Taught technical and creative skills to teens ages 11 - 19 in order to keep them engaged and learning after school. Included designing and implementing specific programs within skill pathways as a part of the LABS program that are still being used today. Mentoring and providing recommendations, advice and support to teens at Squirrel Hill, Homewood, and Hill District locations.
Mixed Media Arts teacher for the Lighthouse Project, a program that develops and prepares high schoolers for careers in creative fields. Planned teaching content for every class, organized trip to see 20/20 at the Carnegie Museum of Art, and curated final show.
Teaching artist for a Gwen’s Girls workshop through the YMCA in Homewood. Taught photography, collage and painting in order to help teen girls create positive self-portraits with the goal of reflecting what they love about themselves and their home.
Formulated curriculum for sculptural based community project “A World for My Neighbors & Me”, where students in third through fifth grade combine their wishes with those of their neighbors to create new & improved “worlds”.
Taught Saturday Crafternoon programs involving basic technology for local youth at non-profit arts foundation Assemble.
Founder and organizer of student led, extracurricular collective. Political Art Collective aims to combat student apathy and disinterest in political issues. Actions include postering, fundraising, and working with other groups on campus.
Responsibilities include greeting viewers, protecting artworks, installation and deinstallation of various exhibitions.
Taught contemporary artists workshop and organized trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for Trenton area high school students through non-profit organization Both Hands.
Edited video, built costumes and props for artist and director Deville Cohen of Underline, a co-production between the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Munich Biennale.
Organized project utilizing unused stone plinth structures flanking both sides of the College of Fine Arts building at Carnegie Mellon University as an alternative exhibition and performance space.
Worked information desk at Open Engagement, an annual, three day, artist led conference dedicated to expanding the dialogue of socially engaged art.
Responsibilities included opening and closing gallery every day, participating in installation and deinstallation of seven exhibitions, managing website and social media, and attending all openings/events.