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OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
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2015 – present
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon
Instructor, Art, School of Visual, Performing and Design Arts
2009-2015
Oregon College of Art and Craft
Portland, Oregon
Instructor of Art
2009-2010
Pacific Northwest College of Art
Portland, Oregon
Adjunct Instructor
2004-2014
Portland State University
Portland, Oregon
Adjunct Instructor, Graduate Teaching Fellow
Portland State University
MFA
Portland, Oregon
Masters of Fine Arts
Studio Arts
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Magna Cum Laude
Painting
Interlochen Academy of the Arts, 1991
School of Visual, Performing and Design Arts
Host, Oregon State University Visiting Artist in Painting; Hayley Barker
Moderator of the @osu.corestudioart Instagram account
Faculty Meetings, School of Visual, Performing and Design Arts, Art
Recruitment Committee, Art
Gallery Committee, committee member, Art
Scholarship Committee, committee member, Art
Norma Siebert Printmaking Faculty scholarship print with assistance from Full Professor of Printmaking, Yuji Hiratsuka
Recruitment liaison between Oregon State University and Oregon College of Art and Craft during its closure
Host, Oregon State University Visiting Artist Series; artist Reed Anderson
Consultant, Creative Venture Arts Entrepreneurial Workshop
Assessment, ART 281 with Associate Professor, Lei Xue
Faculty chaperone, Oregon State University Art bus to Portland
Representative, Oregon State University Art/JumpstART at Portland Art Museum Career Day
College of Liberal Arts
Host, Lynda Barry, OSU Stone Award Recipient, classroom visit.
CLA Workload Policy Draft Committee, Instructor (SAC) Representative
Creative Coast Organization and Logistics, two experiential learning day trips to the Cape Perpetua Scenic Area on the Oregon Coast.
Creative Valley Organization and Logistics, a one-day experiential learning day trip to the Mount Pisgah Arboretum and My Brothers’ Farm outside of Eugene.
Creative Coast Organization and Logistics, two experiential learning day trips to the Cape Perpetua Scenic Area on the Oregon Coast.
Oregon State University
Faculty Senate, Art faculty representative, Memorial: Professor Julie Green
Recruitment Workshop, MU Horizon Room
Student Success Initiative Summit, LaSells Stewart Center
Consultant, Oregon State University Commencement Video
Service to the Profession
Guest reviewer, Portland State University, BFA Program
Foundations Art: Theory and Education; member
Service to the Public (professionally related)
Panelist, Ohio Arts Council
Coordinator and Liaison between Willamette Valley High School Scholastic Art Gold Key Awards and LaSells Stewart Center
Liaison between Central Oregon Scholastics Gold Key Awards and Oregon State University Cascades Art; juried awards and coordinated ceremony presentation
Liaison between Portland Metro Scholastic Gold Key Awards and Oregon State University Corvallis Art; juried awards and coordinated ceremony presentation
Teaching Philosophy
“You cannot grow unless you attempt things beyond your powers.”
-Charles Burchfield
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
-Emily Dickinson
My teaching philosophy embraces the importance of discovery. My greatest ambition as an educator is to foster a life-long love of learning, making, and questioning. I am a mentor to all of my students. Working one-on-one and taking the time to get to know each student is integral to my teaching philosophy. Whether my class is small or large, each day I work with students independently to offer my experiential insight, provocative questions and lists of contemporary and historical artists that are relevant to their interests. I offer guidance at all levels from foundations through graduate to prepare a student for a life and career in the arts.
As an artist and educator, I feel that process is of equal weight to outcome. Hands-on experience in the studio or classroom is a frequent consequence of time spent somewhere else. Long walks, experimental sketches, enlightened conversations, magazine clippings, favorite songs, poems and stacks of library books are tools to make art.
Most of all, I believe that art enriches people’s lives. As a teacher, I seek to provide my students with necessary skills and tools to make each of their individual worlds an outstanding place.
