GAEA Conference Fall 2024

We will be drawing an easy but realistic looking eye and a spider web-like pattern that will connect our inner and our outer world. By visually connecting these two elements, we aim to explore how they interact and influence each other in our daily lives. Understanding and being aware of both our inner and outer worlds can help us gain insights into our motivations for positive and negative choices and the overall reactions to our experience and thought patterns.

Get ready to trick your mind with this new way to teach about space, distance, and perspective! Reverse-Perspective is a contemporary art concept that was popularized by artist Patrick Hughes using one and two point perspective and sculpture as a way to trick the mind. In this workshop, I'll show how I teach the concept of one point perspective AND the optical illusion of reverse perspective to my elementary age students. Partcipants will walk away with not only two ways to teach this concept (one and two point perspective), but also their own reverse perspective sculpture! This lesson reaches out to our students in the most interesting way!

This presentation looks at an after-school workshop series I taught for middle-school aged students on creating superhero stories. Topics that will be explored in this presentation include facilitating original character creation, incorporating literacy learning and storytelling in art-making practices, and using comic books as a medium to engage students in creating stories.