Foucault, Jung, and Zizek in
Incarcerated Art-Education
Derek Fenner
This active talk/slideshow exposes the interstitial relationships among contemporary art,
literature, philosophy, and theory that drive curricula and instruction to illuminate the
possibility of engagements when imagination and innovation provide the light.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Concourse E Lower Level
10:30 AM – 12:50 PM
BUSINESS MEETING
NAEA Board of Director’s Meeting
Annual meeting of the NAEA Board of Directors.
Hilton Beekman Parlor 2nd Floor
11:00 - 11:25 AM
SECONDARY
Mixed Media Meets the "ART of ANATOMY" (and Other Great Lesson Ideas)
Debi West
When science and art meet, the results are creatively outstanding! Mixed media will take on a
new meaning during this fun and educational learning experience as lesson ideas (6-12,
including AP) will be presented and explored!
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Murray Hill Suite B 2nd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
ART EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY (AET)
Artwork Created! Now How Do I Show the Community My Student’s Art?
Peggy Martinez, Jennifer Patton, Christina Ritchey, Natalie Blake
The ECOT art department presents free resources all art educators can use online to share
student artwork regardless of their experiences and methodologies as art educators.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Concourse F Lower Level
11:00 - 11:50 AM
CAUCUS ON SOCIAL THEORY AND ART EDUCATION (CSTAE)
Resilience in the Face of the Unknown: Barcodes and Holocaust Art
Simone Alter- Muri
Art archived in Auschwitz serves as a testimony to the power of creativity during traumatic
times. Participants will discuss resilience through art and its connection to children from
traumatic situations.
Research Lecture
Hilton Concourse E Lower Level
11:00 - 11:50 AM
CAUCUS ON THE SPIRITUAL IN ART EDUCATION (CSAE)
Adult Day Care Holistic Mural Project: An Inspirational Model for Artists and Students to
Connect!
Jane Kunzman
Presenter will share an exciting and original project which began as a single day workshop and
evolved into a 3-year community mural to document the lives of senior citizens with dementia.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Concourse D Lower Level
11:00 - 11:50 AM
COMMUNITY ARTS
Design of a Program Philosophy for a Community Youth Arts Organization
Barbara Wong, Adrienne Gagnon
Learn how to shape and design the program philosophy for a community youth arts
organization to bring clarity to its teaching strategies during out-of-school time and in-school
artist residencies.
Best Practice Lecture
Sheraton Carnegie East 3rd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
DESIGN ISSUES GROUP (DIG)
Learning From the British: Design Education in the UK
Ruth Lozner, Robin Vande Zande
Innovative student projects of product, fashion, and graphic design and the built environment,
will be showcased from three London primary/secondary schools. Research included
observation and interviews with students and educators.
Research Lecture
Hilton Holland Suite 4th Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
EARLY CHILDHOOD ART EDUCATORS (ECAE)
The Art That Little Kids Don't Like
Kathy Danko-McGhee
This presentation will share information about the kinds of artworks, in a museum setting, that
little children found to be scary, ugly, and/or repulsive.
Research Lecture
Hilton Concourse H Lower Level
11:00 - 11:50 AM
ELEMENTARY
ART: Across All Seasons, Across All Disciplines
Cathy Balbach, Laura Dant, Carey Given
Collaborative ideas driving you crazy? Come and experience how three teachers integrate core
content areas into the art room by utilizing the changing seasons.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Rendezvous Trianon 3rd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
ELEMENTARY
Elementary Explorations: Work of Our Hands
Denise Tullier-Holly
Using primary resources from the Library of Congress, Work of Our Hands explores Child Labor,
the textile industry, and the work of our own students’ hands in weaving and sewing.
Best Practice Lecture
Sheraton Central Park West 2nd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
HIGHER EDUCATION
Examining the Socio-Aesthetic Goals of Art Education in Sweden, Estonia, and Finland: A
Minnesota Adventure
Alison Aune
Through an international summer course for art education majors, students explored crosscultural perspectives and approaches to the theory and practice of art education, museum
education, and teacher training.
