SATURDAY
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 – 3:00 PM - Exhibition Hall - Fox Commons
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Advocacy Table - Fox Commons
7:45 – 9:00 AM - Legacy in Art Education Series Breakfast - Great Hall
Ticketed Event
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Emilee J. Taylor, artist and art educator, is a 1974 graduate from the Pennsylvania State University, having majored in Art Education. She served as an art teacher for the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) for 39 years, teaching Elementary and Middle School Art and Mentally Gifted Fine Arts at the Lowell and Greenberg Schools. Emilee also taught Advanced High School Art Students as part of the Saturday Enrichment Program at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Emilee has the distinction as being the first art educator to achieve National Board Certification in the School District of Philadelphia in 2005. She also served as Teacher Support Specialist for Art Education in the Office of Academic Enrichment and Support supporting the district art teachers throughout the city.
As a proud PSU Alum, Emilee served on the College of Arts and Architecture Alumni Society Board for twenty-two years, in the position of secretary, Art Education Liaison, Vice President and President from 1989 – 2002 and from 2002 – 2011.
As a professional artist, Emilee’s specialty is drawing and painting. She was commissioned by the SDP History Department to create a painting (banner) in celebration of Black History Month in 2012 which continues to hang every year at the SDP Administration Building.
As a PAEA member for over 20 years, Emilee served on the PAEA Board as representative of Supervision and Administration and received the following recognition as a recipient of the following awards: PAEA 2000 Outstanding Elementary Art Educator, NAEA 2001 Eastern Region Elementary Art Educator and the PAEA Certificate of Recognition for achieving National Board Certification in Art Education in 2006.
As a retiree, Emilee remains involved with teachers supporting candidates pursuing National Board Certification and is an Adjunct Professor at Moore College of Art and Design, working with Art Education Student Teachers.
Emilee is a dedicated member of the Philadelphia Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., serving as the Co-Chair for the Arts and Letters Committee. Her community involvement also includes member of the Woodmere Art Museum Education Committee, member of the National Advisory Committee for the Brandywine Workshop Artura.org Database, member of the Penn State College of Arts & Architecture School of Visual Arts Alumni Board and member of the Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation which supports Philadelphia Arts Community Programs.
9:30 AM – 12:00 PM - Museum Partner Super Sessions – Ticketed workshops - off-site - transportation provided - meet in the lobby for shuttle busses
Barnes Foundation
Culturally Responsive Teaching Online and in the Museum
What does culturally responsive teaching look like using a museum collection? In this teacher workshop, Barnes Foundation educators will discuss how to use open-ended questions to encourage students across age bands to connect personally to artwork. Using several artworks at the Barnes, educators will demonstrate the approach as well as how to optimize online learning tools to engage students working in different locations.
In addition to teacher workshops, the Barnes offers field trips and online learning for pre-K–12 students. Visit www.barnesfoundation.org/teachers for more information.
What’s New at the PMA?
Join museum educators at the Philadelphia Museum of Art to explore new spaces, new artworks, and new stories. The core project designed to open up the heart of the main building and increase our exhibition space is complete. Our new American art galleries are devoted to telling a broader and more inclusive narrative about the history and culture of this country. Special exhibition galleries are dedicated to abstract expressionist Jasper Johns and figurative artist and activist Emma Amos. Discover everything new the museum has to offer and take home three new teaching posters featuring works from these exhibitions.
Woodmere Art Museum
Housed in a 19th-century stone mansion on six acres in Chestnut Hill, Woodmere Art Museum is dedicated to the art and artists of Philadelphia. PAEA guests will receive a tour of exhibitions and outdoor sculptures that demonstrate how the Museum's collection reflects the rich diversity and history of the city. The focus of the visit will be Woodmere's educational programs for Philadelphia public school children. Titled, PhilARTdelphia, these programs use visual art experiences as a learning tool across all disciplines and are designed to encourage students' curiosity, foster conversations and empathy for multiple points of view, and develop observational and critical thinking skills.
School programs accommodate a diversity of learning styles and are designed for pre-school to high school students. Lesson plans for art making projects that reinforce concepts learned during tours will be distributed.
