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CONTENTS

2015 USSEA REGIONAL CONFERENCE AN INCLUSIVE WORLD: BRIDGING COMMUNITIES MISSION STATEMENT & KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ....... 3 OPENING SPEECH BY THE HONORABLE QUEENS BOROUGH PRESIDENT MELINDA KATZ ................. 5 HIGHLIGHTS .......................................................... 6 PRE-CONFERENCE AGENDA JULY 17 ..................... 8

SCHEDULE FRIDAY JULY 17 ....................................8 SCHEDULE SATURDAY JULY 18 ..............................9 SCHEDULE SUNDAY JULY 19 ............................... 17 ABOUT USSEA ..................................................... 23 DIRECTIONS ........................................................ 23 ACCESSIBILITY ..................................................... 24

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2015 USSEA REGIONAL CONFERENCE AN INCLUSIVE WORLD: BRIDGING COMMUNITIES MISSION STATEMENT & KEYNOTE SPEAKERS The conference examines art education in classrooms, museums, and community arts organizations. The goals of the conference are to find ways that participants in these different contexts might share resources, knowledge, and expertise to enrich their respective disciplines. The conference topics are as follows: Inclusion in learning communities; Effective tools for diverse community engagement in the museum; Debating the stigma of “Outsider Art”; Art and social practice; and High and low tech tools for 21st century art education. The four keynote speakers were invited based on these foci. They are each renowned representatives in their fields:

Sherry Huss Sherry Huss is vice president of Maker Media and co-creator of the beloved Maker Faire. Her vision and passion for the maker movement is instrumental in growing the Make: brand within the maker ecosystem. Sherry brings over 20 years of product marketing and event experience to the

team, joining Make: after holding senior management positions at MediaLive International, Key3Media, Ziff-Davis, and Softbank. Before Maker Faire, Sherry was instrumental in launching and managing successful technology and consumer events such as Sun’s JavaOne, Oracle’s iDevelop, O’Reilly Media’s Web 2.0 Summit and Dwell on Design. When not in the office, Sherry and her husband enjoy exploring the maker scene around the world and seeking out exceptional cuisine. Maker Trivia: Sherry co-owns Renga Arts, a company dedicated to functional art made from reclaimed, repurposed and recycled items.

Tom di Maria Tom di Maria has served as Creative Growth Art Center’s Director since 2000. As Director, he has developed partnerships with museums, galleries and international design companies to help bring Creative Growth's artists with disabilities fully into the contemporary art world. He speaks around the world about the Center’s major artists and their relationship to both Outsider Art and contemporary culture. Prior to this position, he served as Assistant Director of the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, at UC Berkeley.

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Tom has also worked as the Executive Director of FRAMELINE, and as Director of Development and Marketing at the San Francisco Film Society. He holds a B.F.A. from Rochester Institute of Technology and a M.F.A. from Maryland Institute, College of Art, in film and photography. Tom is also an award-winning filmmaker, with short film awards from Sundance, Black Maria, Sinking Creek, National Educational Media, and New York Experimental film festivals.

Tim Rollins Tim Rollins (b. 1955, Pittsfield, Maine) studied fine art at the University of Maine and earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. After graduate studies in art education and philosophy at New York University, Rollins began teaching art for special education middle school students in a South Bronx public school. In 1984, he launched the Art and Knowledge Workshop in the Bronx together with a group of at-risk students who called themselves K.O.S. (Kids of Survival). In 1997, the documentary, Kids of Survival: The Art and Life of Tim Rollins & K.O.S. was widely received at the London Film Festival, Cinema de Real, France and the Hamptons International Film Festival. Since its inception, the group has exhibited extensively worldwide including a recent solo exhibition at the Savannah College of Art and Design’s Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, in 2014. Additional exhibitions include presentations at the Studio Museum, Harlem (2013); Hayward Gallery, London (2012); Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2012); Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy

(2011); the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. (2011); and the Whitney Biennial (2006). A retrospective of the group’s 20-year career opened at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in 2009 and travelled to the Frye Museum in Seattle and the ICA Philadelphia later that year. A fully illustrated hardcover catalogue, co-published by the Tang Museum and MIT Press, accompanied the exhibition. The group’s work is represented in nearly 100 prestigious public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum of Art, Washington D.C.; Tate Modern, London; Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C. and Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, among others. Tim Rollins and K.O.S. are based in New York City.

Sree Sreenivasan Sree Sreenivasan (@sree) is the first Chief Digital Officer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. At the Met, he leads a 70-person world-class team on topics he loves: digital, social, mobile, video, apps, email, interactives, data and more. He joined the Met in 2013 after spending 20+ years at Columbia University as a full-time professor at Columbia Journalism School and a year as the

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university's first Chief Digital Officer. In 2009, he was named one of AdAge's 25 media people to follow on Twitter; in 2010 was named one of Poynter's 35 most influential people in social media; and in 2014, was named one of the most influential Chief Digital Officers by CDO Club. You can find him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sree and on the web at http://sree.net The New York Times recently wrote about the digital strategy of the Met and Sree, on the occasion of his first anniversary at the Museum: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/arts/design/museums-see-different-virtues-in-virtual-worlds.html?_r=0 And the Met's flagship iOS app just launched - http://metmuseum.org/app - and it was named a "Best New App" by Apple; a "Must-Have App" by Design Sponge; and an "App of the Week" by iLounge. Business Insider used the app to look at the Met's wider digital media strategy: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/digital-strategy-at-the-met-2014-9 OPENING SPEECH BY THE HONORABLE QUEENS BOROUGH PRESIDENT MELINDA KATZ

Melinda Katz The 19th President of the Borough of Queens

Melinda Katz has served as the 19th President of the Borough of Queens since January 1, 2014. Ms. Katz has been a dedicated public servant for more than 20 years. Ms. Katz represented the 29th District in the New York City Council from 2002 to 2009 and throughout her tenure Chaired the Council’s Land Use Committee which, under her leadership, secured public private partnerships that led to the creation of more than 15,000 units of affordable housing, sited new schools and rezoned much of the City. Ms. Katz also served in the New York State Assembly from 1994 to 1998 and authored and helped pass 16 laws, including one requiring HMOs to provide women with direct access to critical gynecological services. Ms. Katz is a native and lifelong resident of Queens. She developed her deep appreciation for the arts in education as the daughter of a family with a long history of civic engagement. Her mother founded the Queens Council on the Arts; her father taught music at Jamaica High School and founded the Queens Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Katz lives in Forest Hills, raising her two young children, Carter and Hunter, in the same house where she grew up.

