Digital Teaching Portfolio for Joe Turek

This is the online Professional Teaching Portfolio for Joe Turek. Below are the positions, projects, and exhibitions for the artist and educator Joe Turek. Click on the items to follow the link to pages highlighting accomplishments with photos, documents, and other examples of Joe's teaching experience. If you have any questions please click on the Contact link here or up above on the tabs.

Joseph Turek

Art Educator

Teaching Portfolio, Classroom Blog, and Digital Classroom sites.google.com/site/artwithturek

Artist

Art Website joeturek.tumblr.com

Education and Certifications 

2023 Adobe Certified Profession in Visual Design | wvyDA-H9EG

2021 California, Career Technical Education Teaching Credential | 240271436

2018 California, Single Subject Teaching Credential | 230053235

2018 Syracuse University, Master of Fine Arts, Studio Arts

2011 Illinois, Professional Educator License | 2046174

2010 Clarke University, Bachelor of Fine Arts, K-12 Art Ed. Cert.,  Minor in Graphic Design, Minor in Philosophy

Teaching

Art/ Digital Media CTE Teacher, Greenfield High School, SMCJUHSD, Greenfield, CA, 2018-present

• Created CTE Arts, Media, and Entertainment pathway at SMCJUHSD by creating Graphic Design 1, 2, and 3 along with Digital Photography 1, 2, and 3 as well as the culminating Digital Arts Capstone (D.A.C.) course. Hand wrote and developed the curriculum (see sites.google.com/site/artwithturek/)

• Managed $68,000 budget of CTE federal funds and grants to fully equip digital media program. Students learn digital painting on drawing tablets and can utilize professional flashes, lenses, and cameras using the Canon DSLR system. Fulfilled duties of CTE program, including write curriculum aligned to CTE standards, advisory committee, and participation in CTSO.

• Increased enrollment and interest in arts courses, Digital Photography 1 increased from two sections to seven sections. Worked with two co-teachers on utilizing a CTE approved Photo 1 curriculum.

• D.A.C. students for the Adobe Certified Professional exam in Illustrator/Photoshop, and prepared students 2D Art and Design AP portfolio. Students successfully complete and pass both exams and the pathway as it is just now seeing completers finish 3 years of the program.

• Students participate in SkillsUSA club, Scholastic Art & Writing competitions, and numerous other local and state affiliated art shows. Numerous students have won state and national awards.

• Took over the yearbook, bring it from $15,000 in debt to financial solvency by switching to TreeRing yearbook company. Students took all the portrait, sports, and club photos to put up for sale on Proofpix.com. Last year alone 140,000 photos were taken for a record $500 in photo sales.

• Maintained exceptional evolutions from administrators when classroom environments have been observed and evaluated.

Assistant Director and Painting and Drawing Instructor for the non-profit Talent Agency: Teen Art Portfolio Development Inc., Syracuse, NY, 2015- 2018

• Taught low-income inner-city Syracuse teens to create prime portfolio samples for college applications in drawing, painting, photography, and digital arts. Organized, photographed portfolios, advised students on college essays and application submission process. 

• Served a diverse group of students including recent immigrants, physically and intellectually disabled, LGBT, and economically disadvantaged youth.

• Students maintained the %100 acceptance and retention rate to their institution of choice during my tenure, earned full ride scholarships to four year and two year programs in art, and reported comfort and competency in college due to the skills gained from the program

• Organized TA summer of 2016 intensive; helped hire grad faculty, reviewed resumes; supervised, guided, wrote, and coordinated all of the curriculum; provided age appropriate lessons for sculpture, photo,digital illustration, drawing and painting; coordinated and organized supply requests and filed trips off site

• Wrote grants, developed new narrative language, submitted and organized budgets, compiled grant research and performed extra administrative duties for the Talent Agency non-profit during interim

Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 2016

• Taught ‘Art for Non-majors: Painting and Drawing’ to a range of undergrads from various majors, received positive feedback on performance and course content in student evaluations. 

• Students created work that advanced their understanding of core art skills in an individualized manner.

• Created a syllabus, organized course content, observed officehours, communicated with students, tracked attendance, recorded grades,conducted critiques

• Utilized Blackboard, Google slides and docs, Google sites to offer a virtual extension of the classroom content and easily accessible supplemental material

Art teacher at Freeport High School, Freeport, IL, 2011-2015

• Taught Painting, Drawing & Illustration, Computer & Photographic Arts, and Design 1 & 2 at Freeport High school to all grade levels at Freeport High school. Documented student progress for projects for three years in an educational blog.

