CHRIS LOVIN | DESIGNER

11:30:AM - 12:20:PM

Making Like an Artist, Thinking Like a Designer, and Acting Like a Change Agent

Jason Blair

Imagine if we created only three projects a year: One where students make like artists and explore their own identities. One where students think like designers and explore the needs of others. Lastly, one where students act like change agents and explore the problems in our world.

Center/Meeting Room 206B/Level 2

11:30:AM - 12:20:PM

Designing Your Very Own Virtual Art Alumni Talk Series

Frank Juarez

Learn how to conceptualize and design a virtual art alumni artist talk series centered on college and career readiness using available online platforms. Talking points include post–high school education, pursuit of an art-related profession, studio practice, sharing personal and artistic challenges, and defining "success."

Grand Hyatt/Lone Star D/Level 2

12:30:PM - 1:20:PM

Affordances and Applications of Virtual Realities for Art and Design Education

Lilly Lu

This research project examines the affordances and applications of virtual reality (VR) as new art media and learning platforms for art and design education. The presenter will present and discuss students' perceptions of VR art and games and their VR art creation and recommend effective art practices.

Center/Meeting Room 007A/River Level

1:00:PM - 1:25:PM

ArtsSciences Unlocked: Designing STEAM Projects for Students With ASD

Emiel Heijnen, Melissa Bremmer

In this presentation, we will discuss how the STEAM project "The Human Cyborg" was specifically tailored to the needs of students with ASD who dropped out of secondary school.

Center/Meeting Room 007C/River Level

2:30:PM - 4:20:PM

What Can Art Do? Guiding Students Toward Socially Meaningful Art and Design [Ticketed Workshop]

Lucy Bartholomee

How can art make a difference? This workshop presents successful strategies to guide students in developing meaningful artwork expressing their lived experiences, social issues, and/or uplifting visual culture images. Design and create a unique 3D artwork with messaging of your choosing. Come and be creative with us!

Grand Hyatt/Bowie C/Level 2

4:00:PM - 4:25:PM

No Museum in Your Community? Rethinking Visual Resources and Art Experiences for Any Art Class

Ilona Szekely

Design memorable visual experiences for students who don't have access to museums or galleries. Learn about practical ideas for utilizing community art and design resources found in small towns and communities, with illustrated examples from around the world.

Grand Hyatt/Texas E/Level 4

4:30:PM - 5:20:PM

Creative Digital Tools for All Art Rooms 

Erika Ogier, Oscar Keyes

We share and demonstrate a plethora of digital tools that cover a wide variety of media, such as 3D modeling, 8-bit animation, and graphic design. All of these no-cost, web-based tools are accessible on all computers (even Chromebooks!) and can be scaled for use at all educational levels.

Center/Meeting Room 007C/River Level

8:00:AM - 08:25:AM

Reconstructing Online Learning Spaces Toward Collective Access

Eunkyung Hwang

Based on critical disability studies, this presentation highlights the need for questioning current universal designs in online learning spaces to promote disability justice. Centering disability experiences and anti-ableist knowledge through alternative online art education space design can dismantle normative constructions of accessibility in remote learning and confront the disability divide. 

Center/Meeting Room 008A/River Level

8:00:AM – 8:50:AM

Eco-Visualization as STEAM: Visualizing Local Water Quality Data

Amanda Galbraith, Joy Bertling, Lynn Hodge, Rita Swartzetruber, Tabitha Wandell

Through eco-visualization, artists, designers, scientists, and concerned citizens aim to unsettle anthropocentric modes of being in the world, render ecological relationships visible, and embolden sustainable acts. Come learn about a STEAM curriculum where middle school students engaged in eco-visualization through investigating and then visualizing local water quality data.

Grand Hyatt/Lone Star C/Level 2

11:30:AM - 12:20:PM

Using the AP Art and Design Digital Exhibits for Teaching and Research (Livestreamed)

Rebecca Stone-Danahy

The AP Art and Design Digital Exhibit focuses on student inquiry and showcases student processes in art thinking and making. The exhibition additionally features teacher and school leader statements describing best practices. Viewing the exhibit through the lens of research and teaching provides informative insights into art education classrooms.

Center/Meeting Room 214A/Level 2

12:30:PM - 1:20:PM

Toward Collaborative Creativity: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Virtual Art Classrooms

Borim Song, Kyungeun Lim, Jaewook Lee, Cat Normoyle

How can we create student-centered online art classrooms underpinned by critical thinking, problem solving, and innovative creation process using digital technologies? Based on their interdisciplinary collaboration with a design educator and a media artist, the presenters share their instructional strategies and artistic and pedagogical approaches.

Grand Hyatt/Texas F/Level 4

3:00:PM - 3:25:PM

How to Encourage Children in Urban Planning Design Through Integrated Art Courses

Wen-erh Lin

What new perspectives or possibilities can be expected when children conduct design on urban planning? Through project-based learning and STEAM, children learn to present their unique ideas with originality while exploring issues about global residential cities through design thinking and arts.

Center/Meeting Room 206A/Level 2

4:00:PM - 4:50:PM

Traditional Ecological Art and Science: Designing Sustainable Shorelines

Lois Hetland

Can kids face global warming with agency and hope? Learn about a project that involves BIPOC middle and high school students in a 2-year design studio to create mitigation and adaptation strategies for sea-level rise on their local shorelines. Come hear how the project is unfolding after the first of 2 years. 

