About
I started teaching art classes for children in 2002, and what hooked me — what still hooks me — is the curiosity and insight kids bring when they’re given room to explore creatively. They notice things adults miss. They take risks adults wouldn’t dream of.
I have degrees in Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education from Utah Valley University, and I’ve loved art for as long as I can remember. (Apparently I was drawing on walls as a toddler, which I think still counts.)
For about a decade I’ve been making monthly art-literacy lessons: a video and a written guide that introduce one artist or art movement at a time, in a way that works for grown-ups reading along with kids. They started as supplemental material for our local elementary school and have grown into a small library of their own — Picasso, Vermeer, Frida Kahlo, Helen Frankenthaler, Hokusai, and a few dozen more. The lessons range across centuries and continents, but they share one thing: they assume curiosity is the prerequisite, not expertise.
You’ll also find older posts here from when this site was mostly a blog about projects and crafts. I’ve kept those around because some of them are still useful, and because nothing on the internet should disappear just because it got old.