Ch 1 Questions

What is the relationship between your experiences and ongoing artistic work to your curriculum and teaching.
I think I tend to focus a lot of the ideas and themes I'm making art about into my curriculum. I also use my own experience with art making; drawing for example- (hate representational, love experimenting.. and some people are opposite) to create lesson plans where everyone is challenged but is able to do things they enjoy. I also think it's important to let students create their own bodies of work, based on themes they are interested in. I was never really given that opportunity in any of my high school art classes. To allow students freedom to research, brainstorm, and develop themes and create art is a really important skill in being an artist. 
I want to be able to show students my past work and the things I'm currently working on and tell them what I am currently making my art about so they can get a glimpse into how an artist thinks and works.  




How do you describe what you do as an artist.
I feel like I'm all over the place. I really like experimenting with a concept and making art about it, especially building off of past pieces I've made. I also sometimes just create abstract art based off the style of another artist that I like, and over time it develops into its own thing. A lot of my themes deal with childhood, compromise, and nostalgia. I sometimes jump from style to style, but try to take time to develop styles that I find to be the most successful. I also try to make A LOT of stuff, the more stuff you make, the better. I also will leave my works in progress alone for a while, to make sure I don;t overwork them.