Teaching Portfolio
IVPA 2303 Arts for K-8 Teachers: Lotería: Icons and Identity
(IVPA= Interdisciplinary, Visual and Performing Arts at TTU)
Reflecting on social, generational, and personal identity
Exploring iconography as a shared language
Collaborating with generative AI, learning prompt engineering for artistic processes
IVPA 2303 Arts for K-8 Teachers: Opposing Forces Puppets
Exploring artmaking methods and materials
Translating “Big Ideas” into accessible forms
Puppetry as extension of the self
IVPA 2303 Arts for K-8 Teachers: Collage Comics
Exploring found image, text, and print media
Working with narrative artmaking and visual metaphor
Sequential Images as storytelling
IVPA 1302 Communication Through Arts Methods: Interview Comics
Storytelling and visual communication
Interviewing skills: compassionate listening, recording, transcription
Representation and social responsibility
ART 102 2D Foundations: “Selfie” Color Paper Portraits
Digital to analog process
Color inversion and layer separation
Exploration of hue, value, and physical materials
ART 102 2D Foundations: “Revolutionary” Poster
Visual communication, social justice issues
Digital collage, exploring Adobe Suites
Principles of design
ART 1302 Global Arts & Visual Culture: “Found Image” Digital Collage
Sourcing imagery from online media for use in a different narrative
Principles of design
Digital composition, communicating through mass media
ART 102: 2D Foundations: “Silhouettes” Paper Cut to Digital Pattern
Figure/ground study and inversion
Positive/negative space and dynamic composition
Analog to digital methods (Adobe Suite)
ART 324 Painting II: The Figure
Observational drawing skills, timed exercises
Proportion, composition
Limited painting palette
Visual storytelling and storyboarding
Time-based media, performance
Sound and video editing