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Blog:
Sharing my thoughts and new and exciting events/projects/discoveries/updates/happenings. Most of this blog was transferred over from my previous website which I decided to redo here.
Mental Health Awareness Day
Students did an amazing job coming up with this student-led abstract art activity to promote stress relief and positive mental health...
Futures Thinking Workshop
What an incredible workshop led by Inspire Citizens! Secondary teachers came together to collaborate and create interdisciplinary units...
Color Studies
This year, all our sketchbooks were black and we had to think of an innovative way to individualize them. Some of the students came up...
8th Grade Pencil Shading Portraits
I was surprised by how well these pencil portraits turned given that the students were only given one class period. They were meant to be...
UN Peace Day
For the United Nations International Day of Peace I led a half-day art activity in secondary to create wearable buttons and badges....
Quarantine photography
We began the 2021 school year with two weeks in quarantine with all my students little pixels on a screen. Due to the pandemic it has...
Teaching photo editing skills
Adobe Photoshop is an extremely useful tool and learning how to use it can be beneficial for students whether they continue on in art or...
Texture in Photography
I love our spring photography unit as it gives students a chance to enjoy the outside while closely observing and being inspired by the...
Commencement Address
I was extremely honored to be chosen to give the commencement address for the graduating class of 2020 at Xian LiangJiaTan International...
DP Online Exhibition
Unfortunately, due to the covid pandemic, in March of 2020 our DP students had to hold their exhibition online. They presented their...
Dallin's performance piece
Our school, which is located slightly outside city limits, was until recently, surrounded by rubble and broken down buildings. All the...
SDG Murals
In Oct of 2019 we were lucky to host some very talented students from the School of the Arts Singapore. During that time, I planned an...
Yayoi Kusama Shanghai
So lucky to see the great Yayoi's Art in person in Shanghai!!
Venice Biennale 2019
Travelled to Venice for the first time to visit the Biennale, one of the most prestigious and cutting edge venues for contemporary art...
A sense of place
When I was teaching Grade 10 I taught a unit called Sense of Place. Students had to explore and investigate their familiar surroundings...
Yearbook cover
One of my students, Susan Ji, created the yearbook cover for the school back in 2017 when she was only in the 9th grade. She used a...
Teaching Online and the Pandemic
Teaching online was a strange experience, especially art, which is such a hands-on subject. But I loved witnessing the resilience,...
Field Trip to OCAT, Xi'an
The Diploma Art students really enjoyed their trip to OCAT Xian. A great venue for contemporary art in the city. The museum was...
Roy's Performance Piece
My first year teaching I was lucky enough to have Roy Larmour as my student. He was in the 8th grade when he first got into conceptual...
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