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AERA 2026

Wednesday, April 8

Time: 7:45 AM - Sunday, April 12, 3:00 PM PDT

Place: Virtual Poster Exhibit Hall, Virtual Poster Hall

Event: SIG- Arts and Inquiry in the Visual and Performing Arts in Education Virtual Poster Session

Session Type: Virtual iPresentation Only

Papers:

Unforgotten Practices, Future Possibilities: Puppetry, Pedagogy and the Integrated Arts

-Laura McEntee, Mary Immaculate College

-Edmond Gubbins, Mary Immaculate College

Time: 1:45 - 3:15 PM PDT

Place: LACC, Floor: Level One, Petree D

Event: Wellbeing, Equity, and Justice: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching and Research in the Arts (Table 4)

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Chair:

-William Zhou, The George Washington University

Papers:

A Performing Arts Curriculum Framework (PACF) for Deeper Learning High Schools in the Future

-Frances C. Furlong, College of William & Mary

Contextualizing Inclusion: Arts, Disability, and Race Across Transnational Learning Spaces

-Min Gu, California State University - Long Beach

-Zakiya Atkinson, California State University - Long Beach

“Looking for Connection”: Arts-Based Photovoice with Youth to Explore Relationships Between Wellbeing, Nature, and Spirituality

-Laura Azzarito, Columbia University

SO TRUTHFUL, DIRECT, REAL! Audience Response to Justice-Involved Youth

-Kelly Lynn Brady, CUNY - Graduate Center

Thursday, April 9

Time: 9:45 - 11:15 AM
Place:
LACC Floor: Level One, Petree D

Event: Towards A Politics of Multiplicity: Reimagining the Future of “Ensemble” in Art and Education (Table 8)

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Papers:

Rehearsing the Anthropocene: Devised Theatre Praxis for Collective Embodied Sensemaking

-Lana Cosic, Vanderbilt University

A Patchwork of Withness: More-Than-Human Ensembles

-Anastasia Y. Goodwin, Vanderbilt University

Rehearsing Alternative Futures for Sex Education: Embracing the Unknowing of Collaborative Meaning-Making

-Amanda Harris, University of California - Los Angeles

Creative Collaboration Across Differences: Ensemble Work for Abolition

-Cassidy L. Martin, University of Southern California

Session Organizer:

-Lana Cosic, Vanderbilt University

Discussant:

-Lora Cawelti, University of Southern California

Friday, April 10

Time: 1:45 - 3:15 PM PDT

Place: LACC, Floor: Level One, Petree D

Event: Parenting, Painting, and Puppetry: Innovative Pedagogies for Art Education in a Changing World (Table 8)

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Chair:

-Catherine Rosamond, School of Visual Arts

Papers:

Bridging Brush and Pixel: A Comparative Study of Traditional and Digital Painting for Pre-Service Art Educators

-Qianyu Zhou, Teachers College, Columbia University

Puppet Pedagogy: An Inquiry into Animated Educational Objects

-Chris Moffett, Teachers College, Columbia University

-Lucius Von Joo, Teachers College, Columbia University

-Emmy Semprun, Teachers College, Columbia University

-Danielle Tulchinsky, Teachers College, Columbia University

-Kevin Klein-Cardena, Teachers College, Columbia University

When Social Justice Parenting and Teaching Intersect: A Critical Arts-Based Collective Autoethnography

-Ting Fang Chien, Colorado State University

-Ran Qi, Weber State University

Time: 3:45 - 5:15 PM PDT

Place: LACC, Floor: Level Two, Room 515B

Event: Towards a Meaningful Practice of Transparency in Arts-Based Educational Research: Structured Poster Session

Session Type: Structured Poster Session

Chair:

-Charles F. Vanover, University of South Florida

Papers:

What Colombia Taught Me: A Journey in Photographs and Memos (Poster 1)

-Turan Ahmadova, University of South Florida - Tampa

Stage Directions as the Scholar-Artist’s Reflective and Analytic Tool (Poster 2)

-Emil Asonov, Florida State University

“She told me, ‘This is your career. This is your craft’”: Spoken-Word Performance of Interviews with Male Los Angeles Teacher Candidates (Poster 3)

-Agustin Cervantes, Bay Area K-16 Collaborative

Soul Sista: Trials & Triumphs Told Through Her Eyes, Words, And Moves…(Poster 4)

