Erica Emerson
Education Director at Canton Museum of Art- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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PK-12 Ohio Art Education
Ohio Department of Education
Experience
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Canton Museum of Art
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United States
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Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
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1 - 100 Employee
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Education Director
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Aug 2014 - Present
Summary of Responsibilities:• Direct all educational programming including classes, tours, community outreach, presentations, family days, special events, grants, budgets, exhibits, marketing, and educational content both in-person and virtually.• Supervise/hire 15 part-time instructors, 6 volunteer tour guides, 1-3 education interns, and Museum To Go Coordinator and Education Outreach Coordinator.• Maintain five studio classrooms and ceramics studio including set-up arrangements, inventory, supply ordering, and equipment maintenance.• Museum liaison for the Canton Ceramics Artist Guild, overseeing a volunteer team of 16 professional ceramic artists that help maintain the ceramics studio.• Direct annual Stark County High School Art Exhibit, including over 150 high school students’ art on display, awarding over $4,000 in university scholarships in 2021.• Keep detailed records and report on classes, tours, outreach, grants, budgets, payroll, program satisfaction, and marketing methods and results.• Design and provide educational resources and opportunities to public school teachers including standards-aligned lesson plans, pre- and post-visit activities, open houses, custom tours, professional development, and other programs based on educators’ needs.• Collaborate and coordinate activities with instructors, volunteers, guest speakers, curators, educators, school districts, and community organizations.• Work as a team with Museum Director, Curatorial, Marketing, Finance, Development, Administrative, and Maintenance departments. Show less
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Education Outreach Coordinator
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Oct 2013 - Aug 2014
Promoted from part-time grant-funded position as Education Assistant to newly created full-time position of Education Outreach Coordinator.• Continued to run the Visiting Artist Outreach Program and created a more robust program called “Museum To Go” bringing the museum into 4th grade classrooms at Stark County Schools, including a digital 360-dgreee gallery walk-through: www.cantonart.org/learn/Museum-To-Go• Created all-new free programs to expand museum reach through parnerships, events, workshops, lectures, educator resources, professional development, and the creation of a new traveling outreach booth visiting over 30 community events in 2014. Show less
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Education Assistant
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Oct 2012 - Oct 2013
Hired for a temporary grant-funded position to design and implement a new Visiting Artist Outreach Program into Stark County public school classrooms, specifically for CMA’s exhibition “Joseph O’Sickey; Unifying Art, Live and Love.”• Collaborated directly with artist Joseph O’Sickey in his home to create program.• Created extensive educator resource materials and professional development. • Hired and trained 3 educators, along with myself, to teach in-school lessons. • Content was based on O’Sickey’s childhood experience of drawing living animals, the lessons included bringing live frog “models” into the classroom. Show less
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Mix It Up
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Akron, Ohio, United States
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Owner
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Jul 2014 - Feb 2022
Established and run a small mobile “paint and sip” edutainment business providing private painting events at off-site local companies, organizations, venues, and private homes. • One of the original painting event businesses in the greater Akron area. Established and run a small mobile “paint and sip” edutainment business providing private painting events at off-site local companies, organizations, venues, and private homes. • One of the original painting event businesses in the greater Akron area.
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Walsh University
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Higher Education
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300 - 400 Employee
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Adjunct Professor
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Jan 2020 - May 2020
Taught Museum Education: MS 330-A course spring semester. Adapted lectures and activities for both in-person and virtual classes due to Covid-19. Taught Museum Education: MS 330-A course spring semester. Adapted lectures and activities for both in-person and virtual classes due to Covid-19.
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West Muskingum Middle School
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Nashport, OH
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Art Teacher
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Jul 2010 - Oct 2012
Taught Art, Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Yearbook, and Art Club Director. • Mentor Teacher to Muskingum University Student Teacher. • Included visiting artists in classrooms; from Zanesville Appalachian Art Project (ZAAP). • Started first West Muskingum Middle School Art Club with 47 members. Taught Art, Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Yearbook, and Art Club Director. • Mentor Teacher to Muskingum University Student Teacher. • Included visiting artists in classrooms; from Zanesville Appalachian Art Project (ZAAP). • Started first West Muskingum Middle School Art Club with 47 members.
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Gates County Senior High School
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United States
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1 - 100 Employee
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Art Teacher
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Aug 2008 - Jun 2010
Taught Art I, II, II & IV, Computer Graphics, and Art Club Director. • Lead teacher for North Carolina Arts Council “School Public Art Residency Collaboration” visiting artist grant-funded project, resulting in two large community collaborative mosaics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIiEw_BD70I • Liaison for the Chowan University “Academic Outreach Program,” Murfreesboro, NC. • Created curriculum and website for the school’s first Computer Graphics course. • Increased Art Club membership from 5 to 38. • Entered students’ art in Governor's Show, Scholastic Art Awards and Women’s Club art contests; several scholarship prizes awarded. Show less
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Education
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2001 - 2007
Kent State University
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Art Teacher Education
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