Professor, Arts Education & Curriculum Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington

Marjorie Cohee Manifold looks at the artistic practices of adolescents in interest-based (fandom) communities and how socioaesthetic interactions of fandom encourage and support development of self-identity, self-acceptance, appreciation of global expressions, and emotional well-being, while honing art learning and making skills. Her authored works include Art Themes: Choices in Art Learning and Making.

Art Educator, Nebinger Elementary
NAEA Elementary Division Director-Elect

Leslie Grace teaches art at Nebinger Elementary in Philadelphia, adjuncts at Moore College of Art and Design, and is the past president of PAEA. She was awarded the PAEA 2016 Elementary Art Educator of the Year award and graduated from the 2019 NAEA School for Art Leaders. In 2022, she was awarded the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching from the School District of Philadelphia.

Turtle Mountain Chippewa
Art Educator
Associate Professor, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore, MD

Raine Dawn Valentine has taught middle school art for 16 years at Ridgely Middle School in Baltimore County Public Schools in Maryland. She is an adjunct instructor at Notre Dame of Maryland University. Raine is a Connected Arts Network Teacher Leader who has presented at state and national art education conferences. She currently serves on the board of the NAEA Caucus on the Spiritual in Art Education.

Visual Arts Department Chair, Plano Senior High School, Plano, TX

Cristina Correa is the visual arts department chair at Plano Senior High School and central cluster lead art teacher for Plano ISD in Plano, Texas. She holds an MFA in Visual Arts, Latin American Art History, and Mexican American Studies and is a graduate of NAEA’s School for Art Leaders. 

Student Teacher Supervisor, Purdue University
Former NAEA Chief Learning Officer, School Principal, and Art Educator

Dennis Inhulsen is a Purdue University student teacher supervisor for art education, Dennis recently retired as Chief Learning Officer for the National Art Education Association. Dennis was an elementary principal and art educator for 35 years. Dennis taught art for all ages. He is Past President, Vice President, and Convention chair for NAEA, also serving as president of the Michigan Art Education Association. Dennis is a frequent workshop presenter and served as visual arts writing chair with the National Coalition of Core Art Standards (NCCAS) and was a member of the NCCAS Leadership Team representing all art forms.

Principal, Perpich Arts High School

Rebecca Bullen is the principal at Perpich Arts High School in Minnesota. She has served as a media and visual arts teacher, arts ed specialist, department chair, and assistant principal. She has presented at Art Educators of Minnesota, Arts Schools Network, and at NAEA Conventions.

Mural Arts Philadelphia, Senior Director of Learning & Practice, Philadelphia, PA

Netanel Portier, with Mural Arts Philadelphia since 2009, joined its executive team in 2023 and launched the Mural Arts Institute in 2017, sharing Mural Arts’s learnings with other change-making leaders across the globe. Devoted to peer learning and community-centered cultural practices, Netanel enjoys bringing together diverse artists and communities through socially engaged public art practices.

Artist, Mending Walls, Richmond, VA

Hamilton Glass’s career as an artist stems from his architecture and design background. After working in architecture for 7 years, his passion for public art took over. As a Philadelphia native, public art has always been a big influence and inspiration to Hamilton because of its power to influence and inspire the surrounding community. Using his background in architecture, he creates images that reference architectural drafting practices, represented in the pieces’ sharp lines, scale, and balance. One of the things he enjoys most is creating multilayered projects that amplify many voices. 

Visual Artist

Visual artist Alexa Eliana started from small-scale illustrations and has expanded to large-scale murals over the past decade. Her murals showcase vivid colors, patterns, and animals, influenced by her Latinx heritage. Viewers can enjoy her artwork throughout her home state of North Carolina and see how she mixes realistic portrayals with illustrative design. Mural projects and interactive workshops that promote communal participation have become her new, growing passion: collaborative pieces that celebrate the community and are by the community. Her goal with her art is to engage, educate, and empower all types of people in different walks of life.

