Experience

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  Sydney Smith Art Studio

  • Artist

    • Jan 2009 - Present

    Head of Art Studio, creating a commercial viable art company that can promote my talents in the visual arts. That includes acrylic painting, pastel painting, Charcoal paintings, woodblock and linoleum block prints, illustration projects for children's books. Promote and brings art to my comm...

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  Melrose School District

  • Melrose, Massachusets

  • Long Term Art Substitute Teacher

    • Jan 2016 - Apr 2016
    • Melrose, Massachusets

    Planned and designed art lessons/projects for two elementary schools, grades Kindergarten to Fifth Grade. Continued the art curriculum established by the art teacher on leave working the full five days. Created a unite on Aboriginal Dot and Bark Painting for fifth grade students, where we explo...

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  Melrose School District

  • Winthrop Elementary School, Melrose, Mass. 01915

  • Long Term Substitute Art Teacher

    • Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
    • Winthrop Elementary School, Melrose, Mass. 01915

    Designed and implemented art lessons for elementary grade Kindergarten through Fifth grades. Continued the established art curriculum of the teacher on leave. Students learned about facial proportions and created three portraits representing themselves. They also studied the variations of line...

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  Los Angeles Unified School District

  • Art Teacher and Elementry Teacher

    • Aug 1995 - Jun 2011

    As a teacher I started out at the Visual and Performing Arts School Magnet connected with The University of Southern California. I was hired as the Magnet Kindergarten teacher art elementary art teacher for the elementary grades. As such I coordinated the annual art show that was held at the Gr...

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  Hallmark Cards

  • Color Separation Artist

    • Sep 1966 - Jun 1968

    As a color separation artist I took original created art work and broke it down into grey scale reproductions of the original piece with separate pages for each color as well as a page for the black in each color. In doing this I had to copy the art work exactly and register each color page to m...