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HIGHLIGHTS PRE-CONFERENCE EVENT K-12 An Inclusive World: Young People’s Voices Reception Date: Friday, July 17 Time: 12:00 PM ~ 1:00 PM Location: Unisphere Come join us to celebrate NYC K-12 students’ art! Refreshments, certificates for students, prizes, art making workshops, and Blick art materials giveaways! EVENTS DURING THE CONFERENCE The Travelling Exhibition: An Inclusive World When: July 11 - August 9 2015 Location: Partnership Gallery/ Werwaiss Family Gallery/Atrium/Library Space in Progress Opening Reception: Friday, July 17 Opening Reception Time: 5:30 PM ~ 7:30 PM Opening Reception Location: Werwaiss Family Gallery Vida Sabbaghi will bring the travelling exhibition, “An Inclusive World” to the Queens Museum, which is part of COPE NYC, an art program that combines the academic and the experiential to bridge communities. COPE NYC programs provide an innovative approach to promote social relations through art programs, community art projects, exhibitions, and round table discussion. COPE NYC works with senior citizen centers, public and private schools from K-12 to post-secondary schools and rehabilitative centers. “An Inclusive World” broadens the definition of inclusive models by integrating art education and art in society, and extends the academic inclusive models through a communitarian approach. The exhibit promotes the social and communitarian model with an evolving group of artists who are intergenerational and are at different points in their lives as artists, creating dynamic, thought-provoking exhibitions, performances, workshops and shared dialogues that bring originality in understanding how art transforms lives in various ways.

Queens Museum Exhibition: Robert Seydel: The Eye In Matter July 19 – September 27 2015 Location: Queens Museum Opening Reception: Saturday, July 18 Opening Reception Time: 7:00 PM ~ 9:00 PM Opening Reception Location: Skylight Gallery

Untitled” by Robert Seydel, n.d. © the Estate of Robert Seydel

The art of Robert Seydel (1960-2011) is a rare hybrid of the visual and literary that dissolves boundaries between the lyrical, the narrative, reading and looking, marked by an unrelenting sense of play. Seydel merges the historical past with the present by merging actual personages with fictional characters – for example, the viewer/reader meets Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp. Beginning in 2000, Seydel created this series of works using the alter ego Ruth Greisman, a resident of Queens, New York, who was inspired by his aunt of the same name. The exhibition features a definitive selection from this fictional archive with a selection of Ruth’s “journal pages,” numerous collages (many previously unexhibited), and Seydel’s notebooks, open to pages that reveal glimpses of the process of making this visionary body of work. Seydel was a prolific artist and writer who left behind a richly layered and highly original body of work after his sudden death at the age of fifty. He rarely exhibited his work in his lifetime other than in a solo exhibition at the CUE Foundation in New

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York City and in “Five Contemporary Visual Poets” at the Wright Exhibition Space in Seattle. A beloved professor at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, for more than a decade, he also served as curator at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University for a number of years. “Robert Seydel: The Eye in Matter” has been curated by Peter Gizzi, Richard Kraft and Lisa Pearson, and organized for the Queens Museum by Louise Weinberg, Registrar, Archives Manager and Curator.

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PRE-CONFERENCE AGENDA JULY 17

11:00 AM ~ 11:45 AM A CONVERSATION WITH THE NEW YORK CITY ART TEACHERS ASSOCIATION Mario Asaro Jackie Cruz Joan L. Davidson Erin-Marie Elman Lisa Kaplan Anu Sieunarine Marion Theodore The New York City Art Teachers Association/United Federation of Teachers has served as a professional development, advocacy and networking organization for NYC art educators for 35 years. Come meet the President, Executive Vice President and Executive Board Members of the NYCATA/UFT for an overview of our activities and organizational strategies. Participants will have an opportunity to share organization structures, activities and organizational strategies in their area and present concerns that face them in their professional life. Bagels and coffee will be available during this dialogue session. Location: Unisphere 12:00 PM ~ 1:00 PM K-12 AN INCLUSIVE WORLD: YOUNG PEOPLE VOICES RECEPTION Location: Unisphere SCHEDULE FRIDAY JULY 17

11:00 AM ~ 7:00 PM ON-SITE REGISTRATION Location: Atrium USSEA REGIONAL CONFERENCE ‘AN INCLUSIVE WORLD: BRIDGING COMMUNITIES’ 2:00 PM ~ 3:45 PM INTRODUCTIONS, OPENING SPEECH AND KEYNOTE Location: Atrium

Honorable Queens Borough President Melinda Katz

Keynote Tom Di Maria 4:00 PM ~ 5:15 PM CONCURRENT INTERACTIVE BREAK-OUT SESSIONS

A Diamond Called Outsider Art Panelists include:

Alice Wexler, Author, Art and Disability: The Social and Political Struggles Facing Education Valerie Goodman, Owner, Valerie Goodman Gallery John Infante, Project coordinator, Chashama Interactive Break-Out Session

A semantic analysis of the meaning of the word ”Outsider” reflecting the evolution of the temporal and spatial deictic (factors) related to the art world. The discussion aims to share the evolution of the perception of outsider art and outsider artist for museums, art critics, curators, dealers, art teachers and art professors, artists, and art lovers.

Location: Theater

Bound and Unbound: Presenting the work of Judith Scott at the Brooklyn Museum’s Sackler Center for Feminist Art Panelists include: Catherine Morris, Exhibition curator, Sackler Center for Feminist Art Tom di Maria, Director, Creative Growth Art Center Christina McCollum, PhD Candidate, The Graduate Center, CUNY Interactive Break-Out Session The panel explores curatorial concerns about presenting the work of Creative Growth artist Judith Scott into a contemporary context that responds to issues of disability, feminism, and the problematic nature of the term “Outsider,” as they relate to the conditions of a museum exhibition and its visitors. Location: Atrium

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5:30 PM ~ 7:30 PM AN INCLUSIVE WORLD EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION Location: Werwaiss Family Gallery Vida Sabbaghi will bring the travelling exhibition, “An Inclusive World” to the Queens Museum, which is part of COPE NYC, an art program that combines the academic and the experiential to bridge communities. COPE NYC programs provide an innovative approach to promote social relations through art programs, community art projects, exhibitions, and round table discussion. COPE NYC works with senior citizen centers, public and private schools from K-12 to post-secondary schools and rehabilitative centers. “An Inclusive World” broadens the definition of inclusive models by integrating art education and art in society, and extends the academic inclusive models through a communitarian approach. The exhibit promotes the social and communitarian model with an evolving group of artists who are intergenerational and are at different points in their lives as artists, creating dynamic, thought-provoking exhibitions, performances, workshops and shared dialogues that bring originality in understanding how art transforms lives in various ways. SCHEDULE SATURDAY JULY 18 8:30 AM ~ 7:00 PM ON-SITE REGISTRATION ALL DAY Location: Atrium 8:30 AM ~ 9:30 AM BREAKFAST Location: Museum Café 8:30 AM ~ 9:30 AM A World of Experience Networking Breakfast Overlooking the Unisphere of the 1964-65 World’s Fair, join Visitor Experience professionals for an engaging networking breakfast. Attendees will have the opportunity for informal discussions on the role of visitor experience in a variety of arts and culture institutions and ask for advice on furthering ideas in their own institutions. Location: Werwaiss Family Gallery

