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your Art Instructor
ABOUT ME:
I have been teaching art in a variety of settings for more than a decade. Recently, I decided to focus my attention on serving the Charter School and the Home School community by providing studio based and onsite enrichment art classes. I LOVE to teach. I am very passionate about finding the creative within each student and encouraging their artistic development. As a mother to half a dozen home schooled children, I have plenty of opportunities to teach to variety of learning styles and ages. Personally I enjoy working in watercolor and chalks. I love to explore new media and can be found painting large pieces of furniture or designing small doll house figures out of polymer clays. I take that experimentation and add it to all my teaching. My courses are designed to encourage exploration of a variety of art styles and media. We work with pencils, paints, cut paper, 3d, printmaking and mixed media. Art is personal. I encourage the children to take their art project and make it their own. To be art, a work has to demonstrate individuality. What’s the quickest way to tell if it’s art? If a child can’t recognize which project is his at the end of the day, it’s not art! I believe art should be a balance of process and product. The children should learn skills to build upon to create successful finished pieces. I would LOVE it if each piece that leaves the art class was superior to the previous work of art created by the children. Reality is that class time is an introduction of new skills. A child in music lessons is rarely introduced to a new piece of music and leaves their hour mastering it. I want the short period of time I have with them to springboard them into their own creative expressions outside the studio. When a parent tells me their children spent the entire week perfecting a new skill because they LOVE it; I know I have done my job right. I strive to have each child come away from a class feeling successful at expressing themselves, problem solving and trying something new. |
Instructor Art Samples
quick watercolors. painted furniture. color pencil greeting cards. murals.
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