TN Spring Regional Conference
Saturday, March 26, 2022
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Extended! Saturday, March 22, 2022
Cost: $25 for TAEA Members, $35 for Non-Members, $15 for Art Ed Students and Retired/Emeritus
DETAILS
Keynote Speaker: Lurlynn Franklin
Lurlynn Franklin is an award-winning art educator and teaching artist, poet and playwright (having taught in both charter and public schools on the elementary, middle school, high school and on the college level). In her broad and eclectic reach as an arts educator, it has always been her intent to showcase her students’ creative works, to encourage them in personalizing their creative processes, to guide them into an understanding of what they bring to the table in terms of producing and critiquing art and to foster a sense of community within the classroom (part to whole teaching) that extends outside the teaching environment into exhibition opportunities through the development of permanent in-school galleries, formal displays and creative interdisciplinary (theater/poetry/arts) performances in local public galleries and spaces.
With every teaching assignment in both the public and charter arena, her end goal has always been to showcase students’ works outside of the classroom, with every student represented by at least one piece of art formulated through her instruction. This not only fosters student pride but grinds in the merits of accountability and “finishing.” In-school galleries provides formal gathering spaces in which individual and group project critiques are held and can serve as an arts education advocacy tool for the public.
An established local painter and mural artist since she was 16, Ms. Franklin, has always had the intent to weave her personal art projects into a broader web, looping in her dual career as an art educator into the mix, be it via media exposure or grant funded public arts projects.
She has received several commissions and grants for her community-based art projects: a Student/Teacher Public Art Gallery, The ArtSee, at Arkwings in Frayser and a collaborative design she developed with the help of 50 plus children for the rotunda of Downtown Elementary School both through The Urban Arts Commission and a community- based art signage paint project, WELCOME TO FRAYSER funded by RiverArts, which started in the classroom but which expanded to include seven hundred residents in the Frayser community. She is also a published poet, playwright, and professional artist---with her works showcased at the Brooks Museum, Dixon Gallery, University of Tennessee @ Martin, University of Memphis and Crosstown Arts.
Presently, she is a part-time instructor at the University of Memphis, a contracted teaching artist working with the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, guiding Porter Leath Pre-K students through the Visual Thinking Strategies, and club teacher with the Boys and Girls Club of Memphis where she directs 5th graders through a STEAM based and a Mind/Body/Spirit program teaching model.
The Keynote Speaker for the Regional Spring Conference is generously sponsored by River Arts Fest.
WHEN: Saturday, March 26, 2022
8:00am to 3:00pm CST / 9:00am to 4:00pm EST
WHERE: Virtual Zoom Conference
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Lurlynn Franklin
“Telling Visual Stories and Connecting Community”
WORKSHOP: “From the Classroom to the Community” with Lurlynn Franklin
PANEL DISCUSSION: "Connecting Community Through Participatory Art" a discussion with Emmy Award winning Professor Branda Miller, and Jillian Hirsch
SPECIAL PRESENTATION: “Indigenous Art of TN – Connecting to the Community of TN’s Past” with Archaeology-Anthropology Professor Jan Simek of UTK
COST: $25 Members, $35 Non-Members, $15 Art Education Students and Retired/Emeritus
LUNCH: On your own
REGISTER
The 2022 Spring Conference will be a virtual event on March 26th, from 8am to 3pm CST, featuring Keynote Speaker, Lurlynn Franklin.
You will receive e a confirmation and a link to the conference via email.
Questions? Feel free to email us at taea@tnarteducation.org
Lurlynn Franklin: From the Classroom to the Community
10:20am-11:40am Central Time/11:20-12:40 Eastern Time
Lurlynn Franklin is an award-winning art educator and teaching artist, poet and playwright (having taught in both charter and public schools on the elementary, middle school, high school and college level). In her broad and eclectic reach as an arts educator, it has always been her intent to showcase her students’ creative works, to encourage them in personalizing their creative processes, to guide them into an understanding of what they bring to the table in terms of producing and critiquing art and to foster a sense of community within the classroom (part to whole teaching) that extends outside the teaching environment into exhibition opportunities through the development of permanent in-school galleries, formal displays and creative interdisciplinary (theater/poetry/arts) performances in local public galleries and spaces.
This workshop will show you you how to take your best classroom initiatives, units, projects and programs into the community with formal performance, galleries and showcases. This is one of the most effective ways to show your school community, and your district the power and magnitude your visual arts practice has on social emotional learning, student growth and academic achievement.
Panel: “Connecting Community Through Participatory Art”
a discussion with Professor Branda Miller and Jillian Hirsch
12:20am-1:25am Central Time/1:20-2:25 Eastern Time
From video editing to mosaic making, Branda Miller and Jillian Hirsch will each discuss how participation is at the core of their community art practice while also sharing tips to engage your own community through participatory art.
Branda Miller is a Professor of Media Arts in the Integrated Electronic Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Arts and Education Coordinator at The Sanctuary for Independent Media. She has developed numerous media literacy and education projects using interdisciplinary electronic arts production. An Emmy Award-winning editor, Professor Miller’s course “Art, Technology and Community” connects RPI students to the Sanctuary and the Missing Link Ministry. Branda helps the Sanctuary hands on with editing their films from the events, to helping out with all different workshops that go on throughout the Sanctuary and the surrounding community. Branda was the Project Coordinating Artist for the “Found Art in North Troy” project that the Sanctuary held, as well as an artist/educator in the Youth Media Sanctuary and “Be The Media” workshops. Branda is an internationally recognized media artist and it a crucial part of the Sanctuary.
Special Presentation: “Indigenous Art of TN – Connecting with the Community of TN’s Past”
with Archaeology-Anthropology Professor Jan Simek of UTK
1:35am-2:40am Central Time/2:35-3:40 Eastern Time
Did you know the oldest cave art in the US is right here in TN? A once thriving community of indigenous peoples left visual markings both above and below ground, telling the tales of their circle of life. Dr. Jan Simek will be our guide as we connect to the community of the Tennessee’s past.
Dr. Jan Simek is an American archaeologist and educator who was the interim president of the University of Tennessee system from 2009–2010. A faculty member in the department of anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Simek's research interests include Paleolithic archaeology, human evolution, quantitative analysis, spatial analysis, archaeology of the southeastern United States, and cave archaeology. He has been involved in the discovery and exploration of numerous “Unnamed Caves”, a naming practice used to protect their location, in the Cumberland Plateau for the past fifteen years. He has been instrumental in the discovery of prehistoric artwork; dating back thousands of years. He has also conducted important research in France at Neanderthal habitation sites.Before his stint as interim president of the University of Tennessee system, he served in leadership and administration positions including department head, interim Director of the School of Art, interim Dean of Architecture and Design, and interim Chancellor of the University of Tennessee Knoxville.
The 2022 Spring Conference is sponsored by the following
