from St. Joan Of Arc Dual Language Academy — Omaha, Nebraska

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Biography

Greetings fellow ARTISTS and ART LOVERS! Welcome to our Dual Language Academy Art Gallery! We are brand new at posting our Artwork online and TOTALLY LOVE IT! We hope you enjoy this experience also.
I personally have been involved with Art Education for well over 30 years and now have THE BLESSED OPPORTUNITY to teach many, many FINE young people in my short time at Dual Language Academy (and a few other schools in the Metro area).
I received my Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Creighton University with my STUDIO concentration in Life Drawing. I have many hours in Ceramics/Pottery also, as I switched majors part-way through my studies there.
I also received my Teaching Degree in Art Education from Creighton, and am Certified to teach Pre-Kindergarten through 12th Grades. I enjoy working with people of ALL AGES, though my heart settles best when working with younger children. I also have an Associates Degree in Early Childhood Development and Human Services from our local Technical College, so Elementary Instruction allows me to pool all of my interests together.
Personally, I enjoy any type of Art-both for viewing AND producing on my own. With a Life Drawing Special interest, I navigate towards REALISM, but do also enjoy breaking free from that with creativity in abstraction. I love textiles, with sewing, quilting, and other fiber arts, as well as sculpture, ceramics, drawing, and especially PAINTING. I also love to recycle and work this into my lesson and own personal Art whenever I can. I love working with color and experimenting with various color combinations to produce new surprising effects.
With the children's SPIRITUAL GROWTH as the center of my teaching mission, I try to give them the tools they need to be successful with their own ARTWORK, to develop a LOVE and an APPRECIATION for BEAUTY of God's Creation in the world that surrounds them, and I try to help them understand the importance of THEIR ROLE in making this world a better, more beautiful place. They CAN DO THIS by USING their GOD-GIVEN TALENTS and GIFTS of CREATIVITY. I sincerely believe that ALL CHILDREN CAN CREATE!

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