FRIDAY, JULY 16
In this workshop, participants will explore creating with chalk pastel. They will dig deep to discover their unique why. A work of art featuring their why will be created. Participants will also learn how to turn the tables and share this as a lesson with their students. This will place the power of art education in students’ hands, help them discover their why and create an inspired and inspiring work of art.
Cassie earned a BFA in painting and a BA in art education from Indiana University in 1998. This will be Cassie’s 23rd year teaching elementary art. She has taught both in Nashville, Tennessee as well as the town of Franklin which is just 15 miles south and where she now calls home. In 2017 she authored a celebrated book on air-dry and homemade clay projects entitled Clay Lab for Kids: 52 Projects to Make, Model, and Mold with Air-Dry, Polymer and Homemade Clay. A year later, she wrote about her favorite subject to teach which is fibers in the book Stitch and String Lab for kids. Most recently, she wrote the book Art Teacherin' 101 which is filled with everything she wished she would have known as a new art teacher. You can currently preorder a copy on her blog. Be sure to stay updated via her blog and social media accounts: YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.
Supplies:
Sketchbook (Or a couple sheets of 9X12 drawing paper)
Pencil
Chalk Pastels
Black construction paper (2, 9X12)
Silver Sharpie or Metallic Markers
Pack of Markers
Glue
Scissors
Permanent marker (Like a Sharpie)
Paint brushes
Cup of water
1-2 sheets of white drawing or painting paper (80lbs)
The field of arts education research has continued to evolve since the Arts Education Partnership launched its research database, ArtsEdSearch, in 2012. In 2020, AEP conducted a Needs Assessment of this continually growing collection of studies to help determine what research was widely available and what was missing. This session will highlight the results of this assessment and will look at the current landscape of arts education research, including priority topics. Join us to consider strategies for advancing arts education research and learn how individuals and organizations working across the arts and education depend on research to inform their work.
Cassandra Quillen, Project Manager, Arts Education Partnership
Cassandra contributes to AEP’s reports and publications, and provides support for AEP convenings. Prior to this position, she worked as a communications specialist with Education Commission of the States and AEP. With an education background in art history and a strong belief in the transformational qualities of learning, Cassandra is passionate about her work and dedicated to sharing research and resources on the arts in education with stakeholders across the country.
Threshold Concepts for Art - Tackling big ideas in the art room.
Chris Francis is the Senior Leader/Teacher of art & photography, St Peter's School, Bournemouth. ArtPedagogy aims to promote reflective, authentic art and design teaching and learning, delivered with a spirit of 'serious mischief'. Our Threshold Concepts for Art provide the framework for this. We hope that these 'big ideas' will inspire and challenge, instigating thoughtful discussions and positive actions.
Now, the truth is I'm not entirely sure what the lie of the land is in Art rooms across the pond. But here, on the south coast of England, there's a few issues I've been wrestling with. For starters: this unhealthy obsession with grades and assessments. Not good. Anxieties and issues of perfectionism abound. Authentic exploration - the who-knows-what's-going-to-happen kind - can often be sidelined for safer, formulaic approaches. Honestly. It's enough to drive you to Threshold Concepts. Let's talk about them. Big troublesome ideas to cause 'serious mischief' and get students discussing, thinking, feeling, making and sharing like artists. I'll see you then. Looking forward to it!
What does arts education policy look like in your state and how can research help inform these policies? Join the Arts Education Partnership for this session that will discuss the ways that arts education is present in state policy across the country. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about how evidence-based research can provide a nonpartisan, non-advocacy-based approach to supporting policymakers and education leaders in their decision making. This session will also share more about AEP’s resources and how AEP partner organizations and the broad arts education field use them to advance and expand their work.
Krystal Johnson, Project Manager, Arts Education Partnership
Krystal conducts research on pressing arts education policy issues, contributes to AEP’s publications and provides support for AEP convenings. Krystal comes to Education Commission of the States with experience in education, legislative tracking and management. Krystal is dedicated to helping kids gain access to learning opportunities that match their learning styles; and she hopes to advance equity through her work researching and convening leaders to address pressing arts education policy issues.
Marcus Doyle, M.A., set up his own commercial photographic darkroom in North London in 1998 and then moved into the fine art photography market, producing work through galleries for private and commercial clients, as well as undertaking commercial assignments. Doyle has artist representation in seven galleries based in the UK, Europe, and the United States, with more than 30 solo exhibitions to date. In addition to commercial representation in the UK and U.S., Doyle has produced three photography books: Night Vision (Vintage Works, 2005), By Coastal (Viewfinder Workshops Ltd., 2011), and most recently The Flowery Room. His photography work consists mainly of landscapes and the environmentally challenged areas within it.
