STATE PRESENTATIONS

MAEA State Conference 2021

Success in AP Studio Art is inherently dependent upon authentic artistic collaboration (exchange of ideas, feedback, and creative solutions). Last year, facing the daunting challenge of achieving this with a group of students that may never meet in person, my colleague and I developed an artmaking engagement designed to build community and to honor and identify individual artistic strengths. The strategy was extremely successful, and set the tone for a year of remarkable virtual collaboration. My colleague and I both went on to implement this strategy in other contexts (I did so with MICA MAT learners in Strategies for Making and Teaching Art last spring) and we presented our method and reflections at this year’s state conference.

MAEA State Conference 2019

Two colleagues and I-- representing three different Maryland high school art contexts-- reflected upon our rationales for teaching in general, and our rationales for teaching particular units within our curricula. We highlighted units that were designed in response to our learners’ needs and that prioritized relevance to the learner.

MAEA State Conference 2017

My colleague and I presented on the ways that we use visual journals in the studio art classroom to serve as a holding form to make learning visible and to record analytical thinking and reflection in addition to the traditional applications (experimentation with materials, practice with new media, planning of approaches to creative solution finding). We created an analogy between our use of visual notetaking and the Cornell Way, a protocol of Note Taking, Note Making, Note Interacting, and Note Reflecting.