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Resume    |    Publications + Bibliography    |    Art Education Experience

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS AND ARTS EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

2017 - 2018

2013 - 2015

2012 - 2013

2006 - present





















2007 

2006

2005-2007


1998-2008

















1992-1997

1992-1993


1990-1992

1988-1989

1976-1982
                                  


                                                            



 

                                            

Art Specialist, The Crowden School, Berkeley, CA. Grades 4-8 Art Specialist

Art Specialist,
Marin Horizon School, Mill Valley, CA. Middle School Art Specialist

Art Specialist, Archway School, Oakland and Berkeley, CA. K-8 Art Specialist, 7th grade Advisor, Yearbook Advisor

Arts Education Consultant   

Professional Development Coach Art and Arts Integration, Grades 3-5, École Bilingue de Berkeley (East Bay French American School, Berkeley, CA.  Curriculum development, model teaching and coaching for classroom teachers, Grades 3-5. (2015)               

Workshop Presenter, NAEA (National Art Education Association) Convention, Seattle (March 2011): “What is Art? Expanding and Linking Creativity Across Artistic Disciplines, Technologies, and Academic Inquiry”
                          
Professional Development Coach Visual Arts and Digital Arts Integration, Paul Robeson College Preparatory, School of Visual and Performing Arts, OUSD-HS (2006-10). Core member of Arts Leadership team that developed model of digital arts integration utilizing student centered project based learning. My role: Visual and digital arts integration coaching, model teaching, and curriculum development for classroom teachers grades 9-12
                         
Consultant for SFMOMA’s web-based, multimedia curriculum project, “ArtThink” and Teacher Trainer for using curriculum on site; Conceptual, Visual and Sound Designer of six animations illustrating the Elements of Art (Line, Shape, Color, Form, Texture, Space) based on images held in the museum’s collection (2006-09) 

Professional Development workshop presenter for ACOE and SFUSD (2007-08)

Arts Integration Coach, Urban Promise Academy, OUSD-MS (2006-07)

Consulting Instructor for Art Education 2, Methods and Practices, California College of the Arts (CCA), Center for Art and Public Life (Spring 2006)

Adjunct Professor, CCA, CAPL, Oakland, CA. Lecturer in Art Education 2, Methods and Practices (Spring 2007)            

Adjunct Professor, Dept of Education, Mills College, Oakland, CA. Lecturer in graduate course in Curriculum and Instruction (Fall 2006)

Art Education Faculty Fellow, California College of the Arts, Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland, CA. Two-year fellowship included training in Harvard Project Zero pedagogies, Teaching for Understanding and Studio Habits of Mind.         

Artist in Residency Teaching K-12

Artist-in-Residence, K-5: Oxford School, BUSD, Berkeley, CA. (Supported through Kala Institute’s Artist in Schools Program) 2001-2008

Art Specialist, Independent After-school Art Program, Oxford Elementary School, Berkeley, CA. Mixed-media Arts and Drawing, K-5. 2001-2006

Artist-in-Residence, Jefferson School, BUSD, Berkeley, CA. Grades 3-5 (1998-2005)           

Art Specialist, Independent After-school Art Program, Jefferson Elementary School, Berkeley, CA. Mixed-media Arts and Drawing, K-5. 2001-2006

Visiting Artist, Prospect Sierra Middle School, El Cerrito, CA. Sculpture and Printmaking Instructor, grades 7-8. 2000-2002

Artist-in-Residence, Kala Institute Artist in Schools Program. Rosa Parks Afterschool Program, K-5, BUSD, Berkeley, CA. 2001-2005  

Sculpture Instructor, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO. Wood Sculpture Summer Workshop, ages 9-13. 2001 & 2007            

Painting Instructor, CCA, Oakland, CA. Pre-College Summer Program, Grades 11-12. 1998                         

Art Specialist Instructor, The Head-Royce School, Oakland, CA. Grades 1-6 art program with an emphasis in Wood Sculpture. 

Guest Visiting Artist: California Arts Council, Artist in Communities Project, The Oakland Catholic Worker (in conjunction with Claudia Bernardi's grant working with political refugees from Central America)                                                             

Art Specialist Instructor, École Bilingue de Berkeley (East Bay French-American School,) Berkeley, CA. Art program grades 2-8.

Artist-in-Residence, LEAP (Learning Through Education in the Arts). San Francisco Public Schools, Grades 1-5

Adjunct Professor, Visual Arts and Art Education

Adjunct Professor, Stonehill College, North Easton, MA. Design Foundation and Drawing. 1978-1982

Adjunct Professor, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA. Painting and Drawing. 1981

Adjunct Professor, Lesley College, Cambridge, MA. Design Foundation and Art Education. 1978-81            ,             

Adjunct Professor, Tufts University, Medford, MA. Printmaking. 1978                                                

Adjunct Professor, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. Printmaking and Drawing. 1976-78               

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