The PAEA tour will begin outdoors, (weather permitting), and will focus on La Cresta, a flowering work of art that is about the earth itself and the history of the land on which Woodmere was built. The artists, Syd Carpenter and Steve Donegan, chose the title, La Cresta, meaning “ridge” in Spanish, to reflect the ridge-like backbone of the hügel garden forms, (an ancient farming practice of mound planting built over layers of decaying wood and organic materials). It also references nearby Ridge Avenue, a byway forged by the Lenni Lenape that was established before the arrival of European settlers in the area in the 1600s. Guests will be introduced to Woodmere's school and family programs that are inspired by Lenape stories to generate an awareness and appreciation for the environment, the history of the land, and the close relationship with nature inherent in Native American communities.
The tour will continue inside with Woodmere's historic galleries of 18th-19th century portraits by Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Thomas Sully, Thomas Hovenden, Martha Corson Hovenden, Benjamin West and others as well as Hudson River School landscapes. School programs using visual thinking strategies demonstrate how art reflects history. Contemporary paintings are intertwined in the galleries to inspire thought and commentary regarding America's founding principles of democracy and the question of race in American history.
Guests will also receive a tour of the exhibition, Roland Ayers: The Calligraphy of Dreams. Ayers was an African American artist who grew up in Germantown and came of age during the Civil Rights Movement. A master draftsman, his iconography responded to the social and political climate of his time and was influenced by the improvisational nature of jazz. Visitors will learn about Woodmere's school program, in partnership with the Johnson House of Historic Germantown, and the literacy-based History Hunters program.
The program will conclude with a Q&A to discuss the role of art educators in providing safe creative spaces for students to grow and develop a meaningful understanding of the world in which they live.
African American Museum in Philadelphia
Founded in 1976 in celebration of the nation's Bicentennial, the African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) is the first institution funded and built by a major municipality to preserve, interpret and exhibit the heritage of African Americans. Throughout its evolution, the museum has objectively interpreted and presented the achievements and aspirations of African Americans from pre-colonial times to the current day.
The museum is committed to telling the story of African Americans in all its permutations: family life, the Civil Rights movement, arts and entertainment, sports, medicine, architecture, politics, religion, law and technology. The AAMP currently houses four galleries and an auditorium, each of which offer exhibitions anchored by one of our three dominant themes: the African Diaspora, the Philadelphia Story, and the Contemporary Narrative.
PAEA guests will have an opportunity to immerse themselves in the mixed media universe of “Richard J. Watson: Retrospective,” which features works by widely recognized representational and collage artist Richard J. Watson. He has to his credit many murals throughout the city of Philadelphia, including liturgical murals within the chapel of the Church of the Advocate, a mosaic tile centerpiece within the Creative and Performing Arts High School, and the official portrait of former Mayor of Philadelphia, W. Wilson Goode, in the Mayor’s Reception Room at City Hall, Philadelphia. Watson is the Artist-in- Residence / Exhibits Manager at the African American Museum in Philadelphia, with his paintings and murals included in numerous private and public collections.
PAEA guests also will receive a tour of the museum’s core exhibition, “Audacious Freedom: African Americans in Philadelphia 1776 - 1876,” which recounts the stories of and contributions made by people of African descent in Philadelphia during the tumultuous years following the founding of our nation. Through this exhibition, visitors will learn who the people were, how they lived and worked, and their unheralded impact on our nation.
9:00 – 9:50 AM
Using mindfulness-related children’s picture books that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in art lessons. - Sarah Peter 210
Kristin Baxter
Based on an art educator’s experiences teaching in afterschool programs, this session describes how to use children’s picture books that include diverse characters, settings, and plots in mindfulness-based art lessons.
Best Practice - All
Realism, Fatness, and Comics: Launch a Pre-service NAEA Chapter by Inviting Relevant Artists to Speak - Sarah Peter 206
Nadia Koltsoon, Em Jensen and Hannah Chillingworth
Come learn about launching an NAEA Pre-Service Chapter! We will share our successes, insights gained, and three reflective and unapologetic lesson plans to incorporate our invited artists into your curriculum.
Best Practice - All
This session is not eligible for ACT 48.
