the curriculum
With a passion for teaching painting and drawing I bring over 20 years of teaching and administrative experience, cultivating student-centered learning environments through collaboration, community engagement, and public art initiatives. Currently I serve as Professor of Art at New College of Florida, a small public liberal arts college situated on Florida's Gulf Coast. Advancing research within the arts through cross-disciplinary dialogue, social engagement, and arts programming centered on the fostering of inclusive academic excellence, I strive for the thoughtful leadership and design of a college art curriculum that supports the needs and interests of a diverse student body. Teaching all levels of undergraduate painting and drawing my courses address a range of creative and technical challenges from foundational skill budling to thematic ideation, while encouraging students to cultivate personalized vocabularies and diverse perspectives. My courses offer tangible, real-world competencies in painting and drawing in ways that make abstract concepts and ideas visible. Designed to balance everyday current events against diverse historical perspectives, my courses encourage students to navigate the dynamic challenges and complexities of artmaking today. My teaching aims to bring about thematic and technical equilibrium and encourages students to usher various modalities into their studio practice. From charcoal drawing to digital media, each tradition offers the potential to expand the historically rich and layered process of constructing meaning within a contingent, flexible, and relational, approach to art making, rooted in a process of creative negotiation and slow, careful observation.
studioBuilding skills inside the studio... |
community...and outside the studio. |
