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One of many 1st grader glass mosaic
plates hanging in
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Eastridge has
been fortunate enough to be involved in several community
art projects. Click the project names below to read
more on each.
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Adams
Elementary Artist-in-Residence Program
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CHALKart,
Webster Street Market, Dayton, Ohio
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CultureWorks - Dayton Opera
commissioned project
- Art
with Kids & Students over the years:
- Internship at the
Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati,
Ohio (Spring/Summer 1994)
- Developed lesson plans and led hands-on activities
for Teacher Tuesdays
- Worked at CAC's Summer Art Camp for Kids, which
included developing and leading daily art projects
(including a mosaic project), and supervising camp
kids during day, as well as during drop-off and
pick-up.
- Developing lesson plans for classrooms K-12,
coordinating with the , at the time, current CAC
photography exhibition by southern, African-American
female photographer, Carrie Mae Weems. This
exhibition-coordinated curriculum series is on file
with Polaroid's Education Program.
- Working at Art
Academy of Cincinnati's Summer Art Camp (1993)
- "Art on the Square"
in Cincinnati, Ohio: working with two high school
artists to complete cooperative design and painting
of sidewalk art.
- Eastridge's Senior Show at Art
Academy of Cincinnati's Chidlaw Gallery, where the
pieces were interactive and invited to be touched
including carved, scented soaps, a large,
sleeping wooden figure serving as a bench and a
tall stack of sponges and safety scissors, mounted
on walls for adults and children, alike, to pick up,
start cutting and join in on the fun.
- Volunteering with
Garfield Alternative Education Center's Parent
Involvement project. Middletown, Ohio (1994-96)
- Develop hands-on activities (Fimo Clay, paints,
etc.) to lead with parent/student/teacher groups
- Teach art at
Garfield Alternative Education Center in Middletown,
Ohio (ages 14-21) as a long-term substitute position
(October 96-June 97)
- Established Art Club, GAEC's first successful
after-school extracurricular club, involving
parents, a mural project in the school, as
well as museum visits and gallery openings.
- Judged Middletown
High School's annual student art show (2002, 2003
- Manchester School's Art Show 2004)
- Guest teach high
school art classes at Middletown High School with Mo
Evingham (teacher) and John Moon (friend and comic
book illustrator) (2004, 2005)
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