Conference Sessions ›  Friday, June 9

Conference Sessions: Friday, June 9

9:00am - 10:30am

Keynote Speaker

Elliot W. Eisner, Ph.D. is Lee Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of Art at Stanford University. He has served as president of the American Educational Research Association, the National Art Education Association, the John Dewey Society, and the International Society for Education Through Art. Dr. Eisner works in thee fields: Arts Education, Curriculum Studies, and Qualitative Research
Methodology. His research interests focus on the development of aesthetic intelligence and on the use of methods from the arts to study and improve educational practice. Originally trained as a painter, Dr. Eisner’s teaching and research center around the ways in which schools might improve by using the processes of the arts in their programs. His books include The Educational Imagination, The Enlightened Eye, and Cognition and Curriculum Reconsidered.

10:45am - 12:15pm

Resources Available from The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Panel, Introductory

Learn about two national Kennedy Center education networks: Partners in Education and the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network, how they work in your state, and how they may serve as collaborators in your arts education endeavors. Information will also be shared about other arts education resources including ArtsEdge, a web-based program for K-12, and a free distance learning performance education program.
Presenters: Darrell Ayers, Barbara Shepherd, Nuit Hansgen, R. Virginia Rogers, Washington, D.C.

Dance/Movement Instruction for Children with Disabilities
Panel, Introductory

Learn how to plan, implement, and evaluate a program combining art, movement education, and medical expertise in school and community settings. Learn from the experiences of Allegro Foundation…a Champion for Children with Disabilities, an organization that has conducted dance/movement programs for children with and without disabilities for over 15 years.
Presenters: Patricia Farmer, Ruby Navarro, Jane Fastje, Dr. Judy Rollins, North Carolina

The Arts, Sensory Stimulation, and Learning
Panel, Introductory

Explore how to engage students with multiple disabilities in creating artwork that can be utilized to construct a multisensory environment that will enhance their education. Gather information from the experiences of the Mt. Tabor Elementary School and learn how to initiate a similar project.
Presenters: Gayle Holtman, Patrice Will, Cindy Cecil, Indiana

Creating Original Operas at Bancroft NeuroHealth
Lecture, Introductory

Delve into the Metropolitan Opera's Creating Original Opera program at Bancroft NeuroHealth, a residential and day program for students with severe special needs. Review both qualitative and quantitative research demonstrating student artistic and psychosocial gains.
Presenters: Dr. Kathleen Howland, Hilda Bacon, Massachusetts

 Art Enables, A Case Study in Arts-Entrepreneurship
Lecture, Introductory

Understand the fundamentals of arts-entrepreneurial programming for people with developmental and/or mental disabilities. Beyond gaining an overview of the elements involved in designing, launching, and sustaining such a program, discover the efficacy of arts-entrepreneurship in developing the social and artistic skills of persons with disabilities needed to achieve professional and economic independence.
Presenters: Joyce Muis-Lowery, Jill Scheibler, Washington, D.C.

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1:45pm - 3:15pm

Professional Development in Art, Education, and Disability
Lecture, Introductory

Learn how the VSA arts Institute enhances the ability of teachers and artists to integrate the arts into education to address the learning needs of all students. Explore the VSA arts Institute's strategies to pass along best practices for creating engaging lessons and inclusive learning environments.
Presenters: Julia Jones, James E. Modrick, Washington, D.C.

Visual Art: Another Form of Communication
Workshop, Intermediate

Explore the results of an arts/social studies integrated curriculum research project. Learn methods for embedding and scaffolding art objectives into another subject; collecting and assessing student perceptions of learning and non-art teacher perceptions of student art learning; and teaching art to students with learning disabilities.
Presenters: Dr. Cynthia Bickley-Green, Debbie Metcalf, North Carolina

New Horizons: Inclusive Arts in Pediatrics
Panel, Introductory

Explore inclusive practices of New Horizons at Children's National Medical Center, one of the first arts education and cultural enrichment programs specifically designed for a children's healthcare environment. Through interactive demonstrations, learn to adapt multiple art forms for individuals with disabilities in a pediatric hospital setting.
Presenters: Tina Lassiter, Heather Stemas, Ermyn King, Nora Stinely, Washington, D.C.

