Welcome to MACAA

Wednesday, October 15
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Early conference registration and pick-up (IUPUI Campus Center)
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	MACAA Board Meeting (Dean’s Conference Room – Herron School of Art and Design)
6:30 pm -7:30 pm	Featured Speakers – Robert Stackhouse and Carol Mickett (IUPUI Campus Center)
7:45 pm -10:00 pm	Opening/Welcoming Reception & Exhibitions (Herron School of Art and Design, Grand Hall and Galleries)

Thursday, October 16
7:30 am – 5:00 pm	Conference registration and pick-up (IUPUI Campus Center)
7:30 am - 8:30 am	Continental breakfast (IUPUI Campus Center)
8:30 am -10:00 am	SESSION ONE

Adams

Making the Printmaking Studio Green

Bondarchuk

Curricular Objectives/Creative Possibilities: Innovations for Teaching 3D Foundation Art

Ferber

The Beam in Thine Own Eye: Criticism and Aggiornamento

Mühsam

Nature Studies: Continuity or Decline?


10:30 am - noon	SESSION TWO

Anderson & Kennedy

Art History at a Fine Arts College: Pedagogical Practices and Curriculum

Buller

Motherhood in Art

Giorgio/FATE

Emerging Technologies and the Pioneers Who Loved Them

Aurbach

Look Ma, No Hands

Rizk

The Agility of Others: Keeping Up with the Aggiornamenti


Noon – 1:30 pm	Lunch Break

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm	SESSION THREE

Gardner-Huggett

Feminist Art History’s Aggiornamento and the Classroom

Gillis

Multiples in Practice

Vander Kooi

A Context in Flux: Addressing Curricular Change in Design Education

Bleicher

Contemporary Color

Urrutia & Strasburger

Idea, Process, and Criticism: Inverting the Traditional Foundation Course Model


3:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Buses depart for Indianapolis Museum of Art
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm	Featured Speaker – Alfredo Jaar (Indianapolis Museum of Art)
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm	Reception (Indianapolis Museum of Art)

Friday, October 17
7:30 am - 3:00 pm	Conference registration and pick-up
7:30 am - 8:30 am	Continental Breakfast (IUPUI Campus Center)

8:30 am- 9:30 am	SESSION FOUR

Arrigo

Thinking About the Box: Reconsidering Creativity Head-On

Poggio

Using Web 2.0 Tools in Design Communication to Engage Students in Social Activism

Hsiao & Liu

Dynamic Approach in Contemporary Chinese Visual Art Practice and Education

Baker

Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture and New Technology

Shellhorn

Making Thinking: Methods for Facilitating Student Reflection


9:45 am -11:15 am	SESSION FIVE

Lotz & Baugh

Transitions in Pedagogy: Traditional, Studio-based Training in a Contemporary, Liberal Arts Environment

Potratz

Sculpture: The Old Guard/The New Guard

Ginsburg

Art Schools Take the Lead: Creating Model Venues for Transdisciplinary Collaboration

Richardson

Spirit in the Material World: Art & Mysticism


11:30 am - 1:00 pm	Members Luncheon IUPUI Campus Center (included in conference fee) for members only MACAA President to introduce officers, MACAA Business Meeting

1:30 pm - 2:45 pm	SESSION SIX

Lee & Kanouse

Remapping History: Artists Re-imagine the Midwest

Condon

Interpolating the White Tower: Are Place and Material Valid in a Contemporary Art Education

Lane

“Why Do I Have to Create a Body of Work?” The Artist’s Journal

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Boshart

Summer Sculpture Residency

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Studio Workshops


3:30 pm -5:00 pm	SESSION SEVEN

J. Lee

Best Practices in Study Abroad for Studio Art Students

Meler

Re-Envisioning the Art of the Print: The Digital Revolution

Geoffrion

To Be or Not to Be: The Question of Criteria in Contemporary Art

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Studio Workshops

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Studio Workshops


6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Featured Speaker – Dana Claxon (IUPUI Campus Center)
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm	Reception (Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art)

Saturday, October 18
9:00 am -11:00 am	MACAA Board Meeting Dean’s Conference Room