Conference Information

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Mario R. Rossero is the Executive Director of the National Art Education Association (NAEA), which champions visual arts, design, and media arts education. He’s had roles as a museum educator, classroom art teacher, and adjunct professor and has held leadership positions in Pittsburgh and Chicago school systems. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President of Education for the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. He participates on a number of advisory boards and is a practicing artist.

Paula Liz (she/her/ella) is an artist, activist, educator, and author. She was born in Puerto Rico and attended the Maryland Institute of Art. She has taught art for over a decade in New York, Texas, Washington DC, and Maryland, where she was named Art Educator of the Year in 2022. The best part of her job is teaching and creating art with kids every day! 

Outside the classroom, Paula Liz works to make art education more equitable and inclusive for all. She believes art can change the world and encourages everyone to work together to imagine and create a better future! 

Learn more at paulalizart.com

Social Media:
Instagram: @paulaliz.art, @antiracistartteachers
TpT: Art with Ms. Paula Liz
Youtube: Art with Ms Paula Liz

Jay Ryan has been making concert posters and other screenprints in and around Chicago since 1995. He has worked for hundreds of bands, and is known for his hand-drawn depictions of concerned mammals and troublesome furniture made through his own print shop, The Bird Machine, in Skokie. He regularly travels around the country to lecture about his work and process at universities, high schools and professional groups, and has been painting an increasing number of murals in recent years. Jay lives in Evanston with his family.

Social Media Handles:
Instagram: @thebirdmachine
Facebook: https://www.facebook..com/actualbirdmachine

https://thebirdmachine.com

Jen Leban is a National Board Certified Visual Arts teacher (EAYA-Young Adult Art) who loves infusing art and design processes into everyday teaching practices. She is a 20+ year teaching veteran with experience teaching grades K-8 in fine arts, technology, and library/makerspace classes. Jen currently works as an Instructional Technology Coach with the Learning Technology Center of Illinois. She is a 2020 IL State Teacher of the Year Finalist, a Teach Plus IL Policy Fellow, a Google Certified Innovator and Coach, and a children’s book illustrator.

Tricia Fuglestad, NBCT, 
is the K-5 art teacher  at Dryden Elementary School in Arlington Heights, IL. with a masters in  K-12 technology integration.  Tricia has been recognized for her innovative teaching in 2010 with the PBS Teachers Innovation Award, won Illinois Art Teacher of the Year in 2011, awarded Teacher of Distinction in 2012 by the Golden Apple Foundation, received Western Region Elementary Art Teacher of the Year 2013, selected to become a Jacobs Educator 2014-15, was presented with the NAEA Art Technology Outstanding Community Service Award in 2016, honored with the ISTE Teacher Educator Network Tech in Action award, 2018, and won an Art Education Leadership Award via Artsonia in 2019. Learn more here.

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Contact the following people with questions about the Conference:

Conference Co-Coordinators

Ingrid Crepas & Sherri Kushner [email protected]

Conference Proposals

Tim Jones, [email protected]

Registrar

Ingrid Crepas [email protected]

IAEA Awards

Christopher Grodoski, [email protected]

Student Chapters/ Student Volunteers

Danielle Sharp, [email protected]