CSTAE

Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education

2010 Presentations at the National Art Education Association Convention

Wednesday, April 13, 2010

3:00 PM-3:50 PM
Meeting Room 341/Center
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Everyday Antiracism in the Art Room: Engaging uncomfortable topics of Social Justice in Art Education
Join a discussion about cultivating classroom discourses that embrace everyday encounters with “discomfort zones” as opportunities to embody social justice art education. Overtly disrupt racism, homophobia, sexism and other biases.
Patty Bode

5:00 PM-5:50 PM
Meeting Room 337/Center
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Stand(ing) up, for a change: Voices of arts educators
Art educators share narratives of finding their voice, standing up for social justice, and becoming a change agent in the pursuit of a more democratic life.
Lisa Hochtritt, Kevin Tavin, Christine Ballengee-Morris, James Rolling, Jr.

Thursday, April 14, 2010

11:00 AM-11:50 AM
Meeting Room 345/Center
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Examining the Gaze
As a key concept of visual culture studies, the gaze is described and explored for its potential as a pedagogic tool in art education.
Paul Duncum

1:00 PM-1:25 PM
Meeting Room 325/Center
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Following Counts and Rugg:Social Justice in 21st Century Art Classrooms
Issues of social consciousness and justice are rooted in the work of the 1920’s Social Reconstructionists Harold Rugg and George Counts. This presentation explores the connection between Counts and Rugg and an art education paradigm for social justice.
Linda Tyson

1:30 PM-1:55 PM
Meeting Room 325/Center
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Identities Narrated and (un)Contextualized: A Case Study of Memory, Autobiographical Narration, Transnationalism, and Relocation
The presented collaborative research aims at understanding socio-cultural, transnational and (non)contextual identities through visual autobiographical representations of self and visual inventories of experience.
Anniina Suominen Guyas

4:00 PM-4:50 PM
Meeting Room 333/Center
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
The Story of the I/eye: Questioning the Narrative of Social Justice in Visual Culture Pedagogy
Presentation brings a critical I/eye to “social justice,” problematizing narcissistic desires hidden within narratives of critical consciousness in visual culture pedagogies. Suggests methods for visual-reflexive approach to transgressive images, texts.
Vicki Daiello, jan jagodzinski

5:00 PM-5:50 PM
Meeting Room 320/Center
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Waiting for God, Oh: Exploring (Questioning) the Hegemony of the Artifact in Art Education
This performative presentation explores the relationship between artifact making and learning in the contemporary art classroom.
David Miller, Ian White Williams

6:00 PM-7:50 PM
Latrobe/Hotel
Business Meeting
Open Executive Committee Meeting of the Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education
All Executive Committee officers of the Caucus on Social theory in Art Education are required to attend and will review items items including membership and budget reports. Members are invited to attend.
Clayton Funk, Kevin Tavin, Patty Bode, Melanie Buffington

Friday, April 15, 2010

11:00 PM-12:50 PM
Meeting Room 336/Center
Talk Back Session
Investigating Social Justice through Art and Theory: Questions, Practice, and Research
CSTAE members share the range of theoretical discourses to converse with the audience about identiyfing, deconstructing, and inspiring social justice perspectives in art education. Panelists' remarks are followed by democratic roundtable discussions.
Patty Bode, Flavia Bastos, Clayton Funk, Olivia Gude, Juan Carlos Castro, Melanie Buffington, Kryssi Staikidis, Kevin Tavin

11:00 AM-11:50 AM
Meeting Room 345/Center
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Siteless: Video Art, Lacan/Deleuze/Guattari and the Search for Identity
Siteless is about video art and the search for identity, relating experimental video and film montage to Lacan's register of the Real and the DeleuzeGuattarian development of an immanent plane.
Dan Nadaner, jan jagodzinski

2:30 PM-2:55 PM
Meeting Room 333/Center
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Critical Inquiry for American Indian Imagery in Popular Culture
Critical inquiry of American Indian imagery in popular culture- examine, evaluate, and discuss racial stereotypes in media, product marketing, and sports mascots for teaching social justice through visual culture.
Tera Stockdale