9:20 AM ~ 9:45 AM How to Engage the Student in the Critiquing Process: Save your “likes” for Facebook Carrie Alter Individual Best Practice How can we better engage the student in the critiquing process? By introducing the Western Philosophy branches of Aesthetics and Epistemology my students have become enthusiastic, vocal, and articulate when critiquing art in the classroom and beyond. Allow me to share my method. Location: Theater 9:20 AM ~ 9:45 AM Effective Tools for Diverse Community Engagement in the Museum Teri Evans Palmer Individual Best Practice Do you struggle with engaging unresponsive adolescent students? This session offers case-specific interventions that highlight discussions with docents from three national art museums. The session’s informal “locker room” format in tandem with positive role-playing, interactive collaborations, and humor, demonstrate engagement approaches that enrich docents’ communication and rapport with youth. Location: Unisphere

9:20 AM ~ 9:45 AM From London to Rio: Cultural Olympiad and the INSPIRE project Peter Gregory Individual Best Practice This presentation will consider the impact of the Olympic cultural legacy as built through the INSPIRE project with children and young people across Kent (SE England). The distinct phases of the project span three years and will have involved over 7,000 young people in a range of arts based projects. The paper asks what has been learned through INSPIRE? Location: Triangle 10:00 AM ~ 11:20 AM INTRODUCTIONS AND KEYNOTE

Keynote Tim Rollins

Location: Atrium

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11:35 AM ~ 12:35 PM Creative Mandala Making with Nature Monica Iancu Studio Workshop (15 people maximum) Create your own mandala collage using natural materials such as seeds, petals, and wood. In this workshop, teaching artist Monica Iancu will use this contemplative East Asian art form as a source of inspiration and as a tool for reflection and engagement with nature. Location: Skylight Gallery 11:35 AM ~ 12:35 PM Democratizing Publishing: Zines in the Museum Lauren Abman Rachel Shipps Studio Workshop (15 people maximum) This workshop sits at the intersection of rapid production and personal narrative. Using zines, which utilize both hands-on collage and storytelling techniques, we explore the potential of zines as both an interpretive tool and means of drawing personal connections to “high art” museum experiences. Location: Skylight Gallery

11:35 AM ~ 12:35 PM Exploring Social Issues through Art Mario Asaro Studio Workshop (20 people maximum) Mario Asaro has been teaching art in NYC public schools for 28 years and was a founding member and coordinator of Artists/Teachers Concerned (1985 -1995). Join him as he reviews the history of ATC and some of the recent socially motivated projects he has introduced to students. Participate in a hands on introduction to Keith Haring and the Wall Warriors project. Location: Skylight Gallery

11:35 AM ~ 12:35 PM Search and Discover: Using Interactive Sculpture to Foster Inclusiveness in a Historic Setting MJ Levy Dickson Caroline Drabik Margaret Highland Ansel Lurio Panel Hear from two historic house professionals, a special-needs professional and an artist, about an

innovative workshop they designed for people with disabilities. Learn how using a tactile sculptural arrangement can engage, teach, and inspire diverse groups. Plan how you might incorporate such a program into your museum or historic house. Location: Theater 11:35 AM ~ 12:25 PM American Museum of Natural History Presents Bring the Inside Out! Ilana April Bilexis Casado Caitlin Coe Natalie Tahsler Group Best Practice/Hands On Learn how to use dioramas to develop an effective and engaging Museum trip. Experienced educators from the American Museum of Natural History will provide hands on activities and resources for using dioramas as teaching tools. Participants will explore resources and documentation from a diorama project that illuminates how to incorporate a Museum trip into your curriculum and how to create a truly interdisciplinary unit, seamlessly interweaving art, literacy, and mathematics with science. Location: Unisphere

11:35 AM ~ 12:25 PM ArtsAction Group: Fostering Capabilities through Social Practice Cindy Maguire Rob McCallum Karmit Zysman Group Best Practice ArtsAction Group, an international community-based collective, facilitates arts initiatives with children and youth in conflict-affected environments. We share three projects based in the USA, Kosovo, and Algeria. Our work, guided by the principles of social practice and the capability approach and human development, engages communities in personal and collective transformation. Location: Triangle

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11:35 AM ~ 12:35 PM Inclusive World Museum Education Karen Keifer- Boyd Individual Informal Find Cards is a differential learning strategy for diverse community engagement in the museum. This museum education workshop is an opportunity to dialogue about the Inclusive World exhibition using an effective inclusion strategy. Location: Werwaiss Family Gallery 11:35 AM ~ 12:35 PM Creating Empathy in the Classroom through Visual Metaphors Jennifer Marie Lau Anna K. Lemnitzer Studio Workshop (20 people maximum) Participants will explore psychological disorders through visual metaphors in order to foster awareness and understanding of the many shades of mental health. Metaphors create other perspectives for experiential learning. This workshop will view contemporary artists, examine personal behaviors and needs of students through group and individual exercises and arts activities. Location: Studio B 12:35 PM ~ 1:35 PM LUNCH BREAK Location: Museum Café

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Come Catch Your Dreams! Laura Pawson Studio Workshop (20 people maximum) A dream catcher workshop will encompass the technique of coiling a dream catcher frame and weaving the inside of the piece. The dream catchers could be installed on a tree (outside if possible, or a tree like sculpture if indoors) and left as an installation piece. Participants will learn the history of dream catcher making along with the cultural connection to Native American folk art. Location: Skylight Gallery

1:35 PM ~ 2:35 PM Creative Reuse: Upcycling with Materials for the Arts John Cloud Kaiser Studio Workshop (40 people maximum) Materials for the Arts makes art supplies available to the public in NYC by transforming our city’s leftover materials into art supplies. Discover how organizations, audiences, and classrooms can be empowered as artists when they are inspired to creatively rethink the boxes, bottles, hangers and other available materials around them. Location: Skylight Gallery 1:35 PM ~ 2:35 PM New York Hall of Science: The Art of Making Janella Watson David Wells Studio Workshop (20 people maximum) The New York Hall of Science is a hub for hands on exploration through tinkering and making. Join us for a deep dive into our Design Make Play philosophy which brings STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) learning to life. In this hands-on workshop explore the world of circuitry, combine everyday materials to light up LEDs, and design your own creative circuitry project. Location: Skylight Gallery

