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8:30am-5:15pm | NAEA Museum Education Division - 26th Annual Preconference
Art Museum Learning in the Digital Age - SOLD OUT

9:20am–4:45pm | Pre-Convention Workshops: PDF | Word (Updated 1/24/12)

8am–5pm | Delegates Assembly

2–7pm | Onsite Registration

7am–6pm | Onsite Registration

9am–6pm | Concurrent Sessions
Choose from more than 300 of sessions exploring teaching, learning, research, and more. Tickets are not required for concurrent sessions.

Daily Schedule: PDF | Word (Updated 1/11/12)

9–9:50am | Icon Session | PETER MAX | Artist
Peter Max is one of the most famous living artists and a pop culture icon. His bold colors, uplifting images, and uncommon artistic diversity touches almost every phase of American culture and inspires generations.
www.petermax.com
No ticket required.

10am–3pm | Exhibit Hall

10-10:50am |  Super Session | DEBORAH WILLIS | Chair, NYU Tisch School of the Art   
Imagining Beauty: African American Images 1890s to Present
Join NYU Tisch School of the Arts Chair and MacArthur Genius Fellow Deborah Willis in examining historical and contemporary concepts of beauty within African American culture and the impact that such pedagogical frameworks have on our current emphasis on visual culture in art education.
http://debwillisphoto.com/home.html
No ticket required.

10:15am | Book Signing: The Art of Peter Max, Peter Max
Hilton East Promenade, 3rd Floor

10:45am-8:30pm | Tours: PDF | Word (Updated 1/24/12)

10:45-2:30pm | Offsite Workshops: PDF | Word (Updated 1/24/12)

11am–1pm | Delegates Assembly

11-11:50 am | Super Session | WYLAND | Marine Life Artist
Wyland & Friends:  Making a Case to Save the Arts…and Our Future
Co-presenters: Linda Keane, Paul L. King, and Harvey Seifter
Wyland, renowned environmental artist, educator, and television personality leads an interdisciplinary panel of artists, educators, and government leaders on the singularly important topic: “Building a case to save arts in schools.” Explore topics ranging from how art educators can stimulate public interest in the arts to crafting a universal message for corporate and government funders communicating that the arts need their support.
www.wyland.com/index.php 
No ticket required.

12-12:50 pm | Artist Series | JEAN SHIN | Installation Artist
Jean Shin is nationally recognized for her monumental installations that transform everyday objects into elegant expressions of identity and community. For each project, she amasses vast collections of a particular object—prescription pill bottles, sports trophies, sweaters—which are often sourced through donations from individuals in a participating community. Shin’s arresting installations reflect individuals’ personal lives as well as collective issues that we face as a society.
http://www.jeanshin.com/index.htm
No ticket required.

12-1:20pm | Speak Out Session | KATHY MIRAGLIA and CATHY SMILAN | Co-authors        
Inquiry in Action: Paradigms, Methodologies and Perspectives in Art Education Research
Take a closer loot at the book Inquiry in Action: Paradigms, Methodologies and Perspectives in Art Education Research while interacting with a panel of authors who push “the boundaries …to support methodological pluralism” (Eisner, 2006).

1-1:50pm | Super Session | ERIC ZIMMERMAN | Game Designer/Author/Educator
A Conversation about Games, Play, Creativity, Literacy, and Art Education
Eric Zimmerman is a game designer, artist, academic, and writer who has worked in the game industry for more than 16 years. He is the creator of games ranging from massive multiplayer online games to physical games designed for galleries and museums, to card and board games. Zimmerman is the co-author of Rules of Play, which is considered a standard textbook for game design. Join him as he discusses topics related to games as models for creativity, literacy, and more.
http://www.ericzimmerman.com/index.html
No ticket required.

3–4:30pm | General Session | DR. F. ROBERT SABOL | NAEA President
Join NAEA President F. Robert Sabol in looking to the future of visual arts education and our professional community, while looking back on the achievements of national awards recipients over the past year.
No ticket required.