Research Lecture
Hilton Gramercy Suite B 2nd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
HIGHER EDUCATION
Collected/Collaborative Efforts: The Formation and Use of Visual Culture Databases
Shei-Chau Wang
A visual culture database, a learning tool, was introduced to American preservice teachers and
Chinese in-service teachers. Its formation, uses, benefits, challenges, and suggestions will be
presented.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Murray Hill Suite A 2nd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
HIGHER EDUCATION
An Unexpected Journey: The Impact of Artmaking in the Work of Non-Art Professors
Lalitha Vasudevan, Olga Hubard, Michelle Knight-Diop
What happens when professors from various fields come together to create art? Learn how a
shared art experience travelled across disciplines in the work of four (non-art) academics.
Research Lecture
Hilton Nassau Suite B 2nd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
HIGHER EDUCATION
ALTR’d Spaces of Praxis
Laura Reeder
Explores campus-community dynamics that transform individual and collective experience. The
exchange of power among artist-learner-teacher-researcher stances provides potential for
meaningful praxis.
Research Lecture
Sheraton Riverside Ballroom 3rd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
HIGHER EDUCATION
An ArtEd Lab School: Service Learning and More
Arlene Mollo
See how UMassDartmouth's ArtEd Lab School partners with an on-public urban prep school,
enhancing preservice art teachers' own understanding of methods, curriculum design, and
development within an authentic setting.
Best Practice Lecture
Sheraton Liberty 4 3rd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
MIDDLE LEVEL
Pre-AP Program: Building Your AP Program From Middle School Up!
Debi Barrett-Hayes, Pam Wallheiser, Barb Davis
A small school district focuses on identifying and developing a Pre-AP program to build the AP
Art program in quality and quantity while developing studio habits.
Best Practice Lecture
Sheraton Madison Suite 2 5th Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
MUSEUM EDUCATION
What Do I Do Now? Creating a Dynamic Resource From Start to Finish
Rebecca Sinel, Brittany Powell
Presenters will discuss the process of developing The Walters’ online resource, Integrating the
Arts, as a model for creating educational resources, both low- and high-tech.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Concourse A Lower Level
11:00 - 11:50 AM
MUSEUM EDUCATION
Cultivating Community Connections
Jill Hardy
Highlights three community partnership programs at the Frye Art Museum designed to build
neighborhood alliances in a socially meaningful manner. Participants will explore how to
expand alliances with neighborhood organizations and build connections.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Nassau Suite A 2nd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
MUSEUM EDUCATION
Broaden Education Through Creative Blogging
Brooke Rosenblatt, Amanda Jiron-Murphy, Sarah Osborne-Bender, Cecilia Wagner
An interdepartmental panel from The Phillips Collection explores how blogging amplified the
museum’s educational voice and creative identity. Learn how the museum’s blog encouraged
opportunities for research-driven projects, redefining teamwork.
Best Practice Lecture
Sheraton Lenox Ballroom 2nd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Artistic Praxis as Professional Development for Art Teachers
Jean Petsch
Our experiences as artists are essential to our development as art teachers. Areas where artistic
praxis and teaching come together and documentaries of teachers in their studios will be
shared.
Best Practice Lecture
Sheraton Carnegie West 3rd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
RESEARCH
Mothers and Daughters in the Arts
Susan Zwirn, Robin Vande Zande, Linda Tyson
Women dominate the art education field, quantitatively. This research study explores choice of
artistic careers by daughters of mothers who teach art from the framework of sociological and
cognitive theory.
Research Lecture
Hilton Concourse G Lower Level
11:00 - 11:50 AM
RESEARCH
Art Education and the Internet: Can Art Be Taught Online?
Jennifer Eiserman, Gerald Hushlak
Reports on the results of an online, digital art pilot course, elaborating on implications for
further development of distance instruction in art.
Research Lecture
Hilton Sutton Parlor Center 2nd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
RESEARCH
Research: A Creative Option
Peter Clothier
A lecture/discussion promoting the intellectual discipline of creative activity as a viable, even
necessary form of research for the teacher-practitioner.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Sutton Parlor South 2nd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
RESEARCH
Artistic Moments of Movement: A Deleuzo-Guattarian Approach to Considering Art Student
Learners as Becoming-Artist
Karen Cast, Laura Hetrick
Deleuzo-Guattarian becoming is used to understand/explore the transitional movement of art
student learners as becoming-artist. Providing a different perspective helps subvert and
challenge our dominant understandings of this dynamic process.
