NAEA Artists, Ecological Issues, and Activism  (participant) Recording Date: October 28, 2021 Download the presentation here My presentation focuses on several Art Education masters research projects that facilitate a move beyond adopting solutions facing us with regard to our natural environment but toward a contact zone of asks, actions to equalize relations for human...

A NEW GENRE IN PUBLIC ART EDUCATION moves art education in and out of the institutional structure to address social and political issues. Whether about ecology of nature, first responders, or the local community the work of art education is resilient in that it seeks to raise awareness, encourage conversations and actions, and improves...

Mapping measures geography, cultural, and psychological terrain but has alternative roles in the hidden apparatus of influence. I use the traditional classroom pull down map to connect to the context of education, and to critically engage who’s culture (history/memory) is consecrated and who’s is forgotten. For Prison Searches, Google® image search is a collaborator...

This chapter in  Exploring Digital Technologies for Art-Based Special Education: Models and Methods for the Inclusive K-12 Classroom (Garner, 2019)raises complex questions in regard to how art, technology, and disability are related.  These questions need space to avert the possible colonization of the imagination so that we may creatively consider a variety of perspectives...

2017 NAEA National Convention Session: Call for Panel Session Participants in NYC NAEA Seminar for Research in Art Education Art educators are positioned to change classroom practice and education policy through translating research into practice in art education classrooms. The NAEA Seminar for Research in Art Education special interest group (SIG) is offering masters-level...

As part of the E.L.E.V.A.T.E. THE ARTS Summer workshops I developed and implemented a design challenge for arts teachers in Pinellas County, FL. Design a space where the creative process of both art and music can inspire students’ passion to integrate ideas in a complex and technologically advanced world.

For Kristyn final project in Contemporary Issues in Art Educaion, she develop and present a workshop at the spring 2016 2016 Florida Collegiate Pride Conference, an annual event held this year at the University of Florida. Her interest in LGBTQ issues in art education arose from research on queer theory. Queer theory provides the...

This event a First Magnitude Brewery was to raise awareness to keep creativity in schools through the campaign, “What Are You Gonna Do With That?” founded by students of UF’s Mint Design Studio in collaborations with Art Education. This event was made possible with the help of UF’s Art Education and Graphic Design programs.

A collaborative artwork created by teachers from Pinellas County as part of the ELEVATE the Arts DOE grant.