Engaging Learners with Digital Experiments: Digital For Elementary Students
(50 minutes)
This session will focus on incorporating engaging digital experiments into the elementary curriculum. A variety of digital experiments (web based and apps that are fee/low cost) that connect with contemporary works and careers will be shared. Suitable for online, hybrid, and online content delivery. While these experiments have been done with elementary students, the concepts can be scaled up to middle and high school levels.
SPEAKER: Brent Everett Dickinson, MFA
Artist Talk
(50 minutes)
Brent Everett Dickinson is a multi-disciplinary conceptual artist based in Los Angeles. He has presented exhibitions, performances, and screenings of his work around the U.S., Canada, and Europe, including the Essl Museum, Vienna; Socrates Sculpture Park, New York; Chelsea Music Festival, New York; Cornerstone Music Festival, Chicago; This Red Door, New York/Berlin; and an exhibition intervention with the work of Wayne Adams at the Barrington Center for the Arts at Gordon College.
In 2017, Dickinson founded the Marcel Maus Hermeneutical Think Tank which functions as a Deleuzean machine, working to interrupt, antagonize and de/re/contextualize Dickinson’s solo work. Both in the MMHTT materials and his solo projects, Dickinson’s work explores properties and structures of meaning formation utilizing a radical entanglement of Christian theology, critical theory, and experimental comedy. The work utilizes these entangled elements, not as sources of content per se, but as a system of methodologies whose indeterminate interdynamics present the conditions within which novelty and charisma are potential emergent properties.
Dickinson had a solo exhibition at the HJ Miossi Gallery at Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo and completed a short narrative film entitled "Transfiguration on Forked River Mountain."
WORKSHOP: Don Masse Digging into Digital Experiments - Digital For Elementary Students
(50 minutes)
This session will take a deeper look at a couple of the experiments shared into my previous session. Although, attending first session is not a prerequisite. This is a hands on session, so have a device available. Chromebooks, laptops, and PCs will work best.
@artofteaching
The Art of Teaching Secondary Students
(60 minutes)
SPEAKER: Bill Catling, MFA: Artist and APU Department Chair
Art and Spirituality
(50 minutes)
William Catling, MFA, was born in San Francisco and grew up in the Bay Area. He decided at an early age that art was what he wanted to do for life. Catling taught high school for 10 years, then moved to Southern California to begin teaching at APU in 1991. As an artist, he attempts to address the loss of our natural sense of being human—that is, our deeply intuitive sense of ourselves. He believes we have become disconnected from the natural rhythms of life.
The figures Catling makes are rough, cracked, aged, reflecting suffering and the internal capacity to connect to others outside oneself. Such suffering can evoke the viewer’s empathy and self-transcendence. Viewers can embrace the condition of the figures, thus engaging themselves in the process of reconnecting by joining in the transcendent element of the work. The work does not eliminate the body’s suffering but presents it as a condition for spiritual uplift.
WORKSHOP: Printmaking with Daniela Barbani and Cost- Prepaid Ticketed Workshop
Daniela Barbani, Professor at Azusa Pacific University
Printmaking at home (50 minutes)
Gel Plate Monotypes:
This workshop covers hand-printing monotypes from home using gel plates. Participants will each receive their own 3x5" gel plate to work with, and can use materials they may already have on hand to print with, such as acrylic paints, brushes (or brayers), paper, etc. Stencils can be made from paper scraps or even finding things in nature, like leaves and flowers. Gel plates are very sensitive to details, so anything placed on them will leave an imprint! This method of monotyping is great for home as it does not require a printing press and is easy to clean up. Gel plate prints can be works of art on their own or serve as a background for mixed-media pieces! Participants will also receive a recipe on how to make their own gel plates from home!
Daniela Barbani, MFA, is an L.A.-based artist. Utilizing screen printing and relief printing methods on non-traditional surfaces, her work explores and deals with the topics of the wildland-urban interface and society’s effects on local urban wildlife. Previous exhibitions include Gallery p3, Cactus Gallery, Occidental College, Azusa Pacific, Sanda University, California State University, Channel Islands, California State University, Northridge, Eastern Kentucky University, California State University Long Beach, and the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art.
SPEAKER: Tiny Art Show Creating a Tiny Art Show
(1 hour)
McKay Lenker Bayer is an art teacher and community artist living in Provo, Utah. She is interested in art that positively impacts communities and brings people together in unique ways. Besides teaching high school art full time, she runs an art project called tiny art show where she installs miniature art galleries in unexpected places. McKay also enjoys hiking with her dogs Winnie & Spud and biking around Provo with her husband Tylor.
