2023 Tennessee Art Education Association
Fall State Conference
October 27th, 28th, and 29th, 2023
letter for Administration
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2023 Fall Conference Program
Download and browse the full program for the 2023 Fall State Conference. Inside you’ll find the schedule, list of supersessions, TAEA Award Winners, and more.
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The Artisan Market & Vendor Fair will be Saturday, October 28th from 11:30am-1pm in the Atrium of the Art and Architecture building at UTK.
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Schedule
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Art and Architecture building
1715 Volunteer Boulevard
Knoxville, TN 37996
Shine On!
Friday, October 27th
TAEA Board Meeting and Awards Reception at the Knoxville Museum of Art
Saturday, October 28th
General Meeting, “Artivism” Sessions, Super Sessions, and Workshops
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jorge Lucero, University of Illinois Art Education
Opening Reception and Artisan Market
Sunday, October 29th
Workshops, Give-aways
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Wanda Knight, National Art Education Association President
Lunch will be offered at onsite food trucks.
If you have questions about the conference, please contact Melody Weintraub at melodyweintraub@gmail.com.
Awards Presentation
Reception Location: Knoxville Museum of Art
1050 Worlds Fair Park Dr, Knoxville, TN 37916
Dinner Price: $35 per guest
Costs
Member:
$185
Non-Member:
$275*
Includes a FREE $85 TAEA Membership
Student:
$100*
Must be enrolled in a degree-qualifying program
Retired:
$160
Late Registration closes October 18
**Please contact our treasurer, heather casteel At heather.casteel@knoxschools.org, for checks or purchase orders.
There will be a $30 non-refundable charge on all refunds.
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Jorge Lucero - Saturday keynote speaker
“Permissions and Pliability: The Teacher as Conceptual Artist”
In this keynote talk, Jorge Lucero unpacks the permissions that conceptual art practices open up for teaching practice. Through a discussion of various projects and experiments, Lucero examines the materiality of schooling, teaching, and learning as a premiere space to make the most important type of creative work we've ever attempted. Dr. Lucero's lecture coincides with his exhibition at UT Downtown Gallery and the two workshops he'll be conducting, which will lead to a collaborative publication amongst participants.
Dr. Wanda Knight - Sunday keynote speaker
“This Little Light of Mine: Illuminating Pathways That Foster Cultures of Belonging”
This presentation concerns barriers that exclude meaningful participation of historically marginalized groups and offers strategies that can empower art educators to become beacons illuminating pathways that foster cultures of belonging.
Wanda B. Knight, Ph.D., Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Professor of Art Education, African American Studies, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Bioethics at Penn State University, is President of the National Art Education Association (NAEA). Besides university-level teaching, leadership, and service, Dr. Knight has worked as a Pre-K-12 art teacher, an art museum educator, and a principal of elementary and secondary public schools. She teaches, presents, and leads workshops and seminars that support fair, ethical, and inclusive teaching and learning environments. Serving as a consultant to educational organizations, businesses, and a Fortune 500 Company, her teaching, research, leadership knowledge, and skills are informed through global travels and scholarly pursuits that have allowed her to cross borders of technologies, disciplines, and institutions. Selected awards and honors include the John A. and Betty J. Michaels Distinguished Lecture in Art Education Award, the NAEA Distinguished Fellows Award, the Pennsylvania Art Education Association Outstanding Higher Education Art Educator Award, the National Art Education Association’s Women’s Caucus June King McFee and Maryl Fletcher DeJong Awards, the J. Eugene Grigsby Jr. Award for outstanding contributions to art education, and the Kenneth Marantz Distinguished Alumni Award from The Ohio State University where she earned her Ph.D.
Workshop Information
Saturday workshops
Clay Relief Tiles - SOLD OUT
Workshop Artist: Tina Curry
ONLY OFFERED SATURDAY
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Kudzu Ecollage
Workshop Artist: Lauren Farkas
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Monotype Printmaking
Workshop Artist: Koichi Yamamoto
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Roots and Weaves: Weaving a Tree on a Vine Hoop (Weaving)
Workshop Artist: Sheri Burns
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Make a Statement Letterpress Poster (Letterpress Printing) - SOLD OUT
Workshop Artist: Gaby Hurtado-Ramos
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Interacting with Installation at UT Downtown Gallery
Workshop Artist: Jorge Lucero
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Supersessions
Participants can attend Supersessions during workshop time.
