Thurman Art
2024-2025

Faculty Portrait 2025.mp4

EOY 2025 (1).mp4

Plano Street Banner Contest

Congratulations to senior Arturo Mendiola Quezada, whose work seen here was chosen by the city of Plano to be recreated as a street banner this spring! He also won $100!

Funko Pop Self-Portraits

Young American Talent

Congratulations to the students below for having their work accepted by Booker T Washington School for the Performing and Visual Arts' annual art show celebrating student artists in North Texas.

Calla Yasui

Calla won 2nd place in the Jewelry category!

Claire Ling

Big Art Day and Youth Art Month

The following students have had their work "adopted" by a teacher on campus for the month of March, aka Youth Art Month!

Jaden Tran's work was adopted by
Mrs. Stanton and can be seen in the IB office

Asiya Mohammed's work was adopted by Julie Baker and can be seen in B5 214

Ryleigh Peterson's work was adopted by Kate Ruzycki and can be seen in B4 226

VASE Winners

Congratulations again to Amber and Claire! Both of them have work advancing to the State competition in April!

Claire Ling

The Beginner

Amber Hampton

Square One

Youth Art Month Winners

Congratulations to these two young ladies, whose work will be shown in the PISD Youth Art Month exhibit at the Robinson Fine Arts Center!

Amber Hampton

IH Art 1, Thurman, 2nd place

Claire Ling

IB Art IV, Thurman, 1st place

Scholastic Winners!

Scholastic Art and Writing Winners

Kindness Card Winners!

1st place
Claire Ling

2nd place
Amber Hampton

3rd place
Madison Pace

Honorable Mention
Trish Nguyen

Dot Day!

Students in all classes collaborated on a non-objective acrylic painting for dot day.

ClassSchedule.docx

My Schedule

I teach AP Drawing, IH Art and IB Art SL and HL.

I am also the Visual Arts Team Lead.

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About me

I have been teaching art and art history for 20 years, 15 of them here in Plano ISD. I have also worked extensively for the College Board, Sotheby's Institute of Art, am an educational consultant and own my own business called Green Stripe Consulting and have my own podcast called The Art History Class.

I have a B.S. in Radio/T.V./Film from Texas Christian University and an M.Ed. in Secondary Education, also from Texas Christian University. I have a Certificate in Leadership from Harvard and am a Google Certified Educator as well as an Adobe Creative Educator, both Level 1.

I live in Oak Cliff, am married and have one daughter, aged 10 and one Schnorkie, aged 4.

My favorite media/processes are printmaking, watercolor and photography. I recently submitted some of my photographs to the State Fair of Texas!