SPEAKER: Stephen Childs, MFA
Exhibition Talk
(1 hour)
Stephen Childs, MFA, has worked as a preparator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the UCLA Hammer Museum. He has exhibited his artwork throughout Los Angeles, including at the Riverside Art Museum, Los Angeles International Airport (in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs), and the I-5 Gallery at the Brewery, among others. He is Exhibitions Director overseeing notable exhibitions by artists: Tim Bavington, Judy Pfaff, Devon Tsuno and Christian Hosoi.
MFA Program Director at Azusa Pacific University
Artist Talk
(50 minutes)
Nery Gabriel Lemus was born in Los Angeles, in 1977. The subjects in his work range from issues of stereotype and immigration to problems in society that can lead to the failure of families, such as poverty, abuse and neglect. Lemus received his BFA at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California (2007) and his MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California (2009). Lemus also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine (2008).
His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; The Bindery Projects, Minneapolis, MN; Project Row Houses, Houston, TX. Group exhibitions include, Fútbol: The Beautiful Game, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Made in L.A. 2012, organized by the Hammer Museum in collaboration with LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA; dia a dia/ day by day, The 9.99 Gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala; OZ: New Offerings From Angel City, Museo Regional Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico; 2010 Border Art Biennial, El Paso Museum, El Paso, Texas; Common Ground, California African-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA and exhibitions at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA; Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA; Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; Centro Cultural Paseo del Norte, Chihuahua, Mexico and the Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico, among others.
He is a recipient of a California Community Foundation Fellowship, a COLA Fellowship Grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Fellowship Award. He is represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Roberta Ahmanson - Art and Beauty
(60 minutes)
Roberta Green Ahmanson's public activities are focused on deepening awareness and understanding of the role of religion in public life, the importance of knowing history to understand the present, and the vital role the arts play in shaping human experience.
Since 1986, Ahmanson has worked with her husband, Howard, in shaping the granting priorities of his private philanthropy, Fieldstead and Company. The Ahmansons' granting has focused on relief and development work both in the United States and around the world; religious liberty issues also in the United States and abroad; and cultural issues ranging from the arts to education and politics. The Ahmansons' long-term local granting interests include supporting the Pacific Symphony for over 20 years and the Orange County Rescue Mission for over 30 years. The Ahmansons have sponsored a number of art exhibitions in the United States and Great Britain including Caravaggio: The Final Years and Sacred Made Real, both at the National Gallery in London. As the chair of the former Museum of Biblical Art in New York City, Ahmanson led the drive to secure Renaissance masterpieces from the cathedral in Florence, Italy, featured in the noted exhibition Sculpture in the Age of Donatello.
One of the Ahmansons' largest current projects is the Visual Commentary on Scripture. She is the current chair of WaterTable, a non-profit entity which aims to promote artistic flourishing in Los Angeles. She also chairs the board of Bridge Projects, Inc., a for-profit exhibition space also in Los Angeles. In addition to these efforts, Ahmanson lectures throughout the United States, and is the co-author with Paul Marshall and Lela Gilbert of Islam at the Crossroads, 2002, and a critibutor and co-editor with Marshall and Gilbert of Blind Spot: When Journalists Don't Get Religion.
SATURDAY, JULY 17
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Vanessa Brantley Newton
Vanessa Brantley Newton was born during the Civil Rights movement, and attended school in Newark, NJ. She was part of a diverse, tight-knit community and learned the importance of acceptance and empowerment at early age.
Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats was the first time she saw herself in a children’s book. It was a defining moment in her life, and has made her into the artist she is today. As an illustrator, Vanessa includes children of all ethnic backgrounds in her stories and artwork. She wants all children to see their unique experiences reflected in the books they read, so they can feel the same sense of empowerment and recognition she experienced as a young reader.
Vanessa celebrates self-love and acceptance of all cultures through her work, and hopes to inspire young readers to find their own voices. She first learned to express herself as a little girl through song. Growing up in a musical family, Vanessa’s parents taught her how to sing to help overcome her stuttering. Each night the family would gather to make music together, with her mom on piano, her dad on guitar, and Vanessa and her sister, Coy, singing the blues, gospel, spirituals, and jazz. Now whenever she illustrates, music fills the air and finds its way into her art.
The children she draws can be seen dancing, wiggling, and moving freely across the page in an expression of happiness. Music is a constant celebration, no matter the occasion, and Vanessa hopes her illustrations bring joy to others, with the same magic of a beautiful melody.
Art = Opportunity is a research-based movement that provides leadership training, literacy residencies, summits, workshops, arts integration bootcamps, and special events for educators, parents, youth and teens, and arts providers. The organization's mission is to ensure that all students have equal access to exemplary education that includes learning in, with, and through the arts.
