Vitae

Education

MAED Art Education. East Carolina University. Greenville, NC. In progress.

BS Art Education. Appalachian State University. Boone, NC. 1996

Biology. Edinboro University. Edinboro, Pa. 1983

Certifications

North Carolina Teaching License, Visual Art.

National Board Certification, Early Adolesence through Young Adulthood Art.

Advanced Placement Studio Art.

Advanced Placement Art History.

Employment

Heide Trask High School. Pender County, NC. 1996- present.

Visual art. Teacher of the Year, 2009-2010

East Carolina Univeristy. Greenville, NC. 2009-present.

Teaching assistant. Online art appreciation.

Professional Organizations

Delta Kappa Gamma International

Doe Network

National Art Education Association

North Carolina Art Education Association

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Curriculum Revision Team: Visual Arts, Secondary team lead.

Pender County Art Council, Board of Directors

Presentations/ Publications

North Carolina Standard Course of Study: Visual Arts. 1999, 2009.

East Carolina Research and Creative Achievement week

HOTS and digital gaming, 2010

North Carolina Art Education Association Conference 2009:

Level Up! HOTS and digital gaming. Co-presenter: Dr. Alice Arnold

Question? Co-presenter: Melissa Ball-Martin

Cheap-n-Easy. Co-presenter: Melissa Ball-Martin

National Art Education Association Conference 2008:

Archetype. Co-presenter: Melissa Ball-Martin

North Carolina Art Education Association.

Laugh Now, Cry Later (2008)

The Singing Bones: Forensic Art (2004)

ID-Me! Visual Identity and Adolesence (2004)

ART: Aesthetics of Revolutionary Technologies- Art, Ethics and Transgenics (2003)

Beyond Speed Racer: the Influence of Anime (2002)

Cracked Babies: Dealing with the Drug Culture (1999)

Bringing the Outside In (1998)

Cyber Schools on the Internet (1996)

Unwritten Record: Altered Books as Sculpture (1995)

Art, Monsters and Social Fears (1994)

Enchanted Objects. Co-presenter: Melissa Ball-Martin (2008)

Archetype. Co-presenter: Melissa Ball-Martin (2007)

Death is not the End. Co-presenter: Melissa Ball-Martin (2006)

In Good Taste: the Aesthetics of Food in Art. Co-presenter: Melissa Ball-Martin (2005)

Alterations: Altered Books. Co-presenter: Melissa Ball-Martin (2004)

Challenge Me! Curriculum Design. Co-presenter: Melissa Ball-Martin (2003)

Great Gourd Almighty! (presentation and workshop) Co-presenter: Melissa Ball-Martin (1998)

Ethnic Crafts Curriculum. Co-presenter: Melissa Ball-Martin (1997)

Turchin Center for Visual Arts.

Enchanted Object Workshop. Co-presenter: Melissa Ball-Martin (2008)

Collaborative Arts: St. John's Museum of Art/ DREAMS of Wilmington/ African-American Dance Ensemble

Storytelling gourd workshops. (1998)

St. John's Muesum of Art

Curriculum design: Folk and Outsider touring exhibit. (1997-98)

Pender County Schools

Food for Thought (2010)

Visual Journals (2008)

No Roadkill- Introduction to Internet Navigation (1996)

Exhibit Record

Singing Bones. Solo show. Lees-McRae College, NC. (2008)

Folk Art Show and Competition. Louise Weels Cameron Museum, Wilmington NC (2004)

Brunswick County Art Council County Showcase. Franklin Smith Gallery, Southport, NC. (1996-2004)

Signs and Wonders. Solo show. Flying Pig, Oak Island, NC (2004)

Lotteria. Solo show. Flying Pig, Oak Island, NC (2003)

Strange Saints. Solo show. Flying Pig, Oak Isand, NC (2002)

North Carolina Gourd Show (2003, 2004)

Mail Art. Black Mountian, NC (1997)

Art Expo. Appalachian State University. (1994-1996) Individual awards in fibers and mixed media. Purchase award 1996.