About MeYou know when adults asked you, "what do you want to be when you grow up?"...well my answer has always been: an art teacher. Coming from a family of educators, I quickly learned how rewarding the profession can be. I'm lucky to say I love my job and it's always the students that make it worth while. My mom signed me up for pottery classes when I was in 6th grade-I was the youngest student by 40 years and I enjoyed every minute. I learned the basics of the wheel, hand building and glazing and ever since, I was hooked. I took 7 semesters of ceramics at South Windsor High School in CT and when looking at what university to go to, making sure their Art Education program had a ceramics studio was #1 priority. For college I chose a small school in Scranton, PA where I played varsity volleyball and studied abroad in Florence, Italy but I knew it wasn't the college experience I was looking for. So I transferred to a place I hadn't even visited but knew the school was known for its pirate pride and it had a great art program. Yes that's right...I went down south to East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. I was able to play club volleyball as well receive a BFA in art education with a concentration in ceramics. After teaching 2 full years of ceramics at a public high school in NC, I decided to come home to be closer to family and friends and I'm sure happy to be back.
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Teaching Philsophy |
I always felt that when I was in art classes, that was when I learned the most about how to communicate with my peers, how to find a different solution to the problem and how to have fun with what I'm working on. My students learn how to work hard in a studio setting as well as being responsible for themselves as individuals and how to contribute to a positive learning community. We teach each other how to solve problems because there's always more than one way to do things. I love being able to give my students an open-ended assignment where I tell them to pick the medium, or the subject matter and they go all in and accept my challenge. Creating artwork is personal and in my studio, students learn the fundamentals of the visual arts as well as learning how to create artwork that is personal to them.
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