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ALL SESSIONS ARE IN-PERSON (FACE TO FACE) UNLESS NOTED IN THE TITLE OF THE SESSION.
Room assignments are at the end of the session title. Maps are posted in the hallways.
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Act 48 Credit Information
Most sessions qualify for Act 48 credit. If a session does not qualify for Act 48 credit, it will be indicated in the session description. Within a day or two of the in-person conference, participants will receive Google form links via email to fill out for their Act 48 credit. The forms will close at midnight on November 21, 2021, giving participants several weeks to complete the virtual sessions. Act 48 hours will be uploaded to PDE in December 2021. Please contact Jill Anders at directorofprogramming@paea.org if you have Act 48 questions.
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM – Registration - Lobby
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM - Exhibition Hall - Fox Commons
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Advocacy Table - Fox Commons
9:30 AM – 12:00 PM – College Super Sessions: Ticketed Workshops - off-site – transportation provided - meet in the lobby for shuttle busses
Tyler School of Art and Architecture
Building Relationships
9:30 – 10:00: From Our Perspective Facilitated by Dr. Renee Jackson
A panel of middle school/high school art students tell us about what they need and want from their art teachers and answer your questions
10:10 – 10:30; 10:40 – 11:00; 11:00 – 11:20
Guests will be invited to circulate throughout the building to participate in workshops/performances/activities/exercises/actions in 20 minute intervals. Featured Sessions:
· Removing Barriers: A Human Rights Perspective for Arts Integration
Susan Coll-Guedes
· There are no tricks up our sleeves: The real magic of inclusion in arts education
Dr. David Herman Jr.
· Circles, Sticks and Empathy, Oh my!
Dr. Lisa Kay
· Playing together: Building relationships through artsy games
Dr. Renee Jackson
· Arts, Communities and Climate Justice
Community Art Students
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art
The Artist Endures: The Narratives on the Walls
Please join us at PAFA for a workshop based on two of our fall exhibitions; Artwork of Endurance, 1979-2018: Three Decades of Print from Permanent Collection & Women in Motion: 150 Years of Women’s Artistic Networks at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in honor of celebrating women artists and acknowledging the importance of diversity in the arts.
The goals of these exhibitions are to inspire a new generation of society to appreciate women artists and discover the inspirations and innovative techniques used in printmaking that artists are using to share narratives around African American, Native American, Latino, and feminist cultures exploring notions of biography conveyed through figurative and abstract representations.
In this workshop, participants are provided the opportunity to enhance their use and knowledge on how to use visual arts narratives to spark observations, draw conclusions, and engage in conversations with their students relating to the topics of race and ethnicity, gender, and diversity in American culture as seen through the lens and narratives of diverse artists. Workshop participants will partake in tours and discussions of these two exhibitions matched with project-based learning activities utilizing Visual Thinking Strategies methods.
Tours and activities will be designed to complement and expand the exhibitions' topics and will offer tools and ideas reflecting participating teachers grade levels and transferable to the classroom setting. Participants will also get to meet some of PAFA’s experts and curatorial staff.
University of the Arts
Manhole Covers and Subway Grates: The Art & Process of Sari Dienes
Visit the Philadelphia Art Alliance at University of the Arts for an interactive tour and workshop Visit the Philadelphia Art Alliance at University of the Arts for an interactive tour and workshop centered on the Sari Dienes exhibition, a Hungarian-born American artist well known for her large scale rubbings and prints that had a profound influence on the evolution of mark making within Abstract Expressionism and later Pop Art. Dienes' rubbings originated in New York City, where she’d taken her practice as an abstract artist out of the studio and into the streets. Enlisting colleagues including Jasper Johns and John Cage as assistants, Dienes would lay down paper or cloth atop manhole covers and subway gratings, making direct impressions of the urban fabric with an ink-laden brayer. These textures became elements in sprawling compositions that literally grounded the formal language of Abstract Expressionism. Participants will create artwork that reflects her art making process, and coffee and pastries will be offered.
More information will be available at uarts.edu/artalliance
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Centering Authentic Childhood Art - Sarah Peter 210
CJ Matz and Marie Elcin
How can art teachers cultivate creativity and broaden concepts of aesthetics beyond Western and adult standards of beauty? In this session we will consider possibilities for practice to help make student art more meaningful and child-centered.
