The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL

B.F.A. with emphasis in Art Education (BFAAE)

Relevant Courses

• Student Teaching, grades K – 12
• Figure Drawing, Painting Studio: Multi-level, Working Artist: Life After Art School, Art History, focus on traditional & contemporary printmaking processes

Student Teaching, Hinsdale Central High School, District 86

Courses: Painting I, Digital I, Adv. Painting, Ideas in Art, A.P. Studio Art

Student Teaching, Komensky & Hiawatha Elementary, District 100

Grades: K - 5

· Curriculum design for students to gain knowledge with patterns, shapes, color with integration of reading, math, numbers

Teaching Assistant, Addison Park District, Addison, IL – 2010 to 2011

Course: Draw Squad

· Taught sixth grade students the division of space creating their own compositions through the use of drawing where they created original works

Visiting Artist, Addison Trail High School, Addison, IL – 2010

Course: Ceramics III – Introducing Glass into Clay

· Taught students in creating art, critiquing, and developing skills for college

· Collaboration with students and teachers to support a growing arts program

Spring B.F.A Exhibition, the School of the Art of Chicago, IL – 2012

Curriculum Design for The Art Institute of Chicago | Ryan Education Center

Lesson Presented: Ritual of Transformative Recycling & Power Figures

· Curriculum utilizes the new African & Mezzo-American gallery collections

Teachers for Social Justice (TSJ) Fair | Chicago, IL – November 2011

Lesson Presented: Collaborative Printed Identity Shapes                                         

· Exhibited and distributed social justice based curriculum

National Art Education Association (NAEA)         Sept 2011 - Current

Illinois Art Education Association (IAEA)            Sept 2011 - Current

Extraordinary, Rumble Arts Center, Chicago, IL – Dec 2011 – Feb 2012

  · Worked with youth in developing art abilities to design a community mural at Von Humboldt Elementary School

  · Collaborated with gallery coordinators to promote a students’ work in gallery space