Projects
My works in art and art education have a wide range and include my varied interests and passions in fine art practices, contemporary themes and socially engaged art. Many are collaborative with other artists, and often include works created with my students. To learn more please click on the project links below:
Flam: Festival-Slam in Contemporary Arts & Learning
Evacuate the idea of an “Art Education Conference” and imagine this vision of a festival, slam, art party, mash-up, collaborative learning-teaching gathering, hosting a cornucopia of fresh, new, and inspiring ways to bring contemporary art to the classroom and beyond. This is a conference I co-create and produce with my students. |
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One World One People Peace Project
In response to recent events of disharmony, social unrest, xenophobia, violence, and terrorism in the United States, the United Kingdom, and around the World, this work began as a socially engaged art project to answer these questions in the summer of 2016. Mapping the Self: Past, Present & Future
Mapping Self: Past, Present & Future is a mixed media collage map and conceptual work of art. The physical piece of work measuring approximately three by six feet is a visual representation of my sense of self in relation to my past, present and future identities. It was exhibited as part of an art show in early 2012 at Goldsmiths College in London. Photos Enclosed: NYC Collaborative Mail Art Book
"Photos Enclosed" is a collaborative mail art project that I began in 2004 in Oakland, CA. This book is the second mail art project in this series and features mail art made using my photography of New York City taken in 2009. |
The Free Range Learning Exchange
The Free Range Learning Exchange is a socially engaged art project with my high school contemporary art students. A cardboard bus "took" us out into public spaces where it offered various learning exchanges with the public. Working on the idea that meaningful learning experiences and connections often occur outside the classroom, this project sought to engage participants in learning “exchanges” in public spaces. We offered tutorials based on individual skillsets and interests to participants in exchange for something they taught us on the spot. Good Food for the Family Project
This site documents the socially engaged art projects I created during my year of study at Goldsmiths, University of London. Here you can read blog posts about my identity practice work as an artist-teacher. It includes projects in valuing the self and connecting to others via farm to table locavore eating and social food events. Good Food From the Farm Book A book of writing, recipes and photography from a season of getting vegetables from a local farm/CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). You'd Be Home by Now... (If You Lived Here) Travel Scenes Sketchbook
This is the digital copy of the book of photographs I created that is on public view at the Brooklyn Art Library as part of the Sketchbook Project, a global collaborative project of artists books. |
TED Eds
Blended Learning
TED-Ed is TED’s youth and education initiative. Click on the image to connect to the interactive online lessons I've created for students to use both in the classroom and/or at home to enhance their learning for the variety of concepts we cover for our project-based learning.
Often I create these lessons as part of research or prep work students can do to prepare for understanding as well as a jumping off point for classroom discussions and studio practices.
TED-Ed is TED’s youth and education initiative. Click on the image to connect to the interactive online lessons I've created for students to use both in the classroom and/or at home to enhance their learning for the variety of concepts we cover for our project-based learning.
Often I create these lessons as part of research or prep work students can do to prepare for understanding as well as a jumping off point for classroom discussions and studio practices.