Resources
Joan Green, Teaching Artist
In this interview with dancer Joan Green, she talks about how she began teaching dance to young children. She later became fascinated by the work of choreographer Liz Lerman when she first began teaching dance …
Mary Crescenzo, Teaching Artist
In this interview with literary teaching artist, Mary Crescenzo, she talks about her first experience with teaching older adult learners, and how this experience led her to instruct adult education courses in theater, visual, and …
Dave Johnson, Teaching Artist
In this interview with poet and teaching artist, Dave Johnson, he talks about how he got started as a teaching artist at Poets House, a poetry library in New York City. His teaching artist career …
Celia Caro, Teaching Artist
In this interview with mixed-media artist, Celia Caro, she talks about how she got started as a teaching artist and how one of her colleagues at Pratt, Paul Ferrara, introduced her to the Creative Aging …
Hermine Meinhard, Teaching Artist
In this interview with teaching artist Hermine Meinhard, she talks about how she got started as a teaching artist and poet, and how Lifetime Arts’ Creative Aging in America’s Libraries Initiative led her to teach …
Will Clipman, Teaching Artist
In this interview with multi-disciplinary artist, Will Clipman, he talks about how he got started as a teaching artist, and how he was introduced to Creative Aging programming through a Lifetime Arts’ workshop. Will also …
Lori Adams, Teaching Artist
In this interview with Lori Adams, she talks about how she got started as a teaching artist in photography, and how Lifetime Arts and the Association of Teaching Artists interested her in getting involved in …
Antonia Perez, Teaching Artist
In this interview with Lifetime Arts trainer and teaching artist, Antonia Perez, she talks about how an interaction she had with a group of children where she taught them how to paint a public mural …
Jeremiah Jenner, Teaching Artist
In this interview with photographer and teaching artist, Jeremiah Jenner, talks about how he began teaching photography classes at Broward County Community Schools in 2009. In 2014, he was referred to the Miami Dade County …
Lauren Jost, Teaching Artist
In this interview with theatre artist, Lauren Jost, she talks about how she began her teaching artist career at the Seattle Children’s Theater after college. Her work with children inspired her to explore how arts education …