2011 Conference Keynote Speakers
The New York state Art teachers Association will hold it’s 63rd Annual Conference, Imagine That!, at the Westchester Marriott Hotel in Tarrytown, NY from November 18-20, 2011. Keynote speakers will include
Mia Pearlman
Since receiving her BFA from Cornell University in 1996, Mia Pearlman has exhibited internationally in numerous galleries, non-profit spaces and museums, including the Museum of Arts and Design (NY), the Montgomery Museum of Art (AL), the Centre for Recent Drawing (London), Mixed Greens (NY), Indianapolis Museum of Art, (IN), Plaatsmaken in the Netherlands, and the Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY. Her work is featured in several books on the use of paper in contemporary art. She is a recipient of a 2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a 2009 Established Artist Fellowship from Urban Glass. Pearlman lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Dr. Michael Hanchett Hanson
Dr. Hanson is a psychologist and director of the Masters Concentration in Creativity and Cognition at Teachers College, Columbia University. His specialization is cognitive linguistics in relation to change: how ideas like “creativity” affect how we identify, engage, manage and apply novelty. His publications include analyses of innovative thinking during war, in therapeutic settings, and in education. In the creativity and cognition program at Teachers College Michael and his students use systems approaches in examining how new ideas are integrated into the development of individual perspectives across lifespan and into the norms of social systems. That research includes work with schools, community-based organizations and museums.
Michael Hanson's Recommended Readings on Creativity 
Françoise Piron and Mary Ellen Kalil Shevalier
Authors of World Class: The Reeducation of America, will be sharing how their collaborative journey as an art teacher and a French teacher led them to discovering what a 21st century student needs. Piron and Shevalier, both teachers at South Jefferson Central School, have designed and co-taught a pilot 21st century class entitled “I am a citizen of the world, a course of study in media literacy and social issues.” Their book illustrates, through thirty years of journaling, the reason why educational reform is inevitable. Mary Ellen Kalil Shevalier is a member of NYSATA, Region 3.
Sparrow Hall
Hall is an American author, producer and leading innovator in the emerging field of transmedia storytelling. His work allows audiences to immerse themselves in the world of a story by spreading the experience across multiple mediums—including literature, music, video, art, live performance, and the web. Working with a diverse team of artists, filmmakers, musicians and technologists, Hall relies on collaboration and assembly to create a larger “story world.” He begins by sharing his work with a network of artists from around the world, who then expand upon the text through their chosen medium. The results have included original songs, visual art, graphic design, music videos, poetry and choreography. Absorbed separately or as a whole, each piece serves as an entry point to Hall’s story world, and encourages the reader to imagine how they might extend the story themselves.
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