Student Teaching. 2013.
Visionaries + Voices after school art class. 2015
TEACHING IN CLASSROOMS:
"My goal in teaching art is to facilitate student’s ability to explain, analyze, and imagine in their everyday surroundings and lives. With each subsequent lesson that utilizes clear objectives, repetition, and new challenges, new vistas are opened to students to expand their repertoire with the materials. Through this instruction students will learn that art is a medium for self-examination, self-expression, and critical thinking."
TEACHING IN COMMUNITIES:
"No matter their race, religion, gender, neurodiversity, class, or difference, I firmly believe that every person has the ability to use art as a vehicle to explain their unique understanding of the world."
TEACHING WITH OTHERS:
"By teaching in a neurodivergent and interdependent environment, I observed unique teaching approaches and began to unravel prior assumptions of what it means to be an educator, artist, and leader."
- About being an Educational Coordinator, or co-teacher, for the Teaching Artists at
Visionaries + Voices, an nonprofit for people of all abilities.
See how music and art worked together at the Social Skills Summer Art Camp. In this video Elaine (on guitar) and Virginia (singing) are improvising a song about mixing colors.