Youth Video Classes Workshops and Residencies
Hyde Park
May 2007-PresentFaculty Member. Digital media instructor creating short videos, music,videos montage and internet content. view video
Evanston Art Center Faculty
May 2002-July 2007
Instructor for youth video classes. Completed over 30 short films for the Youth Fine Art Department. Also teach adult classes in composition and editing
North Shore Art League Faculty
Dec 2004-May 2006
Youth video instructor. Recieved a grant from the Illinois Art Council to create new media initiative
The Catherine Cook School
Guest Artist for Spring Arts Festival, Also conducted several work shopsMarch 2001- December 2007
POP Stars and POP ART, awarded best short narrative film at Chicago Instructional Technology Foundations Youth Video Festival. view video
Street Level Youth Media
October 2001 January 2002
Work exhibited at George Rogers Clark School. 2002.
Office of the Public Guardian
August 2001
The workshop sponsored by the Office of the Public Guardian Chicago and A.S.T.R.O produced a 10-minute documentary For Richer or For Poorer exploring economic division in the US. Students from Merryvile Academy and students selected by the Office of the Public Guardian participated in the making of the documentary by shooting and asking questions to people on the streets of Chicago. The documentary, along with student video portraits and a text based photo installation was exhibited in September 2001 at Chicago’ s Spare Room Gallery. view video
Mt. Vernon Elementary
October 2000-June 2002
Produced two documentaries. Exploring cultural identity and history.Exhibited at Mt Vernon. 2000-2002
Spry Elementary
June – July 2000
Collaborative project with Muntu Dance Group. Exhibited at Spry Elementary. 2000
A.R.T. Art Recourses in Teaching
Video Residencies Chicago Public Schools
January 2000 to 2003
Philip Rogers SchoolDavis SchoolWest Park AcademyGeorge Howland SchoolJohn BurroughsHernandez SchoolGeorge Rogers Clark School