2010 Conference
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2010 Conference Keynote Speakers
The New York state Art teachers Association will hold it’s 62nd Annual Conference, What's the BIG Idea?, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Rochester, NY from November 19-21, 2010. Keynote speakers will include Dr. Sydney Walker, curriculum expert and Professor of Art Education at the Ohio State University.
Dr. Sydney Walker
Dr. Walker holds a Ph.D. in art education and a MFA in painting. Currently she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses related to artistic practice and contemporary theory and, prior to 1980, she taught and supervised K-12 art education. In her research into artistic practice she has authored the text, Teaching Meaning in Artmaking (Davis Publications, 2001) as well as numerous journal articles. Dr. Walker’s research interests also include curriculum theory and practice and she has served as a curriculum consultant on a national level along with participation as a faculty member and director of numerous teacher curriculum institutes. In 2005, she co-authored Rethinking Curriculum in Art Education, (Davis Publications) based on her curriculum work with the Annenberg-Getty Challenge, Transforming Education Through the Arts Annenberg-Getty Challenge (1998-2003). Publications related to her research into artistic practice and curriculum theory can be found in Art Education, Visual Arts Research, Studies in Art Education, Arts Education Policy Review, Teaching Artists Journal, The International Journal of Art Education, and Journal of Aesthetic Education.
She has served as a curriculum consultant for the Virginia Beach City Schools, Norfolk Public Schools, Newport News City Schools, Nebraska Public Schools, Bradley-Bourbonnais Illinois School District and the Metro Nashville Public Schools; participated as a faculty member at the Virginia Beach Contemporary Art Center summer institute since 1997; conducted teacher institutes and workshops and presented nationally and internationally in Nebraska, California, Ohio, New York, Alaska, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Michigan, and Taiwan and South Korea.
Carrie Mae Weems
Contemporary Photographer, part storyteller, folklorist, and image-maker, the contemporary artist Carrie Mae Weems has defied simple explanation for more than twenty years. Throughout her career, making us aware of conceptual photography, sculpture, sound, and video, Weems has integrated text with the visual image to document and challenge perceptions of race, class, and gender. And while she typically uses black subjects in her work, her images are meant to represent people of all ethnicities. Weems’s vibrant explorations of photography, video, and verse breathe new life into traditional narrative forms—social documentary, tableaux, self-portrait, and oral history. A featured artist of PBS Art:21 Series, Season 5, Weems’s work has appeared in major exhibitions at many important national and international museums, including MoMA, The Whitney, Tate Liverpool, and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
Michael DeFeo
New York City street artist Michael DeFeo is also a children’s book author and illustrator. DeFeo’s work has been featured on the cover of New Yorker magazine and he has had work in numerous galleries, including The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY and Mass MoCA.
Yin Shao Chun
Professor Yin Shao Chun is the Director of the Art Education Program for the Capital Normal University. He is also the Director of the Children’s Fine Art Committee of the China Arts Association and chaired the committee that wrote the National Art Education Standards for China.