CANCELLED - The Arts - Breaking Through Learning Barriers
Lecture, Introductory

Investigate how the arts can encourage brain reorganization and synaptic development for students with disabilities.  Enjoy a dynamic, interactive, and humorous account of how one autistic child’s involvement in the arts led to the development of the educational innovation that is known as Artsgenesis.
Presenter:  Kathleen Gaffney, New York

Mime Your Own Business
Workshop, Introductory

Improve your ability to address language and drama skill development of students who are Deaf and hard-of-hearing. Discover how the use of performance skills, specifically mime, along with comprehensive assessment tools, enable Deaf and hard-of-hearing students to construct a story in written format.
Presenter: Don Kukla, Montana

ADDED - Visually Impaired Artists' New Ways of Making and Appreciiation
Workshop, Introductory

Learn how the experience of disability has informed the work of a design student and arts practitioner with a visual impairment.  Explore new ways of making and appreciating sculpture through touch, and discover how to teach drawing techniques that are cognizant of varying levels of visual awarenss.  Participate in this hands-on clay workshop and learn techniques that apply across all ranges of age and ability.
Presenter: Padraig Haugton, Ireland

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3:30pm - 5:00pm

THE CITY: A Multi-Level Art Project
Workshop, Introductory

Discover THE CITY, a multi-level art activity that can enhance creativity, knowledge, and awareness of one's environment. Through the creation of their own city blocks and collaborative construction of a city, participants will explore the flexibility of this project and how it can be woven into a variety of core subject areas.
Presenters: George Dubinsky, Eric Jacobson, New York

The Benefits of Dance and Movement for All!
Workshop, Introductory

Join this interactive workshop and discover how movement and music can be adapted for people of all physical abilities. Understand how balance, stretch, strength, and personal exploration can be used to unify diverse populations.
Presenters: Karen Peterson, John Beauregard, Florida

Critical Thinking Skills through the Arts
Workshop, Intermediate

Uncover how students with special needs can build on their visual, auditory, and kinesthetic strengths to develop critical thinking skills that apply across all learning domains. Examine strategies that integrate the arts with other curriculum content areas to support student achievement.
Presenters: Rose Ann Schwartz, Susan Mackey, John Ceschini, Maryland

ArtWorks! Jumpstarting a Visual Arts Career
Workshop, Introductory

Help provide career support to visual artists with disabilities through the tips and techniques learned in this hands-on workshop. Use a visual arts activity to solidify artistic vision and learn the steps needed to make a career in the arts happen for developing and emerging artists.
Presenters: Celia Hughes, April Sullivan, Texas

Creating an Inclusive Teaching Plan
Workshop, Intermediate

Teach to the learning strengths of your students rather than focusing on their weaknesses. This workshop will impart the skills needed to create arts infused curricula that address various learning styles by using alternative ways of teaching.
Presenter: Dr. Nancy Wolf, Oregon

Art Stations VSA arts Start with the Arts Family Festival (at Union Station)
40 Massachusetts Avenue, NE

Take an art journey at the VSA arts Start with the Arts Family Festival and learn the value of using the arts as a teaching strategy, or to enjoy at home. Experienced teaching artists lead each art station, demonstrating both art and teaching techniques that engage budding artists of all abilities in interactive learning experiences. Stop in at one of three art stations and participate in creating public art, mask making, or beading. Enjoy a performance, browse through the children's book fair, have dinner and stay for the free concert at 6:00pm.

3:00   Tony DeBlois, jazz pianist, Massachusetts
           Jessie Ross, jazz vocalist, Canada
4:00   Derek Mortland, folk guitarist, Ohio
           Quamon Fowler, jazz saxophone, Louisiana
6:00   Matt Savage Trio, jazz, New Hampshire

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