Director of Learning and Visitor Experiences at Southern Utah Museum of Art at Southern Utah University

Jason Moodie has been an educator for nearly 30 years in public, private, and not-for-profit organizations. He has presented at national and state conferences on a variety of topics. His artwork consists of experimental and historical photographic processes and fashion design. He has been known to upcycle clothing found at thrift stores into colorful creations worn as his professional attire.

Assistant Vice President for Transfer Student Success & Partnerships 
University of North Carolina System

Eric Fotheringham serves as assistant vice president for transfer student success and partnerships for the University of North Carolina System. In this role, he serves as project director for transfer success and adult-learner initiatives, including expanding transfer partnerships, reenrolling adult learners, and drafting policies that support student access and success.

Executive Director for Strategic Enrollment Management and University Transfer
North Carolina Community College System

Monty Hickman is the executive director for strategic enrollment management and university transfer for the North Carolina Community College System. He has over 28 years of experience in higher education with 4-year public and private, as well as community college. His focus and passion are ensuring that all students have access to higher education. He has a BA in English, a Master of Public Administration, and a Doctor of Philosophy.

Doctoral Candidate; State Director of Student Success
North Carolina Community College System

Michelle Lair is a North Carolina native who has spent over 25 years working in education. Expanding access and increasing success for students is what Michelle seeks to do in her work at the North Carolina Community College System Office. Michelle holds a Bachelor of Arts from North Carolina State University and a Master of Arts from West Virginia University, and she is currently a doctoral candidate at West Virginia University.

Program Chair AFA Visual Arts; Art Instructor
Cape Fear Community College 

Richard Conn is a full-time art instructor at Cape Fear Community College since 2012. Richard was also the AFA program chair for visual arts at Cape Fear Community College from 2019 to 2024 and the gallery coordinator for Wilma W. Daniels Art Gallery on Cape Fear’s campus, 2012–2019.

Education Marketing Manager, Wacom 

Michele Dick is an educator first and foremost, and she brings her unique skills and experiences as classroom teacher, technology specialist, and digital learning coordinator with Evergreen Public Schools in Vancouver, WA, to her role at Wacom. A sought-after conference speaker, professional learning expert, and innovator in integrating digital ink technologies into creative and core curriculum instruction, Michele provides essential support, expertise, and creativity into her role helping educators tap the power of digital pen and display technologies in their teaching practices.  

Graphic Design Instructor, Anoka Ramsey Community College, Minneapolis College of Art and Design 

Currently based in the Twin Cities, Andi Fink (she/they) is an Oregon-born, Missouri-bred artist, designer, and educator. When she’s not running her gift and stationery business A Fink & Ink, she can be found teaching graphic design, photography, or illustration at various institutions, including Anoka Ramsey Community College and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. If she’s not teaching, lettering, or shooting photographs, you can find her watching some trash TV (or a new documentary), reading a book, or out on a long walk. Andi received her MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She earned her bachelor’s degree in graphic design and photography from the University of Missouri.  

CSTAE Digital Curriculum Coordinator; Assistant Professor of Art Education, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Whitewater, WI 

Verónica Soria-Martínez holds a PhD and a master’s degree in visual arts and intermedia from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, and focuses on visual culture and sonic arts. From 2014 to 2018, she was part of the art collective Cràter, which created community projects and public site interventions in Spain. Her research has been featured in various academic journals, including the Leonardo Music Journal, the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, and the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education. Her work has been presented at numerous conferences and exhibited internationally, including at Museu de Belles Arts in Spain and Rockford Art Museum. Before joining UW-Whitewater as an assistant professor of art education, she taught visual arts and new media at Rockford Public Schools, New Genres Art Space, and Rockford University. Her research interests span sound art, visual culture, art education, digital art, and critical theory. 

CSTAE Coordinator; Assistant Professor of Art Education, Miami University 
Oxford, OH 

Luke Meeken is an assistant professor of art education at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, on the traditional homelands of the Myaamia and Shawnee people. His work attends to ways we can be more critical and sensitive toward the material qualities of digital places and things.  

Luke draws on multiple strains of digital materialism, as well as critical and anticolonial conceptions of place. His research examines the material histories, politics, and activities of the digital places and things youth participate in and create. 

