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2006
Adjunct Instructor – Westminster College; Salt Lake City, Utah
- Secondary Art Education
- Includes art education theory, teaching strategies, investigation of Discipline Based Arts Education, alternative assessment (Mastery Curriculum and Portfolio), art facilities management, creating models/strategies for curriculum, visiting area schools and museums.
2002
Adjunct Instructor – University of Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah
- Introduction to Visual Arts (Lecture)
- Non-major art history survey from Paleolithic to Contemporary, including Philosophy, Comparative Religion, Science, Literature, and Music. Artworks are understood within a cultural context and a semiotic dialogue.
- Text: "Gilbert’s Living With Art," sixth edition, Mark Getlein
- Basic Design
- Non-major. Studio problems including color theory, drawing for line and value, aerial and linear perspective, compositional strategies, portraiture, Durer-Grid, Dada Poetry, art history survey, and critical dialogue.
Interim Head of Art Education Area
- Secondary Art Education
- Art Education majors only art education class. Includes art education theory, teaching strategies, investigation of Discipline Based Arts Education, alternative assessment (Mastery Curriculum and Portfolio), art facilities management, creating models/strategies for curriculum, visiting area schools and museums.
- Elementary Art Education
- Introducing General Elementary Education students to art teaching. Class includes a brief history of western art, training in basic studio skills, art education strategies, Discipline Based Art Education lesson planning, curricular integration with Utah Museum of Fine Arts, and creation of an arts teaching portfolio.
2001
Adjunct Instructor – University of Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah
- Figure Sculpture
- From the live model, investigating the figure. Traditional and non-traditional approaches. Emphasis on anatomy, proportion, balance, and gesture.
- Foundation Sculpture
- Curriculum with emphasis on formal and expressive explorations in various media, critical process, and aesthetic evaluation.
- Introduction to Visual Arts
- Online format
- Basic Design
- Same as above.
2000
Graduate Teaching – University of Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah
- Basic Design
- Same as above.
- Workshop
- High School Day workshops in Raku, and Figure Sculpture.
1994-98
Art Department Chair – Skyline High School; Longmont, Colorado
- Planned and implemented all new curriculums for Basic Design, Drawing, Painting, Advanced Drawing & Painting, Studio Art, Ceramics, Sculpture, Small Metals, and Humanities. As art department chair made all supply orders, maintained facilities (including electric and gas kilns, pug mill, burn-out kilns, casting centrifuge, tool maintenance, safety equipment), balanced the art budget, led fund raisers, reinstated charter for National Art Honor’s Society and began Art Club, recommended students for Scholarships, hung annual district-wide show. Inspired and supervised the Art Club to create a 17 x 24 foot mural located on civic auditorium within the school integrating over 30 masterworks of art. Acted as assistant boy’s soccer coach for one season Assistant director of four plays. Awarded St. Vrain Valley Salute in 1996, for excellence in teaching.
1994-95
Art Instructor – Heritage Middle School; Longmont, Colorado
- Planned and implemented curriculum, Yearbook editor.
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