EDUCATION

 

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, January 2003-May 2006

Masters of Science in Art Education with Massachusetts State Licensure in Visual Arts, 5-12 (Cert. #398642)

Earned honors for Student Teaching Practicum and coursework in curriculum; training in 2D, 3D, and New Media expression

 

Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1995-1999

BA, cum laude, in Art History with a Visual Arts Concentration; Sociology Minor

 

Recipient of the arts internship grant from the Joe and Emily Lowe Foundation through Barnard College, Spring 1999, for work at the Gagosian Gallery in New York City

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

Teacher of Visual Art, Ceramics, and New Media

Meridian Academy, Jamaica Plain, MA: August 2015 to present

Project-based art classes for middle and upper school students at small independent school. Curriculum responds to student interests and includes sculpture through a contemporary lens; digital design and illustration; ceramics; mixed media and printmaking; and narrative through images. All approaches supported through formal and technical skill development.

 

Afternoon Art and Ceramics Teacher

Beaver Country Day School, Chestnut Hill, MA: December 2014 to present

Daily afternoon art classes for upper school students. Courses include mixed-level ceramics and design-based class incorporating digital illustration and screen-printing.

 

Teacher of Visual Art and New Media

Beaver Country Day School, Chestnut Hill, MA: August 2014 to June 2015 (one-year maternity leave position)

Introductory and advanced classes in traditional and new media at independent upper school. Curriculum includes: theme-based mixed-media coursework focusing on collage, encaustics, fibers, and pattern; traditional and computer-based classes intended to prepare intro-level students for design thinking and studio-based learning; formal skill development through observational drawing practices.

 

Teacher of Visual Art and Ceramics

Newton South High School, Newton, MA: August 2013 to June 2014

Introduction to Art and Design, Media and Methods, and Ceramics 1. Curriculum includes: intensive units on drawing and painting from still life and working within rules of linear perspective; relief printmaking and book-making; collage; clay hand-building projects and artist-inspired sculpture; and printmaking and image transfer on clay.

 

Teacher of Visual Art, Ceramics, and Graphic Design

Hudson High School, Hudson, MA: August 2005 to 2013

Art 1, Art 2, 8th Grade Art, Digital Art, Pottery, and Advanced Pottery. Curriculum includes: drawing and painting from observation and imagination; relief and monotype printmaking; mold-making and casting; clay hand-building and wheel-throwing; outdoor Raku kiln firing; and graphic design using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. Coached freshman girls’ volleyball team and worked on a community grant to install art on the Hudson rail trail.

 

Art Teacher

Art and Healing Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA: February 2005 to May 2005

Planned, coordinated, and taught weekly art classes to patients in the Pediatric Resource Room in Pediatric Oncology.

 

Teacher

Massachusetts College of Art and Design Summer Studios, Boston, MA: August 2005

Planned and taught four-week course in 2D/3D Fundamentals to high school juniors and seniors. Lessons included: observational and expressive drawing and sculpting from still lifes and live models in charcoal, graphite, wire, and plaster; discussions and activities concerning contemporary issues and how artists translate them to artwork.

 

 

OTHER EMPLOYMENT

 

Religious Education Credentialing Assistant

Unitarian Universalist Association, Boston, MA; December 2002 to July 2004

Assisted development and administration of new program to credential religious educators in member congregations.

 

Assistant Editor

Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, Books for Young Readers, New York, NY; November 2000 to July 2002

Managed projects and assisted the Vice President and Senior Editor in the children’s and gift divisions of arts book publisher.  Oversaw book production from editorial process through bound book stage.