Conference Schedule
Wednesday [2/18/26]
6:00pm - 6:45pm—Presenter Welcome and Meet & Greet
7:00pm - 8:30pm—The Avatar: Practicing Contradiction with dawn weleski
Thursday [2/19/26]
12:00pm - 1:00pm—Story Seeds: Growing Home at the Farmers Market with Megan Lovely
1:15pm - 1:45pm—Tell A Different Story with Ryley St.Rose-Finear
2:15pm - 3:00pm—Gestural and Embodied House: A Time of Spiritual Freedom and Historic Unrest with Hettie Barnhill
3:30pm - 4:30pm—Embedded Memories + Community Imprints with Marisa f. Ballaro
6:15pm - 7:15pm—Personal Injury with Jennifer Laiwint
7:30pm - 8:00pm—Death and Taxes: A Clown Politician with D. John McDairmant
Friday [2/20/26]
9:00am - 9:15am—Off the Island: Building Networks for Artistic Parents with Cami Handel
9:30am - 10:15am—Embracing Your Unique and Powerful Sound through Body-Based Voice for the Actor with Sara Bickweat Penner
10:30am - 11:30am—Millennial Rap: Hip-Hop Cultures Response to Spiritual Pluralism with Dr. Walter Hidalgo
11:45am - 12:00pm—Órasi, a divine vision with Laura D’Amico
2:00pm - 3:00pm—From a Tent in Gaza to the United Nations: Three Girls Tell Their Stories Through Art with Heather Layton
3:15pm - 4:00pm—A Breath of Fresh Air: A Philosophical and Practical Approach to Making Music in Correctional Facilities and Other Unusual Spaces with Chris Cresswell
4:15pm - 4:45pm—‘That Includes Jack’: Writing Queer Historical Fiction in the 2020s with Lydia Nightingale
5:00pm - 5:30pm—Ethics of Care with Max Laszewski & Amya Brice
6:00pm - 7:00pm—Arts, Adolescents, and HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe with Jennifer Kyker
Saturday [2/21/26]
11:00am - 12:00pm—Transcending Language Prejudice Through Movement with Anna Mayta
12:15pm - 12:55pm—WALL\THERAPY - A Visual Intervention through Muralism with Erich S. Lehman
2:15pm - 2:45pm—Embodied Climate Literacy: Intercultural Mindfulness in Theater Pedagogy with Dr. Kin-Yan Szeto
3:00pm - 4:00pm—The Singletons with Emma Lepore
4:15pm - 5:00pm—Reframing Art Projects with Gift Economy with Sam Stone
5:15pm - 6:30pm—Ungrading in the Arts: What Intimacy Coordination Taught Me About Grading with Nicole Perry
Sunday [2/22/26]
9:40am - 10:45am—Invitation to Protest in Performance with Esther Rogers Baker & Joanna Rodriguez
11:00am - 11:15am—Developing Community through Dance in Lebanon with Rain Ross
11:30am - 12:15pm—Beautiful, Useful, True and Beyond: How do we keep change alive? with Elizabeth Parks
1:30pm - 2:30pm—Play in the Grey: Navigating Ambiguity, Uncertainty, and Overwhelm with Joy with Molly W. Schenck
4:30pm - 5:00pm—Northbound with Jarid Polite
5:15pm - 6:00pm—In Our Beautiful New World with Adair Finucane