9:00 – 10:50 AM – Ticketed Workshop
Chip Art: Trash into Treasure - Wilson 235
Fresh Artists - Barbara Chandler Allen, Emilee Taylor, Robyn Miller and Leslie Grace
Join Fresh Artists to learn about using obsolete Behr Paint samples to create mosaics. In addition, you will participate in creating your own chip art masterpiece inspired by the art of Gees Bend.
Hands On Workshop
10:00 – 10:50 AM
Game Changing: Incorporating games and game-design into art curriculum - Sarah Peter 210
Renee Jackson
Learn fascinating facts about the role of games throughout art/history and contemporary art, followed by playful approaches to help art teachers incorporate game literacy and game-design basics into curriculum.
Best Practice - Elementary/Middle/Secondary/Preservice
The Impact of Cisnormative and Heteronormative Language Use on LGBTQ+ Students in the Art Classroom - Sarah Peter 202
Meghann Altomare
This graduate thesis examines the impact of cisnormative and heteronormative language on LGBTQ+ students in the K-12 art room. UDL and Reality Pedagogy are considered to better support LGBTQ+ students.
Interactive Discussion - All
Tackle Tough Visual Culture Topics with Confidence - Sarah Peter 206
Amanda Forst
This session will provide generative prompts, resources, and discussion protocols to facilitate collaborative problem solving on approaching complex visual and material culture topics in the classroom.
Interactive Discussion - All
LIVE VIA ZOOM
Pushing the Doors Wide Open: Providing Access Through Community - Live streamed in Sarah Peter 207
Kendyl Boyd
A conversation led by two of NAEA 2021 ED&I Scholarship Recipients that explores storytelling and its role in providing context and healing in an effort to break cycles of inequity and access.
Interactive Discussion - All/ED&I
11:00 – 11:50 AM
Equity, Inclusion and Diversity in the Art Classroom: Cultivating an Atmosphere of Tolerance - Wilson 235
Bette Naughton
Discover strategies for creating an equitable classroom where students have what they need to succeed. Nurture diversity by designing a culturally inclusive environment that attends to student differences.
Best Practice - Elementary
Student Choice in the Hybrid Media Arts Classroom - Sarah Peter 210
Robin Brewer
Managing a hybrid media arts classroom can be challenging when dealing with various technology and student apathy. Learn ways to support student choice while meeting standards and encouraging student participation.
Best Practice - Media Arts
LIVE VIA ZOOM
Incorporate Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality into Visual Arts Education - Live streamed in Sarah Peter 206
Xue Dong, James Holloway and Malorie Gorman
The presenters want briefly share and discuss creative approaches to implement emerging technology such as Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality into visual arts education in product design, graphic design, and UX/UI design.
Panel Discussion - Secondary/Higher Education
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LIVE VIA ZOOM
Body Talk: A unit of instruction on body adornment and modification for adolescent learners. - Live streamed in Sarah Peter 207
Peg Speirs
Over time and across cultures, the body serves as a means of expression and transformation. This presentation offers a unit of instruction on body adornment and modification appropriate for adolescents.
Best Practice - Secondary
12:00 – 12:50 PM - Lunch - Great Hall
Please fix a plate and take it with you to your region homeroom and division meeting
12:10 – 12:30 PM - Region Homerooms
Regions 1, 2, 3 & 5 - Media Room
Regions 4 & 6 - Sarah Peter 202
Region 7 - Wilson 236
Region 8 & 9 - Sarah Peter 206
Region 10 - Sarah Peter 210
Regions 11 & 12 - Great Hall
12:35 – 12:55 PM - Division Meetings
Elementary - Sarah Peter 210
Middle - Wilson 235
Secondary - Wilson 236
Higher Education - Sarah Peter 202
Museum Education - Sarah Peter 205
Administration and Supervision - Sarah Peter 207
Preservice - Media
Retired - The Great Hall
1:00 – 1:50 PM
Keynote Speaker – Mario Rossero - Great Hall
Mario Rossero is the Executive Director of the National Art Education Association, the leading professional association for visual art and design education across PreK-12, higher education, museums, and community spaces.
