"Bachelor's degree in Science provides me with a firm grounding in technical skills and problem solving methods that have been further strengthened by my M.F.A. and teaching experience. The years I spent teaching school children have given me the ability to regard my art from a fundamental point of view. In order that others, both young and old, may understand the language and teaching of Art, it is important that the teacher examine his/her own approach, analyzing techniques and subtleties that are usually taken for granted when creating an artwork. I feel a large part of being a successful educator in Fine Arts is tied to active participation and commitment to that field as both an educator and an artist.

Fine Art education requires both professional education and intellectual training. To facilitate the process, the educational curriculum should challenge the student's intellectual capacities; broaden their vocabulary, methods, processes and technology of Fine Art. The syllabus should instill an understanding of the media within the context of a thinking/problem solving structure that provides for the practical application of concepts.

For me, liberal arts education represents a way of thinking, rather than a structure of the study of disciplines. It emphasizes the process of acquiring knowledge of the world and self through reflection upon the work of others. Valuing the general more than the specific, liberal arts education is concerned with modes of thinking, rather than bodies of knowledge.

I strive to teach my students to think critically and to communicate ideas clearly and creatively and I encourage a constant and open dialogue between teacher and student. As an educator, I hope to prepare my students to continue to learn for the rest of their lives to be more than simply practitioners. They should be innovators."