The National Art Education Association Convention is happening right now, April 17-21, in Minneapolis.

Dan Serig, Lois Hetland, and John Crowe are attending and presenting, along with many of our alums and art teachers from around the nation. 

More than 1,000 sessions,  workshops, and tours will be offered over the next five days.

Dan Serig will present:

Of Matter and Metaphor: U.S. Teaching Artists’ Experiences in Ecuador

Influences of Ecuadorian globalized/tribalized material culture on the artmaking of graduate student teaching artists prompt conversation regarding the role of material culture in art education in an increasingly globalized/tribalized society.

Lois Hetland will present:

Learning in the Visual Arts: What and How?

What do students really learn through art-making? Representatives from two major studies that have explored this question – Project Zero’s Studio Thinking and the Guggenheim’s The Art of Problem Solving – will present their findings.

Presenters: Amy Charleroy, Johanna Jones, Ellen Winner, Lois Hetland

Lois will also be a panelist on the special sesions Learning in a Visual Age.