Research Lecture
Hilton Regent Parlor 2nd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
RESEARCH
Emergent Curriculum in Art Education
Jean Fitzgerald, Joanne Easton, Liz Yohlin, Brittanie Wine
Graduate students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago discuss the intersections of
their thesis research on the theme of Emergent Curriculum in Art Education.
Research Lecture
Sheraton Central Park East 2nd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
SECONDARY
Is It Art? Tell Me the Answer So I Can Get On With My Life
Christine Gorbach, Jennifer Dougherty
Educators merging Perry’s critical thinking theories, thought-provoking images from art, as well
as visual culture, can help teach students to apply their own definitions to discern: Is It Art?
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Clinton Suite 2nd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
SECONDARY
The Creative Economy: What Is It and How to Ready Students for Participation
Aldonna Girouard
Explores the “Creative Economy” and the skills students need to successfully participate in it.
Connections will be made to the National Standards and 21st-Century Skills.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Gibson Suite 2nd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
SECONDARY
Diptychs, Triptychs, and Polyptychs: Applications in a High School Art Classroom
Dustin Garnet
Diptychs, Triptychs, and Polyptychs will visually inspire and add to any art teacher’s bag of
tricks. Learn about these artistic devices through art history and practical application in the
classroom.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton New York Suite 4th Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
SECONDARY
Classroom Critiques Across Communities
Bart Francis, Jethro Gillespie
Presenters will discuss an innovative "pen-pal" collaboration designed in an effort to change the
dynamics of the "traditional" classroom critique between art students in two neighboring cities.
Best Practice Lecture
Sheraton Liberty 3 3rd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
SECONDARY
Written Word as Inspiration to Visual Subject Matter: Discovering the Art of Assemblage
Carla Tuetken
Participants will explore the unlimited possibilities of the art of assemblage combined with the
written word as they discover how art and writing can go hand-in-hand.
Best Practice Lecture
Sheraton Madison Suite 3 5th Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
SECONDARY
Process Matters… Overcoming the Fear of the White Page
Kimberly Thibodeaux, Angela Riehl, Rosalind Robertson
Three experienced high school art teachers share their ten most successful projects. They will
explain how to guide students through the creative process using various brainstorming,
research, and information-gathering ideas.
Best Practice Lecture
Sheraton Madison Suite 4 5th Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
SECONDARY
Art in the Face of the Apocalypse: Supporting the Student Through Self-Directed Exploration
Caro Sturges
Shares a second year teacher’s experience using self-direction to help her students grow
creatively as they process the chaos of modern life. Student work and quotes shown.
Best Practice Lecture
Sheraton Madison Suite 5 5th Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
SPECIAL NEEDS IN ART EDUCATION (SNAE)
Multimodal Arts for Students With Disabilities
Nina Levent, Carole Gothelf, Ken Struve, Donnielle Rome
Learn about multi-sensory approaches to teaching art in the classroom and galleries, and how
multimodal learning and creative experiences are meaningful to all audiences.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Bryant Suite 2nd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
STUDENT CHAPTER (SC)
How Can a Student-Run Conference Series Start a Conversation on the Importance of Art
Education?
Hannah Cohen
Discover how, through a professional development conference, the Student Chapter at the
Maryland Institute College of Art is engaging with school administrators, community artists,
professors, and students around Baltimore.
Best Practice Lecture
Sheraton Riverside Suite 3rd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
TECHNOLOGY
Press Play: Gamification in Art Education
James O'Donnell
What do video games know that art teachers don't? Discover new strategies for instruction,
grading, and classroom management that can improve engagement, reduce discipline issues,
and foster agency.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Sutton Parlor North 2nd Floor
11:00 - 11:50 AM
UNITED STATES SOCIETY FOR EDUCATION THROUGH ARTS (USSEA)
Fundamentals of Designing Culturally Sensitive Curricula
Mousumi De, Marjorie Manifold, Yuganti Shrirodhkar, Steve Willis
Educators of students from diverse Western and Eastern cultures provide fundamentals of
designing and implementing a culturally sensitive art curriculum that nurtures empathic
aesthetic responses and honors artistic differences.
Best Practice Lecture
Hilton Concourse B Lower Level