Amy Brunolli is a professional artist turned educator who has worked on such film titles as The Avengers and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. A hiatus in production led her to teaching art in an after school program that changed her life. As a STEAM ambassador she now works with Art = Opportunity and classroom communities to advocate for arts education. Join Amy to find out about resources you can use to advocate for the arts, see what the STEAM ambassadors have been up to, and participate in
a fun art activity!
Facebook: @artopportunity
Instagram: @artopportunity
@csusm_steam_ambassadors
@amybrunolli
SPEAKER: Eurekus!
Introduction to STEAM and Art Integration K-8
(30 minutes)
Eurekus is the brain-child of nationally acclaimed artists and educators, Tyler and Monica Aiello. The husband and wife team are celebrated for both their fine art and public practice initiatives that fuse the arts, sciences and communities. Monica is known for her collaborations with NASA scientists which informs her astro-geologically inspired paintings. Tyler is an accomplished builder and engineer and his sculpture draws from the worlds of biology, botany, chemistry and math. The couple spent their careers forging transdisciplinary connections for broader public engagement.
Since 2003, the Aiellos have pioneered innovative art and science initiatives - before STEAM & the Maker Movement were even recognized. They partner with NASA, districts, schools, colleges, libraries and museums nationally and personally work with thousands of learners and leaders each year. They were also early pioneers of Denver's RINO arts district where they owned the award-winning gallery Studio Aiello and community maker facility, the TarFactory. The Aiellos artwork is exhibited and collected internationally and their work has been celebrated in art, science and popular media. In 2015, they were honored at the White House as a US2020 STEM Mentoring Awards Finalist.
Personal Art Practice:
Tyler Aiello - Biography
Monica Petty Aiello - Biography
Theology and Art Curriculum Alignment
Human beings cannot separate themselves from their values, beliefs or assumptions; they affect every part of our lives. For Christians, our theology will influence our attitude, behavior and hopefully our curriculum and pedagogy as well. Most Christian art educators teaching at private Christian schools, struggle to integrate art content and Biblical theology. The purpose of this presentation is to share my Theological Art Education Approach, giving examples of Christian theological themes and topics found within art history, for the purpose of demonstrating the many ways theological integration can be achieved.
Jeff Grubbs is an Associate Professor at West Liberty University and a senior Adjunct Professor at Azusa Pacific University within the M.A. Art Education program and the M.A. Modern and Contemporary Art History program. He has been an author or peer reviewer for publications such as NAEA’s Art Education magazine, Oxford Press, Visual Inquiry: Learning and Teaching Art, and Journal of Research on Christian Education.
Using the elements of art — shape, line, color, texture, value — students make sense of images of planets, asteroids, comets and moons, honing observation skills and inspiring questions. Learners of all ages create a beautiful piece of art while learning to recognize geologic and atmospheric features of solar system objects. The lesson begins with what we know here on Earth and then uses that awareness to help students interpret features on distant objects in the solar system. Art and the Cosmic Connection offers a terrific bridge between Earth and space science, as well as a wonderful dive into the potential of science to inspire art — and art to empower science!
WORKSHOP with KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Vanessa Brantley Newton
Hands on workshop with Vanessa Brantley Newton, Illustrator.
(1-2 hours)
SPEAKER: Regina Hill @thefaithfilledteacher
The Faith Filled Teacher
(50 minutes)
Regina Hill is a devoted mom, educator, and Christ-follower. Her passion is to inspire and encourage those around her. She has been an educator for over 15 years and has taught multiple grade levels. She enjoys using her gift of singing through the praise and worship ministry as well as preaching and teaching the Word both at church and to her online community of educators. In her spare time, she enjoys decorating, participating in creative projects, working out, baking, and spending time with her family. She is the author of The Prayer Journal For Teachers.
WORKSHOP: Nancy Andrzejczak
Two Million Dollar Model of Arts Integration K-12
(50 minutes)
Nancy is the CAEA conference manager and former CAEA president.
TICKETED WORKSHOP: Jeanne Bjork
Mindful Matters Through Fiber Arts
Supplies have been sent out to prepaid ticket holders.
TICKETED WORKSHOP: Ana Cervantes
An intuitive art session, explaining the flow and the benefits of automatic creation including nurturing our voice and intuitive wisdom. It will be a multimedia approach.
(1 hour)
Ana an artist and educator from San Bernardino, CA. An APU graduate with her MA in Art Education, Ana is currently an adjunct instructor at AEOU and serves as a creative curriculum director and expressive arts facilitator for mental health facilities in CA and MA.
Supplies:
mixed media or 80lb. paper + acrylic paint/oil pastels/something to create with!