1:35 PM ~ 2:45 PM More Than a Ticket: Meeting Your Visitors Expectations Joseph Gonzales Nicole Krom Krista Dahl Kusuma Ashley Mask Christopher Wisniewski Panel Meeting visitor’s expectations on all levels is vital. Does your organization create a welcoming atmosphere that encourages a sense of belonging and participation? In this session, learn about approaches for designing museum visitor experiences, developing a rationale for institutional buy-in, and practical tips for organizations of all sizes. Location: Theater

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1:35 PM ~ 2:35 PM Arts Mentoring: Authentic Bonds Fuel Us Brianna Brooks Alison Rutsch Emily Ustach Studio Workshop (20 people maximum) New Urban Arts is an art studio that engages artists as mentors for high school students. Empowering youth as leaders and decision makers in the organization, New Urban Arts eschews the top-down approaches to teaching and learning. Join us for an interactive session that examines youth empowered relationships that help us meet our mission of a “vital community.” Location: Unisphere 1:35 PM ~ 2:25 PM RoadWorks No. 1 Brian Bulfer Judith M. Burton Wendell Jeffrey Laia Sole Group Best Practice In November 2014, a group of faculty and doctoral students from Teachers College Columbia University (TC) enacted a collaborative art-based research project with the Art Center of South Florida (ACSF). The project took its inspiration from the many new and colorful building sites around the City which led members to wonder about the effects of such physical transformations on the memories of the community. Hence, Road Work, Memories under Construction No.1 was born. Location: Triangle 1:35 PM ~ 2:00 PM PERCENT FOR GREEN: Creating Space as Consciousness Alicia Grullon Individual Best Practice This talk looks at the socially engaged art project PERCENT FOR GREEN that deals with looking at climate change in the Bronx and how art can serve community. The goal is to pass a bill allotting funds from city-funded construction projects to sustainable green initiatives overseen by small grassroots organizations in Environmental Justice (EJ) communities. The artist

will speak about her process and to the significance of socially engaged art to participatory democracy. Location: Werwaiss Family Gallery 1:35 PM ~ 2:35 PM Cultivating Teen Audiences through Drop-In Programming Jordan Smith Leigh Wells Group Best Practice/Hands On (20 people maximum) How can a museum most effectively engage their teen audience? How do we develop a model that supports a museum’s mission, is pedagogically-sound, and most important, is fun and appealing to teens? This workshop will highlight one museum’s strategic approach to reaching a teen audience through informal and out-of-school time digital media-making activities, and then run a sample hands-on activity for participants. Location: Studio B 2:20 PM ~ 2:45 PM Interactive Storytelling Helen Wheelock Individual Best Practice Interactive Storytelling is a highly successful drama strategy used by CUNY-CAT’s Early Learning Program that invites the audience to be co-creators of the story through verbal and physical participation. This helps participants build emergent literacy skills, explore different points of view and emotional dimensions, and engage in critical thinking and problem solving. Location: Werwaiss Family Gallery

3:05 PM ~ 4:05 PM Art and Resilience: A Trauma-informed Creative Arts Curriculum for Adolescents Lisa Kay Studio Workshop (12 people maximum) This workshop introduces a trauma-informed creative arts curriculum that seeks to develop resilience in adolescents with adverse childhood experiences including trauma. Workshop will cover an overview including: key elements, basic tenets, themes, and art interventions. Participants will create narrative art work, engage in creative writing, and share personal stories.

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Location: Skylight Gallery 3:05 PM ~ 4:05 PM Hallways as Canvas: Using Wheat Paste Graffiti Techniques in the K-12 Classroom Margaret Weber Studio Workshop (15 people maximum) Bridging the gap between graffiti/street art, and the K-12 visual art classroom can encourage both student engagement and critical thinking skills. Come see how one middle school art teacher used wheat paste graffiti art techniques to create a semi-permanent (and inexpensive) collaborative public art installation in her school’s hallways. Hands on art-making activity. Worksheets and handouts will be distributed. Location: Skylight Gallery

3:05 PM ~ 4:05 PM New York Hall of Science Presents the Art of Making Janella Watson David Wells Studio Workshop (25 people maximum) The New York Hall of Science is a hub for hands on exploration through tinkering and making. Join us for a deep dive into our Design Make Play philosophy which brings STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) learning to life. In this hands-on workshop explore the world of circuitry, combine everyday materials to light up LEDs, and design your own creative circuitry project. Location: Skylight Gallery 3:05 PM ~ 4:15 PM An InSEA Survival Kit for Art Education Fiona Blaikie Teresa Eca Ana Maria Barbero Franco Marjorie Manifold Panel A collaborative panel will present, discuss, and evaluate with the participants the InSEA Survival Kit for arts education. Location: Theater

3:05 PM ~ 3:55 PM The P811Q Grafix Class: A Collaborative Effort to Provide Students with Autism Meaningful Work and Leisure Skills Ralph Avellino Eileen Comens Kim Howard Diana Parisy Group Best Practice As a result of their participation in Queens Museum’s Art Access Program, eight young men with autism attending P811Q were grouped together to form the “P811Q Grafix Class,” a vocational activity designing and producing greeting cards from the students’ art. Location: Triangle 3:05 PM ~ 3:30 PM Desert Pedagogy: Art in the Mohave as a Model for Social and Environmental Responsibility Mark A. Graham Individual Best Practice This presentation describes an alternative pedagogy for art educators that focuses on local communities and ecologies as sources for content, experience, and inspiration. Using the example of a project in the Mojave Desert that combined writing, entomology, and art, we will illuminate the role of the artist/educator in broader educational contexts. Location: Werwaiss Family Gallery 3:05 PM ~ 3:30 PM The Cardboard Ramp Samantha Lamprecht Alice Wexler Group Best Practice Disability affects one’s daily sense of body in space, whether impairment is neurological, physical, or cognitive. Impairment de-centers social environments constructed for a public unaware of its entitlement. After studying Universal Design and designing the ideal classroom, my students and I decided that we needed to take UD out of the realm of theory and put diversity into action on campus. Location: Unisphere

