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2025

PAEA Online Event - 2025 PAEA Youth Art Month Awards Ceremony - March 2025 

PAEA celebrates student achievement in the arts.

PAEA EDI Interest Group 2025 Invitation to Inclusivity Series - 10 Ways to be More Inclusive in Your Classroom - February 2025

Lynette Brown, Erica Mandell, Jaime Linn Brown, Andrea McDonough and CJ Matz explore practical strategies for fostering inclusivity in art education, ensuring that every student feels seen, valued and inspired.

PAEA February 2025 WebinART - Strategies and Activities to Encourage Student Voice!

Do you ever ask a question and hear crickets? In this interactive WebinART, Marie Huard shares her experiences leading discussions about Western Art History with elementary, middle and undergraduate students. 

2024

PAEA September 2024 mini-WebinART - Accessible Presentations

PAEA Art in Special Education Interest Group Chair, Margo Wunder, shares the basics of creating accessible presentations for all learners!

PAEA August 2024 WebinART - Leveraging Positions Statements for Advocacy

PAEA President, Ben Hoffman, shares how to effectively use the over 40 position statements available through the National Art Education Association (NAEA) in your advocacy efforts. Discover step-by-step guidelines, benefits of structured messaging and access valuable tools and resources, including AI-driven strategies, to enhance your impact.

PAEA June 2024 WebinART - Gelli Printing Basics

In this WebinART, Liza Johnson demonstrates the basics of subtractive, additive and masking methods using ready-made or homemade stencils with Gelli plates. She also demonstrates various ways of creating interesting textures, layering and ghost prints.

PAEA AMT Interest Group 2024 Webinar Series - Introduction to Animation - May 2024 

Mike Bocianowski explores the possibilities of mixing traditional and digital animation without a large budget or knowing how to draw. Mike shares some brief history and some tips that will give you the confidence to animate in your classroom.

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PAEA May 2024 WebinART - Conversations about Choice

Madison Mock facilitates a dialogue about structures that lead to success in the choice-based classroom. Topics include studio organization, skill builders, project planning, critiques and self-reflection.

PAEA AMT Interest Group 2024 Webinar Series - Photoshop's New AI Features - April 2024

Robin Brewer explores the new Artificial Intelligence (AI) features in Adobe Photoshop.

PAEA Online Event - 2024 Youth Art Month Artist Reception and Award Ceremony - March 2024

PAEA celebrates student achievement in the arts.

PAEA March 2024 WebinART - ESOL & Art Education

Meredith McDonald explores cultural responsiveness in the art room, ESOL strategies for art education and practical classroom applications. This WebinART will deepen your understanding of creating an inclusive art room that values cultural diversity and supports English language learners.

PAEA AMT Interest Group 2024 Webinar Series - Using Google Sites to Build a Digital Portfolio - February 2024

Ryan Hnat shares how you can utilize Google Sites, for free, to help your students build a digital art portfolio.

PAEA January 2024 WebinART - The Science, Art & Mathematics of Tattooing

In this WebinART, Em Jensen shares a cross-curricular project that uses body art as an SEL approach to a STEAM learning experience.

2023 

PAEA Online Event - PAEA Book Club - Wicked Arts Assignments Bonus Session with the Editors - May 2023

In this special bonus session following the regularly scheduled book-club sessions, the editors, Emiel Heijnen and Melissa Bremmer, discuss the book and answer questions from PAEA Book Club hosts. (see the Book Club page for more information about Wicked Arts Assignments)

PAEA Online Event - Region 9 - What is Arts in Education NEPA? - April 2023

Representatives from Arts in Education Northeast Pennsylvania (aieNEPA), a regional partner agency of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, present the many various offerings in the arts in northeastern PA. Programs for artists, educators and students in grades Pre-K to 12 are discussed during this informational session.

PAEA Online Event - 2023 Youth Art Month Artist Reception and Award Ceremony - March 2023

PAEA celebrates student achievement in the arts.

PAEA Online Event -  March 2023 - Region 1 - Bids, Budgets and Orders: Demystifying the Process

This presentation takes an in-depth look at bids, budgets and orders for the art room that will save your money and your sanity! Jackie Suchoza, Strategic Account Representative - West, and Holly Stoots, Strategic Account Leader, both from School Specialty, offer information and advice to ease the annual ordering process.

PAEA Online Event - PAEA Book Club - Steppingstones Bonus Session with the Authors

In this special bonus session following the regularly scheduled book-club sessions, the authors, Paul E. Bolin, Ami Kantawala and Mary Ann Stankiewicz, discuss the book and answer questions from PAEA Book Club members.