3:00 PM-3:50 PM
Meeting Room 332/Center
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
The Affective Turn in Art Education: Deleuzian Problematics
This panel discusses the ethico-political import of Deleuze-Guattari’s machinic non-representational approach to technology in art education through several art forms including performance, film and video.
jan jagodzinski, Jason Wallin, Gayle Gorman, Maria Robinson-Cseke

4:00 PM-4:50 PM
Meeting Room 332/Center
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Eventful Knowing: Thinking and Making in Time
Presenters explore “process” as a dynamic, though not necessarily sequential, feature of knowledge construction and examine the concept of time as a central feature in art education and artmaking practices.
Jack Richardson, jan jagodzinski

5:00 PM-5:50 PM
Key Ballroom 1/Hotel
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Changing Perspectives on Poverty through Studio in Art Classes
This presentation will examine how traditional studio in art lessons were expanded to shape art and education into tools more useful for social change. Can art make a difference?
GE Washington

6:00 PM-7:50 PM
Latrobe/Hotel
Business Meeting
Membership Town Meeting of the Caucus on Social Theory in Art Education
Current and prospective members of the Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education are encouraged to attend this meeting. Business, news, opportunities and discussion will be shared.
Clayton Funk, Kevin Tavin, Patty Bode, Melanie Buffington

7:00 PM-7:50 PM
Calloway B/Hotel
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Voices Of Chiq’a’l: Memorial Murals As Mayan Resurgence In Guatemala
This session presents preliminary field research on recent murals painted in the Kaqchikel town of Comalapa, Guatemala which give voice to Maya realities and struggles of conquest and of recent civil war. A powerpoint of the mural and possibilities for future arts actions there will be discussed.
Rebecca Plummer Rohloff

Saturday, April 16, 2010

8:00 AM-8:50 AM
Meeting Room 341/Center
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
A Decade of Visual Culture in Art Education: What's Next?
Panelists reflect on a decade of visual culture in art education. They discuss how their own ideas may have changed and what visual culture holds for the future.

8:00 AM-8:50 AM
Meeting Room 334/Center
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Video Productions as Critical Art Pedagogy - Challenges and Risks
The presentation discusses challenges and risks taken by critical art educators who aim to enhance social awareness. These challenges and risks will be used to examine case-studies of video productions.
Nurit Cohen-Evron

11:00 AM-11:50 AM
Meeting Room 334/Center
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Blind Justice: Re-viewing Disability Metaphors in Art Education
This presentation critically examines disability metaphors in art education literature. Similar metaphors of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and socioeconomic class are considered inappropriate, but disability metaphors remain unchallenged.
John Derby

1:00 PM-1:50 PM
Meeting Room 326/Center
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Playdolls as Pedagogical Sites for Art Education
This session approaches playdolls as pedagogical sites to guide children not only in understanding their everyday artifacts, but, more importantly, in developing critical literacy to deconstruct prejudiced cultural products.
Sheng Kuan Chung

5:00 PM-5:25 PM
Meeting Room 342/Center
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Arguing Democratic Visual Culture in Progressive Era (Museum) Education: Re-invigorating Art Education’s Critical, Usable Past.
Recovering/(re)examining theories and practices of an iconoclastic advocate for democratizing aesthetics and education re-contextualizes contentious cultural hierarchy debates, and works toward expanding and reinvigorating Art Education’s critical visual culture past.
Sara Meyers

5:30 PM-5:55 PM
Meeting Room 342/Center
Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE)
Counter-transference as a pedagogical method: Toward a critical social theory of learning
The psychoanalytic concepts of transference and counter-transference are explored through social theory and arts-based research as methods embodied in an artistic interaction between a person with autism and a critical art educator.
Mira Kallio

Sunday, April 17, 2010

No presentations are scheduled for the Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education.