Program & Schedule

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Registration for in-person participants only

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Opening Remarks

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Session 1A:

Recontextualizing Art Education Through Global and Historical Mapping

Discussant: Kerry Freedman

Session 1B:

Historical Perspectives and Global Dialogues on Social Justice, Violence, and Representation

Discussant: Joanna Black

Paper 1

Re:Mapping Histories of Art Education

Mary Ann Stankiewicz

A Critical Examination of the Historical Roots of Social Justice Art Education

Sarah Travis

Paper 2

Narrative Research on the Academic Lineages between U.S. and Taiwanese Art Education Development 

Yiwen Wei & Yichien Cooper

History of Asian Immigrant Art Educators in North America as a Counternarrative

Ryan Shin, Oksun Lee & Maria Lim

Paper 3

Becoming “Design Archaeologists” – Children’s Rhizomatic Mapping of Time, History and Museums

Anna Ramberg

The Ghost of Manzanar: Giichi Matsumura’s Grave and the History of Art Making and Incarceration

Gina Mumma Wenger

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch Break

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Session 2A:

Global Perspectives on Art, Conflict, and Empowerment

Discussant: Doug Boughton

Session 2B:

Erasure, Pedagogy, and Youth Engagement in Art Education History

Discussant: Kit Grauer

Paper 1

Freire in Geneva: Rereading and Reengaging the Pedagogy of the Oppressed Through Studying the Local and Worldwide Actions of the Exile Years in Switzerland

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Marianne Guarino-Huet & Olivier Desvoignes

Exclusion and Erasure of Asian Americans in Art History and Education

Eunjin Kim

Paper 2

Documenting and Preserving Art Education Materials from Conflict-Affected Global Contexts: The ArtsAction Group Archive

Ann Holt & Cindy Maguire

Key Art and Pedagogical Tendencies of the 1960s in the Context of the Czech Section of INSEA | A Comparative Historical Pedagogical Analysis of a Case from the Central European Environment

Petra Sobanova & Jana Jiroutová

Paper 3

What Happened to “Art-for-Peace”?

Neal Flynn

For the Greater Good? A Comparison of Teen Advisory Boards in Department Stores and Art Museums

Kendall Crabbe

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

Session 3A:

Tracing Art Education Histories from Pakistan, Guatemala and France

Discussant: Christina Hanawalt

Session 3B:

Inclusion and Innovation: Deaf Education, Puppetry, and Lebanese Visual Traditions

Discussant: Karen Keifer-Boyd

Paper 1

Hybrid Histories: The Impact of International Art and Design Pedagogies on Art Schools in Pakistan

Razia I. Sadik

Early Art Education in Schools for the Deaf

Kathleen Keys

Paper 2

Life Story Oral Histories Through Conversations on Film: Longitudinal Relational Dialogues with Guatemalan Maya Tz'utuhil Painter Pedro Rafael González Chavajay

Kryssi Staikidis 

Renfro-sensei: Nancy Renfro and the 1988 I Love You International Puppetry Festival

Christina B. Bain

Paper 3

History of French Artistic Education in Primary and Secondary School: The Teaching of “Arts Visuels” to “Arts Plastiques” What Issues, What Continuum?

Virginie Ruppin

Visual Arts Education in Lebanon: Evolution of Concepts and Knowledge

Rima Abboud

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Opening reception for in-person participants only

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Coffee and Conversation for in-person participants only

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Session 4A:

Art Education Narratives from America, the Dominican Republic, and Singapore

Discussant: Pamela Harris Lawton

Session 4B:

Book chat: Art Education’s Cultivation and Inspiration in Taiwan: A History of Elementary and Secondary School Visual Arts Curricula (Volumes I & II)

Discussant: Juan Carlos Castro

Paper 1

African American Historical Movements Through Images, Places, and Events

Eunjung Chang

The Evolution of Visual Arts Education in Taiwan: Ideological Trends and Curriculum Development (1968 – 2019)

Li-Yan Wang

Paper 2

Questionable Altruism: Vocational Education and Normalization of Social Difference in Early 20th Century Dominican Republic

Felix Rodriguez Suero

A History of Visual Arts Teacher Education in Taiwan (1902-2022): Policies, Acts, and Training Programs

Ching-Fang Lee

Paper 3

Art Education in Singapore in the New Millenium

Bee Lian Kehk

The Development and Evolution of Visual Arts Textbooks in Taiwan from 1968 to 2014

Yu Hsiang Chen & Yong-fu Chiu

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM

Session 5A:

Art, Activism, and Community Engagement

Discussant: Angela LaPorte

Session 5B:

Recontextualizing Art Education Histories in Colombia, Ghana, and South Korea 

Discussant: Mira Kallio-Tavin

Paper 1

Refusals: Antebellum’s Impacts on Visual Art Education

David Herman Jr.