-Marquis B. Holley, University of South Florida

Centering Storytelling, Improvisation, and Sensory Phenomena in Choreographic Interviews (Poster 5)

-Lindsay Lindberg, University of California - Los Angeles


Emergent Bilinguals’ Experiences of Escaping Social Anxiety with Improv Theater (Poster 6)

-David Metz, Los Angeles Unified School District

Facets of Transparency in Musical Arts-Based Education Research (Poster 7)

-Amanda Odom, University of South Florida - Tampa

Exploring Local Cartographies of Institutional Practice: Mapping Transparency, Discourses, and Impact Literacies in Art as Research (Poster 8)

-Pei-Jung Tsai, University of British Columbia

-Anita Sinner, University of British Columbia

To Score or Not to Score: That is the Ethical Question (Poster 9)

-Joseph Salvatore, New York University

Tension and Questions on Engaging Ethnodramatic Performers in a University Setting (Poster 10)

-Charles F. Vanover, University of South Florida

Documentary Theatre as Lived Memory: An Autoethnographic Approach to Historical Atmosphere (Poster 11)

-Daria Vystavkina, Cologne-Bonn Academy in Exile

Rootedness, Uprootedness and Rootlessness (Poster 12)

-Botao Wu, University of British Columbia

Session Organizer:

-Charles F. Vanover, University of South Florida

Discussant:

-Jamie Fiddler, University of Calgary

Time: 7:45 - 8:45 PM PDT

Place: LACC, Floor: Level Two, Room 301A

Event: Arts & Inquiry SIG Business Meeting

Session Type: Business Meeting

Abstract:

Please join us for the Arts & Inquiry SIG Business Meeting! We will begin with the presentation of the SIG’s Dissertation Award, followed by a 20-minute performance and presentation from the recipient. After brief leadership updates, the remainder of the meeting will be dedicated to socializing and connecting with our Arts & Inquiry research community. Food and drinks will be provided!

Chair:

-Daniel X. Harris, RMIT University

Officers:

-Mary Beth Cancienne, James Madison University

-Andrea E. Allen, Michigan State University

-Carolina Bergonzoni, Cape Breton University

Time: 8:45 - 10:15 PM PDT

Place: LACC, Floor: Level Two, Room 303A

Event: Joint Arts Party

Session Type: Reception

Abstract:

The Arts & Inquiry, ABER, Arts & Learning, and Elliot Eisner SIGs invite you to a join us at AERA! This joint arts reception will be an opportunity to connect and engage with fellow arts educators and researchers. Food and drinks will be provided.

Cosponsors:

-SIG-Arts and Inquiry in the Visual and Performing Arts in Education

-SIG-Arts and Learning

-SIG-Arts-Based Educational Research

-SIG-Elliot Eisner

Chairs:

-Mary Beth Cancienne, James Madison University

-Daniel X. Harris, RMIT University

-Carolina Bergonzoni, Cape Breton University

-Andrea E. Allen, Michigan State University

-Courtney Mauldin-Jones, Syracuse University

-Matt Omasta, Miami University (OH)

-Jennifer Bartee, University of the District of Columbia

Session Organizer:

-Andrea E. Allen, Michigan State University

Saturday, April 11

Time: 9:45 - 11:15 AM PDT

Place: LACC, Floor: Level Two, Room 411 (Theatre)
Event:
Moving Toward Liberation: Somatic, Decolonial, and Queer Pedagogies in Dance Education

Session Type: Demonstration/Performance

Chair:

-Stephanie Anne Shelton, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Papers:

Rituals of Survival: A Queer, Embodied Praxis of Refusal and Reworlding

-Aleta Brown, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Free To Be Me! Andean Dance Performance Demonstration for Decoloniality and Movement

-Ambika Gopal Raj, California State University - Los Angeles

-Alicia Moseley, Cal State Los Angeles

Somatic Pedagogies for Creativity in Dance Education and Research

-Traci Klein, McGill University

Session Organizer:

-Aleta Brown, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

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AERA Arts & Inquiry 2025 SYMPOSIUMS AND PERFORMANCES

Practicing the Possible: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Improvisation Toward Remedy and Inclusion

Wed, April 23, 9:00 to 10:30am, The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Room 112, Working Roundtable Session, Chair: Lisa Marie Siciliano, University of Illinois at Chicago

Embodying Memory, Time, and Space: Improvisation to Explore Personal History in Qualitative Research - Lora Cawelti, University of Southern California

