Hi! I'm Stephanie, a certified art teacher / teaching artist / museum educator / maker of things!
As a teacher, I bring my unique enthusiasm for talking about art, making art, and the creative process to every setting - be it as grand as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or in someone's home. I’m passionate about helping people of all ages expand their imaginations. See my classes on the “classes” tab & sign up by hitting the “Register for a Class” button!
As an artist, I’m a bit all over the place, doing whatever strikes my fancy - which is very often book- or story-related. What ties my disparate works together is usually a sense of whimsy. (That said, I’ve been hitting some heavier subjects lately, like my “Pretty Ugly Words” series - I SHAN’T BE PIGEONHOLED! Ha.) Check out some of my art on the “About My Art” tab (and buy some by clicking Buy My Art)!
BFA from Washington University in St. Louis in Illustration/Graphic Communications
Masters Degree from RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) in Art Education Pre-K-12
Chosen by The Kennedy Center to create instructional art video for its Teaching Artists Present educational resource collection - see "Art From The Unexpected"
1995 Featured Artist at The Center for Book Arts in New York City
Recipient of the John T. Milliken Foreign Travel Undergraduate Award Washington University in St. Louis - lived in Paris art collective and traveled extensively
Certified art teacher (current certification in PA) with more than two decades of art teaching experience in NYC and PA:
23 years at The Metropolitan Museum of Art teaching family & school groups
Teaching classes at museums & cultural institutions throughout NYC including The Morgan Library, The Jewish Museum and the 92nd St Y
Teaching bookmaking classes for both the New York Public Library and Brooklyn Library systems
Teaching bookmaking to kids and leading teacher training workshops at The Center for Book Arts
Teaching school and senior center residencies through arts organizations like Studio in a School, Teachers and Writers and PAEA
Teaching classes in New York City’s homeschool community
Art teacher at St. Peter’s Prep, a private high school in Jersey City, NJ
Teaching art classes online!
(Gratuitous photo of a happy Zoom accident - these two students' boxes were stacked in Zoom so the student in the bottom row had a cat head! I laughed so hard and grabbed a quick screenshot. This remains one of my funniest memories from virtual teaching...along with the time that a student brought her chicken to class and fed it a banana.)
