Visual Literacy Lab
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
About the store
- 5 years teaching art classes as a teaching artist at Twin Cities art centers, Minnetonka Center for the Arts & Articulture
- Multiple art teaching residencies with local high schools and youth organizations in the twin cities (since 2012)
- some healing arts including teaching women in recovery and starting an adult art studio and program at a homeless shelter
- 2 years (4 semesters) teaching a 3000 level Media Design class at the University of Minnnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication
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"What a Relief!" Relief printmaking presentation and art activity
This is a presentation that I used as a visiting artist and a middle school in the twin cities. It is an introduction to relief printing. Students learned the basics of relief printing and we carved simple designs into small rubber stamps that they then printed experimentally.
5th - 9th
Graphic Arts, Visual Arts
Increase the Peace! Screenprinting and Social Justice Presentation
This is an art and social justice-themed screen printing presentation created for a teaching residency with high schoolers. It introduces students to the democratic medium of screenprinting, and color separation for 2-color screenprinting.
8th - 12th
Civics, Graphic Arts, Visual Arts
Presentation: Introduction to Screenprinting for middle or high school
This is an image-heavy presentation that introduces beginners to screenprinting - how it looks and how it works. I created this for a teaching residency at a local high school.
6th - 12th, Adult Education
Art, Graphic Arts, Visual Arts
Graphic Art Unit
This is an outline for a unit of 5 graphic art projects for middle or high school. Projects including montage, typography, layout, logo, and bookmaking, with no computer tech. necessary. It incorporates hands-on art skills and graphic design.
6th - 12th
Art, Graphic Arts, Visual Arts
Visual Elements and Compositional Principles
This is a slideshow that introduces, names, and explains the visual elements and compositional principles. There are two slides for students to practice identifying these, as well as an exercise at the end where the instructor assigns whichever image they wish to students in groups. The group has time to analyze the image and identify elements and principles before making a short, informal presentation to the class where they explain their findings.
10th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Art, Graphic Arts, Visual Arts
Art Rules Poster
Art can be "anything" and students seem thirsty for the same kinds of rules and guidelines they receive in other subjects. So I adapted a few "rules." This is an 11x17 poster design of "art rules" from renowned teaching artist and nun, Sister Corita Kent. This could also be shrunk into a handout.
7th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Art, Classroom Community
Vernacular Design Slides
Visual Examples and brief description of homage, appropriation, and reinterpretation in art and design. Used as introduction to a unit or project where students borrow or sample concepts from art or design history or visual culture.
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Art History, Graphic Arts, Visual Arts
Color Palette Research for Screenprinting
This presentation outlines a research plan for creating a color palette for screenprinted music posters based on existing Chicha and psychedelic works. It addresses the relationship between art history, music culture, and color in art production. It is useful for background material and critical thinking surrounding the art of the screen-printed "gig poster"
11th - 12th, Higher Education
Graphic Arts
Bibliography of Color Prints
This is an visual bibliography of color printing techniques, showing a range of artists and examples of color prints in intaglio, lithography, and screenprinting.
11th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Art History, Graphic Arts, Visual Arts
Drawing for Graphic Design Bibliography
This is an annotated bibliography, a collection of books and articles around the topic of drawing in graphic design. Topics include: different styles of drawing and goals for drawing (e.g. observational drawing and drawing from the imagination), drawing exercises, using different drawing tools, addressing the "fear of the blank page," including drawing in the creative process, and cognitive differences and uses for hand drawing versus digital drawing.
10th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Graphic Arts, Visual Arts
Introduction to Color Theory and Terms
introduction to color terminology including hue, chroma, value and color systems and models
11th - 12th, Higher Education
Graphic Arts, Visual Arts
Art and Courage Healing Arts Class Lesson Plan
This is my lesson plan to accompany the Art and Courage Journal/booklet from the "Art and Courage" course. These two go hand in hand, the journal (free to download) includes a Bibliography.
7th - 12th, Adult Education
Art
Confidence to Create Journal
Sometimes creative work can make us feel vulnerable and because of this, individuals hold back from making their best, most powerful work. This is a booklet/journal I created for a healing arts class. I noticed many people say things like "I'm not artistic or creative" "I can't do that" and are just simply scared to get started on a creative work. It includes a "license to create" and questions for reflection and critical thinking. It is purposefully very minimal, to allow for personalization
7th - 12th, Adult Education
Art
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About the store
Experience
- 5 years teaching art classes as a teaching artist at Twin Cities art centers, Minnetonka Center for the Arts & Articulture
- Multiple art teaching residencies with local high schools and youth organizations in the twin cities (since 2012)
- some healing arts including teaching women in recovery and starting an adult art studio and program at a homeless shelter
- 2 years (4 semesters) teaching a 3000 level Media Design class at the University of Minnnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Teaching style
My MFA thesis research is making as a methodology. Therefore, I do many activities and object-based inquiry and learning because for me, doing leads to knowing. I believe in teaching not just the subject matter, but teaching students how to learn. I am open, flexible, and encourage students to define their own problems. Creative making is a design process through which one learns.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Multiple scholarships and assistantships at the U of MN
Student Design and Scholarship Excellence, U of MN
speaker on arts panels
My own education history
B.A. U of MN
Fundacion Gasset y Ortega, Buenos Aries
printmaking seminar, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
InDesign training, Minneapolis Community and Technical College
M.F.A. University of MN, Twin Cities
Additional biographical information
I am a teaching artist - a printmaker-designer. I've taken my teaching to the next level through studying graphic design in the MFA program at the University of MN, where I currently teach graphic design. I am also a practicing printmaker and designer: I do illustrations and etchings, editorial design (magazines and books), typography and layout design.
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