PAEA January 2023 WebinART - A Special Edition WebinART with Jennifer Dasal

“Are you Art Curious?” Jennifer Dasal discusses her book, ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd & Strangely Wonderful in Art History. Take an entertaining and educational dive into art history, as you may have never known before.

2022

PAEA November 2022 WebinART - Creating the Industrial Design Lab

In this look at turning an old woodshop into an industrial makerspace, Johanna Marshall shares how she is creating an inclusive, student-driven program for skilled makership that blends technology and the arts.

Online Event - Elementary, Middle and Secondary Division Collaboration - Clay Management 101: What Art School Didn’t Teach You - October 2022
A panel of experienced teachers discuss everything you need to know to start incorporating clay into your K-12 art classroom.

Topics of Discussion...

• • Dust management and general safety

  • Must have tools

  • What clay to buy and why

  • Kiln basics such as drying, loading, firing and general maintenance

  • Glaze basics such as types, brands and techniques

  • Clay reclaim and slip

Student Performance Measures - September 2022

In this WebinART, PAEA President, Leslie Grace, and PDE Fine Arts Consultant, David Deitz, dive into the topic of Student Performance Measures.

Online Event - Coiling & Twining Earrings with Jackie Thomas - May 2022
Applied to a smaller scale, Jackie will teach us a classic basket-making process for our earrings that includes:

• Easy starting technique

• Formal coiling and twining

• Simple finishing-off

• Incorporating Niobium ear wires

Putting the Hexagon Project into your Practice - April 2022
This WebinART will highlight Beth Burkhauser's dedicated work and invite educators to learn how to implement the Hexagon Project into their classroom curriculum. Educators from Region 9, elementary level through the high school level, will show and discuss how they implemented the Hexagon Project into their classroom curriculum. Please be inspired to participate, communicate and celebrate interdependence. 

More on the Hexagon Project: 

We invite young people, adults, and communities worldwide to: REALIZE social and global challenges facing the world today and use art as a vehicle to REIMAGINE how these challenges can be addressed through critical thinking, research, and creative expression. We invite participants to RECONSIDER their civic responsibilities in a world that is increasingly interconnected and interdependent at local, regional, national, and global levels. https://hexagonproject.org/

Preservice Pep Talk - March 2022
Join PAEA's Preservice Division Director, Em Jensen, to hear about the numerous benefits of being a PAEA member as a Preservice Art Educator. From attending art education conferences to getting involved with Youth Art Month, Em covers ways to network and build your teaching resume.

The Wonders of Wheat Paste - January 2022
Em will share a brief history of wheat paste, show local Philadelphia artist examples, and teach us how to mix and apply our own wheat-paste glue. The presentation will provide insight into how this technique and concept can be discussed and utilized in the elementary, middle and high school art room. Em will share the use of the medium in her personal practice, especially when coping with the early unknowns of the pandemic.

Printmaking - How to Print Anything and Everything - December 2021
Christine Medley will present printmaking techniques from her new book, Printmaking: How to Print Anything on Everything. She will discuss her book and demonstrate various printmaking projects that are great for small and large groups. Christine will offer suggestions for printing with elementary, middle and secondary students that work within a 40-minute timeframe. Join us and get ready to print and learn. Check out Christine's website at crowdesigns.com

2021

Online Event - Family Heritage Collage Making with Alison Zapata - November 2021
We will explore the Frick Museum's past exhibit, Frida Kahlo - An Intimate Portrait: The Photographic Albums, and work with artist Alison Zapata for this virtual professional development event. During this workshop, you will use your personal/family photos or related images, as well as words and symbols, to create a collage that represents your culture, heritage and/or family history.

Online Event - Back to School with the Mattress Factory of Pittsburgh! - October 2021
Virtual Tour -  The new show "making home here" features five emerging and mid-career Pittsburgh-based artists: Gavin Andrew Benjamin, Naomi Chambers, Justin Emmanuel Dumas, Njaimeh Njie and Harrison Kinnane Smith. The exhibition plays off the ideas of home and domestic space – home as both a place of dislocation and belonging, home as an imagined or public-facing space and an intimate place that holds family stories and aspirations. The five artists explore liminality, placemaking, familial bonds and systemic racism’s impact on the housing market. Working across a range of mediums and playing off the domestic spaces of the Mattress Factory Annex, the artists mine personal and public histories to create immersive environments that welcome visitors to enter and contemplate what it means to create a home.

Accessing Federal Funds for Art Education - October 2021
With an unprecedented amount of federal dollars now available for education, Mark will explain the current state of play related to what federal funds are available, provide some examples of ways to use them and show you how to make the ask for these funds in your school. Mark will help you understand the right people to talk to in your school to make the ask for funds and explain how this knowledge can potentially help you also receive non-federal funds that are part of your school's regular budget.