Prior to his doctoral studies, Luke was a high school digital and traditional media art teacher, as well as the lead curriculum designer for Virginia Commonwealth University’s CurrentLab project. He also developed and taught summer programming with the Smithsonian, exploring critical and creative potentials of digital materials with middle and high school students. 

CSTAE Past Coordinator; Assistant Professor of Art Education, University of Arkansas at Little Rock 
Little Rock, AR 

Emily Jean Hood is an artist, teacher, and researcher currently serving as assistant professor and coordinator of art education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is an award-winning art educator with over 14 years of experience in both K–12 and higher education. She is the Past Coordinator of the Caucus of Social Theory in Art Education, an Interest Group of the National Art Education Association. She is also a member of the Arkansas Art Educators and the International Society of Education >span class="NormalTextRun SCXW203292482 BCX4">Art. Her scholarship has been published in Studies in Art Education, the Art Education journal, and the International Journal of Education >span class="NormalTextRun SCXW203292482 BCX4">Art, among others. 

CSTAE Associate Digital Curator; PhD Candidate, Pennsylvania State University 
State College, PA 

Ye Sul Park (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in art education at Penn State University who has been fortunate enough to take on several artistic identities, including artist, educator, curator, and researcher. She is interested in how new media and emerging technologies reshape art pedagogies and relational dynamics between humans and nonhuman machines. Through her research and practice, Ye Sul aims to help students navigate the evolving media environment creatively and critically. 

Kelly M. Gross is an assistant professor of art and design education at Northern Illinois University and a former special education and K–8 art teacher. She is working on several research projects that focus on the intersection of art education, special education, and disability studies. Recently, she has been examining the potentialities of AI in art education. 

jt Eisenhauer Richardson is an associate professor of art education in the Department of Arts Administration, Education, and Policy at The Ohio State University. They are an affiliated faculty member with the Disability Studies Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization and serve as Chair of the Digital Learning Committee. 

Art Educator, Dexter Community Schools 
Dexter, MI 

Jane Montero has taught middle-level art for 35 years and currently serves as President for the Michigan Art Education Association. In 2023, Jane received the Outstanding Teaching award from NAEA’s Art Media Technology Interest Group and was Michigan’s Middle Level Art Educator of the Year and National Middle Level Art Educator of the Year, 2021–2022. She is a 2019 graduate of NAEA’s School for Art Leaders. Jane has presented virtually, internationally, nationally, and at state conferences. She has written numerous articles for SchoolArts magazine and coauthored their February 2024 design-focused issue. Jane’s most recent paper, titled “Revolutionizing Creativity: Unleashing the Power of AI in Upper Elementary Art Education,” was presented at the Artificial Intelligence in Education Technology (AIET) international conference in Barcelona, Spain, and received an award for best presentation. 

Director of Studio Art and Pre-Art Therapy, Salem College 
Winston-Salem, NC 

Maria Knuckley Robinson holds undergraduate degrees in business administration and art studio/design, an MAT in Art Education, National Board Teacher Certification, and an EdD in Curriculum and Instruction. She is currently working on an MFA in Painting at SCAD to improve her own work in combining painting, printmaking, textiles, and mixed-media approaches. Maria has extensive training in drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, pottery, mixed media, photography, film, metal jewelry, 3D printing, and STEAM curriculum development. She is actively involved with AP Studio Art and Design as a table leader and consultant, NAEA as an At-Large ED&I Commissioner, and the South Carolina Department of Education’s Arts Assessment Program as an assessor, item writer, and professional development instructor. She has a consulting business called Artistry & Assessment, where she travels to schools around the country to assist in developing growth in arts assessment practices. 

Chair of Art Education, School of Visual Arts
New York, NY 

Cathy Rosamond has an extensive background in higher education teaching and research, as well as museum education for K–12 students. At NAEA, she serves on the Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Commission and is the co-chair of the Teacher Retention and Recruitment Task Force. Her scholarship interests include artistic research, specifically in investigations that focus on diverse approaches to inquiry.