Sunday Workshops
Kudzu Ecollage
Workshop Artist: Lauren Farkas
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Drypoint Printmaking
Workshop Artist: Koichi Yamamoto
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Feather Your Nest: Random Weave Basket “Nest” (Weaving)
Workshop Artist: Sherry Burns
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Handmade Poetry Letterpress Prints (Letterpress Printing) - SOLD OUT
Workshop Artist: Gaby Hurtado-Ramos
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Interacting with Installation at UT Downtown Gallery
Workshop Artist: Jorge Lucero
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Supersessions
Participants can attend Supersessions during workshop time.
Workshop Descriptions and Artist Bios
Saturday Workshops
Clay Relief Tiles
SOLD OUT
Artist Bio:
Tina began working with clay over 30 years ago. She holds a BA from the University of Florida and worked for 35 years in Graphic Design. Now retired, she is a full-time ceramic and bronze sculptor living in Knoxville, Tennessee. All of her sculptures are hand-built, so each has its own distinctive personality and characteristics. Ceramics Monthly Magazine (September 2022) features an article about Tina’s clay journey. In 2021, the first lady selected Tina among artists in her home state to create the Governors Arts Awards. She was honored with a solo exhibition for the Tennessee Arts Commission in Nashville, Tennessee in 2018 and was the featured artist for the Southern Highlands Craft Guild marketing campaign in 2016. Tina’s sculptures have been commissioned by the Wilder Institute, Calgary Zoo in Alberta, Canada since 2017. Tina serves on the Board of Governors for Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg.
Workshop Artist: Tina Curry
Participants will create relief images (low and raised) on stoneware clay tiles. The focus will be animal subjects but the same technique can also be used for organic tiles. Your tiles will have to dry and be kiln fired after the workshop but ideas for finishes will be discussed.
This workshop will only be offered on Saturday.
Kudzu Ecollage
Artist Bio: Lauren Farkas
Lauren Farkas is an artist and art educator in Knoxville, TN. She earned a BFA in Drawing & Painting and a MA in Art Education at The University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She is enlivened by the intersections of fine art, botany, sustainability, and community-based education. Focused on unearthing the whole story of a material, tool, or work, Farkas uses craft to provide access points to a place-based conversations. Recent explorations include plant-based paper and ink-making and collaging parts of invasive plant species into decomposing artworks.
Workshop Artist: Lauren Farkas
This workshop would introduce participants to the art practice of Ecollage—an art making approach that merges ecological sustainability with abstract collage composition. Farkas will present from the dual perspectives of a practicing artist and a middle school art teacher.
Farkas will show images of in-process and final ecollage works, and introduce the concepts of invasive plants as material, ephemeral art making, and letting the plant lead the composition process. Farkas will facilitate a discussion on our preconceived notions of invasive plants and perceived and real limitations and possibilities for going outside with students.
The workshop will transition to an outside workspace, where participants will use harvested Kudzu to arrange a collage of all parts of the plant (leaf, vine, and root) on a tray of soil. They will use water to soak the plant matter and keep it in place while they compose their imagery. They will not use tools to cut the material into desired shapes, but rather use their hands to separate the sections of leaf and vine along their natural dividing veins and layers. While they learn the tactile and visual qualities of the plant, Farkas will explain in more detail the species of invasive plants they are likely to find around their schools, how to teach a sustainable and mindful harvesting ethic to students, and which artists’ work to look at for inspiration if they teach a related unit to their students.
This workshop is offered Saturday and Sunday.
Monotype
Artist Bio: Koichi Yamamoto
Koichi Yamamoto is an artist who merges the traditional and contemporary by creating unique and innovative approaches to the language of printmaking.
Koichi has worked with meticulous copper engravings to large-scale monotypes. Most recently he has dedicated to make kites. Completed BFA in 1992 at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon then moves to Krakow, Poland for producing works until 1994 and Bratislava Academy of Fine Arts in Slovakia in 1995 to study copper engravings.
