Teaching

My passion and enthusiasm for creating and sharing art inspires students to pursue their learning. I can teach historic and contemporary ideas and pedagogy using formalized techniques of Discipline-Based Art Education (DBAE) and the Constructivist theories of Big Ideas and Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB).

PHILOSOPHY

• Students attend school to learn; their role is to be active participants in their learning — from skills acquisition to
satisfying curiosity.

• As active participants,
students can influence and
guide what content is taught
when teachers work from an
asset-based perspective.

• The partnership between
teacher and student creates a welcoming environment for all.

CLASSROOM

• The art room is a welcoming place for all learners.

• Students are an integral guide
to how and what we learn.

• We are a community of art makers, and the studio belongs
to ALL artists.

• We will develop a culture of respect and appreciation for
each other, and the art that
surrounds us — from the past,
the present, and the future.

INCLUSIVE PRACTICE

• The experience of making is
as important as the art itself.

• Students will be encouraged
to play and experiment with media to find their creative
voice as an artist.

• Students will have an opportunity to learn about the art that has come before, is currently being made, and that will be made in the future.

EXPECTATIONS

• Students learn through a combination of observing, reading, playing, experimenting, discovering, and practicing — all
of which heavily influences how
I teach others.

• By demonstrating proper
material use, the process of making, introducing different
art media, and providing low stakes experimentation, I enourage students to develop
art making confidence.

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Lesson Plans

Visuals

SAS Blog

STUDENT ARTWORK

Saturday Art School

Primary Grades UPK - 2

High School Grades 9 - 12

NYS Learning Standards:

Saturday Art School

Projects: Multimedia Collage Sketchbook Covers and Multimedia Assemblage/Collage Paintings

Focus Artists: Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Yikui (Coy) Gu
NYS Learning Standards:

VA: Cn1.1.6 a. Collaboratively exchange concepts and different points of view to generate an innovative idea for creating art.

VA:Cr1.2.6 a. Use brainstorming to formulate an artistic investigation to personally relevant content for creating art.
VA:Cr2.1.6 a. Demonstrate openness in trying new ideas, materials, methods, and artmaking approaches in making works of art and design.

VA:Cr2.1.6 a. Demonstrate openness in trying new ideas, materials, methods, and artmaking approaches in making works of art and design.

Student Teaching Placements

Canandaigua Primary School: Grades 1 & 2
Project: Creating our own sketchbooks!

Focus Artist: Wassily Kandinsky

NYS Learning Standards:

VA: Cr1.2.2 a. Create art or design with various materials and tools to explore personal interests’ questions and curiosity.

VA: Cr2.1.2 a. Experiment with various materials and tools to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.
VA: Cr3.1.2 a. Discuss and reflect with peers about choices made in creating artwork.

Canandaigua Academy: Grades 9 - 11
2D Foundations - Printmaking / Reduction Printing

Project: 4x4” linoleum reduction prints

Focus Artists: William Morris, Aleksander Mikhaylovich Rodchenko (Constructivism), Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein,
Andy Warhol, Rich Fowler, etc.

NYS Learning Standards:

VA:Cr1.2.HSI a. Consider a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.

VA:Cr2.1.HSI a. Generate and develop artistic work in a self-directed manner.

VA:Cr3.1.HSI a. Apply relevant criteria and the feedback of others to revise and refine works of art and design in progress.