Online Event - Starting (or Strengthening) a National Art Honor Society Chapter - September 2021
Do you want to know more about the advantages of having a National Art Honor Society chapter at your school? Are you looking for ways to refresh your existing chapter? PAEA/NAEA teacher leaders and NAHS Chapter Sponsors will share their tips for success in starting a NAHS chapter as well as share some of their most impactful projects over the years.

Joys and Challenges of Mindfulness in Art Education - September 2021
This WebinART, Presented by PAEA Region 10 Representative Kristin Baxter, Ed.D., will have three parts. First, Kristin will present a sample of art lessons that she has taught in after-school art programs at the Northampton Juvenile Justice Center in Easton, and at Central Elementary School and Dieruff High School in Allentown. Kristin also teaches a First-Year Writing Seminar called, “Yoga, Mindfulness, and Writing” at Moravian University in Bethlehem and she will share a culminating project where her students write and illustrate children’s picture books based on mindfulness, in collaboration with children from a local elementary school. Participants are encouraged to share examples of art projects they have taught with their own students. The second part of this WebinART will be a lively, compassionate discussion of the challenges or problems with mindfulness in the art room. For example, since mindfulness and meditation can be considered religious practices, are public school teachers leery of infringing on First Amendment Rights? How do we address cultural appropriation, since mindfulness and meditation have roots in sacred Buddhist traditions? The third part of this WebinART will introduce participants to an exhibition of children’s and teen art at Payne Gallery at Moravian University, in Bethlehem, PA, which will run from January-March 2022. The theme of that show will be “Mindfulness.” Teachers will learn how to submit their PreK-12 students’ work to that show.

Flipping the Art Classroom - Tips & Tricks for Success - August 2021
Jillette Smith will share tips and tricks for how to plan and implement a successful flipped art classroom curriculum as we explore planning, recording and engaging your students with best practices.

The Hiring Process for PreService Teachers - May 2021
Kelly will walk us through her journey of landing her position in art teaching. She will offer tips to help new professionals through the hiring process such as what to bring with you into an interview and ways to make yourself more marketable to school districts. This WebinART is geared toward pre-service teachers seeking first employment, but can help experienced art teachers looking for a position change.

How to Create a Virtual ArtSteps Exhibition - April 2021
PAEA YAM Chair, CJ Matz, will take participants through the ArtSteps Virtual Exhibition set-up in this interactive WebinART. Come prepared to work along with CJ by having about 5 images ready for experimentation. Feel free to set up your ArtSteps account before the WebinART. Setting up your free account only takes a few minutes and all you need is an email address or an existing Google account.

How to Involve Your Students in the Community as Artists – March 2021
PAEA’s 2020 Outstanding Secondary Non–Public Art Educator, Erin Tiedeman, shares the strategies that she uses to make a successful, all-encompassing art program and how her students take initiative and design projects that serve their community.

Online Event – 2021 Youth Art Month Artist Reception and Award Ceremony
PAEA celebrates student achievement in the arts.

Online Event – Region 2 – Piñata Making Workshop – March 2021
Esther Ortiz, piñata maker in the Erie region, shares the steps of making piñatas while connecting to her Mexican culture. Ortiz’s piñata workshop offers two sessions. Session 1 provides a context for her experience in piñata making and takes participants through step-by-step instructions on making the piñata shell. Session 2 focuses on decorating and filling the finished piñata.

Online Event – Region 7 – Using VTS on a Virtual Tour of The Modernists at SAM – February 2021
Tinal Sell, Director of Education at the Susquehanna Art Museum, takes us on a tour of SAM’s current exhibition, The Modernists: Witnesses to the 20th Century. This virtual workshop gives teachers an introduction, or a refresher, on using Visual Thinking Strategies with students when looking at a work of art. 

Online Event – Region 1 – Alcohol Inks at Home with the Brandywine River Museum of Art – February 2021
PAEA and Education staff from The Brandywine River Museum of Art explore the use of color in works by the Wyeth family and other artists through a virtual tour. After the virtual tour, they share how to use Sharpie markers and rubbing alcohol to create bold, fluid designs on ceramic tiles. This technique is similar to popular alcohol ink projects, using markers you have at home.

Feminist Pedagogy and 3D Printing in Middle School – January 2021
Dr. Jennifer Motter, Dr. Karen Keifer-Boyd, and Dr. Yen-Ju Lin present their collaboration in guiding preservice art educators to interpret feminist art pedagogy and create art WebQuests involving 3D printing for middle school students. They discuss their collaboration, enabled through the use of digital technologies, such as website builder applications, video conferencing tools and 3D printers. They also address how the use of digital technologies enables collaborative making and disrupt race, gender, and social hierarchies in the learning environment.