Surfacing the Musical Self Through Playful Improvisation – Ethan Rubin, University of California – Irvine

The Things We Make, and the Stories They Tell: Unpacking Ethnogastronomic Repertoire through Autoethnography – Phebe Chew, New York Hall of Science

“Now, become frat boys”: Embodied Improvisation and Identity Play in Devised Theatre - Lane Cosic, Vanderbilt University

Yes, and …! Enacting Inclusion by Way of Theatre Improvisation – Kailea Saplan, University of Wisconsin-Madison

A Portrait of Responsive Structure in Improvisational Choreographic Pedagogy – Lauren Vogelstein, Teachers College, Columbia University

Documentation, Collective Memory, and Agency: The Power of Collaborative Theatre Across the Lifespan Thursday, April 24, 1:45 to 3:15 pm, The Colorado Center: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1, Roundtable Session

Chair: Drew Xavier Coles, Teachers College, Columbia University

Theater for the Very Young: Children as Co-collaborators of Creative Experience – Jaclyn Lauren Dudek, UJosh Hayes, Sarah AIRasheed, Liyan Yang, University of Kansas

Collaborative Creation: Young Girls Re-scripting Their Experiences and Beliefs of Puberty, Menstruation, and Girlhood: Julie Snyder, Pennsylvania State University

Documentary Theatre as a Place of Collective Memory of the War – Daria Vystavkina, Cologne-Bonn Academy in Exile

Moments, Movements, and Manifestations: Documentation as Medium in Chicago Artists Partnership in Education, CoLab Teaching Partnerships

Poetry, Music, and. Embodiment: Arts Education in the Postmodern, Friday, April 25th, 1:30-3:00 pm, The Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1, Roundtable Session

Chair: Jennifer Bartee, University of the District of Columbia

Languaging Dance: Audio Description and Poetry – Carolina Bergonzoni, Cape Breton University

Layers of Reflection: A Self-Study Through Blackout Poetry and El Duende One Canvas Art Making – Eleni Duret, San Jose State University

Research on Other Space: Re-listening New Music through a Live Music Performance – Xiaoyue Zhang, The George Washington University

The Arts and Inquiry SIG Business Meeting and Outstanding Dissertation Award Presentation,

Friday, April 25th, 7-8:30pm, The Colorado Convention Center, Room 113, Business Meeting

Presentation by Dissertation Award Winner, Javier Cardona Otero, Indiana University - Bloomington, College of Education

After presenting the Outstanding Dissertation Award and a brief business meeting, we invite optional 2–3-minute informal sharing of arts and inquiry related works in progress. All are welcome.

Critical Explorations of Identity, Racial Trauma, and Human Experience in Arts Education

Saturday,  April 26th, 1:30-3:00 pm, The Colorado Convention Center, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3, Roundtable Session

Chair: Stanley Andrisse, From Prison Cells to PhD

Exploring Human Traits and Behaviors through Creative Machines: Implications of Contemporary Artists Practices for AI Use in Art Education – Borim Song, East Carolina Univ.; Ahran Koo, California State Univ.

Racial Trauma, “Hidden Injuries,” and “Healing Methodologies”: Embracing Participatory Arts-Based Methodologies with Students of Color. – Laura Azzarito,  Columbia University

Self-Cultivation to Academic Success: Effects of Stress and Psychological Characteristics among Performing and Non-Performing-Arts Students – Tal Vaizman, The George Washington University; Gal Harpaz, The Open University of Israel; Anita Kanski, Nora Sebestyen, Ildiko Gaal, Hungarian Dance University

Trans-Queering the Repair Train: Performing Research as Remedy, Saturday, April 26th, 5:10-6:40pm, The Colorado Convention Center, Meeeting Room Level 104, Symposium

Chair: Daniel X. Harris, RMIT University

“But When I Put the Tongue On …” : Attuning to Trans*versal Assemblages with a Visual Arts-Praxis – EJ Renold, Cardiff University

Homonostalgia: Queering the Archive through Speculative Composition – David Ben Shannon, University of Sheffield; Sarah E. Truman, University of Melbourne

Queering the Crip Time of Not-Becoming Fluent in Phonics: A Close Reading of Drawn Spelling Lists – Laura Trafi-Prats, Manchester Metropolitan University

A Remedy of Hap: What Education Can Learn from Transgender Scholarship – Daniel X. Harris, RMIT University