People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Art
Texas Tech University
Taught undergraduate studio courses, conducted research and participated in service activities for School of Art and the University. Courses included introduction to digital photography and advanced photography with emphasis in documentary photography. Skills and knowledge included the creative use of drawing, photographic imaging software, darkroom techniques, and journaling. Provided visiting artist’s presentations, media literacy’s, and fieldwork to challenge critical thinking skills, techniques and forms.
Women's & Gender Studies
Texas Tech University
Taught courses and participated in service activities reinterpreting traditional views of women’s nature and role, training individuals for careers with a special focus on women, and encouraging research dealing with the experience of women. Course work covered basic survey of concepts and theories related to the study of women and to the analysis of gender roles, specializing in exploration of key gender(ed) issues and topics, while demonstrating communicative teaching of the arts at all levels.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the art since the medium is the human mind and spirit. - John Steinbeck