My approach to teaching consists of four elements: 1. navigating students to enlarge the public's ideas about the potentialities of collaborating with audiences and communities; 2. inviting students to find ways to use their surroundings as a medium as a means of approaching community art-making, working from the inside of the classroom out; 3. and developing art objects, interactive atlases, and installations that invite viewers to contribute to the creation of, and production of meaning...
My approach to teaching consists of four elements: 1. navigating students to enlarge the public's ideas about the potentialities of collaborating with audiences and communities; 2. inviting students to find ways to use their surroundings as a medium as a means of approaching community art-making, working from the inside of the classroom out; 3. and developing art objects, interactive atlases, and installations that invite viewers to contribute to the creation of, and production of meaning from, works of art; 4. thus, I aspire to create equitable, diverse community-centered classrooms that favor active participation as an artistic strategy, to create and producing meaning from works of art. This active participation firstly comes from developing impactful active mentorship. These elements support my ambition as an educator, providing space for students to trace connections between history, art, and the everyday.
I earned an MFA with high honors from California College of the Arts in 2021. At the same time, I also received my Master of Fine Arts in Photography from California College of the Arts with high honors. I have held curatorial fellowships with museums like the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor, in addition to having solo museum exhibitions like those at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art. I have prestigious experience exhibiting and teaching artwork with the San Francisco Art Commission, SF camera work, Minnesota Street Project Galleries, and the de Young Museum. Notably, I was also shortlisted to teach full-time at Parsons University.
Additionally, I earned a Bachelor of Sciences from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2013 with a focus on Earth Sciences. Later, working with the United States Geological Survey in Water Resources in which my experience, teaching biology and algebra was beholden.
