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Early Childhood Art Educators (ECAE) Column: Fall 2023

NAEA News Fall 2023

Members of the Early Childhood Art Educators Interest Group will be busy sharing their knowledge, and this issue of the newsletter will highlight many of those instances. If you should have news of the work you are doing with young children and artmaking, please contact me, Heather Kaplan (hgkaplan@utep.edu), so I can share your accomplishments, news, and alert others of upcoming early childhood art education events.

In September, I will be traveling with President-Elect Geralyn Yu to InSEA in Canakkale, Turkey, to deliver papers as part of an international panel, Global Perspectives of Early Childhood Art Education: Ruptures and Reimagining. Joining us will be Pataky Gabriella from Hungary and Maho Sato from Japan.

Once again, Early Childhood Art Educators will make a strong showing at the Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (RECE) Conference, also taking place in early September. The conference will be held virtually and in person in Manchester, England. The RECE organization and its annual conference are strongly aligned to the our Interest Group’s mission statement and can act as an additional forum and resource with which to support early childhood art education. The following is a synopsis of papers presented by members of the Early Childhood Art Educators Interest Group and is meant to illustrate the kinds of information and discussion typical of RECE. Marissa McClure Sweeny, Shana Cinquemani, Lillian Lewis, and Christine Thompson will present Motherscholarship: Transformative Art Making and Caregiving With Young Children. Past President Marta Cabral, along with Sean Justice and Kay Gordon, will present Everyday Choreographies as a Pathway for Computational Literacies. I, Heather Kaplan, along with Geralyn Yu, Shana Cinquemani, and Mitsy Chung will present Examining Pathways and Ruptures in Early Childhood Art Education.

The Art Education Research Institute’s Annual Symposium takes place in mid-October. This year it is held at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and Interest Group members will attend and share their work. Shana Cinquemani, Jeffrey Cornwall, Geralyn Yu, and I will present the panel Imagining the Field(work) of Contemporary Early Childhood Research in Art Education Post COVID-19. Laura Trafí-Prats and Christopher Schulte will host a book chat on their recent publication, New Images of Thought in the Study of Childhood Drawing. Diane Golding and I will present the paper New Materialist, Prosthetic Convergences of Children, Clay, and Video. Georgina Badoni, Marissa McClure Sweeny, Shana Cinquemani, and Elizabeth Garber will present the panel Transformative Motherscholarship in Art: Public Pedagogies of Childhood.


Column by:

Heather Kaplan, ECAE President
Email: kgkaplan@utep.edu

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