I create lessons that require students to incorporate their own assets, and draw from their own cultures and interests when they are creating.

As often as possible, lessons should incorporate the real world. Getting to see that we can affect our community and environment is important for students, especially in a high school setting, which can be considered a miniature model city.

Using their unique assets and unique ways of creative expression, the class should become student centered, with me as their instructor there to show them how they can best use their own particular strengths.

Student Magazine Covers

Student Mobile App Designs

Student Brand Boards

Student Event Posters

Student Logos for FMA ($500 Winner!)

Student PSA/Ads and Mockups

How These Lessons Connect to my Philosophy of Art Education


It's important that students get experience with Creating, Presenting, Responding, and Connecting in all of their lessons. In these lessons that is done by:

Creating - Developing ideas and using Design Principles.

Presenting - Writing their Artist Statements and sharing with their peers.

Responding - Forming Critiques and evaluating their peers' work.

Connecting - Choosing topics that have meaning to them, and contexts that they have personal experience with in their community.


Additionally, these lessons are:

Career Oriented 

Skills Based

Community Oriented

Social Justice Elements in PSA

Supported by Technology

Assessed using both models (Feldman regarding technical skills, McFee regarding subject choice and placement in community)