| Saturday, October 3rd | ||||
| Deadline for Members Only Exhibit Entries sent to Linda Nelson-Bova | ||||
| Monday, October 5th | ||||
| Conference Registration Deadline | ||||
| Thursday, October 8th | ||||
| Google Classroom Code Emailed to Conference Attendees | ||||
| Friday, October 9th | ||||
| Art Teacher Mixer 7:00 PM | ||||
| Saturday, October 10th | ||||
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome and Conference Orientation | |||
| 9:15-10:15 AM | Live | E-Art on Cart with Artsonia | 50 | Elementary |
| Charleen Stessman: "I can teach you here. I can teach you there. I can teach you anywhere! With the new Artsonia App I can teach you Wherever you're at!" Come see how I am using the new Artsonia App to teach our hybrid and remote learners' art. I teach around1000 students in two K-6 elementary schools in Topeka and have been using Artsonia for about 5 years as a digital portfolio. Last spring, during the Covid Quarter, Artsonia was the only way I saw the art students were creating at home. During the shutdown Artsonia updated it's app and I am using it this year to deliver art lessons/videos directly to my students wherever they are. I am learning, along with my 3 fellow elementary art teachers in our district, to use Artsonia to connect with my students, their families, and create a sense of community by sharing the art my students are creating when we have to be socially distanced. | ||||
| 9:15-10:15 AM | Pre-Recorded | Beginning Hand Building with Clay | 50 | All |
| Jennifer Christiansen: Beginning hand building with clay. I’ve taught K-12 and all levels of clay. I will show how to do simple clay techniques that can be used for almost all beginning ceramic clay students. | ||||
| 9:15-10:15 AM | Pre-Recorded | Anti Racist Art Teaching | 20 | All |
| Alyssa Passmore: Anti Racist Art Teaching resources including docs, sites, groups, lesson ideas and more. | ||||
| 9:15-10:15 AM | Pre-Recorded | Easy Ceramics Projects | 30 | All |
| Martha Fitzwater: This is a series of easy ceramics projects geared for early, primary students. The first is a simple, basic pinch pot. The next project is a ceramic mushroom, a one piece project. Lastly, the cupcake project, is two pinch pots put together in a simple one piece project. | ||||
| 10:15-10:40 AM | Division Meetings via Zoom | |||
| 10:40-11:05 AM | Region Meetings via Zoom | |||
| 11:10-11:30 AM | Pre-Recorded | FREE Adobe Draw App Basics | 20 | High |
| Katie Morris: Learn how to use the basic features of the (free!) Adobe Draw app to create vector art! | ||||
| 11:10-11:30 AM | Pre-Recorded | DIY Monoprinting Plate | 20 | All |
| Shawny Montgomery: DIY mono printing plate, join Shawny Montgomery and learn how to create your own handmade gel plate using simple household ingredients. Lesson plan ideas will be included. | ||||
| 11:10-11:30 | Pre-Recorded | Nasco Watercolor Hacks | 11 | |
| Kris Bakke from Nasco Education shares some hacks for creating your own watercolors or custom water color palette. Using pill containers, mint tins, or even pop-out gum trays, you can create your own watercolor sets. Kris shares some ideas for products you can work with to create your own high-quality watercolors for students. These watercolor hacks work well for hybrid learning situations where students can be a part of the creating. Some great alternatives to pan watercolors. Perfect for Middle and High School students. | ||||
| 11:10-11:30 | Pre-Recorded | Distance Learning & AMACO Classroom | 19 | All |
| Kathy Skaggs from AMACO gives an overview of various clay projects and teaching resources available on-line via different platforms. Ready-to-use presentation materials include “Ceramics 1 & 2 Curriculum”, “Stages of Clay”, “No Kiln, No Problem- DIY Clay Animation”, “Become a Kiln Master” and numerous lesson plans and technique videos. | ||||
| 11:30 AM-12:30 PM | Lunch | |||
| Take a break and grab some lunch or brown bag it and join our Zoom to eat while you chat and, collaborate, and make connections with other attendees! | ||||
| 12:30-1:30 PM | Pre-Recorded | Calder-Inspired Wire Sculptures | 50 | All |
| Shannon Wedel: Calder Inspired Wire Sculptures - Based on his early circus sculptures, students use wire and additional materials to create a fully 3-D self standing sculpture - bonus points for ones that move. This has been a very successful project for my 6th graders, and would work well for high school, too. | ||||
| 12:30-1:30 PM | Pre-Recorded | Garden Sun Masks | 51 | Middle, High |
| Martha Fitzwater: The Garden Sun Mask has a cultural emphasis because I have had my students research Pre-Coliumbian Sun Masks and masks from other cultures ( Inuet and Aboriginal as they used the sun as one of their images.) From a design point of view, repeating patterns and textures create unity. | ||||
| 12:30-1:30 PM | Pre-Recorded | Ceramic Animals | 20 | Elementary |
