After witnessing the development of a multi-plate monotype, printmaking became my visual language. Drafting an image with painterly gestures in layers of colors supplied more immediate and surprising results than brushing paint on canvas or pulling color pencil across paper. Before approaching my storytelling in this printing process, I rendered a series of glassware still life prints creating approximately two dozen studies before transitioning into an exploration of my low-brow art style in this medium.
Read about my process in more detail as I work through a print.
Now with a New York State Teaching Certification in Visual Arts, I am searching for an environment to collaborate, facilitate and share the experience of the visual language. In the meantime, I am a substitute teacher practicing behavior management, and a club leader developing teaching skills for set design.
There is more to me than just this bio, like these periodic statements: VIEW MY BLOG
My art teaching philosophy starts with...
As an artist, using an eraser is not removing a mistake, it is just another rendering tool.
Art is valuable. Art conveys meaning, emotion, wonder and thought when words do not work. Students as artists discover their environment and community by practicing critical observation thinking skills, evaluation and analysis. As an art teacher I will work with students to develop a visual vocabulary and practice where they can create and communicate successfully and artfully within a safe and explorative environment.
While having a New York State Teaching Certification in Visual Arts, I have the opportunity to practice my teaching skills and strategies: one as a substitute teacher by maintaining the educational expectations of each teacher within their classrooms; leading a school club for Theater Set Design; and, for a short period facilitating an art educational environment for young artists for a local art academy.
