Educator Showcase: Nicole DeBarberie
Tell us a little bit about you and your background. Hi there! I’m Nicole, an artist, mama, wife, and music lover. I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in NYC with a concentration on illustration and art therapy. I also earned my master’s…
Read MoreTeam Showcase: Kayla Leiton
Tell us a little bit about you and your background. I was born and raised in New Jersey and am the proud daughter of a Colombian mother and Costa Rican father. My culture played a big role in my upbringing, and because my parents never had the opportunity to practice…
Read MoreArt Focus®: Digital Manga and Cartooning: Background Render Speedrun
Overview: Students edit a photograph of an environment using the Thresholds function in Adobe Photoshop. They then draw characters over their background in positions and poses believable to the space around them. Students learned about: experimenting with photo editing, coloring with mid-tones, and drawing figures in perspective which evoke a…
Read MoreStudent Showcase: Jax T.
Tell us a little bit about your journey as a young and developing artist. I use to give the teachers a lot of push back and I didn’t like constructive criticism because I thought I knew everything. I soon realized I don’t know everything and that I should listen to…
Read MoreEducator Showcase: Mia Larson
Tell us a little bit about you and your background. I work with a lot of mediums but primarily painting. Creating is essential to my ability to function, so I’m always working on something/learning something new! Drawing (pen and ink, colored pencil, graphite), embroidery, digital art, video, and as of…
Read MoreTeam Showcase: Caito Stewart
Tell us a little bit about you and your background. I grew up in Ossining, New York and discovered my love of art at age 13 when I was a freshman in high school. I got a BFA in Painting at Washington University in St. Louis, and then ended up going…
Read MoreProject Snapshot: Rules
Art Shuffle®: Kids Rules Grades 3-5 Overview: Students were introduced to James Siena, Sol LeWitt, and Alighiero Boetti as inspiration for creating a series of drawings that use rules and parameters to execute the creation of their artwork. Students learned about: utilizing mixed media such as colored pencils, ink,…
Read MoreStudent Showcase: Rachael Y.
Tell us a little bit about your journey as a young and developing artist. I started a passion for art when I was little- according to my mother when I was learning how to talk. It’s always been fascinating and challenging that someone could create such masterpieces with a pencil…
Read MoreEducator Showcase: Madison Bender
Tell us a little bit about you and your background. I’m a multimedia artist with a background in painting but an interest in all kinds of materials and methods of art making! I received a Fine Arts Degree from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2020 and have been making…
Read MoreTeam Showcase: Julia LaMarca
Tell us a little bit about you and your background. I have always been drawn to art and creativity and have been making art most of my life. I graduated from SUNY Old Westbury with a degree in Fine Arts where my focus was large ink paintings based off of stories of…
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