Best Practice - Elementary/Middle
Utilizing Free Digital Tools as Art Medium in Elementary Art Education - Sarah Peter 206
Adrienne Justice
A presentation of methods for guiding students to self-expression and rich discussion through humorous digital art projects centered around memes and internet content made with the Google suite.
Best Practice - Elementary
Create a learning environment to engage students that allows equitable access to materials and resources. - Sarah Peter 202
Lisbeth Bucci
“Use What You Have” can be a catalyst for curiosity. Empower student’s making using informal and formal materials. Create activities of multiple levels of mastery, face-to-face or virtual. Materials provided.
Interactive Discussion - Preservice/New Professionals
Knotted Rocks – Ticketed Workshop - Wilson 235
Julie Davis and Todd McGill
Complex knot-tying is a historical art form with global roots. In this Blick Art Materials workshop, a rock becomes a work of art using cords, patterned knots, and a button.
Hands On Workshop
10:00 – 11:50 AM – Ticketed Workshop
Stencils, Strings, and Stamps- Simple Gel Printing techniques with Gelli Arts® - Wilson 236
Leslie Grace
Join a Gelli Arts® ambassador in this hands-on workshop to explore using string, stencils, and foam stamps to create layered print designs. Learn the basics of printing, cleaning, storage, and managing the process.
Hands On Workshop
11:00 – 11:50 AM
Places and Spaces: Collaborative School-Wide Murals - Sarah Peter 206
Megan Jell
Explore the idea of place with methods to engage students in collaborative thinking and working to build art that investigates the personal spaces and shared places that we inhabit.
Best Practice - Elementary
Agency and Voice: Continued Conversations on Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity, and Accessibility - Sarah Peter 210
Amy Pfeiler-Wunder, CJ Matz, Mary Bergh, Rhonda Tomel, Patti Tinsman Schaffer
Join us again this year for critical conversations on how educators engage in discussions of equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility with learners in K-12 settings.
Interactive Discussion - All/ED&I
Integrating Design Principles into High School Learning Outcomes - Sarah Peter 202
Joshua Weiss
Associate Teaching Professor and practicing artist, Joshua Weiss will discuss studio methods, assignments sheets and student examples of projects from Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media Arts and Design Foundation curriculum. The goal of this session is to create cross pollination between High School and University based design curriculum by discussing projects and methodologies from two-dimensional, color theory and three-dimensional design courses. This session encourages open dialogue and discussion of assignments and theories of design as students enter their first year of university.
Interactive Discussion - Secondary/Higher Education
All the Colors of a Lemon – Ticketed Workshop - Wilson 235
Whitney Meredith and Todd McGill
Participants will learn basic color theory to create a coherent painting in this Blick/Utrecht acrylic paint workshop using traditional as well as invented colors to create a still life.
Hands On Workshop
12:00 – 12:50 PM
Lunch and General Membership Meeting - Great Hall
1:00 – 1:50 PM Keynote: Dr. Kelli Morgan - Great Hall
Dr. Kelli Morgan is a curator, educator, and social justice activist who specializes in American art and visual culture. Her scholarly commitment to the investigation of anti-blackness within those fields has demonstrated how traditional art history and museum practice work specifically to uphold white supremacy. Dr. Morgan has held teaching positions at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan, as well as curatorial positions at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, the Birmingham Museum of Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 2014, the Ford Foundation awarded her a dissertation fellowship. She earned her PhD in Afro-American studies and a graduate certificate in public history–museum studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
2:00 – 2:25 PM
Teacher’s Summer Institute (TSI) Info Session - Sarah Peter 207
Meg Wolensky
Envision your creative possibilities at the Teacher’s Summer Institute (TSI) 2022! Led by Meg Wolensky, Moore’s Managing Director of Continuing Education, you’ll learn more about completing your professional development hours at TSI, a restorative creative residency ripe with opportunities for self-expression, community-building, and impactful inspiration. This program is designed for creative educators who seek the dynamic intersection between educational professional development and personalized studio practice. TSI participants can expect to recharge their batteries, deepen their personal artistic direction, experiment with new mediums, expand concept development, and discover new applications for educational practice.