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3:05 PM ~ 3:30 PM Bridging Communities through Technology? A Virtual Conference as an Example. Sandrine Han Individual Best Practice Can technology bridge people and communities? This presentation will use a virtual conference hosted in Second Life and Google Hangout on Air as an example of what technology can do and what it cannot. Location: Studio B 3:50 PM ~ 4:15 PM Living Geometry as a Catalyst for Learning in the Visual Arts: The Pythagoras Narrative Judith M. Burton Individual Best Practice As we move thinking beyond STEM to STEAM we acknowledge that powerful possibilities for teaching and learning originate everywhere. Drawing upon an integration of visual, verbal, musical, social, and spatial arts, this presentation documents how a group of eighth graders, working collaboratively, envisioned the Pythagorean Theorem as a catalyst for exploration of concepts of social class and social justice. Location: Unisphere 3:50 PM ~ 4:15 PM From visual thinking to aesthetics: Visual Aesthetic Education in Taiwan Jo Chiung Hua Chen Individual Best Practice Taiwan’s Ministry of Education (MOE) announced 2014 as a year for aesthetic education to focus on empowering the country as a whole. A curriculum reform pilot project sponsored by MOE takes the lead to focus on shaping high school students’ visual capacities. Presenter will discuss curriculum design based on visual form and its implementation. Location: Studio B 4:35 PM ~ 5:35 PM Weaving to Heal – The Benefits of Weaving Cynthia Alberto Studio Workshop (8 people maximum) Workshop participants will develop a deep understanding of weaving as a healing art through

discussion covering the art’s strong history of mental and physical health benefits and the future of weaving as a therapeutic tool. Location: Skylight Gallery 4:35 PM ~ 5:35 PM Beyond Transforming Origami Model & Geometry Eun Kyung Shin Minhye Lee Soo Yeun Lee Ping Rong Studio Workshop (25 people maximum) Origami Therapy Association would like to introduce the benefits of learning and folding origami. Origami has educational and therapeutic values. We believe the best way to be acquainted with Origami is to experience it. We would like to invite everyone to participate in folding paper and then explain how it benefits healthy living. Location: Skylight Gallery 4:35 PM ~ 5:35 PM Effective Tools for Diverse Discovery Process to Community in the Museum Pierre Pepin Studio Workshop (20 people maximum) This phenomenological study of color diffuses the light through a filter thus creating a light painting in motion, reproducing colors + - of the spectrum. We will explore a tool of science, motion, creative art, esthetics, and technology in Studio Art and demystify the effects and movements of light, reproducing the full spectrum of color and light optical phenomena. Location: Skylight Gallery 4:35 PM ~ 5:45 PM Museum Art Access: Flow, Travel and Space Marie Clapot Mitra Dejkameh Maya Jeffereis Lara Schweller Cynthia VandenBosch Panel Museum access programs foster opportunities for engaging with art for audiences with a range of abilities. In this panel, museum educators raise questions regarding key themes of travel, flow and space as they relate to museum accessibility.

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This panel will close with breakout sessions engaging the audience. Location: Unisphere 4:35 PM ~ 5:25 PM ROCKLAND LIVING MUSEUM an Open Art Studio That Bridges Diverse Worlds: Mental Illness, Deafness, Physical and Developmental Disabilities Christine Randolph Lauren Ruggiero Group Best Practice This presentation will take the viewer on a journey through images of what an inclusive and diverse art program looks like and how we interface from the safer confines of the hospital with the real-life community outside. Location: Triangle 4:35 PM ~ 5:00 PM Inclusion in Learning Communities: Dislocating “Latin American” Art Adetty Perez de Miles Individual Best Practice In this presentation, building on the insights of prominent artists and theorists, I will explore the very notion of “Latin America” in order to propose that the art from Latin America must be studied in the broader context of contemporary art and critical perspectives beyond reductionist North-South axis, and Identity-based politics. Location: Theater 4:35 PM ~ 5:00 PM Art from the Heart: Curating a Community Exhibition Amy Appleton Individual Best Practice This interactive workshop is an opportunity for participants to learn how Free Arts NYC organizes our annual culminating art exhibition that showcases hundreds of artworks made by youth and families in our programs over the course of the year. Participants will receive best practices for community outreach and civic engagement to use in planning an exhibit of their own Location: Studio B

5:20 PM ~ 5:45 PM Conserving the Dhokra Tribal Art in India through a Mobile Museum Mousimi De Individual Best Practice The Dhokra tribal art is an ancient practice of the Lost Wax process of metal casting prevalent amongst specific tribal communities in India. Modernization has not only reduced this art into a commercial practice but also decayed the transference of knowledge embodied in this practice. This presentation documents the significance of this practice and efforts to preserve the knowledge through an intervention of a mobile museum on Dhokra tribal art. Location: Theater 5:20 PM ~ 5:45 PM How Student "Art Explorers" Bridge Communities Molly O’Brien Individual Best Practice How can we help students and their families engage with their artistic communities, especially in fast changing (gentrifying) areas? Learn how 10 year old pioneers broke through art world exclusivity during NURTUREart’s Art Explorers after school initiative. Location: Studio B 6:05 PM ~ 7:15 PM Sharing Best Practices: Inter-Institutional Collaboration and Accessibility Miranda Appelbaum Cynthia VandenBosch Panel It can be challenging to find professional development opportunities, best practices, and audiences for access programs. The Museum Access Consortium (MAC) created a platform to further accessibility for individuals with autism. Using this project as a case study, participants will explore how sharing resources across institutions can make impactful change. Location: Theater

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6:05 PM ~ 7:05 PM MolotovArt: Pedagogic Cocktails of Latin America Presenters’ topics: Apecheta: memory perspective Mario Mogrovejo Dominguez Hands Thinking Tomas Vega/Ana Angelica Albano Maps of Intersections in Visual Education Artistic Event as Pedagogy Belidson Dias/Tatiana Fernandez Pacheco Adjectives Cinthia Siqueira/Alex Sampaio Lima Group Best Practice Currently, in Latin America our task is to transform Art Education into social practices to build reflective and tolerant societies by looking inward to spark social changes. To think about our identity, we must strengthen understandings of cultural diversity and therefore propose the re-humanization under the challenging relations with high technology. In this sense the crossing of frontiers between arts, design, and education creates possibilities for an understanding of a pedagogy of dissent to generate dynamics of reflection about our societies and cultures. Location: Triangle 6:05 PM ~ 6:55 PM Museum Teen Summit: Youth-led Museum Advocacy Museum Teen Summit Marit Dewhurst Interactive Presentation Museum Teen Summit, a youth-directed collective of teen leaders representing museums in New York City is dedicated to advocating for and promoting the role of young people in museums. In this teen-led workshop, we will share findings from our research on teen programs in museums to discuss what it looks like when teens shape the future of museum education. Location: Werwaiss Family Gallery