• Attended staff meetings, implemented behavior management strategies, communicated with parents, attended PT conferences

• Organized and developed curriculum, maintained classroom behavior, developed best practices for fine arts and digital studios, requisitioned supplies and managed a $3,000 art budget, graded work on a rubric, utilized electronic attendance/grading systems

• Successfully transitioned from ‘Unsatisfactory/Basic’ in my first-year teacher evaluations to ‘Proficient’ in the four domains of the Danielson Group Evaluation Instrument by my second year of teaching. Subsequent evaluations include minute to minute transcripts of positive student teacher interactions and lesson implementation

• Utilized Google slides and docs, Google sites to offer a virtual extension of the classroom content and easily accessible supplemental material

• Organized extra-curricular events through the art department: Chalkwalk event where students create chalk murals in the community, Scholastic art competition, Senior art show for graduating art senior’s portfolios, advised National Art Honor Society meetings, fundraisers, Empty Bowls charity event, and field trips

Long-term substitute teacher at Northside Elementary School, Monroe, WI, (Spring semester) 2011

• Implemented and maintained school wide clip based Behavior Management System

• Utilized and taught established art curriculum for grades K-5, projects ranged from drawing, painting, collage, ceramics, weaving, and printmaking. Graded artwork, attended PT conferences and staff meetings

• Supervised students during recess, lunch, and helped co-supervise other specials and English and Reading specialist courses

Instructor for S.U. Summer College, 2-D Studio, Syracuse, NY, 2017 July

• Taught drawing and painting course to summer college teens for the 2D week, supervised open studio for the week, discussed week long art projects, coordinated lessons and supplies with other instructors

Student teaching at Wahlert Catholic High School, Dubuque, IA, (Fall Semester, Eight Weeks) Fall 2010

Student teaching at Hoover Elementary, Dubuque, IA, (Fall Semester, Eight Weeks) Fall 2010

Exhibitions

2018 save face, Solo Show, Clarke University, Dubuque, IA

2018 godforsaken, Cosmopolitan 1153, Syracuse, NY

2018 The Stories We Write are True, The Loft (401 Mesa), San Pedro, CA

2018 Stripes, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

2017 Wax Stories II, Niza Knoll Gallery, Denver, Colorado

2017 Spooky, Random Access Gallery, Syracuse, NY

2017 Trans-degenerate, Milkweed Gallery, Sugar Loaf, NY

2017 SER2_BRICK, Biblio Gallery, Bird Library, Syracuse, NY

2017 Props for a Decline, SALT Quarters Gallery, Syracuse, NY

2017 Obscurus, Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse, NY

2016 Vote Bread, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY

2016 10 Point Show, 819 Ostrom Ave., Syracuse, NY

2016 Reconstruction, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY

2015 Deep End, Apostrophe ‘S, Syracuse, NY

2015  Educators Art Show, Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL

2013  Regional Juried Exhibition 10, Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL

2013 Grey Flesh, Solo Show, Nash Gallery, Dubuque, IL

2013 Biennial Quad-State Exhibit, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL

2013 Dubuque Biennial Juried Exhibition, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IL

2013 Art Educators Appreciation Show, The Illinois Institute of Art, Schaumburg, IL

2012 Fall Into Art, The Warehouse Art Gallery, Dubuque, IA

2010 Fall Into Art, Fischer Building, Dubuque, IA

2009 Fall Into Art, Platinum Building, Dubuque, IA

2010 The Patterns of Chaos, Solo BFA, Clarke University, Dubuque, IA

2008 Annual Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibition, Rock Island, IL

Studio Assistant

2016 Fall assisted Cassils,“Melt/Carve/Forge” at P.A.F.A., Philadelphia, PA

2016-2017 Assisted Koichi Yamamoto, Art Werger, for Lake Effect Editions

2007 June- Aug. Bruce Howdle, Mineral Point, WI

2007 June John Anderson Bricker, Dubuque, IA

Other Work Experience

Intern at Angels Gate Cultural Center, Sand Pedro, CA 2018 Jan.-May

• Assist the head of development and the director in writing grants, organizing, and administrative tasks.

Intern at the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA, 2018 Jan.-May

• Assist the curator of exhibitions in coordinating, hanging, cataloging, and other tasks.

2009, 2010 AmeriCorps service, Dubuque, IA (June-August)

2004-Present Commissioned Artist, Graphic Designer, Midwest area

Grants, Curation, Residencies, Fairs, and Awards

2018 May, Exhibitor, Superfine! 2018, New York, NY

2018 Jan.- May Artist in Residence,Turner-Klaus L.A. Semester Residency, Los Angeles, CA

2017 Exhibitor, The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art,Brooklyn, NY

2017 Curator, Obscurus, Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse, NY

2016 Recipient, Creative Opportunity Grant, V.P.A. at Syracuse University

2008 Recipient, Sandy Macmillan Watercolor Award

2006-2008 Recipient, Clarke University Art Department Talent Scholarship

Collections

Clarke University

Private collections across the U.S. and abroad

References available upon request