He studied in Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland in 1996, and then completed MFA at University of Alberta, Canada in 1999. He also worked as a textile designer in Fredericia, Denmark in 2000.
Koichi’s prints explore issues of the sublime, atmosphere and fluid mechanics.
He has taught at Utah State University and University of Delaware and currently a professor at University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Workshop Artist: Koichi Yamamoto
We will be making several monotype with a Lexan plate through etching press. The plate size will be 9" x 12" Paper size will be 11"X 15". The objective of this workshop is to create image through transparent medium for experiment with illusion
This workshop is offered Saturday.
Roots and Weaves: Weaving a Tree on a Vine Hoop
Artist Bio:
Sheri Burns is a nurse, homeschool mom, basket weaver, and now a student. She is in her second year of grad school for her MSN from Carson-Newman University. She has been weaving baskets for 17 years, and teaching basketweaving for 15. She enjoys working with fiber and form, creating useful baskets for the home, as well as sculptural shapes for the enjoyment of the experimentation.
Workshop Artist: Sheri Burns
Participants will fashion a tree on a vine hoop, then weave through the branches with their fibers of choice to create a lovely wall hanging. Hoops will be made from honeysuckle, kudzu, blackberry canes and English ivy vines. Weaving fibers will include yarns, raffia, jute and hemp cording and cloth strips. Written instructions will be provided, and ways to adapt this project to the classroom will be discussed.
This workshop is offered Saturday.
Make a Statement Letterpress Poster
SOLD OUT - Saturday
Artist Bio:
Gaby Hurtado-Ramos is an artist and educator making prints, drawings, and books. Their work combines figurative scenes, text, and collage that embody the beauty and mess found in alternative community spaces. Gaby grew up in Houston, Texas and received their BA in Studio Art from Oberlin College. They have participated in residencies at the Dirt Palace, The Wedding Cake House, and The Printing Museum. As an arts educator, Gaby has led print, book and zine-making workshops for all ages and taught art classes at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston. Their illustration work has been commissioned by ProPublica, the Highlander Research and Education Center, and the Tucson Jewish Museum. Gaby is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of Tennessee Knoxville in printmaking.
Workshop Artist: Gabby Hurtado-Ramos
Make a statement in the UT Letterpress Studio and create a uniquely layered and eye-catching letterpress-printed poster using our collection of wood and metal type. In this workshop we will become acquainted with various typeface styles and applications to create engaging multi-colored posters on the Vandercook SP-15 press and our table-top sign press. Learn how to combine elements of design, abstraction, and bold text using our beautiful wood type collection in variable printed layers. We will cover how to prepare a basic lock-up for printing, applying various inks to a single form, split fountain inking, and an introduction to type organization. By the end of the workshop you will take away a series of variable edition prints combining collaborative designs. All levels and backgrounds are welcome to this workshop.
This workshop is offered Saturday.
Interacting with Installation at UT Downtown Gallery
Workshop Artist: Jorge Lucero
Curricular Inventions: Mining Contemporary Art Permissions and Testing Teaching's Pliability as an Artistic Material.
This workshop will take place in (and with) the JORGE LUCERO STUDY COLLECTION, which is currently available for interaction at the UT Downtown Gallery. Using the collection as a starting point, artist and keynote presenter Jorge Lucero will help us to examine how we take permissions from artworks, artists, and other creative "things". Our examination of those permissions will help us to jointly produce a massive curricular repository that will then be available to any art teacher who aims to understand their teaching practice as first and foremost a creative practice. This collaboration will be intense, but it will also give us a tool through which we can understand contemporary art practices within the context of helping our students (and ourselves) expand our thinking and doing as artists. The two separate workshop sessions will be the same. The sessions can be participated in independently of each other.
This workshop is offered both Saturday and Sunday
Artist Bio: Jorge Lucero
Jorge Lucero is a Mexican-American artist who currently serves as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is also Associate Professor of Art Education in the School of Art & Design, where he served as Chair of the Art Education Program for eight years from 2015 to 2023.