2:00 – 2:50 PM
The student teacher and cooperating teacher dynamic- How to make it work. - Sarah Peter 206
Leslie Grace and Emily Paladino
How can the student teacher and cooperating teacher experience be beneficial and productive to both parties? Discover the ways in which one student teacher and a cooperating teacher worked together symbiotically.
Best Practice - Elementary and Preservice
Reflections on Teaching Diverse Learners in Times of Inequity and Access Challenges - Sarah Peter 202
Margo Wunder and Becky Hughes
Join an Art teacher from an ESOL populated school and an Art teacher from an EBD support school to learn how the art playing field stayed level at a time of virtual uncertainty.
Best Practice - All
The use of Reflective Artmaking as a way to better understand pedagogy - Sarah Peter 210
Wendy Milne
Presenter features her recently published book, “Professional Learning through Reflective Artmaking: A pedagogical portfolio” and ways she uses this with student teachers and in her PDE Differentiated projects. Bring sketchbooks.
Interactive Discussion - All
Disrupting Heteronormativity: Carving out Space for your Gender Variant Students - Media Room
Hannah Swanson
This session will introduce tangible methods using Gender Spectrum’s framework for gender inclusive schools that will help you build a more inclusive space for gender variant and transgender students.
Interactive Discussion - All/LGBTQ+
photo credit: Max McDonald
2:00 – 2:50 PM - Super Session #1
We Are The Seeds – Philadelphia based Indigenous Art Group - Great Hall
A Celebration of Indigenous Arts and Cultures (Section 1)
Tailinh Agoyo will share about her 30+ years of work in Native arts. Attendees will follow her journey from actor to photographer to founder and director of We Are the Seeds, an Indigenous arts and culture organization based in Philadelphia. The presentation will weave in photos and videos that highlight Tailinh's commitment to celebrate Native peoples and their stories, and create opportunities for positive and accurate representation of Indigenous people today.
2:00 – 3:50 PM – Ticketed Workshops
Adaptive Tools, Visual Aids, and Manipulatives for Choice, Voice, and Equity - Wilson 235
Samantha Varian
This session will overview adaptive tools art educators can develop and utilize for a more inclusive UDL classroom, then lead attendees through the exciting process of making their own tools!
Hands On Workshop
Resist! Indigo Shibori Dyeing - Wilson 236
Johanna Marshall and Marie Elcin
Learn to dye with indigo in this shibori workshop! We’ll create beautiful patterns on cloth as you learn techniques you can use in a classroom or in your studio.
Hands On Workshop
Photo Credit: Max McDonald
3:00 – 3:50 PM - Super Session #2
We Are The Seeds – Philadelphia based Indigenous Art Group - Great Hall
A Celebration of Indigenous Arts and Cultures (Section 2)
We Are the Seeds artist and performer Tchin will share about his life long work as an artist, traditional storyteller, and educator. Tchin will perform an excerpt from an assembly in which he educates about his culture through the art of oral tradition. He will perform and explain the seldom seen or heard courting flute. Q&A will follow.
3:00 – 3:50 PM
Journaling as a Reflective Practice and Progressive Journey - Media Room
Benjamin Hoffman
Discover how the sketchbook became a framework for success, providing students with an opportunity to reflect, respond, research, and connect with themselves, the process, and each other.
Best Practice - Secondary/Choice
How to record your own Video Demonstrations using Google Meetings or Zoom - Sarah Peter 210
Christina Kimmel
This session will outline strategies for creating video demonstrations. Also, the presentation will touch on the reason prerecorded video lessons assist with access within the classroom.
Best Practice - All
RE/Search Methods: Using Art, Identity & Growth as Catalysts for Change in Pre-Service Teachers - Sarah Peter 206
Jessica Drass, Samantha Moran and Abayomi Louard-Moore
What do you think of when you hear the word “research?” This presentation highlights graduate preservice teachers learning qualitative arts-based research methods to develop their own ArtEd research projects.
Best Practice - All
4:00 – 6:00 PM
Awards Ceremony - Great Hall
We will celebrate both the 2020 and 2021 award recipients. Join us for the awards ceremony to then be followed by hors d’ovres, cocktails and gallery tour.
Members Mart - Galleries
Members’ Mart features fine art and crafts created by your colleagues and available for purchase. Members' Mart is taking place Friday and Saturday evening.
6:00 PM – Night on the Town
On your own.
Scan the QR code for suggestions of things to do and places to eat!
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