Current Year & Theme
This year’s theme, Bodies, Materials, and Spaces in Art & Visual Culture Education, emphasizes the significance of embodiment in art education. Embodiment invites the creator and viewer to consider the physical body and their senses as well as how emotions influence the creation and interpretation of art, highlighting the body as an active participant. This theme urges us to rethink art education and explore the possibilities for creation and learning at the intersection of practical and conceptual spaces.
History
Emerging Conversations is an annual art education symposium organized by graduate students in the Art & Visual Culture Education program at the University of Arizona. It is the only symposium of its kind on the West Coast in the United States. Emerging Conversations creates space for artists, educators, art historians, arts-based researchers, and community members, both established and emerging in their fields, to engage in collaboration and conversation. Emerging Conversations has taken many forms in the past, but is intended to be a welcoming and accessible space for creatives and educators from a variety of disciplines and settings. The symposium centers on a theme relevant to the discipline of art education, its adjacent disciplines, and current times.
Schedule
9:00 am – 9:30 am – Welcome & Coffee Time
9:30 am – 10:40 am – Bodies
Flow-Body, Timeless Space & Muse
Mandy Dhahan
(University of Arizona)
Promoting Inclusive and Reponsive Art Classrooms for the 21st Century
Sonja Jenks
(Amphitheater School District)
Katrina Jean
(University of Arizona)
Embodied Care: Nurturing Marginalized and (Dis)abled Bodies in Creative Practice
Seoyeon Jenn Kim
(University of Arizona)
10:40 am – 10:50 am – Q&A
10:50 am – 11:50 am – Spaces
Migrant Shelter Pedagogy: Learning, teaching and praxis through murals at migrants in Sonora, Mexico
Juanita Sandoval
(University of Arizona)
Collective Hybridity: Cultivating AVCE Professional Learning Communities
Hillary Douglas
(University of Arizona & TUSD)
Post-Withdrawal: Counterculture Legacies in Contemporary Pedagogical Art
Ricardo Chavez
(University of Arizona)
11:50 am – 12:00 pm – Q&A
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Lunch Break
1:00 pm – 2:20 pm – Materials
Visual Journaling as a Salve to Competing Crises: A Collaborative Reflexivity on Art Educator Identity
Sirilak Rottler
(University of Arizona)
Art and Subtractive Logic to Move Towards a Necessary Degrowth
Olivier Dubois-Cherrier
(Pima Community College & The Island in Tucson)
Knitting My Feelings: A PhD Candidate’s Exploration of Embodiment and Affect Through Fiber Art
Gabriella (Gabby) Shriner
(University of Arizona College of Information Science)
Skoden Bead
Niko Sanchez
(University of Arizona Library)
2:20 pm – 2:30 pm – Q&A
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm – Goodbye + Happy Hour Networking!