Clare Szydlowski Odom joins the OES Visual, Performing, and Musical Arts Department after 8 years teaching at Sequoia High School, a public school in the SF Bay Area where she taught IB Art and Drawing and Painting and Art 1. She has over a decade of experience teaching art in both public and independent school settings. She is also an exhibiting artist working primarily in silkscreen and paper sculpture. She holds a BA in Art from UC Santa Cruz and an MFA in Printmaking from San Francisco State University. This summer, she moved to Portland with her husband and fourteen month old son. In her free time she loves to swim, hike and listen to audiobooks.