The Childhood Art Speaker Series features the work of leading scholar-practitioners whose research, teaching, and community-engaged scholarship has the potential to reshape how we think about and approach the study of childhood art. The Childhood Art Speaker Series is facilitated through Zoom’s webinar platform to increase participation and foster a more inclusive dialogue. Speaker(s) who participate in the Childhood Art Speaker Series also engage in a detailed follow-up discussion, with special attention given to the untold and perhaps understated interests and experiences that shape their work. Discussions are formatted as stand-alone episodes of Childhood Art: A CSCA Podcast, now available on Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music.
AY 2024-2025 Schedule - Coming Soon
Dr. Heather Kaplan
Thinking with the Border in (Early Childhood) Art Education
Dr. Marissa McClure Sweeny
Transformative motherscholarship and art: Public pedagogies of childhood
Dr. Louisa Penfold
Material Play: Curating Children’s Creative Spaces Through Contemporary Art
Dr. Silvia Rodriguez Vega
Drawing deportation: Art and resistance among immigrant children
Dr. Jaye Johnson Thiel
children’s art making as hopeful practice in blasted economic landscapes or how I came to own a paper pocketbook
Dr. Paul Duncum
Visual Culture Concepts
Dr. Laura Trafí-Prats
For a dyslexic aesthetics: Valuing slowness across care, comic art and children’s drawing
Dr. Kortney Sherbine
Making Maps, Making Worlds: A Young Child’s Pandemic cartographies
Dr. Tyson Lewis
Walter Benjamin and the Antifacscist Potential of Children’s Coloring
Dr. Hannah Dyer
The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood
Dr. Gail Boldt
What is learning?: How doing psychotherapy with children changed my mind
Dr. Mona Sakr
Light Play: Thinking with the Shadow in Observations of Childhood Art
Dr. Tran Templeton + Dr. Vivek Vellanki
“What is this place?”: Children’s Art as Provocations for Place-Making
Dr. Christine Marmé Thompson
Beyond the Single Story of Childhood: Recognizing Childism in Art Education Practice
Dr. Sylvia Kind & Dr. Cristina Delgado Vintimilla
Choreographies of practice: Mutualities & Sympoetic Becomings in Early Childhood Teacher Education
Recordings are also available on the CSCA YouTube Channel.
All CSCA webinars are free and open to the public.