Pedagogy

For 2 decades, my art practice has intersected with education: as a daily classroom teacher and teaching artist, in public space, and institutional workshop formats. I believe teaching to be the most stimulating, reciprocal, challenging and fulfilling work there is.

My art practice and approach to teaching are highly interdisciplinary following my Masters work in Public Practice, including site-based sculpture; photography, installation, video, performance, time-based and sound works, painting and observational drawing, street art, land art; and more. I also work with students to understand and improve foundational studies, following my early rigorous and traditional formal art training. I flow between these approaches, but often tend towards that which is experimental, playful, spontaneous and whimsical. I prioritize working with found objects.

I have collaborated with many teachers and non-teachers to produce subject-integrated projects, STEAM-based initiatives, service learning endeavors, and more. I am currently working from my position in the Conservation Science Center at Highlands University to work with K-12 STEM and culturally relevant initiatives in northern New Mexico, and eventually bridge programs and new courses with the visual arts and ecology.

If you’re reading, this page and set of galleries are under construction.