Legacy in Art Education Series: Kelly Armor – January 2021
The Legacy in Art Education Series honors an art educator who has made significant contributions to the field of art education in the state of Pennsylvania during their career. In this WebinART, we celebrate Kelly Armor as she discusses her work as a folklorist, performing artist and art museum educator.

Online Event – Region 12 – Exclusive PAFA Museum and PAEA Virtual Tour – January 2021 (recording not available)
This virtual tour with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts includes a guided tour of “Awakened in You”, Constance E. Clayton Collection, and a new exhibition, Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artist and the Politics of Scale.

2020

Online Event – Region 1 – Alternative Materials for 3D Art: Cardboard Sculpture – December 2020
In this workshop, Lisa Leibering shares how cardboard can be manipulated into 3D art projects like masks and other forms of sculpture that are easy to complete at home and are adaptable for all grade levels.

Online Event – Region 1 – Alternative Materials for 3D Art: Wire Sculpture – November 2020
Lisa Leibering, formerly of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, shares how wire and foil can be manipulated into 3D art projects that are easy to complete at home and are adaptable for all grade levels.

Online Event – Secondary Division – Secondary Trauma and Compassion Fatigue – October 2020 (recording not available)
Nora Benko, MS, childhood counselor, a former teacher and current doctoral student specializing in research on compassion fatigue and secondary trauma for educators, leads participants through the process of identifying, understanding and working through secondary trauma they experience as educators. Participants can use this knowledge to develop personal plans for long term career sustainability and to prevent teacher burnout.

 
Online Event – Region 8 – Mindfulness: Embrace and Create – September 2020
Dr. Andrea McDonough presents research-based, best practices in mindfulness. She shares strategies to incorporate mindfulness in the art room environment as well as empower art teachers to take time to practice mindfulness throughout their daily routines. 

Virtual Teaching Resources for Art Educators – September 2020
In this WebinART, Sarah Jefferis shows us tools and lesson ideas that require little to no supplies for students. Some wonderings explored are:

• What art experiences can be accomplished with little to no supplies?

• What interactive websites are accessible to students for the creation of digital/virtual art?

• How can I promote open dialog from students during virtual lessons? 

An Anti-Racist Art Room – August 2020
Lynette Brown, PAEA’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Chair, explores common biases, the structure of racism, allyship, our journey and on-going work towards becoming anti-racist art educators, creating an equitable art classroom culture, lessons and resources for use in your classroom.

Online Event – COVID & Clay recorded webinart – COVID & Clay Slide Presentation – August 2020
A panel of local experts from Region 1 address concerns and questions submitted by our membership and also share their experiences and go-to resources during this online event. While there are general guidelines available regarding school reopening, there is little information on ceramics classes specifically. These panelists are providing their expertise to the best of their understanding, backed by both personal experience and research. Use your own judgment to adapt the information you feel would be most relevant to and effective in your classroom setting.

Making Paint from OCHRE Pigment – A STEAM Lesson – July 2020
Maureen Feineman, a Geosciences professor at Penn State, and Heather McCune Bruhn, an Art History professor at Penn State, share how to make watercolor paint from powdered ochre pigment, along with a discussion of the geological and art historical significance of ochre.

Starting a National Junior Art Honor Society Chapter – June 2020
What goes into starting an NJAHS chapter? In this WebinART, Holly Meade, PAEA Region Rep, shares her NJAHS chapter’s journey during their first year as members. What worked… what didn’t, and how it positively impacted school and community.

Practical At-Home Activities for Parents and Teachers of Students with Special Needs – May 2020
This WebinART, presented by Jan Riggio, presents some statistics and some solutions for providing practical strategies for both parents and teachers who want to support their learners with meaningful and challenging activities. Jan shares how the arts are a perfect platform on which to base a structured environment so that learners are secure, happy and learning.

Relational Aesthetic: Cultivating Deeper Understanding of Students in the Art Room – May 2020
In this WebinART, Art Therapist, Kathryn Snyder, explores ideas of aesthetics through a relational lens to support using relational language, processing of content and meaning in art, and aesthetics in the classroom, enabling students and teachers to dialogue about their art and the artwork of others as a way of understanding self, the larger world and one’s place in history and contemporary society.

Centering Yourself as Parent, Teacher, & Artist Through Sketch Journal Organizers – April 2020
Liza Johnson, Melanie Wassom, Shannon Stallings, Julia Nelson and Danielle Crowe from the State College Area School District, share how to design a Sketch-Journal-Organizer to help us keep parenting AND art at the center of our extremely busy lives.

