Moore to co-present at world’s largest art education convention

ELA-8 art teacher Jennifer Moore will be among the roster of speakers at the National Art Education Association’s National Convention in New York next week. She will be presenting alongside Rebecca Tittermary, Lower School art teacher at Worcester Preparatory School (Berlin, Md.), and Justina Yee, Museum Educator of Teacher Studies at the National Gallery of Art, in a session titled “Utilizing Technology to Bring Museum Experiences to Students.” 

NAEA’s conference is the world’s largest art education convention and takes place March 2-4. It will bring together instructors from all over to showcase leadership, professional contribution, advancing research and practice in visual arts education with the theme “The Challenge of Change.” The group’s presentation is one of 784 sessions selected out of a record number of 2,263 applications to participate in the convention.

"Jennifer does an incredible job inspiring our students to pursue art, and the artwork that is produced in her classroom is exceptional," said Kim Tunnell, Darlington's director of fine arts. "There is so much value in what she brings back to the classroom. Her professional development opportunities have really influenced students to dig more into art and art history, and to be continually impacted by the greats and their contributions."

The team’s lecture will focus on a project inspired by the National Gallery of Art’s special exhibit “Stuart Davis: In Full Swing.” In addition to video conferencing with the National Gallery, fourth grade students from Darlington School have been collaborating with Worcester Prep’s fourth-graders via FaceTime to study Davis. The students interviewed each other with a list of questions so that they could get to know each other and then emulated Davis’ style as they created works of art they will soon exchange between their sister schools.

Last March at the 2016 NAEA Convention in Chicago, Moore, along with co-presenters Tittermary and Yee, presented a lecture in a session titled, “Leading From Multiple Viewpoints: Integrating Studio, Art History, and Museum Best Practices.”

Throughout the last three years, Moore has chronicled and shared student work from her classroom on Instagram using the #whatwearedoinginart.  

Jennifer Moore has taught art at Darlington since 2004 and holds a B.S. in Art Education from Berry College. She is married to Rome-based photographer Kelly Moore ('95) and is the mother of Wil ('14) and Emily Taylor ('18).