ARTISTIC BEHAVIOR
LEARNING and TEACHING
CHOICE STUDIO CENTERS
ASSESSMENT
WHAT'S NEW! 2009 NAEA SCHEDULE
NAEA National Convention
Minneapolis, MN April 17-21
Recommended Sessions for those interested in Teaching for Artistic Behavior and Choice-Based Art Education
For a complete listing of the convention schedule and registration, please visit www.arteducators.org
TAB presentations on the topic of choice-based art education appear in BLUE type.
FRIDAY, APRIL 17
10:00 - 10:50 AM
Beyond Pretty: What Girls Tell Us Through Their Artwork
Students express their interests, beliefs and values through learner-directed artmaking. This action research presentation examines intent and
meaning in K-8 girls’ artworks, from hearts and rainbows to innovative structural designs. Presented by: Diane Jaquith,
11:00 - 11:50 AM
Teaching for Artistic Behavior: Authentic Creation/ Thinking/Assessment
Using student portfolios I will demonstrate to participants how allowing student’s artistic choice in the art room allows for a more authentic
assessment of the students thinking and authentic production. Presented by: Jeffrey Pridie
11:00 - 11:50 AM
Drawing Closer to Nature: a documentary film and discussion of a holistic approach to art teaching
Video documenting Peter London’s holistic teaching of Drawing Closer to Nature workshop to artists-teachers, showing students at work, their art,
basic principles of drawing closer to nature, and discussion. Presented by: Peter London
11:00 - 11:50 AM
Guided Play: What About Us?
Participants will engage in imaginative exercises and focus their creative habits to generate ideas in this interactive session. Presenters will discuss
how these practices inform our teaching. Presented by: Wendy Osterweil, Karen Malandra
1:00 - 1:50 PM
21st Century Art Education: Are We On the Right Track?
What is relevant and meaningful art education in the 21st century, a time increasingly dominated by technology? Data and facts provided with points
to ponder, and recommendations made. Serious discussion is needed. Audience participation expected!
2:00 - 2:50 PM
Engineers and Inventors of the Choice Based
The choice based art room is an ideal learning environment for children to explore and express their art ideas related to engineering and invention.
Presented by:
3:00 - 3:50 PM
Elementary Regional Presentation—21st Century Skills Best Practices
Skilled educators from Pacific and Western Elementary Division will present research-based information and practical experience in relation to the
goals of the 21st century Learning Skills Initiative.
4:00 - 4:50 PM
Nurturing Artistic Behaviors for Creative Exploration Inside and Outside of the Art Classroom
Artistic behaviors sustain creativity and innovation. We will examine varied artistic behaviors including play, dreaming, inquiry, risk-taking, and
perseverance and share proven strategies to cultivate them in school settings. Presented by: Diane Jaquith, Katherine Douglas
SATURDAY, APRIL 18
11:00 - 11:50 AM
The Case for Including the Spiritual Dimension in Art Education
This presentation argues for the critical role spiritually motivated art has played in all civilizations and therefore the importance of including it in art
education research and pedagogy. Presented by: Peter London
11:00 - 11:50 AM
Arts + Sciences + Conservation = Healthy Communities
Presenter will share the work of GREENARTS; community coalition of artists, museum/science/art educators, and conservationists to connect
people with nature through the arts for environmental betterment and preservation. Presented by: Ellen Robinson
11:00 - 11:50 AM
Drawing (Violent) Acts: Adolescent’s search for meaningful expression
Research into violent content in adolescent drawing should shift focus from the object toward the subject, the adolescent and their intentions. This presentation will review the literature and describe research needed. Presented by: Aileen Wilson
2:30 - 2:55 PM
Artist as Teacher and Researcher
The case study “Artist as Teacher and Researcher” examines the importance of teaching to artists in their artistic practice and points out that there are no distinctions between teaching and artistic practices. Eventually, the job of teaching became a process of art making.
3:00 - 3:50 PM
(Beyond) The Reconceptualization of Art Education
What is the current state of art education? What discourses and movements have emerged that may constitute a reconceptualization? And, what
might a post-reconceptualization in art education look like? Presented by: Kevin Tavin, B. Stephen Carpenter, II
3:00 - 3:50 PM
Meaningful Making: New School Art Styles
Don’t come to this session unless you are willing to discard many old school traditional and modernist projects. Models for building aesthetic,
technical, and conceptual skills through new style projects. Presented by: Olivia Gude
5:00 - 5:50 PM
Following the Artwork Home
What happens when your students take their artwork home? How can teachers help parents talk to their child about their art work in ways that
scaffold a deeper understanding?
5:00 - 5:50 PM
“Everyone Tells Me To Be Creative, But No One Tells Me How”
A case study of the ways adolescent artists respond to teacher-directed strategies for the creative problem solving process, based on the stages
of the creative process described by Csiszentmihalyi. Presented by: Lynn Short
SUNDAY, APRIL 19
8:00 - 9:50 AM
2nd General Session
Presented by: Kay WalkingStick
"Art education teaches a different way of thinking. This is an incredibly useful tool in any kind of endeavor." - Kay WalkingStick
11:00 - 11:25 AM
Let’s Get Serious: Negotiating Ideas through Artistic Play
Contemporary artists negotiate ideas through artistic play. What is the role of “play” in the artmaking process? Explore the issue of artistic play
and its relationship to art education curriculum. Presented by: Carrie Markello
2:00 - 2:25 PM
Materials Preferences and Gender: Issues in Response to Contemporary Art
Do students prefer certain materials? Does gender effect materials choices? Discuss a qualitative study on materials and learn strategies for
providing students opportunities using a variety of traditional and nontraditional materials. Presented by: Rebecca Tholl
2:00 - 2:50 PM
Learning in the Visual Arts: What and How?
