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 meeting platform to increase participation and foster exchange.
Fall 2026 Schedule of Speakers
Dr. Kristine Sunday | Independent Scholar, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | November, 2026
Jen Ferrari | Elementary Art Educator, Bedford, Massachusetts | Monday, October 26, 2026 | 3PM-4PM (CST)
Dr. Marta Cabral | CUNY College of Staten Island | November, 2026
Dr. Sara Shields + Dr. Rachel Fendler | Florida State University | TBD
Spring 2027 Schedule of Speakers
Dr. Cassie Brownell | University of Toronto, OSAI (Canada) | March 23 - 26, 2027
Alexandra Lange | American Architecture and Design Critic, New York, NY | TBD
Dr. Raquel Jimenez
Essential questions of ‘community’ in community-based arts education
Dr. Hayon Park
The politics of childhood art and spatial belonging: Restrictions and possibilities
Dr. Abi Hackett
Dr. Jayne Osgood
Towards toddlerhood: Reframing toddlers and their development through the arts
Dr. Rachel Zollinger
Learning in a multispecies semiosphere: Children’s drawing from a biosemiotic perspective
Dr. Linda Knight
Children’s art is not cute
Dr. Alex Berry
Learning to weave in petro-time: Plastic pedagogies
Dr. Haeny Yoon
“You are just doing scribble scrabble”:
Tracing the intricate logics of children’s marks
Dr. Jon Wargo
Sculpting the City:
Reading Young Children’s Auraculous Adventures as an Arts ‘Encounter-Event’
Dr. Leslie Rech Penn
Drawing(s) in Class
Dr. Gigi Schroeder Yu
Uncertainty as Generative in Early Childhood Art Education Contexts
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. 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.