As part of his decades-long work to test the creative and conceptual pliability of "school as material" Lucero participates in and around the academy in every manner possible. He has exhibited, performed, published, and taught through his work all over the U.S. and abroad.
His bookworks include Mere and Easy: Collage as a Critical Practice in Pedagogy (2016, U of I Press)**, What Happens at the Intersection of Conceptual Art and Teaching? (2023, w/ Catalina Hernandez-Cabal through the Amsterdam University of the Arts), and Teacher as Artist-in-Residence: The Most Radical Form of Expression to Ever Exist (2020, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts) amongst others.
In 2023, Lucero received the National Art Education Association’s Higher Ed Educator of the Year Award at their annual conference in San Antonio, TX.
He is an alum of The Pennsylvania State University and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Prior to higher education Lucero co-constructed an education-as-art-practice with his students and colleagues at the Chicago Public School, Northside College Prep High School for seven life-changing years.
Sunday Workshops
Drypoint
Workshop Artist: Koichi Yamamoto
We will be making several Drypoint prints with a Lexan plate through etching press. The plate size will be 9" x 12" Paper size will be 11"X 15". The objective of this workshop is to create image through lines and dots for experiment with full value range drawing.
This workshop is offered Sunday.
Artist Bio: Koichi Yamamoto
Koichi Yamamoto is an artist who merges the traditional and contemporary by creating unique and innovative approaches to the language of printmaking.
Koichi has worked with meticulous copper engravings to large-scale monotypes. Most recently he has dedicated to make kites. Completed BFA in 1992 at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon then moves to Krakow, Poland for producing works until 1994 and Bratislava Academy of Fine Arts in Slovakia in 1995 to study copper engravings.
He studied in Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland in 1996, and then completed MFA at University of Alberta, Canada in 1999. He also worked as a textile designer in Fredericia, Denmark in 2000.
Koichi’s prints explore issues of the sublime, atmosphere and fluid mechanics.
He has taught at Utah State University and University of Delaware and currently a professor at University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Feather Your Nest: Random Weave Basket "Nest"
Workshop Artist: Sheri Burns
Participants in this workshop will create a small random weave basket using round rattan reed. Dyed reed will be available in a variety of colors, as well as yarns, cording, raffia and cloth strips for weaving the body of the basket. A starter hoop (woven of reed) will be available to students to begin their basket and jumpstart the process in this short workshop. Written instructions will be provided, along with discussion on adapting this project to the classroom.
This workshop is offered Sunday.
Artist Bio:
Sheri Burns is a nurse, homeschool mom, basket weaver, and now a student. She is in her second year of grad school for her MSN from Carson-Newman University. She has been weaving baskets for 17 years, and teaching basketweaving for 15. She enjoys working with fiber and form, creating useful baskets for the home, as well as sculptural shapes for the enjoyment of the experimentation.
Handmade Poetry Letterpress Prints
SOLD OUT - SUNDAY
Workshop Artist: Gabby Hurtado-Ramos
Before tweets, hashtags, texts, and typewriters, there was letterpress! Learn how to set type and make letterpress prints in this collaborative workshop. Participants will start with a few writing exercises and then write, layout, and print a group poem. Become acquainted with the UT Letterpress Studio, our extensive collection of typefaces, and how to work the Vandercook SP-15 press. Together we will lock-up our type-set poem and each attendee will learn to operate the press to pull their very own print. All levels and backgrounds are welcome to this workshop.
This workshop is offered Sunday.
Artist Bio:
Gaby Hurtado-Ramos is an artist and educator making prints, drawings, and books. Their work combines figurative scenes, text, and collage that embody the beauty and mess found in alternative community spaces. Gaby grew up in Houston, Texas and received their BA in Studio Art from Oberlin College. They have participated in residencies at the Dirt Palace, The Wedding Cake House, and The Printing Museum. As an arts educator, Gaby has led print, book and zine-making workshops for all ages and taught art classes at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston. Their illustration work has been commissioned by ProPublica, the Highlander Research and Education Center, and the Tucson Jewish Museum. Gaby is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of Tennessee Knoxville in printmaking.
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