Arts Ed Institute 2025

This highly collaborative workshop invites you to engage your students in making essential connections between themselves and artists of their choice. The aim is to gain insights into the artists’ backstories and artwork via meaningful imagery, empathy mapping, purposeful storytelling, and intentional problem-solving. You will experience how students can learn to become reflectively aware of their sensory system via environmental, cognitive, and emotional inputs that influence and trigger reactions, responses, behaviors, and decisions. We will use comparative thinking skills to discover insightful similarities and differences, all invaluable learning strategies in the art room and in life.

This highly collaborative workshop invites you to engage your students in making essential connections between themselves and artists of their choice. The aim is to gain insights into the artists’ backstories and artwork via meaningful imagery, empathy mapping, purposeful storytelling, and intentional problem-solving. You will experience how students can learn to become reflectively aware of their sensory system via environmental, cognitive, and emotional inputs that influence and trigger reactions, responses, behaviors, and decisions. We will use comparative thinking skills to discover insightful similarities and differences, all invaluable learning strategies in the art room and in life.

Using Spiderman Across the Spiderverse to Inspire new Characters

This workshop invites digital photography educators to explore effective strategies for designing and refining course curricula, from introductory to AP levels. Attendees will engage in discussions on streamlining workflows across the photographic process, explore meaningful assessment methods, and preparing students for presentations and exhibitions. Together, we’ll explore approaches that elevate student learning and showcase creativity in the digital photography classroom.