Keynote Speakers

BART MIXON

Born in Houston, Texas, in 1958 Bart J. Mixon has been providing special make-up effects for film and television since 1980 - first as an effects assistant on early shows like ROBOCOP and then as a supervisor/designer on such projects as Fright Night 2 and 1990’s Stephen King’s IT. In more recent years Bart has been an effects makeup artist on shows like the Men in Black series, the Ring series, Bright and various Marvel Studios films like The Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2, Captain Marvel, and Avenger’s End Game.

As a long time comic book fan, Bart has been thrilled to help bring such iconic heroes to the screen as Paul Bettany as the Vision in Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War; Michael Chiklis as the Thing in The Fantastic Four and its sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer; and Hellboy - having made up the stunt doubles in Hellboy and Luke Goss as the villainous Prince Nuada in Hellboy 2; the Golden Army.

Keynote Presentation: “Come learn about my artistic journey as I navigated various jobs until landing in California as a make-up artist/ effects artist for some really fun and exciting film projects.” See his On-Demand presentation then participate in a LIVE Q & A at 11:00 AM on November 21st .

Tricia Fuglestad

Tricia Fuglestad, K-5 art teacher from Dryden Elementary School in Arlington Heights, IL, has a master’s degree in K-12 technology integration and has successfully blended digital and physical artmaking with her Transdigital lessons. Her goal is to expand the curriculum, give students an opportunity to explore new media, and find transformative ways for students to demonstrate learning dynamically. Tricia’s classroom is featured in educational publications and higher education textbooks. Her students’ Fugleflicks, student-created, art-related videos have screened at international film festivals and won awards in national contests. Tricia has been recognized for her innovative teaching in 2010 with the PBS Teachers Innovation Award, won Illinois Art Teacher of the Year in 2011, awarded Teacher of Distinction in 2012 by the Golden Apple Foundation, received Western Region Elementary Art Teacher of the Year 2013, selected as a Jacobs Educator 2014-15, was presented with the NAEA Art Technology Outstanding Community Service Award in 2016. Her classroom was honored with a Tech in Action award by the ISTE teachers network in 2018 and her students’ online art gallery through Artsonia was recognized nationally in 2019.

Keynote Presentation: As your keynote, I will give you a glimpse into one lesson that started out great, ended up not quite what I was expecting but evolved into an exciting lesson in augmented reality. Come hear all about my journey in developing a lesson in emotions from beginning to end. See her On-Demand presentation then participate in a LIVE Q & A at 2:30 PM on November 21st .