Oh hey! Since my last post about 2 years ago I made a thing. A business! I decided to give up on teaching to focus on being an artist! So I quit teaching to learn how other businesses run (taking on clerical and accounting work by day) to be an artist at night (and weekends). I started a series, the Inspirational Women Series where I paint ( Read more... )

That's what I consider myself to be. Naturally though I didn't think of such a cool title myself. It happened last year around this time when I was working at the magnet school and sharing a classroom with the music teacher. She asked me one day about my hobbies after I had procured a copy of "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night for one of her ( Read more... )

I acquired another long term sub position. It's 5 days a week for 2 months. Either way, I feel good about it. I'm with people that I've worked with before in a town I like. I'm positive that another opportunity is going to come along-I just don't know when and where ( Read more... )

It's been a few weeks since my last update. Every weekend has been extremely eventful, even if I was sick for part of it. Last weekend I had lunch with Laura at the New Britain Museum, then hung out with Alex for the rest of the day even though I had a headache for part of it. The Saturday before that I saw STOMP! live and it was a life changing ( Read more... )

Tuesday was my last day at the Magnet School. I taught almost all the art classes that we had between Monday and Tuesday. I helped the other teacher transition into her new position. I created a curriculum with specific objectives for each project at each grade level. I talked about student behaviors, I designed the Shi Nen Kai (Japanese New ( Read more... )

I've worked for about two months as an elementary art teacher. Within that time I've only done 1 project with KG, 3-4 projects with first grade, 4 projects with second grade, and 2 projects each with 3rd-5th grade. You might be wondering why there are so few projects for approximately 8-9 weeks of school, but I think it has something to do with ( Read more... )

I could probably do a lot better if I had a tablet or one of those other new fangled drawing tools.

Also, people like the song I made on Garage Band. It has a good beat.

And I have to prep for school but I'm being so slow about it. I wanted to talk to a mentor, but alas...