The Official Art Specialist for Dilworth Elementary

Big news in our part of the world. I am the new "Art Specialist" for Dilworth Elementary School in SLC; My neighborhood school.

I am fairly stunned at the prospect of teaching 530 K-6 and disabled students, but I also can't believe the opportunity. The idea that I'll be able to help a lot of children develop their creative selfs in their most formative years is really exciting and I have been doing a lot of research on various learning models, arts-based teaching methods, and ways to integrate the rest of the curriculum with art. There are a handful of key assessment points that are required, but I am faced with designing seven slightly different levels of concurrent curricula for the entire year.

Anyway, I start teaching on September 8 and I'll spend the next week laying out a schedule and putting my art room together and trying to get over the shock that I will be spending the next nine months walking the halls of elementary school once again.

Shiloh at the park

Shiloh meets the birdies.

Flyfishing on the Middle Provo River. More pictures on this client's picasa album site: http://picasaweb.google.com/xsol99/ParkCityFlyFishing?authkey=xbbotXsdpV4

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Rosslyn Heights Art Camp: August 4-8 2008

I recently held an art camp painting workshop in my backyard studio. It culminated in a neighborhood art show for the young local artists. Nineteen children with pencils, ink, water colors, charcoal, acrylic, spray paint, and more. Here's the kids trying to learn perspective and foreground. More classes on the way.

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