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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 to Japan to teach English. I thought I was going for only one year, but it turned into almost ten! I spent my free time there learning Japanese, traveling, painting, singing karaoke, hiking, going to hot springs, and writing songs to sing live with my indie rock band, which I started with some fellow expat coworkers. Best of all, I found out I really loved and excelled at teaching. I was promoted to a Trainer position after five years, a role in which I dedicated myself to helping other English teachers grow. I was responsible for training and coaching teachers…

 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, markers, and oil pastels; using rule based instruction to generate drawings. Vocabulary: Pattern, Parameters, Visual Algorithms, Grid Artist Inspiration: James Siena Sol LeWitt Alighiero Boetti  

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 and paper. So I started making my own! It started as scribbles on recycled newspaper with crayons- not the most appealing. But I’d improve a little itty-bitty every time I scribbled. I’d draw every day, doodling on my math homework and sheets upon sheets of notebook paper. And after a few months, I was finally getting the hang of this “art” thing- actually drawing full-on drawings. And look at me now- not the best artist, but still a good one. It was unarguably tough to start up the engine, but that’s the most important part of it: The beginning.  …

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 art my whole life. Much of my inspiration is taken from my obsession with film and horror movies, general nostalgia and childhood ephemera, and my personal interactions with different spaces – the city I live in, the environment I come from, new places I venture to, etc. I like to work from a place of simply loving to create – my art is typically unplanned, sometimes entirely happenstance, and always evolving in form.   What attracted you to work at One River School? I was interested in working at One River first and foremost because I love working with kids…