4:30–6pm | Division Award Ceremonies
No ticket required.

4:30–6:20pm | Hands-on Workshops: PDF | Word (Updated 1/24/12)

7–9pm | Special Event | ARTISANS GALLERY/HATMAKING CELEBRATION
Hats Off to Art Education! Celebrate the opening day of the Convention by connecting with colleagues at this unique experience. Explore the Artisans Gallery featuring fine art and crafts created by your colleagues and that are available for purchase. Express yourself by putting your haberdashery skills to work styling a hat of unparalleled fashion…that you can then wear the next morning to the TODAY show or Good Morning America (just blocks away)!
No ticket required.

7:30am–5pm | Onsite Registration

8–8:25am / 10am–9pm | Concurrent Sessions
Choose from more than 350 sessions exploring teaching, learning, research, and more. Tickets are not required for concurrent sessions.

Daily Schedule: PDF | Word (Updated 1/25/12)

8:30–9:50am | General Session | JANINE ANTONI | Artist | Co-sponsored by Art21
Art21 Presents: Janine Antoni “Circuitous Path”
Janine Antoni employs a variety of mediums including performance, sculpture, photography and video.  Her primary tool for making art has always been her own body. She is known for using extreme processes and unusual materials. Antoni's work takes on a physicality that speaks directly to the viewers’ body, unleashing a deeply felt empathetic response. As an educator, Antoni is interested in teaching people ways to develop their individual creative process.
www.pbs.org/art21/artists/antoni/
No ticket required.

10am–3pm | Exhibit Hall

10:00am | Book Signing: Matter Matters: Art Education and Material Culture Studies
Paul Bolin and Doug Blandy, Editors
NAEA Bookstore, Hilton 3rd Floor

11am–4:30pm | Offsite Workshops:PDF | Word (Updated 1/24/12)

11–11:50am | Super Session | JOHN MAEDA | President, Rhode Island School of Design
STEM to STEAM: The meaning of innovation
John Maeda is a world-renowned artist, graphic designer, computer scientist, and educator whose career reflects his philosophy of humanizing technology. In the current moment of economic uncertainty, every economy is taking stock and once again turning to innovation as the silver bullet that will guide us forward. Yet in the eyes of many leaders, innovation seems tightly coupled with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math—the STEM subjects. Maeda posits that we need to add "Art" to turn STEM into STEAM. Maeda argues that critical thinking, critical making, and creative leadership can lead us to an enlightened form of innovation where art, design, technology, and business meet.
No ticket required.

12-12:50pm | Super Session | AGNES GUND | President Emerita, the Museum of Modern Art
Agnes Gund and Friends Discuss Visual Arts Education and Beyond
Studio in a School has partnered with NAEA to feature a panel hosted by Agnes Gund: philanthropist, art collector, and advocate for arts education. Join Agnes and colleagues in a discussion about visual arts education advocacy.
No ticket required.

2-2:50pm | Artist Series | CLIFFORD ROSS | Artist
Clifford Ross has worked in multi-media, including sculpture, painting, photography, and video. Join him as he discussed not only his own work, but the importance of the art education experience and interacting with students through the Studio in a School program.
www.cliffordross.com
http://studioinaschool.org
No ticket required.

2-3:20pm | Speak Out Session | Panel Discussion hosted by TOM ANDERSON and PETER LONDON
Environmentally Aware and Ecologically Activist Art Education
An international panel of researchers and teachers from the United States, Canada, and Finland connect teaching, learning, and research centered on environmentally aware and ecologically activist art education. The panelists are engaged in global initiatives that aim to promote environmental education at all levels through the arts.
http://www.peterlondon.us/
No ticket required.

3-3:50pm | Super Session | DOROTHY DUNN | Director, America: Now and Here
ERIC FISCHL | Artist
America: Now and Here
America: Now and Here is a cross-country journey of art and ideas. Through art created by 150 of this country’s most celebrated artists—visual artists, musicians, playwrights, poets, and filmmakers, including the likes of Chuck Close, Cindy Sherman, and Paul Simon. Americans are invited to come together for timely dialogues about America, now and here.
www.americanowandhere.org
No ticket required.

