Visual Arts Education

This year, I turn 36. It will be roughly two decades since the summer I saved up enough money from my job at the Dairy Crest (a local, sea..

Welcome back readers! (Maybe I’m just saying welcome back to myself because even though this is my first blog post of the 2022-2023 school..

The semester is winding down. Only five-ish weeks to go (I think). After spring break, and settling into a pattern of rest and relaxation,..

My junior year of high school I read The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. It was a novella that read like poetry, with subtle..

I moved to Chicago in 2006 for undergrad, but went home to Kentucky during the summer my first three years here, making this my 5th Ch..

Having officially completed our degree requirements, Columbia’s MAT class of 2015 is on the job search—a few are already hired. I regi..

Section 6/6 of my Capstone portfolio will be submitted for edits tonight before I go to sleep—keeping me awake as long as I need to be..

Last Weekend Cohort 22 graduated…symbolically. Our families came into town, we put on caps and gowns and walked across a stage, but ..

My junior year of high school I had AP French first thing in the morning followed by what some of us called the Johnson Double Whammy:..

Photo by Jessica Burton

Eleven Art Ed, MAT students recently travelled to New Orleans for the National Art Education Association Conve..