Mapping Local Territories: Cultural Narratives On Concepts And Practices Of Arts Education In Colombia

Monica Marcell Romero Sanchez

Paper 2

Black Educators in Mexico City: Taller de Grafica Popular and Black Liberatory Practice

Debra A. Hardy

Decolonizing the Curriculum: A History of Art Education in Ghana

Richard Agbeze

Paper 3

Community Engagement in the Works Progress Administration: Community Art Centers as In-Between Spaces

Carissa DiCindio

Exploring Historical Precedents of the Art College Entrance Exam in Postcolonial South Korea

Eunji J. Lee

11:45 AM - 1:15 PM

Lunch Break

1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Session 6A:

Book chat: Curriculum, Culture and Art Education: Comparative Perspectives

Discussant: Juuso Tervo 

 Session 6B:

Comparative Perspectives on Art Education: From the Philippines to Kenya to Israel

Discussant: Christina B. Bain

Paper 1

Curriculum, Culture and Art Education: Comparative Perspectives

Kerry Freedman

Philippine Elementary Art Education (PEAE): Milestones And Challenges

Romina P. Beltran-Almazan

Paper 2

Art Education Pro/retro/gression in Kenya

Lucy Njeri Mugambi

Paper 3

 Imagined Cartographies: Local and Universal in Israeli Art Education

Sigal Barkai & David Amiel Pariser 

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Session 7A:

Empowerment through Art: Women in Art Education Across Eras and the Globe

Discussant: Debra Hardy

Session 7B:

Navigating Spaces, Identities, and Pedagogies in Art Education 

Discussant: Grace Hampton

Paper 1

Women’s Education, Art, and Activism in Athens, Georgia, 1880-1940: Productive Paradoxes in the New South

Christina Hanawalt

Space Invaders and Art Education Primitivism: The Case of Eugene Grigsby

Paper 2

Breaking Stereotypes and Cultural Taboos: Ghanaian Women in Art Education

Indira Bailey

Enduring through Art: Friedl Dicker-Brandeis’ Teaching Strategies in Terezin

Eunjung Chang

Paper 3

Making Feminist Meaning with Portuguese Art Education during the Dictatorship

Beatriz Albuquerque

Black Excellence in Art/Art Education: A Critical Portrait of Murry N. DePillars

Pamela Harris Lawton

Paper 4

(Co)creating Herstory: Documenting Art Education History Through Invisible Herstories

Nupur Sachdeva

Rethinking STEAM Education: Insights from Black Mountain College

Borim Song

5:00 PM and onwards

Dinner and Evening On Your Own

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Coffee and Conversation for in-person participants only

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Session 8A:

Tracing Childhood Artistry from Taiwan to Sweden Amidst Colonial and Historical Contexts

Discussant: Fiona Blaikie

Session 8B:

Transformations, Archives, and Cross-Generational Dialogues in Art Education History

Discussant: Ami Kantawala

Paper 1

Children’s Art As Ambassadors: Mapping The History of The World School Children’s Art Exhibition in Taiwan

Embracing Transformation: A New Paradigm for Art Education in Counter-Monuments

Susana Vargas-Mejía

Paper 2

Colonialities in the Making of the ‘White’ Creative Child

Cat Martins

Teaching Materials in Visual Arts Education – Policy and Historical Perspectives

Hanna Ahrenby, Tarja Karlsson Häikiö & Frida Marklund

Paper 3

Picturing School – Through a Children’s Art Competition in Sweden 1938–1940

Elin Låby

Textured Archives: Plotting Cross-Generational Conversations Between Black Women Art Educators

Pamela Harris Lawton & Amber Coleman

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM

Session 9A:

Decolonizing and Re-learning Art Education Across Cultures

Discussant: Mary Ann Stankiewicz

Session 9B:

Influential Perspectives on Art Education from the Canary Islands to Cyprus and Korea

Discussant: Ryan Shin

Paper 1

Triangulated Formation: The Roots and Routes of Bahamian Art Education

Keisha Oliver

ARTbiography as an Inquiry Into Art Education in the Canary Islands

Noemi Peña Sanchez & Rosa Cubillo López

Paper 2

Contested Histories of Craft Education in India

Arzu Mistry

Cultural Representations in Children’s Drawings Produced in Educational Settings: Contents, Meanings, and Implications for the Study of Art Education in Cyprus

Tereza Markidou

Paper 3

Pasts Alive and Dead: Decolonizing Time for International Histories in Art Education

Juuso Tervo

The Life and Legacy of Professor Kim Jung: The Founder and First President of the Society for Art Education of Korea

Hyeri Ahn

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM

Lunch Break

12:45 PM - 2:15 PM

Session 10A:

Aesthetic Learning, Educational Standards, and Ethno-Cultural Identity in Global Contexts

Discussant: Judith Burton

Session 10B:

Community, Memory, and Participatory Education in Cultural Contexts

Discussant: Mike Emme

Paper 1

A History of the Past 25 Years of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in Visual Arts: 1968 to 2023

Fiona Blaikie

Freire in the Development Work Toolkit: A Philippine Case in Cultural Education

Eileen Legaspi Ramirez

Paper 2

Lost and Found – Unfolding and Refolding Aesthetic Learning Processes in a Swedish Context

Annika Hellman

Mapping Cultural Memory Through Community Arts Practice: Iceland

Heidi C. Powell

Paper 3

Do I Like the Queen Now? Negotiating Ethno-Cultural Identity Through National Celebration Theatre Performances: The Case of a Greek Community School in London

Aspasia Simpsi

Situating CARE: Intersections of History, Place, and Art Education

Jody Stokes-Casey

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Plenary Session: Re-drawing the Map of Art Education Histories