3:30-4:50pm | Super Session | JANINE ANTONI | Artists | Co-sponsored by Art21
SPECIAL WORKSHOP: "Sown Within," A Performative Workshop with Janine Antoni
Springing from her use of the body in her artwork, Antoni will lead a workshop that focuses on the body as a tool for exploration. It is her belief that to know oneself intimately opens up the possibility of using one's strengths and weaknesses in the service of art. Be prepared for an inner investigation. Dress comfortably to move.
No ticket required.

4–5:30pm | Regional Award Ceremonies
No ticket required.

4:30–8:20pm | Hands-on Workshops: PDF | Word (Updated 1/24/12)

7:30am–5pm | Onsite Registration  

8–8:25am / 10am–9pm | Concurrent Sessions 
Choose from more than 300 sessions exploring teaching, learning, research, and more. Tickets are not required for concurrent sessions.

Daily Schedule: PDF | Word (Updated 1/25/12)

Issues Groups Award Ceremonies | Throughout the day—see full schedule for times.

9-9:50 am | Super Session | SARA JAMES, NBC News Correspondent
Sara James is an NBC News correspondent who followed the story of Bella Irlicht, Principal at Port Phillip Specialist School in Victoria, Australia who developed an innovative Arts-based, integrated curriculum to assist the learning and development of children with special needs. James will share her first-hand experience with this project.  
No ticket required. 

10-10:50 am | Super Session | OLIVIA GUDE | Educator 
Evocative and Provocative Pedagogy: Towards a Culture Changing Curriculum 
Imagine a form of art education that is a new art form in which sites of school or community-based art education are collaborative art projects and ongoing experiments in relational aesthetics. Art classrooms become sites in which to investigate, participate, and interrogate compelling content in contemporary life with traditional media and non-traditional projects such as proposals, performances, zines, flyers, bricolage clothes, comix, and more.
www.uic.edu/classes/ad/ad382/sites/Olivia/OG_01.html
No ticket required.

10am–3pm | Exhibit Hall

10:45am–1:15pm | Offsite Workshops
PDF | Word (Updated 12/5/11)

10:30am-12:00 noon | Special NAEF Fundraising Event | ERIC BOOTH | Actor/Author/Educator
The Legacy of Arts Education
Join colleagues for an engaging lecture and light refreshments with proceeds supporting The National Art Education Foundation (NAEF). Eric Booth is an award-winning actor performing on and Off-Broadway, a publisher and author who is the Founding Editor of the Teaching Artist Journal, and an educator and advocate of arts learning. He served on the faculty of Juilliard for 13 years, beginning the Julliard Art and Education and Mentor programs. A portion of the ticket price is tax deductible.
www.everydayarts.info

11am–4pm | TASK Party with OLIVER HERRING | Co-sponsored by SchoolArts Magazine and Art21
Join artist Oliver Herring and fellow educators for an unprecedented collaborative art experience. TASK is an improvisational, open-ended, participatory event with a simple structure and very few rules. TASK creates almost unlimited opportunities for a group of people to interact with one another and their environment. Task parties have been held throughout the world at museums, galleries, and schools but this will be the first TASK event at the NAEA National Convention. Join in and collaborate with friends, colleagues, and strangers in this extraordinary creative event!
oliverherringtask.wordpress.com
taskparty.org
www.pbs.org/art21/artists/oliver-herring
⇒Entry may be limited at the door when the room reaches capacity. Participants may enter, leavel and return at any time during the event.
12-12:50 pm | Super Session | CHUCK CLOSE | Artist
IRVING SANDLER | Critic/Author
In Conversation With Chuck Close
Irving Sandler has played a vital role in the New York art scene as a chronicler, commentator, and educator for the past five decades. Chuck Close is a painter and photographer whose large-scale photorealism work has been celebrated and sought after around the world. Be part of their discussion of life, art, and education. www.hardpresseditions.com/sandler/biosandler.html
No ticket required.

