ART SHARING - KIDS & YOUTH


 School Related Programs
The Gifford School Weston MA Art Teacher - Present
The British School of Boston MA Learning Assistant 07’ -08'
    -Assist 1st graders in daily classroom projects from Art to Math and plan projects with the main teacher.
Lincoln Elementary School, Brookline, MA Polish Paper Snowflake workshop. Feb 08’
Pierce School Brookline, MA  Sept 21, 07' International Day of Peace
    - Community "Pinwheels for Peace" Project- Pinwheels
The British School in Warsaw Elementary, Art Teacher '05-07'
    - The Litter Muncher Production - Set Design, crew
    - International Children’s Day – Chalking Project/ Button Designs ‘07
     - Book Week -, Visiting Bookmaker '07
    - Art Week "Art Salad" Co-Organizer '07
    - Festival of Light Celebration. Art Co-ordinator Dec. 2006
    - Sukkot Assembly Leader. Oct. 2006
    - Ballooning Around the World Summer Play Set Design and Stage Crew. Warsaw, PL July, '06
    -Garden Art and Painted Bench Project. Warsaw, PL, May, '06
    -Worldly Art Exchange Project The Global Art Project Regional Coordinator - PL, '05-Present
    - Art Week Co-Organizer '06
    - Primary and Middle School Art Teacher . 05-'06

    - Art Club Teacher '05-07'
The American School of Warsaw
    - "Day Against Racism," Accordion Book Collage Project with H.S. students, ' 05
    - K-12 Art Substitute Teacher. ’02 - '05
    - Mural Project Facilitator of "Painted Patterned People" created with 60+ middle school students, ‘03
    - Visiting Artist for IB (International Baccalaureate) students, ‘03
The English Playhouse.
    - Bumble Bee Door Entrance Mural, '05
    - A Rainbow Garden Outdoor Mural, '05
    - Interactive Sunflower, Neighborhood, and Life Cycle Murals. 04',
    - Program Designer & Facilitator, School break Art Camps for children 3-6yrs old. Warsaw, PL, ‘03 -04'
Creating Pride.
    - Facilitator of Arts programs in urban schools. Chicago, IL, ‘00-’02

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
    - Professor Assistant. Co-taught "Techno Options" Art Education Course. Chicago, IL, ‘99-‘01

The Wheeler School
    - Designed & led 3-D class for 3rd-5th graders. Independent Day School, Providence, RI, ’97

Community Centers & An Orphanage
Dom Dziecka #4  (Orphanage).
    - Volunteer Team Leader for weekly English/Art activity hour. Warsaw, PL, ’02 - 07'
    - Garden Project. May '06
    - Facilitator of "Painted Pillow Project" with American School of Warsaw H.S. art club students and orphanage children, '04
    - "Together We Can Do So Much," hallway mural with children's collaboration. Warsaw, PL, ’04
PUSZ (Polish Union of Jewish Students)
    - Facilitator for Seder Plate Making Workshop and Torah Artist Books. Warsaw, PL, '06
Learn English by Making Art (now hand in hand arts)
    - Program Designer & Facilitator  Art Programs for children learning English as a Second Language. Warsaw, PL, ‘03-04'
Noyes Art Center. Bookmaking Facilitator.
    - Teen summer arts program. Evanston, IL ‘01
The Rosa Park Center-Community Partnership
    - "Wednesday Afternoon Arts." Program Designer & Facilitator.
Pilot after-school arts and literacy program. Chicago, IL, ‘01


Camps
Camp Happy Times - The Valerie Fund
   
- Community Quilt Project Coordinator, Tyler Hill, PA '07
IS 183 - Art School of the Berkshires
   
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"Color My World" Teaching Artist, Stockbridge, MA '07
Dutchess Arts Camp.
    - Lead Artist – Nature Art/ Garden Projects with The Poughkeepsie Farm Project, 07'

    - Facilitator of Art projects for diverse youth at summer camp. Poughkeepsie, NY ’98, Lead Artist 04’, Lead Artist ' 05
    - Chalking Happenings: "Around the World" &  Musical Parade. 04'

Providence City Arts.
    - Facilitator. Inner-city school aged youth summer camp. Providence, RI ‘99
Fresh Air Fund-Camp ABC
    - Ceramics Instructor and Counselor. Camp for NYC girls Fishkill, NY ’96

Hospitals
Vassar Brothers Hospital/ Mill Street Loft
 
- program co-creator "Heart Art" Hospital Visiting Program , pilot started fall '07 - present
- 25th Anniversary Community Quilt Project. Vassar Brothers Hospital and Dutchess Arts Camp Facilitator.  Poughkeepsie, NY '06
 American Friends in Warsaw (AFW).
Coordinator Winter Holiday and Seasonal Card Project
Card designed by Children and youth with Cancer in Warsaw, Hospitals. Fall 03' & 04'

- Hospital Visiting Volunteer Coordinator. Warsaw, PL‘03-‘04
- Instytut Matki i Dziecka Children's Hospital. Mural Project Artist. Laka (Prairie) Warsaw, PL ’02.
Hasbro Children's Hospital. Providence, RI
- Art as therapy facilitator. Designed and led projects for outpatient, pediatric wards & for teens with eating disorders. ‘96-‘99.
- Permanent Exam Room Installation -Dove’s Flying Birds. In collaboration with oncology patients. ’99.