Prior to this role, as the Senior Vice President for Education at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Mario led the overall planning, management, and supervision of the programs and operations of the Center's Education Division and national portfolio of programs.
Mario previously served as the Chief of Core Curriculum for Chicago Public Schools. In that role, he provided leadership and strategy to offer a robust education for all students, including Literacy, Mathematics, Science, Social Science, the Arts, and Global Citizenship. Prior to this role, Mario served as the Director of Arts Education, leading the charge to increase equity and access to all art forms through the first ever district wide Arts Education Plan.
From 2010-11, Mario was the Senior Program Officer for Arts Education for the Pittsburgh Public Schools. From 2004-10, he served in various roles in Chicago Public Schools including Director of Magnet Schools and Programs. He began his career as a visual art educator for elementary and middle school students across a variety of school and museum settings in western Pennsylvania and Chicago. Mario serves on a number of advisory boards and is a practicing visual artist.
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2:00 – 2:25 PM
Let’s Talk About Identity: Building Meaningful Connections Between Art Making and Children’s Literature - Sarah Peter 202
Erica Mandell
In this session, we will explore how to find quality children’s books written by diverse authors. You will also receive a list of book suggestions to use with your students.
Best Practice - Elementary/ED&I
A Pet In The Art Room - Media Room
Johanna Marshall
A classroom pet measurably increases academic engagement and prosocial behaviors. Art teachers can enhance student experience by bringing an animal into the curriculum and into classroom culture.
Best Practice - All
LIVE VIA ZOOM
Kait's Declassified Student Teaching Survival Guide - Live streamed in Sarah Peter 207
Kaitlyn Carey
After surviving 2 rounds of student teaching during a global pandemic, adapting to the usual challenges of student teaching & the new COVID-related challenges, I want to give advice to preservice members.
Best Practice - Preservice
This session is not eligible for ACT 48.
2:00 – 2:50 PM
Strategies for Creating Inclusive and Adaptive Lessons for All Learners Virtual and IRL - Sarah Peter 210
Katie Schweitzer
In this session participants will explore strategies for developing inclusive and adaptive lesson structures in their classrooms. The strategies discussed will be applicable to any setting, learner, or technological ability.
Best Practice - Middle/Secondary/Preservice
30 Artists You Don't Teach... But Should - Sarah Peter 206
Jessica Kirker, Rachel Knopf, Susan Guido, Brynn Stanchock and Lisa Noce
Five high school art teachers share 30 diverse artists who are relatable and accessible to students of all abilities and interests. A broad scope of media and content will be covered.
Best Practice - Secondary
School District of Philadelphia: From the Walkout of 1967 to the diversified Curriculum of 2005 - Legacy in Art Education Super Session - Wilson 235
Emilee Taylor, Michael Andrews and Melvin Garrison
This session will cover a brief School District of Philadelphia historical period addressing the formation of racially diversified curriculum and school administration practices from the late 1960's to the present.
This session is not eligible for ACT 48.
2:00 – 3:50 PM Ticketed Workshop
Digital Animation Chromebook Crash Course: Easy, Engaging, Fun, and Free! - Wilson 236
Marie Huard
Learn about contemporary animators from around the world. Explore the principles of animation and create your own animated short. This workshop is hands-on. Bring your Chromebook, Laptop, or iPad.
Hands On Workshop
2:30 – 2:55 PM
Youth Art Month Information Session - Sarah Peter 202
CJ Matz
Would you like to showcase K-12 student artwork in our Youth Art Month Exhibit or be a part of the PAEA YAM Committee? Join us to learn more.
Best Practice - All
This session is not eligible for ACT 48.
The Impact of Sensitivity and Imagination from Teaching Artists on Crisis Teaching During COVID-19 - Media Room
Adrienne Justice
This study compares methods in artistic practices to crisis teaching practices of Teaching Artists during COVID-19 to illuminate how artists can be utilized to provide quality education during crises.
LIVE VIA ZOOM
Creating Scarred Avatars: Toward Skin-clusive Art Education - Live streamed in Sarah Peter 207
Eunkyung Hwang
I will analyze how advertising stigmatizes women’s scars as abnormal and perpetuates body normativity. I suggest creating scarred avatars as feminist art pedagogy to build body positivity into art education.
