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The OAEA hosts annual conferences providing opportunities for educators to share and collaborate ideas for curriculum, instruction, and assessment standards to enhance professional learning in art education.

Engage Explore Excite Building a Joyful Art Community

Sign up for the 2024 OAEA Conference!

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Registration includes Friday and Saturday Events.

Join Us for the Opening Keynote Speaker - Que Rock!

This event is open to the public.

Friday, April 19th, 7pm - 9pm. Reception to follow.

80 Sheppard Ave. East, North York, Ontario.

April 19-20, 2024

What a Great Conference!

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Engage in collaborative transformations, explore new directions, and excite yourself and your students about new possibilities. Develop creative and innovative ways of thinking about global cultures, universal ideas, and a sense of self in a connected world. You will enjoy a series of interactive, hands-on workshops and keynote presenters. Join artists, educators, and contemporary speakers who will inspire you to build a joyful sense of community.

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Friday

Opening Keynote Speaker

Que Rock

Title of presentation: Making the Woodlands Dance

A profile view of Quentin CommandaBio: I am a Nipissings First Nation born, multi-disciplinary artist. I started life learning my Anishnaabe and Odawa cultures through ceremonies. As an Anishnaabe graffiti artist, my work has matured from quick pieces into large scale street art projects and canvas work. Using my Anishnaabe teachings and methods, I focus on creating smooth transitions of color, blending abstract form with realism and expressionism. I call my style, “Making the Woodlands Dance.” My goal is to portray the teachings of my ancestors, sacred geometry in all my art forms and create visual healing experience to the viewers.

My art has allowed me to work closely with art directors, city officials, and corporate clients to make their visions come to life. I enjoy working with the people and have collaborated with many artists on projects of all scales from graphic books to videos to murals around the world. I love traveling and seeing art. Most of all, I love to make art and have people enjoy my work.

To learn more about the artist and his work, follow Quentin Commanda’s Instagram @que_rock_

The Original 6 Nations Peace Treaty: A Visual Healing Art Experience

Saturday

Closing Keynote

Kenneth Montague

Title of Presentation: The Wedge Collection – Celebrating Art of the African Diaspora

Description of Presentation: Dr Kenneth Montague is an art collector, curator, and educator. In his talk, he will explain how growing up in a first-generation Caribbean Canadian family informed his life as a promoter and supporter of Black artists. He will showcase some of his many art exhibitions, publications, student workshops, and public programs from the past 25 years, including the celebrated book, album, and touring art show As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic. Montague will also share several examples of artworks from his personal Wedge Collection.

Portrait of Kenneth Montague in glassesBio: Dr Kenneth Montague is a Toronto-based dentist, art collector, and the founding director of Wedge Curatorial Projects, a non-profit arts organization. Since 1997 Montague has been promoting both emerging and established artists via exhibitions, lectures, and workshops. His focus is African Canadian and Diasporic art, which he also showcases in his privately-owned Wedge Collection.

Montague has served on the African Art Acquisition Committee at Tate Modern as well as the Photography Curatorial Committee at the Art Gallery of Ontario; he is currently an AGO Trustee and an advisor to their Department of Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora. He is also a Trustee of the Aperture Foundation, and a recent member of the jury for the Scotiabank Photography Award, Canada’s largest photography prize. Montague is a frequent panelist at international art symposiums and has been invited to lecture on contemporary art at the National Gallery of Canada, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among other institutions. His curatorial projects include ‘Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection’ and ‘Position As Desired: Exploring African Canadian Identity’. In 2021 the Aperture Foundation published the award-winning title ‘As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic’, a celebration of works from his Wedge Collection; an associated exhibition is currently touring North America.

For his efforts in supporting the arts and his mentoring of emerging creatives, Montague received an Honorary Doctorate from OCAD University, Toronto (2016).

www.wedgecollection.org/about

Novotel Toronto North York Hotel

3 Park Home Avenue, Toronto, ON, M2N 6L3

Ph. 416.733.2929 Fax 416.733.1743

www.novotelnorthyork.com

Reservation date closed for conference rate.

Your involvement as an industry partner in our event would be mutually beneficial. By supporting the conference Engage Explore Excite: Building a Joyful Arts Community!, you will contribute to the growth and development of the art education community while gaining exposure and recognition for your brand. Here are the various sponsorship levels and benefits in detail. If you are interested in participating in the Carousel event as an industry partner before lunch, please fill in this form by March 15th. You must be a sponsor or have a trade fair table to participate in this. There is also an opportunity to just send samples for our delegates without financial commitment. We thank you in advance for your generous support of the OAEA conference. For any questions please email: oaea4teachers@gmail.com

Please join us Friday, April 19th at 7 pm for our Keynote speaker and an opening reception.

Toronto Catholic District School Board 

Address: 80 Sheppard Ave E, North York, ON M2N 6E8

Saturday

Join INDUSTRY PARTNERS at the TRADE FAIR from 10 am to 5 pm
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Choose your own adventure CAROUSEL from 11:15-12:00. You will have the option of The Beguiling-Graphic Novels for Art Instruction, Gelli Art Printing Experimentation and Techniques, unlearn-Critical Thinking by Design, or MTM College-Animation, Art and Design
 
All times on the Saturday schedule are subject to change.
 
Workshop Schedule 2024
The Ontario Art Education Association, in partnership with the Toronto Catholic District School Board, is pleased to share the expertise, face-to-face, with visual arts and media arts educators who are committed to OAEA’s mission to “provide leadership in the development and support of visual arts and media arts education in the province of Ontario.” Designed by colleagues, for colleagues, the OAEA Conference offers a breadth and depth of professional learning opportunities to inform, inspire, and prompt exemplary education practice, supported by timely and practical research. All session proposals were thoroughly adjudicated by a panel of OAEA members and the Conference Committee to ensure a range of viewpoints and diverse experiences in elementary, secondary, college/university, museum/gallery, and Community. OAEA Conference 2024 Program
  • March 8 to April 20 $125 regular rate 
  • Student rate $100
  • Presenter rate $0

LOCATIONS

Friday

Toronto Catholic District School Board 

Address: 80 Sheppard Ave E, North York, ON M2N 6E8

Saturday

Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts 

Address: 36 Greenfield Ave, North York, ON M2N 3C8

Sponsors

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Industry Partners

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Past OAEA Conferences

Check out some of the previous conferences hosted by the OAEA to learn about keynote speakers, presenters, and their presentations.

Reshaping the future of the world through art

Remodeler l’avenir du monde par l’art

Emergence occurs when divergent, multiple, and at times contrasting elements interact and come into relation within a larger system. We turn to art so that we can open spaces for transformative collaboration. We invite everyone to re-imagine how the world can be reshaped by visual art for the future and to address emergent art education sub-themes including decolonization, gender, social activism, accessibility, environmentalism, wellness, creative process, play, intersectionality, and embodiment.

Our theme focuses on innovative partnerships, contemporary arts practice, inspiring online solutions for virtual Visual and Media Arts classrooms, and the celebration of authentic voices & diverse perspectives.

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