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Mrs. Jones: How has ART shaped me?
As an artist/art educator, I learn as much from my amazing art students as I do from teaching & from my art studio.
I've been teaching art for 25 years -- 23 of them in Brecksville - Broadview Heights. I began my artistic career as a professional Graphic Designer. I designed displays & exhibits for NASA Lewis Research Center, (NASA Glenn), Magazines for Heubner Communications, and preparing artwork for printing at Salem Color Press. I have an appreciation for how art & design can lead to challenging creative careers. I left the field of Graphic Design to raise my two children in the early 1990s, taught art in Rocky River, then returned to full time teaching in 2001.
I am a LIFE-LONG LEARNER! While earning my undergraduate and graduate degrees, (and beyond), I've had life-changing experiences and opportunities for personal & professional development:
Endicott College - Beverly Massachusetts (Architectural Interior Design)
Mount Union College - Alliance Ohio (BFA FINE ART)
Cleveland Institute of Art (Additional Studio Art; Professional Development; Artist in Residence 2016)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (AP College Board Summer Institutes 2003, 2010, 2018;
School of the Art Institute of Chicago/Teacher Institute of Contemporary Art/Artist in Residence 2010)
Kent State University (Master of Arts / ArtED; Emphasis Design Thinking/S.T.E.A.M)
Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC: SummerVisions/NAEA: 2016 & 2019; National Portrait Gallery: Summer Teacher Institute 2018
Travel with students / NETC & ACIS : Ancient Mediterranean (Barcelona, Southern France, Florence, and Rome), 2010; London Paris Madrid, 2014; Barcelona Global Conference 2015; Greece & Italy 2019
Art New England: PRINTMAKING Workshop / Summer 2022
Quebec, Canada: Les Jardins du Quatres Vents / Quebec City / Auberge Saint Antoine Archeology Summer 2023