Grand Hyatt/Texas E/Level 4

5:30:PM - 07:20:PM

Photographic Narrative Through Cyanotype: Voice Versus Exploitation [Ticketed Workshop]

Matthew Kirkpatrick, Hailey Gross

Encouraging individual voices that students cultivate in your art classroom through design thinking provides an avenue for those students to express themselves in a culture of respect for personal experience. Participants will explore methods to approach raw, individualistic narrative through photography, and the implementation of the cyanotype development process!

Grand Hyatt/Bonham B/Level 3

11:30:AM - 12:20:PM

IDU in the IB—Spark for Change: Social Justice and Vincent Valdez

Ronald Muniz

This interdisciplinary unit can be taught through social studies and visual arts classes in tandem. Examine the process of San Antonio native Vincent Valdez as inspiration for students to find their own social justice issue using the IB design cycle. Participants will leave with a copy of the unit.

Center/Meeting Room 006D/River Level

11:30:AM - 1:20:PM

Project-Based Social-Emotional Learning Comfort Boxes [Ticketed Workshop]

Jennifer McDuffie

Design the color scheme/style of your box and create matching sensory objects, mini books, and journals. Based on the needs of trauma-informed care for students recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, this workshop is focused on art projects that help students create sensory objects to help calm dysregulated nervous systems.

Grand Hyatt/Bowie B/Level 2

11:30:AM - 1:20:PM

Outsider Art: A Hands-On Approach to Exploring the Watts Towers Through Art and Literature [Ticketed Workshop]

Patricia Phillips

This cross-curricular exploration of Simon Rodia's Watts Towers integrates art, science, literature, social studies, and fun! After discussing the Italian artist and his iconic Los Angeles, CA, Outsider Art, participants will follow the engineering design model to design and build a stable free-standing three- dimensional structure using a variety of materials.

Grand Hyatt/Bonham C/Level 3

1:30:PM - 2:20:PM

Designing Serendipity Into Learning Activities to Teach Creative Problem Finding

Sean Justice

Teaching art teachers to design learning activities that produce problem-finding efficacy requires an emphasis on process over product. This is not a new idea, but skills-based norms still favor high-stakes demonstrations of expertise. I propose serendipity as a design principle to teach innovation and self- and communal efficacy.

Grand Hyatt/Lone Star E/Level 2

1:30:PM - 02:20:PM

We Live in a Designed World, Nature's and Our Own: E-Learning Anywhere, Anytime TOOLKIT

Linda Keane

We live in a designed world: nature's and our own. E-learning integrates creativity connections through art across subjects, scales, and approaches, diversifying engagement and empowering youth voice and participation with place and potential right from where they are.

Grand Hyatt/Lone Star A/Level 2

1:30:PM - 02:20:PM

Transformational Fashion Design Through DEIB and Video Game Characters for In-Person and Virtual Classrooms

Dhee-Ghee Palmer

Fashion design will be inviting diverse gender student registration. Educators takes with them six-unit lessons with STEAM and video game connections designed for in-person and/or virtual settings.

Center/Meeting Room 006D/River Level

2:30:PM - 03:20:PM

Art-Based Inquiry as a Dynamic Human-Centered Paradigm in Art + Design Education

Delane Ingalls Vanada

Learn about dynamic, collaborative capstone research projects using the T-H-I-N-K method in graduate-level art and design classrooms. An art-as-inquiry approach informed students' culturally responsive visions for social and educational change. Engage with inspiring practices in a graduate program that impacted candidates' identities and abilities as change makers.

Grand Hyatt/Lone Star E/Level 2

2:30:PM - 03:20:PM

Mark Making for Mental Health

Kris Musto

Using observation, photography, mark making, software, and elements and principles of design and color theory, high school students will create their own patterns that represent loneliness. Project learning outcomes include research, material quality and craft, digital software literacy, and documentation. Learn about this assignment from art college faculty.

Grand Hyatt/Texas B/Level 4

2:30:PM - 04:20:PM

Hiding Out/Standing Out: A STEAM Approach to Camouflage Design for a Complex World [Ticketed Workshop]

Perrin Teal Sullivan, Laura Conner, Mareca Guthrie

Through this hands-on activity, explore a framework of STEAM practices drawn from art and science inquiry that contribute to equitable learning environments. We will analyze the adaptive coloration strategies of wild animals to inform our design of camouflage patterns for specific habitats and create a prototype swatch using polychrome paper.

Grand Hyatt/Bonham D/Level 3

2:30:PM - 04:20:PM

Bermuda Cottages in Clay [Ticketed Workshop]

Kimberley Tucker

Explore Bermuda's unique architecture, cultural influences, and roof design as you create your own buttery or cottage using air-dry clay. This workshop incorporates STEAM elements of math, science, and engineering.

Grand Hyatt/Bonham E/Level 3

3:30:PM - 04:20:PM

Practical Assessments for the Secondary Art and Design Classroom

Deborah Filbin

Assessment is a necessary part of teaching; however, it can be challenging for many art teachers. Whether you are thinking of formative assessments, summative assessments, developing rubrics, or equity in your classroom, or whether you need to create assessments to demonstrate student growth, this session is for you.

Grand Hyatt/Lone Star C/Level 2

5:00:PM - 05:50:PM

The Intersectionality Between Game Design; E-Sports; and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Michael Cassens

Educating game design and e-sports students through the lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion is foundational and required if we are to make a systemic difference. We are at crossroads, and at this moment, students yearn for cultural integration and perspectives to make one of the fastest growing industries prosper.

Center/Meeting Room 007C/River Level