Day 1 : Wednesday, June 2

1:00-4:30           
Arrival and check-in at the Georgia Center 
Conference Registration at the Lamar Dodd School of Art

5:00-5:45           
Opening Welcome, Auditorium, Lamar Dodd School of Art
•        Address theme
•        Articulate goals

6:00-6:50           
Introduction to Workshops and Breakout Topics. Light dinner provided.

7:00-8:45           
Emerging Educators Showcase: brief presentations on artwork and teaching       

 

Day 2 : Thursday, June 3

7:45-8:45           
Light breakfast provided

9:00-11:30         
Breakout Orientations

•        Emerging Educators’ Intensive: Curriculum: Mission to Outcome

•        Master Educators/Leaders’ Intensive: Roles and Responsibilities

11:45-1:00         
Box Lunch and Facilitated discussion, identifying participants’ own goals for TT5

1:15-4:00           
Emerging educators & high school master educators present assignments.

4:15 to 5:30       
Free Time

6:30 to 8:00pm
Reception at Cine' in downtown Athens. This is a wonderful film venue.
Dinner on your own.

Day 3 : Friday, June 4

7:30-8:30           
Breakfast on your own

8:45-9:15           
Agenda Update and Plan for Facilitated Discussions 

9:15-10:45         
Breakout group discussion #1

•        A 21st Century Design Foundation

•        Cultural, Conceptual, and Historical Frameworks: When, What, How, Why

•        Constructing Meaning

•        Leading Change

•        Entrances and Exits: Curricular Flow from High School to Grad School

•        Art, Design and Social Practice as a 21st Century Foundation

11:00-12:15       
Initial reports from breakout groups

12:15-1:15         
Box lunch provided

1:00-3:20

Linda Weintraub, Keynote Overview: State of the Arts,

followed by presentations from:

Photography: George Blakely

New Media: Brian Evans

Sculpture: Susan Krause

Design:Robin Vande Zande

1:30-4:30           
Panels and workshops

•        Pedagogy as Process: Constructing a 2D Design Course

•        Drawing Intensive #1

•        Using McGyver in the Classroom

•        Digital Foundations

•        Visual Narrative

•        Community-Based Learning

•        Design Methods and Meanings

•        Administration with Intention

4:45-5:00           
Wrap-up

6:00pm to 7:30  
Opening Dinner and Reception at the  Lamar Dodd School of Art

Dinner on your own.

Day 4 : Saturday, June 5

7:30-8:30           
Breakfast on your own

9:00-9:15           
Update agenda and Re-focus Targets

9:30-11:30         
Breakout group session #2

11:30-12:45       
Buffet lunch provided and Group Photo

1:00-4:00           
State of the Art Series: 4-6 presentations, selected from the following:

•        Graphic Design (AIGA),

•        Ceramics (NSECA),

•        Photography (SPE),

•        Metalsmithing (SNAG),

•        New Media (SIGGRAPH),

•        Industrial Design (ID)

•        Painting, Printmaking (SGC),

•        Sculpture (Tri-States Sculptors)

4:00-4:30           
Wrap Up 

6:00-7:30           
Dinner on your own.

ITT Action Board Meeting

 

Day 5 : Sunday, June 6

8:00-9:00           
Breakfast on your own

9:00-12:15         
Final breakout group presentations

12:30-1:45         
Buffet lunch provided.

2:15 & 4:45
ThinkTank5 ends.
Commercial vans leave for airport