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At the CCNY Art Ed show with my work "Use/Discard" November 2023

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I’m a Brooklyn-based artist and art educator with formal training in drawing, printmaking, and fashion design but my favorite education was learning to sew alongside my mother as a child and I enjoy watching YouTube tutorials.

I worked for more than twenty years building costumes and making design samples in both the entertainment and fashion industries. Now, I work on my own projects and teach arts & crafts to others as I explore connection through creativity. I also practice Mindfulness for my own wellbeing and for others through leading guided meditation and art-making workshops. I enjoy working from my intuition, my imagination, and in collaboration.

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The values I cultivate in my classroom are curiosity, community, & collaboration. I want students to feel valued and capable of engaging with the magic of creativity no matter their abilities.

Repetition, patience, and self reflection are important teaching practices for me. In difficult classroom situations, I ask myself what I’m feeling resistance to and why, so I can check my ego and center the student.

I often create hands-on, project-based lessons highlighting historic and contemporary artists that my students can be inspired by and see themselves in. When possible, that includes engaging with local artists.

I want to create experiences for my students that are nurturing, validating, and encouraging, so they can express the artists within them.

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Lesson Plan: Art of Africa- Great Zimbabwe (Grades 11 & 12)

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Lesson Plan: Art of Africa- Great Zimbabwe (Grades 11 & 12)

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Learning Objective: Students will understand the historic and cultural significance of the Great Zimbabwe structures. Students will have the opportunity to work as a team on a simple construction project with the objective of learning to work together.

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Letter of Recommendation_Ms Marne Meisel

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Student Work: Noguchi Playground (Kinder class)

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Student Work: Noguchi Playground (Kinder class)

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Learning Objective: After looking at the artist, Isamu Noguchi’s, playground sculptures, students design their own playground structures using cardboard, paper, tape, and other objects to represent their ideas.

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Lesson Plan: Calder's Stabiles (Kinder level)

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Lesson Plan: Calder's Stabiles (Kinder level)

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Lesson Objective: students build a stabile after Calder's work and experiment with balance

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Workshop: The Mindful Doodle (Adaptable to all ages and abilities)

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Workshop: The Mindful Doodle (Adaptable to all ages and abilities)

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Learning Objective: Beginning with a single-line doodle, students engage in the process of art making as a mindfulness tool. Students will have the opportunity to show and discuss their process if desired. (Images shown are the work of high school students.)

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Art of Africa- Great Zimbabwe (Grades 11 & 12) Students collaborating to create a paper tower

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Art of Africa- Great Zimbabwe (Grades 11 & 12) Students collaborating to create a paper tower

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Lesson 1: Quilting for Unit on Cultural Heritage (grades 9-12)

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Lesson 1: Quilting for Unit on Cultural Heritage (grades 9-12)

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Learning Objective: Students will explore quilting and handicraft through literature and cultural histories.

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All At Once: The Gift of Navajo Weaving (2021) Interactive Museum Map (ages 10 to adult)

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All At Once: The Gift of Navajo Weaving (2021) Interactive Museum Map (ages 10 to adult)

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Learning Objective: Visitors can engage thoughtfully with the museum exhibition through this interactive map.

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Student Work: Calder's Stabiles (Kinder class)

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Student Work: Calder's Stabiles (Kinder class)

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Lesson Plan: Mapping & Designing green spaces in your community (grades 7 & 8)

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Lesson Plan: Mapping & Designing green spaces in your community (grades 7 & 8)

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Objective: Looking at artist, Wu Mali's work, students will learn ways to notice and connect with their local natural environment.

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Visual Inquiry Activity: Close Looking (grades 3-4)

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Visual Inquiry Activity: Close Looking (grades 3-4)

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Guiding question: How can close looking help a student engage with an artwork?

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Lesson Plan for inclusive teaching practices: Shapes & Collage (grades 1-2)

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Lesson Plan for inclusive teaching practices: Shapes & Collage (grades 1-2)

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Guiding question: How can artists use shapes to create art?

Featured artist: Romare Bearden

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Emily Porter_Lesson Plan_ Shapes (1-2 inclusive) 