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My practice as an artist is driven by creative experimentation that is grounded in a solid understanding of materials, technique, and context.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This describes my approach to teaching as well: by providing my students with both the physical and conceptual tools through which to process their ideas, my aim is to empower and excite them as makers. The courses I teach combine rigorous training in drawing and printmedia with contemporary techniques, community-based practice, and site-specificity.
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Courses Taught:Research Studio I and II : Community Based Practices (SAIC): Course Blog
Silkscreen + Social Space (UIC, NWU): Course Blog
Drawing on Comics (SAIC): Course Blog
Japan: Cultural Contexts/Graphic Narrative (SAIC study trip): Course Blog
Graduate Advising and Independent Projects (VCFA, UIC)
Topics in Printmedia: Intaglio (UIC, NWU)
Topics in Drawing: Visual Research (UIC)
Topics in Drawing: the Body in Context (UIC)
Drawing I: Beginning (UIC)
Artist’s Books (SAIC)
Creative Drawing (CIA)
Institutions:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------VCFA: Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Program, 2010 - present
SAIC: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 2007 - present
UIC: The University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, 2005 - 2009
NWU: Northwestern University, IL, 2007
CIA: The Cleveland Institute of Art, OH, 2002
