I'm having fun playing with a new form of expression as part of my work you can see on this In Progress Page.
Teaching Artist and Arts Education Advocate
Beyond the artistic stereo types about the arts and artists I like help students recognized all the many ways that the visual arts can bring ones life force into action. This is the perspective I offer as a teacher/trainer, curriculum developer and collaborator looking to engage students of all ages. My focus is to make a safe environment for students to discover the relationship visual arts has in their own lives and how to make the visual arts part a life long practice.
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Art Practice
Scattered Routes, Scattered Roots is the name I’ve given to a concept book of evocative images with clarifying words about diaspora. Within its pages I explored ideas of diaspora, its historical meaning with effects felt today and its current use, relevant to the daily news.
This work has grown out of my studies at AAU. I loved the process used to create this book. I filled one hundred eighty-eight pages of a 11” x 14” journal with a mixture of collage and original art that became the seed of images and ideas for a smaller more refined book.
Most recently I recorded voices reading the text to Scattered Routes, Scattered Roots so it can be enjoyed digitally here.
This work has grown out of my studies at AAU. I loved the process used to create this book. I filled one hundred eighty-eight pages of a 11” x 14” journal with a mixture of collage and original art that became the seed of images and ideas for a smaller more refined book.
Most recently I recorded voices reading the text to Scattered Routes, Scattered Roots so it can be enjoyed digitally here.
Blending art and technology in the classroom
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Blending new technology with traditional approaches to the arts as a Teaching Artist for the Richmond Art Center. My first efforts in this regard became a Stop Motion Animation Class that I created as a Teaching Artist for the center. I've had two opportunities to teach this class.
Here is what the Crescent Park Community Center did in that class. Here is what the Nevin Community Center did in that class. |
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Capturing and promoting the spirit of learning.
The Academy of Art, Art Education Department asked me to take pictures of students in their fieldwork setting this past semester which is one of my favorite things to do. Those photos are featured in the video below, created by Rachel Shirkey, the Online Director of the School of Art Education and was on display at the AAU 2016 Spring Show and at Commencement.
The Academy of Art, Fine Art Sculpture Department has honored my interest in promoting their department by making me their Work Study Scholar assigned to photographing students and their works. Many of these are visible on the FASCU departments FaceBook page
