CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Friday, November 21, 2014

7:30-8:30 - Registration & Breakfast – Schaeffer Auditorium

8:30 - Welcoming Remarks

  • TBA
  • Dr. Peg Speirs – Interim Department Chair, Conference Associate Chair
  • Professor Michael Radyk – Conference Chair

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9:00-10:15 - KEYNOTE– Janice Arnold, Felt Artist–

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10:15-10:45 – Break to View Exhibition in Sharadin Building

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10:45-11:45 – ARIST PRESENTATION SESSIONS– Sharadin Arts Building

  • Amy Putansu - Ondule Weaving in the 21st Century(Session)-SH 121
  • Jeffrey Clancy - Artist Presentation (Session)-SH 114
  • Mary Hark - Making Artwork Between Cultures: Report from the Field (Session)-SH 113
  • Moon Jung Jang - Designer Presentation (Session)-SH 111

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12:15-1:30 - Lunch in the Georgian Room

  • Kutztown Art Education Awards

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1:45-2:45 – KEYNOTE - Carol Sauvion in Conversation with Dr. Marilyn Stewart,

Room 120 Sharadin Arts Building

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1:45-4:00-Ceramics Workshop and Artist presentation

  • Theo Uliano & Professor James Chaney– Color, Text and Form-SH 108

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3:00-4:00 –FACULTY PRESENTATION - Sharadin Arts Building

  • Dr. Daniel Haxall-The Place of Textiles in Contemporary African Art(Session)- SH 121

3:00-4:00 – ART EDUCATOR SESSIONS– Sharadin Arts Building

  • Dolores Eaton and Dr. Amy Bloom - Craft in America in the Classroom(Session)-SH 120
  • Dr. Camilla McComb-Routine, Ritual, and Personal Shrines: Pre-Adolescents Explore the Sacred in their Lives(Session)-SH 111
  • Bob Reeker- Engaging and Assessing Young Learners Through Creative Exploration and Expression(Session)-SH 113
  • Dr. Angela LaPorte-Exploring Ritual Through Art Education(Session)-SH 114

3:00-4:00 – MILLER GALLERY TALK– Sharadin Arts Building

  • Ted Hallman - Gallery talk with the Artist-SH-Miller Gallery

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4:00-6:00 – Meet the Artist and Closing Reception

Please join us in the Marlin and Regina Miller Art Gallery

Saturday, November 22, 2014

9:00-4:30, Fine Metals Studio, SH 107

Jeffrey Clancy & Professor James Malenda
Pewter-A Poor Man’s Silver
Given the high cost of precious metals such as silver and gold, pewter offers an inexpensive alternative. It allows for all the possibilities of the more expensive metals at a much More reasonable cost. The techniques are easily adaptable to the k-12 classroom offering simpler alternative to casting, fabricating and forming in silver and gold. Often referred to as poor man’s silver, historical and contemporary pewter-wares are rich in form, function and expression. Tankards, ewers, candlestick holders, spoons and wearables can be fabricated, formed and cast in pewter. A range of hollowware techniques and mold making as it relates to casting will be explored.

1:00-4:30, Textiles Studio, SH 121
Mary Hark & Professor Michael Radyk
The Topography of Handmade Paper: An Introduction to the Craft
Soft, ephemeral and airy, or tough and bark like; paper can be an absorbent material that carries fluidity with ease or possess a dense impenetrable face. Paper has potential to carry a “smooth as glass” surface or become a field of lush texture. Skin or substrata, this wonderful material has endless possibility.
This afternoon workshop will be an introduction to hand papermaking. A discussion of a range of papermaking fibers and traditional tools will introduce the work. Many examples of papers that carry a great variety of surface qualities will be shared. All participants will have the opportunity to process Asian fibers and practice basic sheet forming with an eye towards producing high quality papers suitable for use in books, printmaking and collage. Some exploration of surface and texture will be explored as time allows. Each participant will leave with a small portfolio of papers as well as information for setting up a hand papermaking studio with simple and affordable tools. All levels of experience are welcome.