I teach courses to undergraduate and graduate licensure students in the program of Art Eduction in the School of Art which is part of the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati . I have worked with Community Partnerships between UC and Cincinnati Public Schools , including collaboratively designing and coordinating the UC/Hughes Summer Scholars Program and After School Art Inquiry Programming.
My teaching philosophy is encompassed by the word: MELLIFEROUS (which is how my website got its name!). A melliferous plant is one that has nectar with the capacity to be transformed into honey by the honeybee. Similarly, education is a process of transformation; continual, gradual and sometimes magical. Art, like education, makes connections, communicates and transforms.
Following are some of my inspirations.
"Through art education, students learn the skills to engage a wide range of art. Their perception is enhanced by learning to utilize various frames for considering the art they are experiencing. They recognize many strategies for making meaning. They recognize strategies for uncovering how meaning is made. They contemplate and collect ways of understanding, seeing, being in the world. They form various habits of mind which can be used as lenses through which to view and re-view art and their life experiences.The vividness of art experiences blurs the boundaries between self-experience and the experiences of another. Through artworks, students absorb the perceptions of others—situated in other times and places, embodied in other races, genders, ages, classes, and abilities. Through art, the self becomes vitally interested in other selves, sensing the possibilities and problems of those selves within oneself."-Olivia Gude, Art Education for Democratic Life, 2009 Lowenfeld Lecture
"We must be able to demonstrate to our students how the arts enable our full engagement in and of the world, allowing us to attend or be open to others and their possibilities." -Maxine Greene, The Turning of the Leaves, Harvard Educational Review, Spring 2013
Following are some of my inspirations.
"Through art education, students learn the skills to engage a wide range of art. Their perception is enhanced by learning to utilize various frames for considering the art they are experiencing. They recognize many strategies for making meaning. They recognize strategies for uncovering how meaning is made. They contemplate and collect ways of understanding, seeing, being in the world. They form various habits of mind which can be used as lenses through which to view and re-view art and their life experiences.The vividness of art experiences blurs the boundaries between self-experience and the experiences of another. Through artworks, students absorb the perceptions of others—situated in other times and places, embodied in other races, genders, ages, classes, and abilities. Through art, the self becomes vitally interested in other selves, sensing the possibilities and problems of those selves within oneself."-Olivia Gude, Art Education for Democratic Life, 2009 Lowenfeld Lecture
"We must be able to demonstrate to our students how the arts enable our full engagement in and of the world, allowing us to attend or be open to others and their possibilities." -Maxine Greene, The Turning of the Leaves, Harvard Educational Review, Spring 2013