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Gibbes Museum Projects

 

When I worked with the Gibbes Museum of Art I taught preschoool and elementary students in under-resourced areas through art programs funded by grants.  In Art to Go, I worked in partnership with Charleston County School District Title I schools. We focused on complementing their under-funded art curriculum and created large murals with the children to show at the Charleston Marathon Expo, which benefits the Youth Endowment for the Arts. I also worked with Eye Spy, which is a program that partmers  with Charleston County First Steps to introduce preschool children to the fundamentals of art and museum education in a hands-on way. I worked in several Child Development Centers around Charleston to offer 2-6 year olds art lessons using colors, shapes, lines, textures, portraits, landscapes and pictures that tell a story.

 

Artists Loft School Projects

 

I taught after school, weekend, and home school classes to children at The Artists Loft School in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The Artists Loft School also partnered with a few private Montessori Schools. I went into these schools to offer weekly art classes. At the Artists Loft School, I taught traditional art skills to students aged 5-17, in many mediums such as scratchboard, paint, pastels, collage, and papier-mache. I also helped organize and lead art camps and art-themed birthday parties. 

Teaching in China Projects

 

I lived in China for a year and a half and taught at the Family Learning House Montessori Kindergarten in Beijing. This was a prestigious International school that was bilingual and taught children from all over the world. I was the school's first full-time art teacher and I implemented their first art curriculum and converted an old storage room into their first art room. In this process I learned a lot about the Montessori way and set up my room to fit a Montessori atmosphere. I taught full-time art classes to 200 students between the ages of 2 and 6. Every month, I decorated the hallways of the school and set up art shows with the students' artwork. I was head of the art department and trained an assistant art teacher who took over the program after I went back to the United States. As the students learned art, they also learned English and I collaborated with the English teachers to reinforce what they were learning through the art classes.

Summer Camps 

 

At the Gibbes Museum of Art Summer Camp, I designed 6 weeks of camp with 3 different themes. The first of three camp themes was “Oh The Places You’ll Go!”. During this theme, campers learned about multiculutal art as they "traveled" around the world with their world citizen passports, learning about each country we visited. The second theme of camp was “Stories and Puppets,” in which students listened to fairy tales and stories and created artworks inspired by them. We also practiced and performed a play wearing costumes. Our last theme of camp, “Art and Movement,” was a camp combining art, dance, and yoga. Projects created included foam puppets, needle felting, body tracing, and Jackson Pollock inspired splatter painting. At the end of each week, campers prepared an art show and performance, in which they invited parents to come and see their amazing art creations, plays, and yoga dances.

Community Building Projects

 

Through the Triangle Neighborhood Children's Class Program, I help coordinate neighborhood children's classes in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Durham, North Carolina. These after-school and weekend programs aim at building positive character qualities and virtues in children and enhancing community life. I led middle school students to create murals with social messages, organized camps that included art, yoga, music, stories, drama, and games. 

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