Demonstration - All
3:00 – 3:50 PM
Transform Your Teaching: Design Thinking and Game Design for k-16 Students - Sarah Peter 206
Rande Blank
Engage in design thinking processes that will transform your teaching through game design. Experience innovative and interactive activities including researching, brainstorming, and prototyping that will reach all of your learners.
Demonstration - All
Visual journaling for Justice: using art bell ringers to promote understanding and equity - Media Room
Geena Teodecki and Emily Paladino
We will discuss strategies for visual journaling by utilizing drawing and writing prompts that examine multiple experiences and voices of professional artists and student artists. Lessons and resources provided.
Best Practice - All
Shared Spaces & Access for All from an art teacher’s hybrid perspective - Sarah Peter 202
Christina Kimmel
This session will outline best practices for developing classroom strategies for collaborating with colleagues while sharing their spaces. Modifications/ accommodations for art lessons/materials from an art teacher’s hybrid experiences.
Best Practice - All
A Community-Based Saturday School for Negotiating Theory and Practice with Preservice Educators and Young Children - Sarah Peter 210
Marissa McClure Sweeny
In this presentation, preservice and faculty members of an alternative community-based multi-site Saturday art lab school share their experiences negotiating theory and practice with young children and digital media.
Interactive Discussion - All
Social Emotional Learning Framework to Foster Wellness for Students with an Emotional Disability - Wilson 235
Lyndsay Rose Tingler
Join us as we unpack emotional disabilities to acknowledge and support students in the art room. We will discuss the Social Emotional Learning competencies and how to implement them into assessments, curriculum and relationship skills.
Best Practice - All
4:00 – 5:30 PM
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.
5:30 – 9:30 PM - Taller Puertorriqueño with an artist talk from Roberto Lugo
Saturday Night Gala - off-site - transportation provided - meet in the lobby for shuttle busses.
We are pleased to take you on a journey to Taller Puertorriqueño Community Art Center where you will experience an authentic meal, artmaking and an artist lecture with Roberto Lugo! Cost of the ticket includes your meal and transportation to and from Taller Puertorriqueño.
Roberto Lugo is a Philadelphia-based artist, ceramicist, social activist, poet, and educator. Lugo utilizes classical pottery forms in conjunction with portraiture and surface design reminiscent of his North Philadelphia upbringing and Hip Hop culture to highlight themes of poverty, inequality, and racial injustice. Lugo’s works are multicultural mash-ups; traditional European and Asian ceramic techniques reimagined with a 21st-century street sensibility. Their hand-painted surfaces feature classic decorative patterns and motifs combined with elements of modern urban graffiti and portraits of individuals whose faces are historically absent on this type of luxury item - people like Sojourner Truth, Dr. Cornel West, and The Notorious BIG, as well as Lugo’s family members and, very often, himself. Lugo holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Penn State. His work has been featured in exhibitions at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, among others. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2019 Pew Fellowship, a Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize, and a US Artist Award. His work is found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The High Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Brooklyn Museum, Walters Art Museum, and more. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia, PA.
Taller Puertorriquenio Art Center Breakout Sessions:
Marta Sanchez - visual art
Transcendental train yards/train imagery as a vehicle of personal history & self-reflection.
The artist will:
reflect on my experience as an artist working with poet Norma E. Cantu on the collaboration of the suite Transcendental Train Yards.
create a monotype print of a train yard and offer poems to write on top or encourage to use their own.
Christina Castro-Tauser - dance
Dance, music education and identity are forever linked for me as an artist and educator. Together we will look at our embodied experiences and create small dance phrases that tell our stories and our journey. Beginning with the simple written prompt, I am from, I believe and I will never. We will also dance and warm up to the rich music of the Caribbean islands to get our creative juices flowing.
Selina Carrera - "Cage Bird" - Socio-emotional transformation through poetry, songwriting and digital music composition
During this class, participants will listen to and analyze a pre-selected poem and/or song related to the class theme, in order to self-reflect and make a creative composition aligned with the class theme on their own. After this, participants will have the opportunity to record what they've created using a digital audio workstation, in guided practice.