2008 NAEA NATIONAL CONVENTION

March 26-30, 2008

New Orleans, LA

Keynote Speakers

View e-Portfolio Bonnie Rushlow
NAEA President, Thursday, March 27

President Bonnie Rushlow welcomes attendees with her presidential address. Her special guest is Dan Dunn of Dan Dunns Paintjam, in an exciting, high-energy, improvisational painting performance. Watch in amazement, as he "jams" with paint onstage, soloing and improvising with his brushes much like a musician running through scales and riffs with seemingly effortless ease, to reveal the final image at the last minute.

View e-Portfolio Lynell Burmark
Author/Educator, Friday, March 28

After eleven years of classroom teaching and nine years in administration, Lynell Burmark joined the Thornburg Center for Professional Development as a consultant to high tech companies and school districts. Her latest book, Visual Literacy: Learn to See, See to Learn, is a widely–adopted textbook for teacher education and instructional technology programs.

Thomas Mann
Artist/Entrepreneur, Saturday, March 29

New Orleans Artist Thomas Mann is best known for his "techno-romantic" jewelry that juxtaposes technological references, forms, and construction techniques with romantic imagery. Mann has expanded his role as a veteran professional artist to include a focus on education by teaching entrepreneurial thinking and tactics to artists of all media.

Dr. Charles M. Falco
Physicist/Curator, Sunday, March 30

Did artists of such repute as Bellini and Caravaggio use optical projections to create their work? Charles Falco of the University of Arizona will discuss the fascinating findings of the research that he conducted on this subject when working with renowned artist David Hockney. The theories pro-posed by Falco and Hockney have been covered as a BBC special, and a segment on CBS 60 Minutes.

Super Sessions

View e-Portfolio FEATURED SUPER SESSION: Faith Ringgold
Thursday, March 27

Faith Ringgold began her artistic career more than 35 years ago as a painter. Today, she is best known for her painted story quilts --- art that combines painting, quilted fabric, and storytelling. Her first book, Tar Beach, was a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration, among numerous other honors. In this Super Session, sponsored by Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Ringgold will talk about her own artistic journey and offer her views on how to nurture creative talent in teenagers.

NAEA Distinguished Fellows
Wednesday, March 26
Fellows Forum:Connections Between Mental Functions and Artistic Performance

Mac Arthur Goodwin chairs this session on contemporary findings in cognitive psychology/neuroscience relating to student learning in the arts. Panelists: Elliot Eisner, Read Diket, David Burton, and Arthur Efland.

Catherine Fukushima
Friday, March 28
Qualities of Quality: Excellence in Arts Education and How To Achieve It

Co-principal investigators Lois Hetland and Steve Seidel, along with study participants, present results about quality in arts education from research conducted at Harvard'sProject Zero.

Marilyn Stewart
Saturday, March 29
Issues of Craft in the Art Curriculum

This session highlights the challenges the presenters faced when asked to create curricular materials to accompany the PBS series, Craft in America, and the monthly spread about the series in School Arts magazine.

Dr. Charles M. Falco
Saturday, March 29
The Art of the Motorcycle

This talk, on the 10th Anniversary of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's "The Art of the Motorcycle," led by one of the exhibits co-curators, will examine the interrelationship of the technological, cultural, and aesthetic factors that have influenced motorcycle design since the first one was patented in 1868.