6:05 PM ~ 6:55 PM D R E A M R O O M - making space for neurodiverse collaboration Eric Magnus Lisa Szolovits Mirana Zuger Participants Dieurisaint Andre Anel Jean Baptiste Alem Blount Samuel Ho Adrian Lewis Jerry Lipsky Rosita Ramos Peter Rosario Michelle Wensmann Group Best Practice Developed with a focus on neurodiverse collaboration by artists from YAI ARTS and Brooklyn College's Performance and Interactive Media program, DREAMROOM is an ephemeral performance environment designed to engage the public in collective dreaming at the Brooklyn Museum, a site for intersecting pathways of neurology, artistic expression, and discovery. Location: Studio B 6:05 PM ~ 6:30 PM The Precarious Challenge of Linking Critical Pedagogy in Service-Learning Amanda Alexander Ross Schlemmer Group Best Practice This presentation presents a framework to develop socially relevant art programs in the teaching of art that bridge critical pedagogy and service-learning. We focus on teasing out the critical aspects of service-learning to challenge art students to invest in deeper understandings of power and privilege within their local communities and the larger global context. Location: Unisphere

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6:50 PM ~ 7:15 PM On-site Storytelling Project for Rockaway Beach, NY Patricia Harris Best Practice Visitors will be able to access stories about Hurricane Sandy triggered by gps on their smart phones at 9 sites along the waterfront of Shore Parkway. When visitors have experienced all 9 stories, they will gain access to an image. They will also get a scan code that will enable them to take advantage of a neighborhood freebie. Visitors can experience stories about Sandy while exploring the neighborhood. Location: Unisphere

7:00 PM ~ 9:00 PM Queens Museum Exhibition: Robert Seydel: The Eye In Matter Opening Reception July 19 – September 27 2015 Location: Skylight Gallery

Untitled” by Robert Seydel, n.d. © the Estate of Robert Seydel

The art of Robert Seydel (1960-2011) is a rare hybrid of the visual and literary that dissolves boundaries between the lyrical, the narrative, reading and looking, marked by an unrelenting sense of play. Seydel merges the historical past with the present by merging actual personages with fictional characters – for example, the viewer/reader meets Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp. Beginning in 2000, Seydel created this

series of works using the alter ego Ruth Greisman, a resident of Queens, New York, who was inspired by his aunt of the same name. The exhibition features a definitive selection from this fictional archive with a selection of Ruth’s “journal pages,” numerous collages (many previously unexhibited), and Seydel’s notebooks, open to pages that reveal glimpses of the process of making this visionary body of work. Seydel was a prolific artist and writer who left behind a richly layered and highly original body of work after his sudden death at the age of fifty. He rarely exhibited his work in his lifetime other than in a solo exhibition at the CUE Foundation in New York City and in “Five Contemporary Visual Poets” at the Wright Exhibition Space in Seattle. A beloved professor at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, for more than a decade, he also served as curator at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University for a number of years. “Robert Seydel: The Eye in Matter” has been curated by Peter Gizzi, Richard Kraft and Lisa Pearson, and organized for the Queens Museum by Louise Weinberg, Registrar, Archives Manager and Curator. SCHEDULE SUNDAY JULY 19 8:30 AM ~ 1:00 PM ON-SITE REGISTRATION Location: Atrium 8:30 AM ~ 9:30 AM BREAKFAST Location: Museum Café 9:20 AM ~ 9:45 AM Moving to inclusion: How technology is reshaping the contemporary dance class Jade Owen Individual Best Practice New media and integrated mobility have expanded the curricular potential of the dance classroom. In this presentation, I will discuss how specific digital technologies have created alternate possibilities for inclusion and content in dance. Location: Theater

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9:20 AM ~ 9:45 AM Taiwanese Undergraduates’ Digital Story and Multi Literacy Quests for Art Treasures in Second Life Mary Stokrocki Individual Best Practice To promote cultural understanding and multi literacies, the authors attempted to discover how Taiwanese students develop digital stories, personal narratives told through words and images in response to quests to find artwork within the virtual world of Second Life. Location: Unisphere 9:20 AM ~ 9:45 AM Transversaling Aesthetic Practices: Toward an Anti-Disciplinary Art Education Cala Coats Individual Best Practice Consider the collectivizing force of an anti-disciplinary art education through an inquiry into intersections of ethics and aesthetics in the lives of three makers. This presentation discusses the socio-political and community-building potential of dissensual aesthetic practices across domestic, institutional, and public domains. Location: Triangle 10:00 AM ~ 11:20 AM INTRODUCTIONS AND KEYNOTE Keynote Sherry Huss Location: Atrium 11:35 AM ~ 12:35 PM Creative Learning: Different Experiences Using the iPad in the Art Room Denise Martinez Studio Workshop (15 people maximum) Denise Martinez shares classroom experience in using iPads as a tool for differentiating instruction, giving students’ feedback, and encouraging class discussions. She offers trouble shooting tips for ways that art teachers can incorporate high and low tech for all physical school environments. Location: Skylight Gallery

11:35 AM ~ 12:35 PM 3D Modeling and Printing for the classroom Michael Wolf Studio Workshop (25 people maximum) Learn about free and easy to use 3D modeling programs that can be used in the classroom for almost any age level. This lecture will present teachers with 3D modeling software that is free, readily downloadable, and easy to learn. We will also discuss crowd-funding a 3D printer. Location: Skylight Gallery 11:35 AM ~ 12:35 PM Watercolor Techniques for the Novice and the Nerd Androneth Anu Sieunarine Studio Workshop (15 people maximum) Learn simple successful techniques for watercolor painting from a professional watercolorist and art educator. Don’t be intimidated by the medium but see how the medium can work for you. Participants will create a small accordion book of watercolor techniques for their reference to use in their classroom or in their en plein air paintings. Location: Werwaiss Family Gallery 11:35 AM ~ 12:35 PM Mapping the Museum Community Nexus Carlos A. Manjarrez Eric Wallner Neville Vahkaria Panel This panel provides three perspectives on community needs and social processes. Two panelists review new data and tools developed to visualize community assets and challenges. A third panelist will provide a critical examination of these new tools, from a practitioner’s perspective, and will talk about issues he faces in building and bridging communities in a diverse urban setting. Location: Theater

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11:35 AM ~ 12:25 PM Circles of Inclusion: Creation of Inclusive Outdoor Artspaces at Schools Kelly Karr Rick Garner Chantel McFarland Group Best Practice This presentation focuses on the “Circles of Inclusion” project involving creation of accessible outdoor classroom art spaces as functional memorials that inspire the formation of inclusive communities within public school settings. A key project component involves the design and creation of mosaic concrete pavers/tiles by students with disabilities using recycled materials. Location: Unisphere 11:35 AM ~ 12:25 PM Steam Rollin’ Barry LeBost Aaron Knochel Santina Protopapa Group Best Practice STEAM Rollin' is a presentation focused on curriculum and project work that incorporates Art and STEM education. We will present project case studies to share best practices in arts and technology integration. Our focus is on technology and tools from the Maker Movement that are being used to empower students through project-based learning. Location: Triangle 11:35 AM ~ 12:35 PM Threads of Support: Finger Knitting for Tsunami Recovery Hannah Lamar Simmons Jasmin Thomas Studio Workshop (15 people maximum) Participants will hear from a graduate student who developed and implemented an arts-based disaster recovery workshop which was held in Ogatsu, a town in Northeast Japan that was destroyed by the 2011 Tsunami. The workshop was organized through a community practice course in the Occupational Therapy Masters program at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Location: Studio B

