Convention 2024
Design Interest Group + Design Education Related Sessions
In-Person Sessions
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Please note: Session listings are subject to change.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
12:30 PM - 1:20 PM
Design Interest Group
Design Interest Group's Annual Gathering: Business, Awards, and Networking
Kristen LaJeunesse Roach, Robin Vande Zande
Whether a current DIG member or design-interested party, all are welcome to NAEA's Design Interest Group's annual gathering. During this gathering, we will give announcements, talk about our goals, have a work session on the vision and bylaws, present the award, and host a networking social hour.
Instructional Practice
Center/Meeting Room M100E/Mezzanine Level
Thursday, April 4, 2024
2:30 PM - 3:20 PM
Design Interest Group
Art and Design Educators: Change Agents in Redesigning Education
Robin Vande Zande, Stephanie Cory Silverman, Bob Reeker, Mary Hoefferle
Panelists will explain how to become leaders in education, why this is the time for art education to leave the fringe, and what changes will put us at the center. Participants will get access to a resource for positioning art and design educators as central in predicted education changes in the future.
Deep Dive Research
Center/Meeting Room 205AB/Level 2
In-Person Sessions
Friday, April 5, 2024
Please note: Session listings are subject to change.
Friday, April 5, 2024
8:00 AM - 8:50 AM
Community Arts Caucus Interest Group
Graphic Design for Sneaker Innovation, a Precollege Workshop: Fostering Creativity, Design Thinking, and Conversation
Tuyen Bui-Lally, Kristina Lamour Sansone
This session explores how integrating graphic design techniques and sneaker innovation engages precollege students in art + design education. Discover effective instructional strategies, collaborative projects with local communities, and technology integration in this dynamic class. Inspire students to unleash their creativity while fostering conversation.
Instructional Practice
Center/Meeting Room 208A/Level 2
Friday, April 5, 2024
2:30 PM - 3:20 PM
Middle Level
Trashion/Fashion: A Collaborative Exploration of Art History, Fashion Design, and Manipulation of Reusable Materials
Diane Wilikofsky, Candace Thompson
Learn about a fashion challenge where 8th graders engage in the design process both individually and in teams to translate known works of art into wearable fashion, culminating in a runway show for the school. Leave this session with resources for implementing your own fashion design challenge with your students!
Instructional Practice
Center/Meeting Room M100E/Mezzanine Level
Friday, April 5, 2024
2:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Research
Health and Well-Being in Art Education: A Survey of Research
Rina Kundu Little, Robin Vande Zande, Christina Bain, Jennifer Bockerman
This presentation covers research on well-being that relies on creative immersion in the expressive arts. Discuss interdisciplinarity, design thinking, collaboration, and community interaction related to improving health.
Deep Dive Research
Center/Meeting Room 200H/Level 2
Friday, April 5, 2024
5:00 PM - 5:50 PM
Choice-Art Educators Interest Group
Designing the Process: How Do We Visualize the Creative Process for Students?
Peter Curran
How do we visualize the creative process? What does design thinking look like? In this interactive session, participants will explore various models of the creative process, reflect on the role of creativity in their own classrooms, and illustrate their own model of the creative process.
Instructional Practice
Center/Meeting Room 211B/Level 2
In-Person Sessions
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Please note: Session listings are subject to change.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
9:00 AM - 10:20 AM
3rd General Session
Ruth E. Carter
Ruth E. Carter is the two-time Academy Award–winning American film costume designer. Best known for turning the Black Panther superhero into an African King, Carter made history as the first Black person to win the Costume Design category and earned Marvel Studios its first Oscar recognition. For Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Carter made history, again, for her outstanding costume design work and became the first Black woman to win multiple Academy Awards in any category and the first costume designer to win for the first film and its sequel.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
11:30 AM - 12:20 PM
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Building Empathy and Inclusion Through Design Thinking
Theresa Haugen, Alyson Pouls
Design thinking embraces diversity and inclusion by capturing new perspectives of people served by design solutions. Participants will learn to use the first step in the design process, building empathy, to gain an authentic, inclusive understanding of various audiences. Design thinking lessons will be shared for all age levels.
Skills Toolbox
Center/Meeting Room 200D/Level 2
Saturday, April 6, 2024
12:30 PM - 1:20 PM
Art & Media Technology Interest Group
Bridging Multiple Disciplines Within a Technologically Diverse Curriculum: Exploring Game
Design, Animation, Film, and VFX
David Gazdowicz, Scott Northrup
A deep dive into a new minor in virtual production that bridges animation, film, game design, and visual effects to offer students hands-on experiences in this emergent field of creative production, including course design that answers the needs of technologically diverse students, and an overview of gear and techniques.
Instructional Practice
Center/Meeting Room 211D/Level 2
Saturday, April 6, 2024
2:30 PM - 3:20 PM
Design Interest Group
Inspiration in Unexpected Places: Communicating Meaning With Arts-Based Data
Visualizations
Amanda E. Galbraith, Joy G. Bertling
How could data serve as a powerful site for generating art and design when students are constantly bombarded with new information? In this session, we invite you to be inspired by data through the practice and evaluation of data visualizations that can be easily replicated in the classroom.
Skills Toolbox
Center/Meeting Room 208C/Level 2
Saturday, April 6, 2024
4:30 PM - 5:20 PM
Design Interest Group
Empathy is Essential: Creative Problem Solvers Have Compelling Stories to Tell
Doris Wells-Papanek, AnneMarie Robinson, Michael Weininger, Kerry Parrish
Join us as we share compelling stories of students tackling complex design challenges, such as students redesigning their school’s visual identity, creating fantasized or idealized cardboard cities, turning negative perceptions into positives via powerful photography, and reinventing shoes from an entirely new perspective. Funding for each project was supplied by NAEF, and empathy was an essential component to all.
Instructional Practice
Center/Meeting Room 205AB/Level 2
