NAEA Open Studio: Art Room 101 Series | Studio Procedures - Tips and Tricks for Back to School

NAEA Open Studio: Art Room 101 Series | Studio Procedures - Tips and Tricks for Back to School
Thursday, August 22, 2024 
Cost: FREE!

Join us for an engaging session designed to help you prepare for a successful school year! Our Art Room 101 Series kicks off with Studio Procedures–Tips and Tricks for Back to School, designed to streamline classroom management and enhance teaching strategies for emerging and experienced art educators.  

Our panelists will delve into efficient classroom setup, materials management, establishing routines, student engagement, and other efficient art studio procedures for elementary, middle, and high school. Bring your questions and leave with a toolkit of strategies to kickstart your school year. Connect with fellow art educators and refresh your teaching procedures! 

Please note that participation in this live event or recording does not include NAEA professional learning credit. 

Candido Crespo

Visual Arts Educator, Central Islip Union Free School District 
Central Islip, NY

Candido Crespo is a husband, father, artist, and art educator. He has taught Kindergarten through 12th grade in the Central Islip Union Free School District in Central Islip, NY for 17 years. His educational philosophy is truly rooted in relationships and community. Crespo co-founded the One Love Art Sessions Podcast, was the host of Everyday Art Room podcast and has been a guest on multiple K12 art chat podcasts. In addition to presenting on art education, Crespo has also led presentations on the ability of creativity to restore and strengthen family bonds to multiple mental health providers. He also founded an initiative that aims to help fathers and male guardians add creativity to their parenting tool belt through community-based workshops entitled the creativiDAD project. 

Holly Bess Kincaid

Art Educator, Raleigh County Schools
Beckley, West Virginia

Currently teaching in West Virginia, Holly also dedicates her time to being a caregiver. Holly’s academic background includes a BFA from West Virginia University, MA from New York University and NAEA’s School for Art Leaders. Her teaching career spans kindergarten through eighth grade in Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. 

William Rembert

Teacher, Cobb County Schools 
Mableton, GA
 

Born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, William Rembert was influenced by his high school art teacher Marcia Skinner who encouraged him to pursue art. After attending The School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1979–1981, Rembert enlisted in the Army in 1985 to serve as an infantryman. He dedicated 20 years of his life to the Army before becoming a special education teacher in 2004, and then an art teacher in 2012 He retired from teaching in 2024 and is now committed to his cultivating his artistic talents, which he rediscovered in 1998 after being asked to complete a portrait of a retiring commander. 

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