Emerging Conversations is an annual art education symposium organized by graduate students in the Art & Visual Culture Education program at the University of Arizona. It is the only symposium of its kind on the West Coast in the United States. Emerging Conversations creates space for artists, educators, art historians, arts-based researchers, and community members, both established and emerging in their fields, to engage in collaboration and conversation. Emerging Conversations has taken many forms in the past, but is intended to be a welcoming and accessible space for creatives and educators from a variety of disciplines and settings. The symposium centers on a theme relevant to the discipline of art education, its adjacent disciplines, and current times.

This year's theme is "Revision & Re-Envision: The Future of Art Education in Uncertain Times." This theme offers opportunities to consider the changing definitions of what art education is as well as what transformation in the arts and education might look like.

Emerging Conversations 2020 will feature a keynote speaker followed by a series of presentations and virtual networking/community-building opportunities.

This year, due to COVID-19, the symposium will be entirely virtual. A recording will be made available for those who are unable to attend live. Emerging Conversations is an accessible event. If you are Deaf or Hard of Hearing and require accommodations, please contact Kayleigh Kozyra (klkozyra@email.arizona.edu) as soon as possible. The recording of the symposium will be close-captioned.

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