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Studio Art, Theory, Technique, Portfolio Review |Harvard, SAIC, Bard
Autumn A.

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Hourly Rate: $85

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I specialize in supporting students who are developing material skill, professional practice, and their creative voice. They are motivated to clarify their visual & critical thinking, improve techniques, find strategies for their working process, address creative blocks, build language to talk about their work.

Over 15 yrs facilitating creative practices internationally and in academia, I equip all student levels to confidently navigate future pathways. My lessons are structured around...

I specialize in supporting students who are developing material skill, professional practice, and their creative voice. They are motivated to clarify their visual & critical thinking, improve techniques, find strategies for their working process, address creative blocks, build language to talk about their work.

Over 15 yrs facilitating creative practices internationally and in academia, I equip all student levels to confidently navigate future pathways. My lessons are structured around student needs, goals, and interests, informed by classes I developed and taught in undergraduate and graduate programs, and from my wide perspective and experience in contemporary art.

My students come from architecture, drawing, sculpture, painting, performance, philosophy, art history, poetry, biology, engineering, filmmaking and more. Some students are professionals seeking sustained attention, critical dialogue, and structure. I keep a neurodivergence-sensitive approach to accommodate wide range of learning styles.

My network & experience enables me to advise student outlook with a current view.

*Limited spots available per academic season. 2 are sliding scale.

My aim is to meet you where you are. Feel free to reach out to discuss or ask any questions.

Focus Areas:
Classical Western Fine Art: drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking
Professional practice
Studio Organization / Systems
Contemporary: interdisciplinary, performance, conceptual, abstraction, installation
Portfolio building & review
Statement writing
Application Prep
Archival techniques
Academic Advising: class selection, professors, programs, international teaching styles
Art Theory: critical reading comprehension
Exhibition: production, curatorial, administrative, networking, publication

Visiting Artist, Bard College
Visiting Fellow, Harvard University

MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BFA, Boston University

Workshops: Harvard, Aalto University (Helsinki), École Normale Supérieure (Paris).
Visiting Critic: Columbia, Williams, Bennington, Boston


Education

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Masters
Harvard University
Other

Policies

  • Hourly Rate: $85
  • Rate details: 1:1 instruction online Sliding scale available. $60 cancellation fee if 24 hour notice is not provided Group rate available
  • Lesson cancellation: 24 hours notice required
  • No background check

  • Your first lesson is backed by our Good Fit Guarantee

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Art Theory

Art Theory

Art Theory enhances our ability to think critically and visually. It asks us to consider how ideas and meaning are made and understood across different historical, cultural and social contexts from across the globe. I have over 10 years of experience as a teacher and visiting critique for studio art practice and theory at the college level - Bard College, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, École Normale Supérieure - Paris, Columbia University, Harvard University, Bennington College, and Williams College. My approach is hands-on, interdisciplinary, and structured by insights from my own contemporary art practice. In sessions we focus on finding and clarifying your perspectives, developing an argument, and discussing how we interpret art. This is valuable for portfolio building, application prep, developing a personal voice, deepening studio practice or appreciation for adults who are drawn to expanding their perspectives and world view.
Drawing

Drawing

I teach drawing informed by my own conservatory style training in the Western tradition of Fine Art practice, alongside the contemporary and experimental histories of art making that have changed and shaped drawing practices throughout the 20th and now 21st centuries. I have taught the following at the college level: classical draftsmanship and architectural perspective, still life observation, experimental drawing in relation to modern and contemporary art, including abstraction, gestural, graphic, etc. These classes were most recently taught as advanced classes at Bard College, and also in the form of workshop intensives.
Writing
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