12:35 PM ~ 1:35 PM LUNCH BREAK Location: Museum Café 1:35 PM ~ 2:35 PM The Enigma of Portraits Erin-Marie Elman Lisa Kaplan Androneth Anu Sieunarine (15 people maximum) Studio Workshop A Portrait gazes into the soul of the sitter and allows the artist to capture Culture, Place, Diversity, and Intrigue all in one snap shot or in many brush strokes. This gallery talk will take the audience into the minds of the artists, as their portraits become a tool for documentation and aesthetic expressions that reveal a moment in time. The presenters will show how they use portraiture in their classrooms by having the participants create portraits. Location: Skylight Gallery 1:35 PM ~ 2:35 PM Contemporary Art and Spinning a Yarn Daniel T. Barney Studio Workshop (12 people maximum) In this workshop we will create a wooden drop spindle and learn how to spin our own yarn from wool. We will examine spinning as a functional, as well as a contemporary art practice, scrutinizing the work of Janine Antoni, Dario Robleto, and Pam Bowman, among others. Location: Skylight Gallery 1:35 PM ~ 2:35 PM Museum of Arts and Design QR Code: Possibilities for Interactivity Nakeisha Gumbs Jeremy Nadel Catherine Rosamond Studio Workshop (20 people maximum) Discover the creative ways artists interact with physical, social, and cultural environment by incorporating digital technology and art. This workshop will illustrate uses for QR Codes through hands-on activity and demonstrate platforms for engaging audiences through BYOD-Bring Your Own Device. (Participants should bring their own smart devices (phone or tablet) and

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download any QR code reader APP prior to attending the workshop) Location: Skylight Gallery 1:35 PM ~ 2:35 PM Sumi-e Japanese Brush Painting Marla Kleinman Studio Workshop Participants will learn the hands-on technique of Japanese brush painting: basic brush strokes, ink gradation, and color loading to create traditional themes as well as contemporary applications. Location: Studio B 1:35 PM ~ 2:45 PM PopDogs: when an object of desire becomes unwanted Robin Brennen Steve Gruber Stephanie Mattera Sharon Mear Carlo Sampietro Panel PopDogs is an installation which confronts the worldwide issue of dog over-population and explores the global cycle of craving, consumption, and abandonment that happens when an object of desire becomes unwanted. Experts in the fields of city management, dog-breeding, animal shelters, and advocacy organizations will participate in a public forum. Location: Theater 1:35 PM ~ 2:25 PM Scaffold Up! Art as a Tool for Collective Impact Sharon Polli Individual Best Practice A Groundswell presentation on the power and potential of the creative process to create a more just and equitable world. Groundswell, New York’s leading organization dedicated to community public art, will present two case studies that exemplify how art projects can serve as models to positively impact policymaking and practice. The presentation will highlight Groundswell’s unique Scaffold Up! model, a method of working with youth and community partners to articulate, map and hold ourselves accountable to specific social change outcomes.

Location: Triangle 1:35 PM ~ 2:45 PM Intentional Serendipity Thinking Together in Provocative Places David Carr Jason Yoon Panel How can museums and libraries assist each other to be open and responsive to rapidly changing communities? Participants will learn about the Queens Museum and Queens Library collaboration, two complementary cultural institutions, and how they have redefined the possibilities of addressing public needs together in a place of unique diversity. For the first half hour, David Carr, author of Open Conversations: Public Learning in Libraries and Museums and Jason Yoon, the Queens Museum Director of Education will describe the origins of this unique collaboration. Then the participants will have an hour to explore the museum galleries. With individual, small-group, and large group dialogue, we will invite participants to think together with us about achieving the full promise of museums and libraries in promoting an inclusive society. Location: Unisphere 1:35 PM ~ 2:00 PM Walking with Paulo in a Southern US Textile Town Susanne Floyd Gunter Individual Best Practice Informed by the writings of Paulo Freire, one art educator describes her methods of teaching using an active approach and reflective practice for transformative social and economic change. The educator shares her experiences guiding graduate MAT and MEd students through the development of a training-the-trainer sustainability project model for undergraduate art therapy students going to Haiti. Location: Werwaiss Family Gallery

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2:20 PM ~ 2:45 PM Fiercely Exuberant Extravagances: Queerly Reading Nick Cave’s Soundsuits, Installations and Interventions James H. Sanders III Individual Best Practice The Sculptural and Performance Works of Nick Cave embody art as a social practice that revels in joyous play, mystery, and wonder. We will consider Cave’s work in spaces outside the museum setting (eg NYC Grand Central Terminal HERD Crossing) and Cave’s practice in engaging communities as construction assistants, dancers, and contemplative audiences. Location: Werwaiss Family Gallery 3:05 PM ~ 4:05 PM Museum of Arts and Design Presents Digital Fabrication: Out of hand & hands-on Cheri Ehrlich Nakeisha Gumbs Catherine Rosamond Studio Workshop (20 people maximum) MAD’s education team will present examples of emerging digital processes in art and design fabrication using the OpenSCAD software, as well as demonstrating handmade (analog) approaches that illustrate digital fabrication concepts. Location: Skylight Gallery 3:05 PM ~ 4:05 PM Weaving Using Recycled Materials Lisa Kaplan Studio Workshop (15 people maximum) This is a Studio Workshop in which participants will create their own simple loom using recycled cardboard and will weave a small wall hanging. A motivational power point describes the weaving process and the color theory used by the Kente Weavers in Ghana, Africa. We will use yarn, straw, ribbon, scarves, and other recycled materials for weavings. We encourage participants to bring materials that they might want to include in their work. Location: Skylight Gallery

3:05 PM ~ 4:05 PM The Met Media Lab - Art, Technology and Design Improving the Experience for Museum Users Marco Castro-Cosio Don Undeen Best Practice/Hands On (20 people maximum) For this session, the whole staff of the Met MediaLab, Don Undeen and Marco Castro-Cosio will talk about the experiences that launched the lab, 3d Printing hackathon, and other projects that have improved the experience for Museum visitors using projection mapping techniques, telepresence robots and interaction design. These projects have made new connections between the users and the vast art collection at the Met. Location: Skylight Gallery 3:05 PM ~ 4:15 PM Strength in Diversity: In the Galleries with English Language Learners Patricia Lannes Heather Maxson April A. Oswald Marianna Pegno Louise E. Shaw Panel Programs developed by five different institutions aim to empower diverse populations of immigrants and refugees, using art as a foundation for building skills, learning about new cultures and communities, and creating a forum for expression. The community at large benefits through consequent opportunities for understanding, cultural exchange, and dialogue. Location: Theater 3:05 PM ~ 3:55 PM Monsters or Dreamchasers: Youth & Media in Community Art Practice Alexandria Hodgkins Lauren D. Smith Group Best Practice Media portrays youth as self-obsessed, violent uber-consumers but one group of urban teens has defined their own image. Arts in Bushwick’s teen programming explores social action through community art practice, focusing on the unique role that professional artists and community-