1–4:30pm | Tours
PDF | Word (Updated 1/24/12)

1:15pm | Book Signing: Transforming City Schools Through Art: Approaches to Meaningful K-12 Learning (co-published with Teachers College Press)
Karen Hutzel, Flavia M.C. Bástos, and Kim Cosier, Editors
NAEA Bookstore, Hilton 3rd Floor

2-2:50 pm | Super Session | PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS PANEL | Co-sponsored by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers
Join Scholastic Art & Writing Award alumni, Rodney Alan Greenblat and guest for a survey of their professional development from exceptionally talented teenagers to established creative professionals. Greenblat is a world famous for his whimsical and enriching artwork and has worked on advertising and illustration projects for some of the world’s most respected companies including Sony, Toyota, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and currently in Japan with Dentsu agency and Japan Railroad Kyushu.
www.artandwriting.org
No ticket required.

3-3:50 pm | General Session | JOHN EASTON | Director, The Institute of Education Sciences (IES)

4–8:20pm | Hands-on Workshops
PDF | Word (Updated 1/24/12)

5-5:50pm | ROSE DESIANO | LORIE NOVAK | SA’DIA REHMAN” | Artists  
Family, Memory, and the Image
Photographer Rose DeSiano will speak with accomplished artists Lorie Novak and Sa’dia Rehman about their recent work and their role as woman artists navigating through today’s contemporary art world. Both Novak and Rehman explore the relationship in how memory, family, and world issues by incorporating their own personal experiences along side imagery borrowed from mainstream media. Novak incorporates media technology and Rehman works in sculpture and collage.

8am–12pm | Onsite Registration 

Concurrent Sessions | 10-11:50am
Choose from a number of sessions exploring teaching, learning, research, and more. Tickets are not required for concurrent sessions.

Daily Schedule: PDF | Word (Updated 1/11/12)

8:30–9:50am | General Session | YOUNG INNOVATORS PANEL | Co-sponsored by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers
What do an astronomer, an urban organic farmer, and toymaker have in common?  All were recipients of Scholastic Art Awards when they were in high school and discovered disciplines outside of the fine arts to apply creative and innovative thinking. Join Lucianne Walkowicz, astromer; Anastasia Palakis, founder of the Brooklyn Grange; and Jeremy Madl, founder/creator of MAD Toy Design for the second annual Young Innovators to learn more about their past creative development and present professional innovation. 
www.brooklyngrangefarm.com
http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~lucianne/index.html
www.artandwriting.org
No ticket required.

10-10:50am | Artist Series | LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER | Artist
In her nine-year collaboration with her family, LaToya Ruby Frazier's position and role as daughter, photographer and filmmaker transcends the objective practice in classic documentary. Frazier's work has been written about in The New York Times, The New Yorker, ArtForum, Artnet, Art Papers, Art Info, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, The Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Village Voice.
www.latoyarubyfrazier.com
No ticket required.

10-11:20 am | Speak Out Session | JULIA MARSHALL | ANNE THULSON | LOIS HETLAND | ENID ZIMMERMAN | RACHAEL DELANEY | Educators
Bridging the Theory/Practice Gap
Come share your ideas for bridging the chasm between theory and practice. In this Speak Out Session, five scholar/educators from all levels of education (K-Higher Education) consider current research and theory in art and education and how contemporary art practices can help to bridge the theory-practice gap. Theories about creativity, learning, art integration, and postmodern art and culture come alive in learning experiences that employ frameworks or models such as expeditionary learning, 21st century learning, studio habits of mind, teaching for understanding, issues-based art education, and arts-based research. Concrete, practical, and innovative methods for curriculum development and teaching are suggested, and the audience is encouraged to contribute their own interpretations and practices both during the session and on a continuing “theory to practice” blog.
No ticket required.

 Schedule subject to change.