resume

Marita Fitzpatrick mfitzpatrick@philasd.org maritafitz@gmail.com

art education philosophy

education

2014 FLIBS Certificate to teach International Baccalaureate Visual Arts

1999 University of the Arts, Philadelphia. MAT+ 60. PA K-12 visual arts certification

1998 Demonstration Teacher PhilaSD

1996-present Professional Development credits & graduate level courses toward PA Act 48

1987 Moore College of Art and Design, Textile Design courses

1985 Moore College of Art and Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting

experience

1996-present School District of Philadelphia. Senior Career Teacher

Design and teach visual arts curriculum, display student work, write/implement grants, organize cultural trips, manage art supply budget. Curricula includes: media variety/methods, experimentation/practice/skill building, developing imagination and problem solving, contemporary issues and art, interdisciplinary links, writing, self assessment/critiques/reflection, group projects, careers/service/life skills. Project Based Learning, Teaching for Artistic Behavior, Studio Habits of Mind, Five Stages of the Creative Process, Writing Across the Curriculum, Community Building, SEL. Fundraisers: art department t-shirts, craft sales, bake sales, grant-writing

2011-present Bodine High School for International Affairs. Teaching fine and applied arts, art history, IB art. Supervised art club, gay-straight alliance, garden club, school store, annual trips to art museums (African American Museum, Barnes Foundation, Fabric Workshop, PAFA, PMA). Building Committee. Leadership Team. Art department chair. Career day committee, MLK Service days Cte., International Days. Cooperating teacher for Temple/Uarts/Moore students. Grant writer: awarded over $40,000. in funding while at Bodine

2008-2011 Ludlow Elementary. Taught regular, special ed, emotional support students. Art club

1997-04 Dunbar Elementary. Member of the School Council; over 7 years, designed murals, organizing dozens of volunteers to paint 9 interior murals; cooperating teacher for art education student interns and student teachers from Temple University and UArts graduate and undergraduate art-ed programs. Taught regular, special ed, and mentally gifted classes

1996-97 Creighton Elementary. Temporary assignment. Exhibited student work at NE hospital

Workshops presented and professional experience

2025 Pecha Kucha on Contemporary Art Curriculum, PAEA Convention, PGH

2025 Teaching with Crafts, PAEA Convention, PGH

2025 Contemporary ArtEd Pedagogy, PhilaSD

2024 Teaching with Crafts, PhilaSD

2024 PAEA

2023 Can a Robust Art Curriculum Be Easy and Fun? PAEA convention, Erie

2023 Contemporary Art & Student Engagement, NAEA convention in San Antonio

2023 Cultivating Thing Skills Using Contemporary Art & PZ Routines at EDUCON

2023 Contemporary Art as a Resource for Art Educators to PhilaSD art teachers (video)

2023-25 PhilaSD New Hire Orientation facilitator

2022 Choice Changes Everything PAEA 2022 convention

2022-23 Philadelphia School District's Newly Hired Art Teacher Orientation (August, October, March, August)

2022 Equity & Culturally Responsive Teaching in Secondary Art Education at UArts

2021-present Monthly Webinar Eyes on Contemporary Art, PAEA, 3rd year co-host w/ Marie Elcin

2022 Choice & the Art Curriculum at Moore College of Art

2021 Contemporary Art & Increasing Student Engagement at PAEA Conference

2021 Best Practices & Is This the New Normal? at Philadelphia SD art teacher PD

2021 Curating Your Course, to Philadelphia School District art teachers in district-wide PD.

2020 Supporting Each Other, to peers at Bodine High School, Philadelphia SD.

2020 Building Your Program, to Philadelphia SD art teachers in district-wide PD.

2019 Grant Writing. Philadelphia SD professional development at Central High School

2010-16 Barnes Foundation. Teacher Advisory Committee for outreach initiative creating teacher resources

2013 Making Art from Recycled Materials at Philadelphia SD art teacher PD

2008-9 Philadelphia Museum of Art advisory group for teaching poster set, “Pennsylvania Art: From Colony to Nation,” distributed to all Philadelphia art teachers and sold by PMA

2004 University of the Arts, Art Education, lecturer. Graduate level Introduction to Art Education course

2003 Philadelphia SD Art Education, Curriculum Design committee member

2002 Edited district Scope and Sequence for Elementary Visual Art, distributed to PhilaSD art teachers

2002 Philadelphia Museum of Art, teacher. Weekly after-school arts enrichment class for children

2000 Presented workshop on grant writing for Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership (PAEP)

1996 NetworkArts, instructor for after-school arts classes at Palumbo Elementary

1995-02 University of the Arts, Pre-College Program, and Saturday Lab School master teacher

1995-02 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, teacher. Summer and Saturday Art Camp

1995-6 Philadelphia Museum of Art, teacher

1995 Abington Art Center, teacher

grants/scholarships/recognition

2022 Philadelphia School District's Art Teacher of the Year

11/2022 Philadelphia School District produced a video in recognition of my PAEA award

