Art Education Journal Connections

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Art Education Journal Connections
November 15, 2016 | 7-8 pm ET
FREE for NAEA Members; $49 for non-members

Join us as featured authors from NAEA's flagship publication, Art Education, share and discuss their hot topic articles. Art Education covers a diverse range of topics of professional interest to art educators and others whose interest is quality visual arts education. Recent topics include STEAM, Arts-Based Research, Creative Leadership, and Artistic Interventions. November Art Education is the second in a special two-part series on reinventing and rolling out the STEAM engine for art + design education—investigating how we might fast-track advantageous cross-disciplinary changes within our field of creative education and practice.


image| 7-8 pm ET
FREE for NAEA Members; $49 for non-members

Join us as featured authors from NAEA's flagship publication, Art Education, share and discuss their hot topic articles. Art Education covers a diverse range of topics of professional interest to art educators and others whose interest is quality visual arts education. Recent topics include STEAM, Arts-Based Research, Creative Leadership, and Artistic Interventions. November Art Education is the second in a special two-part series on reinventing and rolling out the STEAM engine for art + design education—investigating how we might fast-track advantageous cross-disciplinary changes within our field of creative education and practice.


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James Haywood Rolling, Jr.

Editor of Art Education, Dual Professor of Art Education and Teaching and Leadership, College of Visual and Performing Arts and the School of Education, Syracuse University

James Haywood Rolling, Jr. is a Dual Professor of Art Education and Teaching and Leadership in the College of Visual and Performing Arts and the School of Education at Syracuse University where he also serves as the chair of Art Education. Dr. Rolling is a past member of the Board of Directors of the National Art Education Association, is the 2014 recipient of the National Higher Education Art Educator Award for outstanding service and achievement of national significance and is currently the Editor of Art Education, a bi-monthly journal of the National Art Education Association. His scholarly interests include: arts-based educational research, creative leadership, visual culture & identity politics, curriculum & pedagogy, social justice & community-engaged scholarship, and narrative research methods.

Maggie Leysath

Fine Arts Chair & Teacher, Onalaska ISD

Peering down the Rabbit Hole: An Adventure in Full Art Integration

Maggie Leysath's career focuses on making the positive school experience accessible and enjoyable for all students. This desire has led her into art education research and curriculum development designed to include students who are considered reluctant learners. An educational philosophy of inclusion rather than exclusion, creativity and originality rather than conformity and standardization informs her pedagogical research. It was this desire that led to her and her co-author to conduct the study reported in November's Art Education article, “An Adventure in Full Art Integration." This research focuses on the effects of full art integration in the core classroom instruction. Maggie believes that integrating art into core area instruction is one path art educators can take as they seek to become educational leaders in their schools, districts and communities. She teaches secondary art for grades 7–12, teaches college courses at a local junior college and operates a local pottery studio.

Chad Bronowski

Science Educator, A&M Consolidated High School, College Station, Texas

Peering down the Rabbit Hole: An Adventure in Full Art Integration

Chad Bronowski is a veteran science educator with six years of high school science teaching experience. He graduated from Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences (with Departmental Honors). After college, he began his science education career. He completed his Master of Education in Administration from Lamar University in December 2015. His M.Ed. degree required an action research project, and is where art integration into a core class began. With his experience throwing pottery at a local Onalaska art studio since 2012, he utilized glaze formulation to teach three important and difficult chemistry concepts—significant figures, the mole, and stoichiometry. During this research, he realized the power and impact of art integration in the science classroom. He is currently teaching Chemistry and Advanced Biotechnology at A&M Consolidated High School, College Station, Texas.

Don Glass

Research Manager, The Kennedy Center

The Art and Science of Looking: Collaboratively Learning Our Way to Improved STEAM Integration

Don Glass is a DC-based visual artist, learning designer, and developmental evaluator. He likes to to connect the dots between big, innovative ideas and practical, generative strategies for the improvement of educational programs and materials. His work focuses on the integration of inclusive arts curriculum design and developmental evaluation strategies into the ongoing professional learning of educators in and outside of schools.

Dr. Glass is currently a Research Manager in the education division of the Kennedy Center. Recently, he has done independent consulting for the Turnaround Arts initiative of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the Barnes Foundation, Lincoln Center, and CAST. He has held positions at the Philadelphia Education Fund, the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, and the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future. He has a BFA, MEd, and a PhD in arts and education, and was a Universal Design for Learning Leadership Fellow at Boston College.

Colleen Wilson

Outreach Coordinator: Art of Looking, The Barnes Foundation

The Art and Science of Looking: Collaboratively Learning Our Way to Improved STEAM Integration

Colleen Wilson joined the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA, as the Outreach Coordinator for Art of Looking in 2013. At the Barnes, she has enjoyed being part of the immense growth of the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math)-based program which serves over 2,000 students in the School District of Philadelphia each year and creating more opportunities for students to engage with art from another point of view. Prior to her position at The Barnes, Colleen wrote educational programming at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia as well as completed an internship at The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation in her native city of Los Angeles, California. Colleen holds a Master of Art History from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Throughout her career in the arts, she maintained a love for science and mathematics, working with teachers and students to promote arts integration and show that art really is everywhere.

Kelly Gross

Lecturer, Department of Art Education, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Co-chair of Art Education, Vermont College of Fine Arts

Creating Spaces: Constructivism, Design Thinking, and Elementary STEAM

Kelly M. Gross is a lecturer in the department of Art Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and co-chair of Art Education at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Additionally, she is a doctoral candidate at Northern Illinois University. In 2014, Kelly and Steven Gross co-founded the rubber band project, which focuses on providing project based STEAM learning opportunities. Kelly has taught elementary art and special education in New Orleans, New York City, and Chicago. Her research interests include art and design education, disability studies, social justice, postmodernism, and art and cognition. Kelly has published on disability issues in art and design education through the LearnxDesign (2015) Conference and the National Art Education Association's Advisory (Summer 2014).

Julia L. Hovanec, PhD

Assistant Professor of Art Education, Kutztown University

The Art of Words: Using Ekphrasis to Augment Learning in the Elementary and Secondary Art Room

Albert Einstein once said, “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

Julia Hovanec, Assistant Professor of Art Education holds that quote close to her heart as she works to help nurture future art teachers. As an art educator, Julia has over twenty-seven years of experience. She taught elementary and middle school art in The School District of the City of York and currently inspires undergraduate and graduate art education students and education students. Dr. Hovanec has presented research on and best practices in interdisciplinary teaching and learning specifically verbal literacy, reflective practice, pre-service teacher education and professional identity at conferences at the local, state and national level as well as well as facilitated many professional development workshops and seminars in Pennsylvania. She earned her PhD in Education through Capella University in 2011 with a specialization in curriculum and instruction.

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