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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, taking classes & from my art studio.

I've been teaching art for 27 years -- 25 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 prepared artwork for printing at Salem Color Press. I  understanding, through personal experience, how art & design can lead to challenging, rewarding 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

• Cleveland Print Room: Member 2024-25 Dark Room Photography Club