| Martha Fitzwater: The ceramic animals are created from one piece of clay that fits in the hand of the young artist creating it. Bigger balls of clay for older students. All parts of the animal will be pulled and shaped from this is to avoid limbs, that if not attached properly, fall off. A suggestion is to have the younger students create cats and dogs, they can recall these easily. I keep a card file on pictures of more usual animals for older students to use as reference. Horses need to be lying down or be a more cartoon version. | ||||
| 12:30-1:30 PM | Pre-Recorded | DIY Sketchbooks in a Bind | 20 | All |
| Kaleena Grasella: With everything moving to a virtual setting, one thing is for sure--nothing beats the feel of a physical sketchbook for art class! I will show you two fast DIY methods of making sketchbooks with your students. | ||||
| 12:30-1:30 PM | Pre-Recorded | Art Room Videos | 20 | All |
| Alyssa Passmore: ways to incorporate pre-recorded videos for synchronous online, asynchronous online, or in person. I will outline using videos for demonstrations, to promote your program, and introduce new content! | ||||
| 1:30-2:00 PM | Pre-Recorded | Quick and Easy Take Home Jewelry | 20 | High |
| Theresa Shetler-Logan: Quick and easy take home jewelry ideas for remote learning. Come join me for ideas on how to make, and get kits ready for students to take remote. Watch and learn about some simple yet fun and interesting jewelry projects that could be completed at home with just a few tools. We will look at twisted, hammered wire, chain links and sculpey clay designs along with sketchbook ideas. | ||||
| 1:30-2:00 PM | Pre-Recorded | Speed Painting Challenge | 20 | All |
| Katie Morris: A speed painting challenge is a great way to get your students to observe, mix colors, and loosen up while painting! Watch for an explanation of the "rules" and a demonstration of the technique for opaque painting. | ||||
| 1:30-2:00 PM | Pre-Recorded | Intro to Neurographic Art | 10 | |
| Kris Bakke: Our brains are working while we are being creative. This video can be used to help teach your students the basic algorithm of neurographic art and then have the chance to take their artwork in their own creative direction. Neurographic art is also a great way to transform stress into something calm and creative. Isn't art great! Kris Bakke from Nasco Education shares some examples and tips for incorporating neurographic art into your art curriculum. | ||||
| 2:00-3:00 PM | Live | Early Finishers in the Art Room | 50 | All |
| Mindy Armstrong: How to keep students engaged in the art room when units/lesson is complete. Whether it is having a semester long project that is due at the end of the semester, smaller extra credit projects along the way, or collaborative work for those that are finished. For me it is important to have students continuing to be creative and not having days of downtime. Each year I approach early finishers differently based on feedback from former students. | ||||
| 2:00-3:00 PM | Pre-Recorded | Celebrating Diversity Day | 50 | Elementary, Middle |
| Marie Taylor: This presentation is a chatter with my friend and elementary art teacher Heidy Acosta. We would provide examples of how we celebrate culture in our art room projects and practices and involve all styles of learners. We hope to provide our students with real world appreciation, insight and connections and complete projects with a broad lens of influence and representation. We also will provide good books and resources to do this. | ||||
| 2:00-3:00 PM | Pre-Recorded | Watercolor Sampler | 34 | All |
| Lynn Felts: Participants will create a watercolor sampler, examples of various watercolor techniques. Taping a border and dividing with tape, each section will contain a different technique for use in watercolor paintings. When the sampler is complete, and the tape is pealed, a stunning work of art is revealed. | ||||
| 2:00-3:00 PM | Pre-Recorded | Abstract Watercolor Weaving | 9 | |
| Kris Bakke from Nasco Education walks you through this handy art lesson plan about abstract watercolor weaving. It's a great way to help your students create some abstract watercolor art and even mentions a book that might be on interest for your elementary students in tying watercolor method along with how people's lives are woven together. A nice tie to SEL learning as well. Grades K-5. | ||||
| 2:00-3:00 PM | Pre-Recorded | Art Deco Symmetrical Tiles | 22 | |
| Kathy Skaggs from AMACO shows how to Explore Art Deco design while teaching symmetry and the interaction of translucent and opaque glaze colors. Includes overview of the AMACO Teacher’s Palette glazes and glaze application demonstrations. | ||||
| 3:00-4:00 PM | Live | National Art Honor Society Discussion | 50 | Middle, High |
| Theresa Shetler-Logan: Let's get together for a discussion about National Art Honor Society and how to keep it going during remote or hybrid learning. I will share a few ideas on zoom meetings with artists and art schools. How to socially distance while working on murals or community projects. Also how to keep the momentum up when you can't all be there together. Come with your ideas too so we can share and help each other out. | ||||
