AAEP will host the 2025 GRAE Conference September 26-27. The event location on the 26th will be confirmed ASAP and the 27th location will take place in the Barnett Center Collaboratory, located in 141 Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High Street in Columbus, Ohio.
Appetizers and soda/water will be served Friday evening. Refreshments and a continental breakfast will be served on Saturday. If you have any dietary restrictions or questions about the food offered at this event or if you require an accommodation to participate in this event, such as ASL interpretation or live captioning, please contact please contact Dana Kletchka at kletchka.1@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks before the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
GRAE Schedule
5:00 PM-8:00 PM
5:00-5:30 – Registration
5:30-5:35 – Welcome by Dr. Joni Acuff, AAEP Department Chair
5:35-5:40 – Introduction of Keynote Speakers by Dr. Dana Carlisle Kletchka, AAEP Graduate Studies Chair
5:40-6:10 – First Alumni Keynote + Q&A: Debra Hardy, PhD, Assistant Professor of Art Education in the Peck School of the Arts at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
6:10-6:20 – Break
6:20–6:50 – Second Alumni Keynote + Q&A: Megan Wanttie, PhD, Manager of Family and Youth Programming in Learning, Engagement, & Interpretation at the Columbus Museum of Art
6:50–7:00 – Review of Schedule for Saturday and Concluding Remarks with Dr. Kletchka
7:00-8:00 – Welcome reception and open galleries
9:00 AM–3:30 PM
Barnett Center Collaboratory, 141 Sullivant Hall
1813 N. High Street, Columbus, Ohio
9:00-9:30 – Registration and continental breakfast, welcome by Dr. Joni Acuff, AAEP Department Chair
9:30-10:30 – Panel 1
10:30-11:00 – Questions and feedback by respondents
11:00-12:00 – Panel 2
12:00-12:30 – Questions and feedback by respondents
12:30-1:30 – Lunch on your own/Visit the Wex
1:30-2:30 – Panel 3
2:30-3:00 – Questions and feedback by respondents
3:00-3:30 – Participant discussion and wrap-up, acknowledgement and appreciation by Dr. Kletchka, AAEP Graduate Studies Chair
GRAE Respondents
Debra Hardy, PhD
Debra A. Hardy, PhD is an assistant professor of art education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research areas include the histories of art education, the legacy of Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood, social network analysis, dialogics and polyphony, Black feminist histories, counter-cartography, and anti-essentialist teaching practices. She has published in the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education and in Promoting Civic Engagement through Art Education, with a forthcoming article in Visual Arts Research.
The purpose of the Graduate Research in Art Education (GRAE) conference is to provide a forum for students from Penn State, Ohio State, and Teachers College to discuss issues and developments in art education that are being opened up by current graduate student research. Since 2005, the GRAE conference takes place each fall semester in a rotation at one of the participating institutions.
AAEP has hosted the Graduate Research in Art Education conference in 2022, 2019, 2015, and 2012. A complete archive of GRAE conference programs and presentations is maintained by Penn State University.
