TEACHING STATEMENT

My art teachers fostered all the things in me that I try everyday to develop in my own students.  It is the power to be expressive when you don’t feel like talking, the resilience to keep going in the midst of all your mistakes, and the confidence to know how to embrace what matters most.  Art is so much more than a mode of creating, but a way of thinking. Students can showcase both their technical skills and conceptual abilities.  Artists move through a variety of processes to get to a form of visual communication that can coincide with their unique voice and vision.  It is important that students embrace all stages of their artistic process.  This begins with an in-depth research and planning stage, which allows students to investigate new artists and/or media, find visual references, 
gather information that supports their overall message, and develop appropriate imagery for the 21st century.  This is what takes the students' work beyond just a task for the hand, but for the heart and mind.  My goal is to get students to develop more personally meaningful works that deal with real life issues to which their viewers can also relate.  As a practicing artist, my teaching is very closely aligned with lessons I am still learning today.  I am constantly evaluating the state of the current fine art world to make relevant work.  I participate in my students' artistic struggles and together we work to translate our individuality.  I have gained an incredibly fresh perspective on how I can help my students push their concepts and forms, while I work to realize my own.  Interlacing my teaching and creating is what I have discovered I need most in my career.  ​


RECENT PROJECTS

Julie Fisher, Director of STEAM Education & Meghen Tuttle, STEAM Faculty (​Photo by Lauren Ackil)


RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Online Classrooms

Lessons and References for STEAM Classroom: Topics in STEAM
Foxcroft School's Innovation Lab: TIL@FXC
Foxcroft School's Engineering Projects in Community Service  (EPICS) Team: EPICS@FXC
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FOXCROFT SCHOOL STUDENT WORK

Online Classrooms

2012-2017 Atlee High School Photography Courses: Photography I & II
2012-2017 Atlee High School's International Baccalaureate Art Classes: Visuals Arts & Photography
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ATLEE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT WORK