ART-RELATED TEACHING

1999-02: Art teacher with Oakland Unified School District at Cole School for the Performing & Visual Arts, grades 4-8, Oakland, CA

1999: Artist Consultant at Edna Brewer Middle School, papier mâché mask-
making, Oakland, CA 

1998-99: Artist-in-Residence at Cole School for the Performing & Visual Arts. Funded by the City of Oakland Cultural Arts Division & Project Create. Taught papier mâché mask-making, Oakland, CA

1998: Art Teacher at Montclair Summer Arts Camp, Oakland, CA

1997-98: Artist-in-Residence at Edna Brewer Middle School & at Lazear Elementary School. Funded by the City of Oakland Cultural Arts Division and Project Create. Taught papier mâché mask-making, Oakland, CA

1996-97: Artist-in-Residence at Oakland Charter Academy & at Calvin Simmons 

Junior High School. Funded by the City of Oakland Cultural Arts Division & Project Create. Taught papier mâché mask-making, Oakland, CA

1996: Staff Artist/Teacher for the Museum of Children’s Art. Taught mask-making to 1st and 2nd graders at Lincoln Learning Center and watercolors to 2nd graders at Sequoia Elementary School. Taught at MOCHA (Museum of Children’s Art) summer art camp: “Art and the Environment,” Oakland, CA

1995: Project Artist/Teacher for Festival at the Lake’s “1000 Faces.” Taught mask-making at eight Oakland public schools to grades three, seven and ten, and to adults. Funded by the City of Oakland Cultural Arts Division, 

Developed program and taught mask-making to children at Chabot Community Day School, a court-mandated school for at-risk juveniles, 

San Leandro, CA. Funded by the Museum of Children’s Art, Oakland, CA

1993-97: Taught elementary and middle school children in schools throughout Alameda County to reduce, reuse, recycle and rot to through art projects using trash. Funded by Project Create, Oakland, CA

1993: Taught six workshops in exploring personal history through the visual artsat the Oakland Museum to 4thLomas-Garza’s exhibit. Taught workshop in oil pastel on Family Sunday, March 14, at the Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA in conjunction with Carlos Almaráz exhibitTaught classes in constructing rain sticks, techniques of watercolor, and portraiture in acrylic paint to children ages 7-15 at Park Day Summer Arts Camp, Oakland, CAth graders in conjunction with Carmen -7

1992: Project Artist/Teacher for Festival at the Lake’s “1000 Faces Plus.” Worked in conjunction with storytellers in teaching mask-making to Oakland public school children. Funded by the City of Oakland Cultural Arts Division, Oakland, CA. Conducted mask-making workshops for elementary school children who performed as the Chorus of Animals in “Noah’s Flood” by Benjamin Britten, performed by the Oakland East Bay Symphony, Oakland, CA

1989-90: Project Artist/Teacher for Festival at the Lake’s “100 Faces.” Taught mask-making in community workshops, Oakland, CA

1982: Taught ceramics to abused and/or neglected children at Snedigar Cottage, San Leandro, CA

1979-82: Graphic Artist/Teacher with Commonarts Neighborhood Arts Program, 

Berkeley, CA. Taught silk-screening to adolescents at La Cheim School, arts and crafts to children at Berkeley Youth Alternatives, and drawing to seniors at North and South Berkeley Senior Centers, Berkeley, CA