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supported arts organizations can play in adolescent identity formation. Location: Unsiphere 3:05 PM ~ 4:15 PM Pedagogy Group Silvia Juliana M. Ortiz Group Informal The Queens Museum Open AIR Artist Services Program is excited to partner with the Pedagogy Group to present global and historical case studies of radical education. These case studies will be the point of departure for a community conversation about methodologies for educational practices that seek to support the struggle for a more just world. Location: Triangle 3:05 PM ~ 3:30 PM Arts in Action: Engaging Marginalized Communities through Public Art Joel Bergner Individual Best Practice Joel Bergner is a mural artist, educator, and organizer of social action projects across the globe, including Syrian refugee camps, shantytowns in Kenya and Brazil, and juvenile detention centers here in the US. His presentation will focus on how the arts can be utilized as a vehicle for education, social change and community cohesion among marginalized populations. www.joelartista.com Location: Werwaiss Family Gallery 3:05 PM ~ 3:30 PM The New Old West: Native American Voices in Western American Art Asia Tail Individual Best Practice As part of Contemporary Native Voices, Tacoma Art Museum interviewed 20 Indigenous individuals, and incorporated Native American testimony in the wall labels of our western American art exhibition. This presentation will share best practices for including Native perspectives in mainstream museums, and propose a broader model for community involvement at TAM. Location: Studio B 3:50 PM ~ 4:1 5 PM

Preserving and Remembering Art Education Practices in the Context of Inclusivity: Troubling what is “Participatory” in Participatory Archives Spaces Ann Elisabeth Holt Individual Best Practice Through the acquisition and access to three different art education collections housed at Penn State University Special Collections, this presentation explores the art education archives and the notion of what “participatory” means within participatory archives, putting into question the archive as an inclusive world. Location: Werwaiss Family Gallery 3:50 PM ~ 4:15 PM Longitudinal Study of the Interaction between Drawing and Linguistic Activity in Art Appreciation Kazuhiro Ishizaki Wenchun Wang Group Best Practice This study aims to track the relationship between drawing and linguistic activity in art appreciation over a period of time. The role of the interaction between pictorial images and language in the unique development stage of preadolescence and the significance of ability formation through such interaction are important in an ever-changing society. Location: Studio B 4:30 PM ~ 6:00 PM INTRODUCTIONS AND KEYNOTE Keynote Sree Sreenivasan Vida Sabbaghi will introduce Sree Sreenivasan, the first digital chief officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Sreenivisan, a tech evangelist and a former Professor of Journalism at Columbia will present his renowned Social Media Workshop. Location: Atrium

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ABOUT USSEA The United States Society for Education Through the Arts (USSEA) commits to actively lead and support multicultural and cross cultural initiatives that foster teamwork, collaboration, and communication among diverse constituencies in order to achieve greater understanding of the social and cultural aspects of the arts and visual culture in education. USSEA was founded in 1977 as an affiliate of the International Society for Education Through Art (InSEA) and the National Art Education Association (NAEA). It is a national association representing persons working in curriculum development, teaching, and research related to art education and cultural knowledge. USSEA is a society of art educators who share interests in multicultural and cross-cultural concerns in art education with others nationally and internationally to promote greater understanding and respect for learners from all backgrounds through research, art curricula, instruction, and practices that are inclusive and sensitive.

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*Please make sure to check the MTA website for the latest updates about changes to subway service. Car The Museum offers free parking but space is limited. We encourage the use of public transportation whenever possible. From West and midtown Manhattan: Take the Midtown Tunnel to the Long Island Expressway. Use Exit 22B, Grand Central Parkway West. Exit the Grand Central Parkway at the first exit, Tennis Center (9P), turn right and follow signs to Museum. From Brooklyn: via Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE) to Long Island Expressway (LIE) Eastbound, to exit 22B Grand Central Parkway West. Exit the Grand Central Parkway at the first exit, Tennis Center (9P), turn right and follow signs to Museum. From North and RFK Bridge: via Grand Central Parkway East, Take Exit 9E (Citi Field, BJK National Tennis Center). Stay in the right lane and exit at Northern Blvd, Citi Field exit. At light, turn right. Follow signs to Queens Museum (pass both Citi Field and the BJK National Tennis on left). Queens Museum will be on the left. From East and Long Island: via Long Island Expressway (LIE) to Grand Central Parkway West. Exit the Grand Central at the first exit, Tennis

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Center (9P), turn right and follow signs to Museum. Subway Take #7 Train in the direction of Flushing, Queens. Your stop is Mets-Willets Point, the second to last stop on the 7 train. Follow the signs to Flushing Meadows Corona Park through the wooden exit ramp of the station into the park. Then, follow signs for the Queens Museum which is located next to the Unisphere, the giant steel globe. There are two entrances to the museum, one facing the park and the other facing Grand Central Parkway. The Park entrance is directly in front of the Unisphere. Please allot 15 minutes for the walk from the Mets-Willets Point subway station to the museum. ACCESSIBILITY The Queens Museum strives to be accessible to all visitors, including those with varying abilities. For more information about ArtAccess programs, which provide unique education opportunities for children and adults with varying physical, emotional, behavioral and cognitive abilities, contact [email protected] or 718.592.9700 x138.

Large-print label booklets are available for some special exhibitions. They can be found in dispensers near exhibitions or at the Museum’s information desk.

Braille transcriptions are available for some special exhibitions. They can be requested at the Museum’s information desk.

Tactile and/or verbal description tours can be arranged by contacting the Museum with two-weeks advance notice [email protected] or 718.592.9700 x136

Sign Language interpreters are available for museum programs and tours. We kindly ask for two weeks’ notice. Email [email protected] or 718.592.9700 x136

Assistive listening devices for museum tours and programs are available upon request. Headsets are available for a group of up to 12 visitors. The system may be obtained at the front desk with an ID. You may let your educator/ group leader know if you would like the system to be utilized during your visit.

The Museum is accessible to wheelchair users. Wheelchairs are available free of charge at the coat-check in the lobby area on a first-come, first-served basis.

Service animals are welcome.