2024 National Art Education Association Conference; Faculty Presenters

UTeach Fine Arts, Art Education faculty members will present at the National Art Education Association Conference, April 4-6, 2024, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

NAEA presentations include:

Thursday, April 4th

Higher Ed Division Forum #1: Contemporary Developments in Art Education Preservice

Preparation: Policy, Curriculum, and Practice

Trina Harlow, Christina Bain, Hayon Park, Hazel L. Bradshaw-Beaumont

This panel highlights how a wide range of issues like policy, curriculum trends, teacher shortages and recruitment, licensure, degree program structure, post-pandemic practices, field experience, public perception of education, and practical needs of preK-12 schools are impacting preservice art teacher preparation across the United States.

Friday, April 5th

Louder Than Silence: Art Engagements, Resilience Building, and Community Collaborations 

Christina Bain, Donalyn Heise

This presentation describes a community partnership between a university art education program and nonprofit organization that supports survivors of sexual violence. We collaboratively designed trauma sensitive art engagements to meet the needs of workshop participants, illuminate feminist voices, and help build resilience.

Health and Well-Being in Art Education: A Survey of Research

Rina Kundu Little, Robin Vande Zande, Christina Bain, Jennifer Bockerman

This presentation covers research on well-being that relies on creative immersion in the expressive arts. Discuss interdisciplinarity, design thinking, collaboration, and community interaction related to improving health.

Lowenfeld Lecture: Resilience in Art Education: Contexts, Concepts, and Connections

Donalyn Heise

What is the role of art education in turbulent times? This session moves from theory to best practices, offering a trauma-informed resilience approach to art education.

Saturday, April 6th

The Power of the Arts to Restore our Student’s Hope, Health, and Well-being 

Lisa Kay, Donalyn Heise, Beverley H Johns 

Elevate the arts potential to restore health, strength, and self-confidence. Learn effective strategies of restorative arts-based practices that can be used in schools, museums and community settings to help students regulate emotions, increase resilience, and enhance their ability to deal with grief and loss.

Think Globally, Act Locally: Environmental Art, Sustainability, and Lessons for All

Dawn Stienecker, Christina Bain

Highlighting global artists and initiatives focused on environmental issues, this session will consider several original eco-art lessons and assess educational studio practices. Participants will take away co-constructed resources, new lesson plan ideas, and explore sustainability while building on best practices that combine art with environmental education.

Collaboration, Feminisms, and Care: Making a Case for Relational Artmaking, Curriculum, and Research

Rina Kundu Little, Christina Bain, Kristin Vanderlip Taylor

Based on a framework drawn from feminist theory and new materialism, the panelists of this session will explore the definitions and approaches of collaboration by sharing their experiences of artmaking, curriculum, and research while asking realistic questions on the challenges and benefits of working with others through relations of care.