2021 Pennsylvania Art Education Association (PAEA) Outstanding Secondary Art Educator

2019-20 Picasso Grant ($4500.) from Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY), Shadow Puppets and Gamelon. Collaboration between arts teachers and visiting artists, teaching dance, music, shadow puppetry, and playwriting. Due to the pandemic, the program could not be completed

2019 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, by the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation. Philadelphia’s most prestigious teaching award given to full-time faculty members who have demonstrated the highest achievements in teaching

2018-19 Picasso Grant ($5,000.) from Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY), We Shall Overcome: A Timeline Toward Equality & Justice. Collab with Young Playwrights, Bodine Media Club, 9th grade Literature & Art

2018 Exhibition. National Art Education Association, Alexandria, Virginia. Painting: Tug 1, 2018

2012-23 Donors Choose Grants. Nineteen projects funded for classroom materials

2018 Art Futures. The Delphi Project Foundation Programs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Theme: Creating Personal Symbols. A visiting artist worked with my students at Bodine. Included 2 museum tours & a student exhibition

2016 Scholarship. Global Educators, week-long PD. University of Pennsylvania

2013-14 Picasso Grant ($4396.00.) from Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY) Portals to the Past/Portals to the Future. A collaboration between Literature, Visual Arts and Drama departments.

2014 Hero Teacher Award by The Philadelphia Liberty Museum. Nominated by Bodine HS Principal

2012 Scholarship awarded for videography course: American Graduate: Let's Make it Happen. WHYY / Corporation for Public Broadcasting

2009-2017 Fresh Artists Grants. Received 6 grants providing supplemental art supplies

2001 Alpha Kappa Alpha Grant, Connecting Art to Our World. Interdisciplinary art education unit involving Kindergarten through 5th grade students at P.L.Dunbar Elementary School

2001 Award for Art Education by William Penn Cluster, School District of Philadelphia

2000 Alpha Kappa Alpha Grant, Constructing, Assembling, Building: Working in 3-D. Grant for sculpture unit with Kindergarten through 5th grade students at P.L.Dunbar Elementary School

1999 Stockton, Rush-Bartol Grant, Mentoring Through the Arts. Teamed MG 5th graders with 5-7 year old autistic students. Presented findings from this grant at the Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership (PAEP) workshop on grant writing, 2000

1999 Philadelphia Education Fund Grant, Making Books. Grant for printmaking and bookmaking Reading and retelling Aesop’s Fables, P.L.Dunbar Elementary School. Presented student work at Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership (PAEP) workshop on grant writing

1996 Roberts Prize for Excellence in Graduate Study, University of the Arts

1994-96 Assistantship and Fellowship for graduate study, University of the Arts

1985 Rohm and Haas Award in Painting. Selected painting is permanently displayed in the Rohm and Haas corporate art collection in Philadelphia

1984 Emily Sartain Traveling Fellowship, Moore College of Art. Granted Fellowship based on artwork and proposal to travel for six weeks throughout western Europe viewing art. Fellowship judge and interior designer, Sarah Tomerlin Lee, purchased my painting

other experience

2018-19 South Kensington (Philadelphia) Land Trust board member. Working to secure vacant land as permanent green spaces in the community

2004-08 President, South Kensington Community Partners (SKCP), Philadelphia. Oversaw community service organization, board building, zoning committee and design review process restructuring, hired staff, secured funding through HUD, recruited board members, started a tree planting program in the community

1996-02 Liberty Lands Park, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia. Volunteer Garden Coordinator for 3 years

1990-95 Country Floors, Philadelphia. Assistant manager of high-end decorative tile showroom Sales, design, customer service. Designed tile plans for residential and business interiors. Worked with architects, interior designers, and retail clients. Read blueprints, calculated quantities, worked with shipping companies and tile installers

1988-90 JCPenney, Co, Philadelphia. Decorator. Custom draperies, linens, carpets. Designed all JCPenney's textile displays at Philadelphia Home Show display in 1990. Won awards for sales, design, and customer service, correcting errors made by other decorators or in manufacturing

1987 Carpet By Design, Philadelphia. Carpet designer

1986-87 Brunschwig et Fils, Philadelphia. Fabric house at Marketplace Design Center. Sales

1985-87 Moore College of Art Library, Philadelphia. Circulation Supervisor. Supervised student workers. Maintained periodicals and stacks organization

1980-87 Philadelphia Museum of Art. Departments: library, gift shop, and admissions

resources created

https://sites.google.com/site/artclassnews/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxNvR1fO239DmmgbiTn9QTQ/playlists?flow=grid&view=1

https://www.pinterest.com/maritafitz/

https://www.amaco.com/lesson_plans/165 - Personal Coat of Arms lesson for Amaco Ceramics published in arts education journals. Bodine student work.

press

11/2022 Philadelphia School District produced a video in recognition of my PAEA award

Good news in the district | The Learning Key | phillytrib.com

Marita Fitzpatrick '85 Wins 2019 Lindback Teaching Award

2019 Picasso Project Awards Ceremony! | THE PICASSO PROJECT

Teaching art through embroidery at Bodine High | The Learning Key | phillytrib.com