Cleveland + Columbus, OH- Teaching Artist (various locations)
All Ages/Mixed Media
Columbus, OH - Manger for Studio Initiatives at the Columbus Museum of Art 2006-2015
Exhibitions
Art & Therapy
Art & Therapy
Zeller & Associates is a private art therapy practice, catering to children with anxiety disorders. Image: products from therapy sessions as well as a participatory activity to engage visitors in the therapy process.
Zeller & Associates is a private art therapy practice, catering to children with anxiety disorders. Image: products from therapy sessions as well as a participatory activity to engage visitors in the therapy process.
Art & Therapy
Art therapy tools from Goodwill Art Studio & Gallery.
Clamp and large apparatus were purchased "as is" and small tools were adapted from existing art tools.
Art therapy tools from Goodwill Art Studio & Gallery.
Clamp and large apparatus were purchased "as is" and small tools were adapted from existing art tools.
Art & Therapy
Courage Unmasked partnered cancer patients with Columbus artists, transforming radiation masks into works of art.
Courage Unmasked partnered cancer patients with Columbus artists, transforming radiation masks into works of art.
Creative Classroom Series
Wickliffe Progressive Community School
(research boards, artifacts, artwork)
Wickliffe participated the Making Learning Visible study with Harvard's Project Zero. CMA partnered with Wickliffe to highlight the work done by students and teachers.
(research boards, artifacts, artwork)
Wickliffe participated the Making Learning Visible study with Harvard's Project Zero. CMA partnered with Wickliffe to highlight the work done by students and teachers.
Bound
Work by Hilliard Davidson High School art club
(artwork, sketchbook images, video documentary)
Work by Hilliard Davidson High School art club
(artwork, sketchbook images, video documentary)
Community Artist Collaborations:
Trade-o-Mat
Concept and original design by artist Kathryn Kenworth, who I met
at the Open Engagement conference in Portland, Oregon.
Visitors to the CMA offered goods or services to trade for an original work of art by a Columbus artist.
http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2012/10/11/exhibit-trade-o-mat.html
Concept and original design by artist Kathryn Kenworth, who I met
at the Open Engagement conference in Portland, Oregon.
Visitors to the CMA offered goods or services to trade for an original work of art by a Columbus artist.
http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2012/10/11/exhibit-trade-o-mat.html
Game Show invited artists, comedians, and performers to join in the creation and production of a live, participatory game show.
Game Show contestants were plucked from the studio audience to compete in creative, open-ended, and hilarious challenges.
Host: Susie Starliner (Yours Truly, moi, me!)
Co-host: Tod Tabler (artist Jeff Fernengel)
Producer: Jeff Sims
Game Show contestants were plucked from the studio audience to compete in creative, open-ended, and hilarious challenges.
Host: Susie Starliner (Yours Truly, moi, me!)
Co-host: Tod Tabler (artist Jeff Fernengel)
Producer: Jeff Sims
Connector Series
The CMA Center for Creativity partners with local creative provocateurs to engage visitors in surprising participatory environments.
Image: Visitors engage with DJ and sound artist Mark Gunderson's Kinect turntable. His other inventions included a Wii Pillow Fight, Kinect Theramin, and the Thimbletron.
The CMA Center for Creativity partners with local creative provocateurs to engage visitors in surprising participatory environments.
Image: Visitors engage with DJ and sound artist Mark Gunderson's Kinect turntable. His other inventions included a Wii Pillow Fight, Kinect Theramin, and the Thimbletron.
Studio Thinking Workshops
These workshops are designed to promote creative thinking habits in PreK - 12 learners, especially on the areas of imagination, idea generation, collaboration, and creative problem solving.
Studio Thinking Workshop: The Ideal Woman
(Female empowerment theme designed especially for group from Columbus School for Girls)
Digital photographs, backdrop, costumes, junk, high school students gettin' weird.
(Female empowerment theme designed especially for group from Columbus School for Girls)
Digital photographs, backdrop, costumes, junk, high school students gettin' weird.
Studio Thinking Workshop: Creative Improvisations
This workshop was designed as a component to a partnership with the Columbus Children's Theater.
This workshop was designed as a component to a partnership with the Columbus Children's Theater.
Home School Workshops
Home School workshops cater directly to the needs of home school families, while still encouraging the kind of thinking we promote in our Studio Thinking workshops.
Home School Workshop:
Underwater Environments
Digital photographs, can lights, mixed media, costumes, home schoolers.
Underwater Environments
Digital photographs, can lights, mixed media, costumes, home schoolers.
Summer Art Workshops
Summer Art Workshop are full week art camps at the CMA, taught by local teaching artists. Each workshop is unique and focuses on a theme or Big Idea. These workshops incorporate imaginative play, theatrics, unique materials, and new technology. I oversee the program and teach a workshop each year.
Black light photo from my workshop, Time Jump, an exploration of space and time for K-1.
Open Studio
Visitors of all ages are welcome to drop in to the Center for Creativity Studio to explore ideas, solve creative challenges, and collaborate with friends or family.
CMA Birthday Parties:
CMA Birthday Parties are thematic and playful, offering party-goers a unique experience with imaginative gallery games, costumes, decorations, and an art project. Oh, and the cupcakes are delicious.
Magic & Mystery theme
Carnival theme