Unpacking the Preservice Perspective – Boston Conference – March 2020
This WebinART takes a look into the preservice perspective. Members of the PAEA Preservice Division share their experiences and knowledge gained through attending an NAEA National Conference.

NAEA School for Art Leaders – February 2020
The School for Art Leaders (SAL) is a program that takes place during the summer at Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. In this webinar, Leslie Grace, PAEA President-Elect, will discuss her path to leadership, her journey during and after SAL and the lasting results/effects of the program.

Blended and Online Learning for Authentic Art Experiences – January 2020
Is your school adding blended and online learning options for students? Learn how one secondary art department is adapting to alternative class formats while preserving authentic experiences and academic integrity. PAEA Past-President Robin Brewer will address a growing concern over how to adapt blended and online learning with project-based and hands-on art programs.

2019

Sewing in the Art Room – December 2019
Johanna Marshall’s fibers program has had great success in student engagement, independent use of skills and even family involvement. See how she fits sewing and fibers into her curriculum while she shares methods for instruction, tips on peer support and a variety of projects for each stage of development.

Collaborative Art with Building Community in Mind – November 2019
Collaborative art projects can build school communities. In this WebinART, Cara Alderfer, PAEA’s Region 11 Co-Representative, and Danielle Scicluna explore contemporary artists, themes and mixed-media approaches to collaborative art at both the elementary and secondary levels.

The Power of Sketchbooks – September 2019
Benjamin Hoffman, PAEA’s Region 10 Representative, gave this WebinART presentation about the use of sketchbooks. Ben states, “Sketchbooks are an integral part of my classroom and have helped to fuel student’s creativity as well as enrich our choice-based classroom.” This presentation covers how sketchbooks have been used in both meaningful and relevant ways to learn from and build a series of best-practices in his classroom.

Secrets to Finding Hidden Money – August 2019
Need funding for your art programs? Looking to finance professional development opportunities that are relevant to arts education? Dr. Stacy Potter, PAEA’s Advocacy Chair, presented this WebinART that explores the arts budget process. Discover hidden cash to support arts opportunities at your school and within your community.

Middle Matters – July 2019
In this WebinART, Angela Capuzzi, PAEA’s Middle Level Division Director, explores middle-level topics such as NJAHS chapters, conference presentations, classroom management, lesson ideas, and more!

Extending Literacy: Visual Thinking and Learning in Art – June 2019
Dr. Julia L. Hovanec of Kutztown University presented this WebinART that explored the symbiotic relationship between visual literacy and literacy. Discover visual thinking strategies to put to use in the art room that will increase creative capacities and more.

Media Arts Standards and Blender 3D – May 2019
This WebinART, presented by members of PAEA’s ArtEdTech Interest Group, Robb Bomboy, Danielle Crowe and Andrew Teheran, introduced the National Media Arts Standards with Blender. Blender is easy to teach and students love it! Even if you don’t have access to a computer lab in school, recommend Blender to your students, especially those who are interested in 3D digital design, character design, animation. digital sculpting and 3D printing.

3D Printing and Digital Fabrication for the Art & Design Classroom – April 2019
Learn and discuss new and groundbreaking digital fabrication techniques and examples from PAEA 2016 Pennsylvania Art Education Association Outstanding Secondary Art Educator of the Year, Christopher Sweeney. In this WebinART, Chris shares details from his studio and classroom on how to incorporate these techniques into your existing curriculum.

Bringing a Visiting Artist into the Classroom – February 2019
Are you interested in bringing a visiting artist into your classroom? During this WebinART, teachers learn the process from beginning to end. Jes Noel tells us how to find an artist, how to get funding, and explains the execution of the entire process.

Inclusion Strategies for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder – January 2019
This WebinART presented by Karen Rosenburg helps art teachers with inclusion strategies and shows how to develop a plan for teaching students with ASD. Teachers learn how to set clear expectations for behavior, read an IEP and Revaluation Report, and find information on student’s skills and challenges. Karen shares how to set up clear expectations, adapt lessons and materials, foster successful inclusion practices, and develop strategies to create a collaborative relationship with paraprofessionals in order to effectively work with students with ASD.

2018

Digital Portfolios  – November 2018
This historic, first WebinART by PAEA featured several online platforms to organize and highlight student work. Robin Brewer shows how Google sites is a simple format for students (grades 6-12) to showcase their own work. Leslie Grace shares her experience with storing student portfolios (grades K-8) on Artsonia while raising funds for her school. Jill Anders shows the basics of Seesaw for any grade level.