GAEA Conference Fall 2024

This workshop is a hands on making workshop where participants will learn how to weave a basket. The history, skills, and vocabulary will be transferable to any K-12 classroom with whatever materials. Course includes power point, handout, all materials, and guided step by step process of making a woven base, start/stop. rimed basket.

Take a docent-led tour of the GIANTS exhibit.

The High will be the exclusive venue in the Southeastern United States to present the first major exhibition of the world-class art collection owned by musical and cultural icons Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and Alicia Keys.
Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, where it debuted in February, Giants will feature a focused selection from the couple’s holdings, spotlighting works by multigenerational Black diasporic artists, from 20th century legends such as Nick Cave, Lorna Simpson, and Barkley L. Hendricks, to artists of a younger generation including Deana Lawson, Amy Sherald, and Ebony G. Patterson, who are expanding the legacies of those who came before them.
Giants stands as a testament to the Deans’ ethos of “collecting and preserving the culture of ourselves for ourselves, now and into the future.” Through approximately 115 objects, including 98 major artworks, the exhibition will trace the evolution of an audacious and ambitious collection and explore the ways in which the featured artists and their work have grappled with societal issues, embraced monumentality, and made a palpable impact on the art canon. In addition to paintings, photographs, and sculptures, the galleries will include noteworthy examples of the Deans’ early non-art collecting interests, including albums, musical equipment, and BMX bikes, along with related ephemera.

Hand Papermaking using jute coffee bean sacks, coffee grounds, and a double-shot of espresso can perk-up your papermaking and caffeinate your creativity! Attendees will learn how to incorporate plant fibers into pulp then pull sheets of paper from a slurry of cotton rag, jute coffee bean sacks, coffee grounds, and black coffee to create a textured paper suitable for printmaking, bookbinding, or watercolor. The workshop integrates conservation, recycling, plant science, and the Western technique of hand papermaking using cotton rag. Paper can be pulled, pressed, and dried in workshop.

Come learn how to lash a bone structure and weave with ease using natural materials. Learn how to introduce a project like this one to your 7th-12th grade students. Using river reeds, you will follow instructions to create a vessel of your own. You can choose to add color or beads to your design. I invite you to bring in your own charms and small toys, any things that the reed can pass through, thereby being woven into your basket (this lesson pairs well with polymer clay projects). It gets a little wet sometimes because we must soak the wood in water for malleability. Get ready to have some fun!

This will be a class on Self Care techniques for Art Educators. Explicit details will be given for how to use the strategies: Breathwork to aid stress relief, Morning Meditations and Affirmations, How to create a dynamic classroom to aid your work as the “Coaching Teacher”, Communication Skills, How to de-escalate an emotional crisis, Classroom Arrangement for Classroom Management, Self-Massage to Aid Stress Relief. Art-Journaling for Stress Relief