Massachusetts Art Education Association Spring Conference
Saturday May 3, 2008
Co-hosted by MassArt, the Museum of Fine Arts, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
About 150 K-12 art educators will be on campus attending professional development workshops and presentations. An award ceremony and lunch will be held in the Pozen Center.
Student registration: $45 ($30 for NAEA/MAEA student members)
See http://massarted.com for registration form and complete schedule.
Several Art Education faculty will be giving presentations at the conference:
John Crowe, Honoring Ambiguity in All the Right Places
Join in lively exploration of art teaching models which represent varying degrees of clarity and ambiguity. This session will address a perceived crisis of pedagogical understanding.
John Giordano, Art Jump Off! A 6th-8th Grade After-School Program in Boston
This presentation discusses the evolution of the Art Jump Off! program at the Frederick Middle School in Dorchester. Taught by MassArt Art Ed students, the program, uses choice and support to foster art making skills in a youth development framework.
Lois Hetland, Studio Thinking: A Description of Artistic Mind
The Studio Thinking framework, developed from observations of local art teachers, describes what students are meant to learn in visual arts classes. This presentation explores how teachers are using it.
Maureen Kelly, Developmental Understanding for Ourselves and for Our Students: A Model for Growth
New contributions to the field of development challenge us to consider how we can move our students and ourselves forward in the developmental process, especially via art making. Come learn & make!
Dan Serig, Visual Metaphor: Ways of Thinking & Making
What is visual metaphor? How do artists create visual metaphor? What are the contributing cognitive, social, and personal influences? This presentation considers these questions and their impact on art education.
In addition, two MassArt administrators are presenting:
Sandy Weisman, Look to Learn from Contemporary Art (or How Can I Make Sense of This!?)
What museum education strategies are in your tool kit? Do you shy away from contemporary art because you feel a little lost? Bring your most curious, inventive, and collaborative self to this session to work with educators from MassArt’s “Looking to Learn” program. Discover creative and engaging teaching methods for learning from objects of art.
Alvin Ouellet, Monoprint Workshop
In MassArt’s premier Printmaking Studio, participants will create oil based monoprints. This workshop will introduce art educators to this very painterly process.
There will also be workshops/presentations by several Art Education alumnae and friends such as Kathy Douglas, who has supervised several student teachers.
Don’t miss this chance to attend the conference of the MAEA when it is being held right here at MassArt and other Avenue of the Arts locations.