In 1999, I had just finished the Illustration course I was taking at the Delaware College of Art and Design. In the summer of that year, I started working at a summer camp in northern Michigan in America. This was my first experience teaching art to children.
I have been teaching art to both children and adults ever since.
When I worked as the Education Director for the Peoria Art Guild (PAG) in America I coordinated their comprehensive outreach programme. This experience gave me a rich experience and it was during this time I really learned the value in building relationships and finding ways to forge partnerships between individuals and organisations and finding pathways to help bring different organisations together. I also did a lot of teaching. I taught classes in the PAG art studios; in classrooms at public and private schools; and in orphanages. I taught children from primary schools as well as from high schools. I also taught adults and helped train volunteers so they could teach art classes as part of the PAG's outreach programme as well.
After I moved to the UK, I worked as Curator for the West Ox Arts Gallery (WOA) in Oxfordshire. Part of my job was to build upon their workshop sessions offered to the community. I used skills from working at the PAG to partner with the local primary school, providing ways for visiting artists to teach art lessons to the children there. I personally led workshops to adults of the community.
Since then I've offered art lessons to people of all backgrounds either as a volunteer for community-led organisations or as a freelance artist. As the pandemic changed the landscape for all of this, my skills as a facilitator of art lessons were a great asset to me and I provided a series of sessions to a local primary school via Zoom.
I have been teaching art to both children and adults ever since.
When I worked as the Education Director for the Peoria Art Guild (PAG) in America I coordinated their comprehensive outreach programme. This experience gave me a rich experience and it was during this time I really learned the value in building relationships and finding ways to forge partnerships between individuals and organisations and finding pathways to help bring different organisations together. I also did a lot of teaching. I taught classes in the PAG art studios; in classrooms at public and private schools; and in orphanages. I taught children from primary schools as well as from high schools. I also taught adults and helped train volunteers so they could teach art classes as part of the PAG's outreach programme as well.
After I moved to the UK, I worked as Curator for the West Ox Arts Gallery (WOA) in Oxfordshire. Part of my job was to build upon their workshop sessions offered to the community. I used skills from working at the PAG to partner with the local primary school, providing ways for visiting artists to teach art lessons to the children there. I personally led workshops to adults of the community.
Since then I've offered art lessons to people of all backgrounds either as a volunteer for community-led organisations or as a freelance artist. As the pandemic changed the landscape for all of this, my skills as a facilitator of art lessons were a great asset to me and I provided a series of sessions to a local primary school via Zoom.