Teaching

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Secondary School Teacher

Durham District School Board (Visual Art and English) 1992 - 2002

Trillium Lakelands District School Board (short term and long term occasional positions) 2004 - 2020

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Intuitive Drawing Workshops 2018

developed and instructed workshops in which participants were introduced to the practice of intuitive drawing and interpretation

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Thistlehead Studio Summer Art Camp 2009 - 2015

developed and taught art classes for children aged 4 - 16

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TLAC (Trillium Lakelands Arts Camp) 2012-14

instructed classes in clay, drawing, sculpture for students in grades 7 - 12

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Camp White Pine (Haliburton) 1992 - 1997

developed and instructed the Glass Studio at Camp White Pine in Haliburton. Programs were for children ages 7 - 16

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Visiting Artist for Art Enrichment and SHSM programs:

 

​Durham District School Board

2017    Donald A. Wilson Secondary School, Whitby,  mixed media drawing grades 9, 10 & 11

2016    Donald A. Wilson Secondary School, Whitby - Mixed media portraiture workshop, grade 10

                                                                                    - SHSM workshop, charcoal drawing

2014    Donald A. Wilson Secondary School, Whitby, "Realism to Abstraction" drawing workshop for grade 12

​​2013    Donald A. Wilson Secondary School, Whitby, "Landscapes in Charcoal" workshop for grades 11 & 12

1993    Pringle Creek Public School, Whitby, grade 7/8 students designed and constructed a window consisting of

            8 separate panels for the atrium in their school.

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Trillium Lakelands District School Board

2018   Bobcaygeon Public School, glass mosaic portraits, grade 8 students created a portrait of themselves

           using  glass mosaic

2017   Bobcaygeon Public School, mixed media sculpture workshop for grades 3 & 4

2016   Bobcaygeon Public School, one day mixed media sculpture workshop for grades 2 - 6

2015   Dunsford District Elementary School,  an intensive one-day program in which every student in the

           school participated in one of four different work-shops

2011   Bobcaygeon Public School,  glass mosaics, mixed media sculpture with grades 1,2 and 3

​2008   Kawartha Settlers Village, Bobcaygeon, "Glass Quilt", glass  mosaic,  48" x 48", on display in the

           Henderson House (worked  with grade 7/8 students at Bobcaygeon Public School)

2010    Kawartha Settlers Village, Bobcaygeon, "Muir House" glass mosaic, 24" x 52", on display in the Muir

          House (worked with grade 7/8 students from  Bobcaygeon Public School)

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