Overview

Join us for the 22nd annual Arts in Your Classroom conference, designed to inspire educators to incorporate arts integration strategies into their teaching practice. This year’s conference will provide teachers with a deeper understanding of culturally affirming and anti-racist teaching approaches to implementing arts integration strategies in order to further the work of building belonging in classrooms. Educators will gain skills, tools, and knowledge to carry out practical, standards-based techniques, approaches, and activities that will bring creativity and joy to teaching and to student learning.

Keynote Speaker: Christine Wong Yap
Christine Wong Yap (she/they) is a visual artist and social practitioner specializing in participatory research projects which gather perspectives on belonging, resilience, and mental wellbeing. Her projects combine drawing, lettering, printmaking, publishing, and textiles with community engagement, inclusive design, and public art. Over the past 16 years, she has developed over 20 multidisciplinary projects exploring aspects of psychological wellbeing locally as well as internationally. She holds a BFA and MFA in printmaking from the California College of the Arts. Born in the Bay Area, Christine is currently a visiting artist at Stanford University, a past Lucas Artists Fellow, and an upcoming participant in Montalvo’s 2024 exhibition P L A C E at the Institute for Contemporary Art in San Jose.

Free tickets are offered thanks to the generous sponsorship of SV Creates and the House Family Foundation. Your ticket includes lunch and an after-conference networking happy hour with wine.

For full breakout session information, visit our website here.