2012 NAEA National Convention WOMEN’S CAUCUS SESSIONS/EVENTS WC’s history, activism, award speeches, NAEA News WC columns, member’s art, and up-to-date news is on the Web! Get involved at http://naeawc.net/ WC is on Facebook! Please join us to post announcements, share ideas and resources, and communicate with each other in a public forum. [http://www.facebook.com/groups/177480239379/] THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012 9:00 - 9:50 AM @ Sheraton Riverside Ballroom 3rd Floor Community Service-Learning: Public Service Announcement Videos to Empower Women’s Lives Adetty Pérez Miles: In women’s studies courses, students create short public service announcement videos based on topics that analyze feminist concerns. Presenter will screen their research and discuss implications for art education. 11:00 - 11:25 AM @ Hilton Concourse E Lower Level *Feminist Art and Adolescents: A Happy Medium Cheri Ehrlich: Learn methods for teaching adolescents about feminist art based on responses given by adolescents to artworks in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at Brooklyn Museum. 10:00 - 10:50 AM @ Sheraton Riverside Ballroom 3rd Floor Girls, Cultural Productions, and Resistance Olga Ivashkevich, Michelle Bae, Elizabeth Garber, Marissa McClure: Presenters share ethnographic narratives about the girls of different ages and backgrounds who disrupt dominant gender representations via their cultural projects and performances. WOMEN’S CAUCUS 2012 LOBBY SESSION Everyone Welcome . Thursday, March 1, 6:00-7:00 pm in the hotel lobby. Call Karen Keifer-Boyd at 814-404-8716 if you have questions or can’t find the group.
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2012 NAEA National Convention WOMEN’S CAUCUS SESSIONS/EVENTS WC’s history, activism, award speeches, NAEA News WC columns, member’s art, and up-to-date news is on the Web! Get involved at http://naeawc.net/
WC is on Facebook! Please join us to post announcements, share ideas and resources, and communicate with each other in a public forum. [http://www.facebook.com/groups/177480239379/]
THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012 9:00 - 9:50 AM @ Sheraton Riverside Ballroom 3rd Floor Community Service-Learning: Public Service Announcement Videos to Empower Women’s Lives Adetty Pérez Miles: In women’s studies courses, students create short public service announcement videos based on topics that analyze feminist concerns. Presenter will screen their research and discuss implications for art education. 11:00 - 11:25 AM @ Hilton Concourse E Lower Level *Feminist Art and Adolescents: A Happy Medium Cheri Ehrlich: Learn methods for teaching adolescents about feminist art based on responses given by adolescents to artworks in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at Brooklyn Museum. 10:00 - 10:50 AM @ Sheraton Riverside Ballroom 3rd Floor Girls, Cultural Productions, and Resistance Olga Ivashkevich, Michelle Bae, Elizabeth Garber, Marissa McClure: Presenters share ethnographic narratives about the girls of different ages and backgrounds who disrupt dominant gender representations via their cultural projects and performances.
WOMEN’S CAUCUS 2012 LOBBY SESSION Everyone Welcome . Thursday, March 1, 6:00-7:00 pm in the hotel lobby.
Call Karen Keifer-Boyd at 814-404-8716 if you have questions or can’t find the group.
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FRIDAY MARCH 2, 2012
12:00 - 12:50 PM @ Hilton Gramercy Suite A 2nd Floor Women's Caucus Art Exhibition: Emerging Perspectives Howardena Pindell, working with the theme of Emerging Perspectives in relation to the NAEA Women's Caucus (WC) mission, has selected artworks by WC members for presentation at this session. Coordinator: Carrie Nordlund S. Mayo’s 2011 artwork in the Exhibition: Missfire, 48” tondo (round canvas), acrylic on canvas. “There are those days when we misfire, references mishaps
across synaptic junctions. This work reminds of the beauty of the reflective mind and that all the universe is spherical. Experimentation demands misfires and a nuturing petri dish in which to grow.” http://www.smayo.net 3:00 - 3:50 PM @ Hilton Concourse G Lower Level REvive, REconnect, REsearch: Walking the Path of REflective Practice Caryl Church, Heather Fountain, Juliann Dorff, Linda Hoeptner-Poling Learn how meditation, yoga, creative writing, and artmaking became a transformative experience at a 2011 gathering of art educators. Relevant and practical strategies for reviving your teaching will be shared.
4:00 - 5:20 PM @ Hilton Concourse G Lower Level Women’s Caucus Business Meeting: Ask a Mentor
Women's Caucus Board Members facilitate a mentor relationship building and issues-oriented open meeting about concerns, ideas, and actions. Everyone is welcome. See also http://naeawc.net/mentors.html
Facilitators: Karen Keifer-Boyd, Joanna Rees, Sheri Klein, Jane Cera
Nordlund, Connors, Fletcher de Jong, Rouse, McFee Awards Ceremony Women's Caucus Award recipients' deeply moving narratives intertwine their teaching, art, and research with particular life events and identity formation. Facilitators: Karen Keifer-Boyd, Joanna Rees, Linda Hoeptner Poling, Caryl Rae Church Award Recipients: Kit Grauer, Ruth Stuart Starratt, Maria Elena Botello Mogas, Patricia Amburgy
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SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2012
Howardena Pindell, Untitled, 2008/2009, watercolor, color pencil, ink, crayon, oil pastel, 8” x 9.75”
7:30 - 8:50 AM at Hilton Nassau Suite A 2nd Floor Women's Caucus BYOB with Regional Artist Speaker Howardena Pindell
BYOB (bring your own breakfast) and begin the day viewing Women's Caucus member art during informal conversation, followed by speaker Howardena Pindell, who's work is noted for its political and social content based on her experiences as an emerging African American artist during the Civil Rights Movement. Howardena Pindell has a lifetime of achievement as an artist, educator, and writer. She has remained an activist in the art community with her focus on exposing issues of race, censorship, and violence. All welcome. Facilitators: Karen Keifer-Boyd, Carrie Nordlund, Heather Fountain, Elizabeth Delacruz, Joanna Rees 12:00 - 12:50 PM @ Hilton New York Suite 4th Floor * I am a Feminist, and…: Implications for Gender Issues in Art Education Martina Riedler Strategies that facilitate students’ self-knowledge, sociocultural functions of art and the interplay of gender, within ideological systems. Implications for the goals and curricula of art education in a liberatory classroom. 12:00 - 12:50 PM @ Hilton Sutton Parlor Center 2nd Floor Girl Power! A Cultural Conversation Deborah Smith-Shank, Elizabeth Delacruz, Kryssi Staikidis, Shari Savage What is GIRL POWER? This lively presentation highlights authors, editor, and guest editor’s ideas as published in the recent issue of VAR. Audience is encouraged to participate in lively discussion.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2012 continued
2:00 - 2:50 PM @ Hilton Sutton Parlor Center 2nd Floor Joining Forces Cathy Smilan, Kathy Miraglia, Karen Keifer-Boyd, Wanda Knight Two research teams, a twosome and a threesome, present benefits and rationales for joining forces. Teams share strategies to challenge patriarchal systems and create spaces for empowering and transformative research. Hilton Sutton Parlor Center 2nd Floor
5:00 - 6:20 PM @ Hilton Concourse G Lower Level Board Meeting: Advocacy and Leadership Mentoring Stories
Women’s Caucus Board members extend an open invitation to learn from each other and from a K-12 and higher education mentor panel who share their stories of advocacy and leadership. Facilitators: Karen Keifer-Boyd, Elizabeth Delacruz, Heather Fountain, Linda Hoeptner Poling *: Other conference sessions with feminist content.
