Marta Cabral

Assistant Professor, School of Education, City University of New York, College of Staten Island. Marta works with people of all ages exploring play & art materials, processes, and ideas in diverse settings. mARTa’s 20+ years of teaching young children inspire her work in teacher-education and research on ownership of learning, pedagogies of listening, and art-play-based learning. As an Assistant Professor at the City University of New York, mARTa works with future classroom teachers. As speaker and consultant, mARTa works with organizations to create and strengthen artistic engagement worldwide. Read more...

Andrea Kantrowitz

Associate Professor, Director, Art Education Program, Art Department, SUNY New Paltz. Andrea is an artist and educator who has lectured and led workshops on art and cognition internationally. She was a teaching artist in New York City public schools for many years, involved in research that demonstrated the positive impact of art for students growing up in poverty. She holds a doctorate in Art Education and Cognitive Studies from Columbia University Teachers College, an MFA in painting from Yale. Her book, Drawing Thought: How Drawing Helps us Observe, Discover and Invent was published by MIT Press in 2023. Her paintings have been exhibited nationally. Read more...

Sean Justice

Associate Professor of Art Education, School of Art & Design, Texas State University, San Marcos. Sean’s teaching and research addresses teacher education in the digital age. He holds a doctorate in Art and Art Education from Columbia University, Teachers College, where he taught digital fabrication, physical computing, creative coding, and photography to pre- and in-service teachers from across the curriculum. For more than twenty years he has taught art, writing and technology at high schools and universities. His book Learning to Teach in the Digital Age: New Materialities and Maker Paradigms in Schools was published by Peter Lang in September, 2016. Read more...