What do students really learn through art-making? Representatives from two major studies that have explored this question – Project Zero’s
Studio Thinking and the Guggenheim’s The Art of Problem Solving – will present their findings. Presented by: Amy Charleroy, Johanna Jones,
Ellen Winner, Lois Hetland
The Creative Underachiever: Is the cause of underperformance in creatively gifted students a result of school norms?
Einstein scored a 70 on an IQ test at age 11. Are we overlooking today’s potential geniuses? Why do some creative, but “at risk” students
fail to thrive?
4:00 - 4:50 PM
From Home Art to School Art
This presentation will look at ways in which the art teacher can build upon creativity at home and make it meaningful in the classroom.
Presented by: George Szekely, Ilona Szekely
5:00 - 5:50 PM
The Center for Creative Connections: Developing an Environment that Promotes Creative Behavior How does an environment promote
creative behavior? Learn how the design, programs, and partnerships of the Dallas Museum of Art’s Center for Creative Connections are inspiring
both audience and staff. Presented by: Susan Diachisin, Molly Kysar
MONDAY, APRIL 20
8:00 - 8:50 AM
“I Got Your Back”: An Autobiographical Study on Empathetic Teaching Connections Engaging Alternative Learners in Art A case study of how
empathetic connections with students form a relationship of trust and respect that promotes students’ feelings of acceptance, individuality, and
ownership in a creative community. Presented by: Melissa Sugar
8:00 - 8:50 AM
Creative Collaboration: Tangled Lines
This presentation examines prominent artists' creative collaborations, considers the phenomena of collaborative visual art process and discusses implications that a deeper understanding of this process has for collaborative researching, teaching, and learning.
Presented by: Miriam Cooley
9:00 - 9:50 AM
The Heart of Art Education: A Holistic Approach to Child-Connected Learning
This presentation introduces a student-connected paradigm by distinguishing it from earlier, student-centered and curriculum-centered models,
and argues for its particular importance for children and young people today. The principles of holistic philosophy and teacher “presence” will also
be discussed, with audience participation.
9:00 - 9:50 AM
Teaching Vulnerability: Risk Taking and the Creative Process
Teaching vulnerability: Risk taking and the creative process. This session is focused on encouraging and assisting teachers in developing strategies
that encourage and nurture risk taking in the classroom.
9:00 - 9:50 AM
Carousel of Best Practices
Jump on the ride and discover teachers from across the
Bob Reeker, Suzanne Butler-Lich
11:00 - 11:50 AM
Reconsidering Creativity: Theory and Practice in Art Education
The panelists will critically analyze concepts related to creativity in art education and discuss new possibilities for research and practice to nurture
creative education for all art students.
11:00 - 11:50 AM
Drawing Dirty Pictures: Post-Neat Art at Spiral Workshop
Embrace mess as method and as metaphor. Overcome fear of the blank paper. These projects create rich, layered images that explore the depth
and complexity of life in postmodern times.
1:30 - 1:55 PM
Drawing and Play with Young Children
This Reggio-inspired presentation looks at children's interests in maintaining play, sustaining prolonged play scenarios, and repertoires of drawing
and play that nurture graphic development. Presented by: Annette Swann
2:00 - 2:50 PM
What is The Important Thing: Does our daily practice "do" what we intend it to?
What is essential about what we do? Modeling the discussion after Margaret Wise Brown’s “The Important Book,” art educators strive to identify
and facilitate more meaningful experiences for young artists. Presented by:
4:00 - 4:50 PM
Lowenfeld Award Lecture
Annual lecture presented by the latest recipient of the Lowenfeld Award recognizing significant contributions to the field of art education
Presented by: Olivia Gude
5:00 - 5:50 PM
The Process of Creating Meaning through Art Activity of Special Need Students
The presentation focuses on special need students’ art activity with the emphasis of a process-based art teaching practice that allows participants
to discover, play, initiate, reflect, narrate, collaborate, and bring life experience as a resource to create meaningful art.
5:00 - 5:50 PM
Precarious Leanings: The Prosthetic Slippage of Play in Art
The play of art, its slippage and indeterminacy, will be conceptualized as prosthetic cognition and prosthetic epistemology to represent a critical
pedagogy of possibility in art education.
6:00 -6:50 PM
Teaching for Artistic
This presentation seeks to outline a new approach to teaching art, which emphasizes artistic independence. Highlighting a ten-year study of teaching
students to become their own art teachers. Presented by: George Szekely
TUESDAY, APRIL 21
9:00 - 9:50 AM
A Playful Pedagogy for the Transgressive Pleasures of Popular Culture
While many art teachers now deconstruct the ideologies of popular culture, unlike
for students to transgress.
9:00 - 9:50 AM
Holistic Art Education: Defining Theory and Practice
This presentation focuses on holistic art education within the context of contemporary art education theory and practice. Implications for practice will be discussed, along with examples of a holistic approach to teaching art. Presented by: Laurel Campbell
Schedule courtesy of National Art Education Association www.arteducators.org
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