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• April 22, 2014 (Inactive)
• Denise O'Brien

Morning Session: Mixed-Media: Engage, Educate, Empower with Dr. Lisa Kastello
This hands-on workshop has been designed to address cultural relevancy and interdisciplinary art education. Art teachers will have the opportunity to nourish their own creativity while filling a 'toolbox' with concepts, media, techniques and examples to use in their own classrooms.

Lisa Kastello taught high school art in Illinois for 16 years. Two years ago, she completed her doctorate in curriculum and instruction. Currently, Lisa is a faculty member in the Art and Art History Department at UNK. As an artist, Lisa has exhibited in several group and one-woman shows. She paints and works in mixed-media. Lisa is creating pieces for a solo exhibit entitled “101 Ways to Recycle a Dissertation”. 

We will be exploring:
    1. Concepts: interdisciplinary (STEAM), issues of social justice,  arts advocacy
    2. Media: gel…which provides for an incredible array of options in surfaces, viscosities, transparencies, texture, glazes, and extending possibilities. Gels are thickened acrylic binder. They are clear paint or paint without pigment. The uses for gels are limitless.
    3. Techniques: 'mock' of faux encaustic, 'skins', direct image transfers, collage/mixed media 

Afternoon Session:  1:30pm-3:00pm
Meet Debra Wehrmann DeFrain, Director of Fine Arts, Nebraska Department of Education, as she shares design and progress of new National and State Fine Art(s) Standards.

Debbie DeFrain, (Fremont, Nebraska native), is a long-time Nebraska school/college-level educator. Debbie's teaching experience includes PK-college graduate-level music students and PK-8 art/dance.  She is also a private music studio owner, teaching toddler-retired adults in piano, winds, percussion, strings and voice. Debbie holds a Bachelor in Music Education (double-major in piano & euphonium/vocal minor) and Master of Education/Curriculum & Instruction from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has 46 Post-Master’s graduate hours. Her studio has been selected by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Piano Pedagogy program to host interns working on master's and doctoral degrees. Debbie has been with the Nebraska State Department since spring of 2013 and has been meeting and working with Fine Art(s) teachers in many venues, including National and State Fine Arts Standards.