I have been teaching art privately for 21 years.

Hello! I have been teaching high school art since 2004. I’m experienced in teaching drawing, painting, ceramics, and a variety of other mediums and techniques. In addition to my full time teaching job, I host painting parties for all ages and art camps & classes for students in 1st-12th grades. I love meeting new people and helping students discover & expand their creative talents.

At the age of three I dreamed of being a potter making huge pots. I got my first real chance to pursue ceramics when I attended State College of Florida from ‘76-78. At 20, I was accepted into Ringling School of Art and Design in Florida, which did not have a ceramic department. After studying sculpture there two years I left college to head west to start a family in Kansas City. For nearly 40 years, ceramics were put aside while I raised and homeschooled my four children, took up urban organic homesteading, organic farming, herbal studies and organic soap making. The dream to make large pottery never went away though. In 2021 I returned...