| 3:00-4:00 PM | Pre-Recorded | CitraSolv Art | 50 | All |
| Shawny Montgomery: Clean and make art at the same time. Join Shawny Montgomery as she shows you how to create cool paper for collages and mixed media works of art using CitraSolve and some tips she's learned over the years. Lesson plan ideas will be included. | ||||
| 3:00-4:00 PM | Pre-Recorded | Art with a Purpose | 20 | All |
| Debi West: Teaching Service-Learning Lessons in this New Normal. Now is not the time to stop teaching service-learning lessons to our students! Join me as I walk you through 12 fun and educational service-learning activities that your students can do from school or from home. When students realize their art and skills can have an impact on our world, it changes them for the better! #artwithpurpose matters more than ever! | ||||
| 3:00-4:00 PM | Pre-Recorded | Basic Drawing | 38 | All |
| Lynn Felts: This is an intro to Basic Drawing. Participants can use these exercises with their students at the upper elementary, middle school level or higher. Participants will complete a warm up blind contour, a pencil shading and a pastel of the same object. Perception of Edge and switching to right brain thinking are among the reasons to start first with a blind contour. In next drawing, the graphite shading, Proportion and Placement, Perception of Space, as well as Light and Shadow are covered.The last drawing is a quick pastel coloring of the object with inventive color and capturing the essence your own artistic style. | ||||
| 3:00-4:00 PM | Pre-Recorded | Mail Art | 10 | |
| Kris Bakke: Mail Art (also known as postal art and correspondence art) is a populist artistic movement centered on sending small-scale works through the mail. Google it, it's a real thing! Kris Bakke from Nasco Education shares some pieces she's created and sent through the mail. This is a fun art project and works great during distance and remote learning. Students might not have many materials at home, so projects like these use "junk mail" or other things you've received in the mail, or you can get postcards and help students create from there. This is a great project to help see just how creative your students can get. You can even set up a mail art exchange with other schools or classes. | ||||
| 4:00-5:00 PM | Pre-Recorded | Mixed Media Personal Narrative | 50 | Middle, High |
| Wendy Ping: How does art preserve aspects of one's life? In this workshop, we will use contemporary works of art from the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art to discuss how artist's use symbols to create identity or to tell a story. We will use this information to create an abstract personal narrative by using mixed-media art techniques, with a focus on Gelli Art plates. | ||||
| 4:00-5:00 PM | Pre-Recorded | Online Art Teachers K-12 | 50 | All |
| Bob Reeker & Dr. Trina Harlow: In this session, Bob Reeker and Dr. Trina Harlow will share how the art education service project phenomenon – Online Art Teachers (K-12) – became a structural force in assisting art teachers all over the United States and world prepare for the swift and continuous move to remote instruction due to the social distancing of COVID19. This Group became an organic movement that is now and forever a part of art education history. Many of the 16,000 plus members of the group were from the state of Kansas. In this session, five critical education competences will be shared regarding the unique needs of art education during remote or blended instruction-invigorating curriculum, energizing instruction, meaningful assessment, sensible supplies, and digital skills and resources. Each of these five structural education competences will be directly related to remote/blended instruction and the inequities that exist for students, teachers, and schools regarding Internet and device availability. Digital Choice Board templates on a variety of themes for elementary, middle, and high school students will be shared with attendees. | ||||
| 4:00-5:00 PM | Pre-Recorded | Ice Ice Baby | 20 | All |
| Charity-Mika Woodard: Ice Ice Baby! The steps of dying fabric with ice and Procion fabric dyes. This is a fun alternative to traditional tie-dying and can be done with multiple levels of students, groups, or art club to design their own t-shirts or as an entry point to fiber arts. | ||||
| 4:00-5:00 PM | Pre-Recorded | Beginning Ceramics | 24 | Elementary |
| Martha Fitzwater: This workshop is 24 minutes. It's my standard Martha introduction to elementary through college age students who are beginning a ceramics unit. This workshop covers clay stages, what to expect at those stages and what clay is made of; the basics. I think it is important that they have more than just an experience but based the knowledge of the materials. No project will be completed in this workshop but you are free to use this information and add to your introduction to your students. | ||||
| 5:00-5:30 PM | Closing, Upcoming Events, Door Prizes! | |||
