Teaching Portfolio

Education

2028 M.A., Fine Arts, Colorado State University, Fort Collins. 

2011 B.A, Liberal Arts, History, Latin American Studies, Spanish, Los Angeles CA. 

About Me

I am an MFA student, art teacher, metalsmith and jeweler. 

CV

I am currently in my first semester of graduate school as a fine arts student with a focus on metals. I have experience working with students outside and inside of academia. Outside of academia, I am passionate about creating grass-roots art spaces that function as open doors for artistic practices for all and strengthen communities. 

Inside academia, I am passionate about implementing a supportive pedagogical methods that can instill confidence in students thought encouraging explorative practices, thinking outside the box, encourage and provide resources for students to find their artistic voice through practice and dedication.

Current Class: Form and Observation Fall 2026 at Colorado State University. 

Form and Observation is a Foundations course focusing on open-ended, exploratory material investigation that expands and extends a student’s experience of what art making entails. Exercises challenge students to change how they see and use common drawing materials while introducing the idea of media becoming an expressive carrier of meaning. The overall approach is a hands-on, process-oriented, mode of “purposeful play” where the classroom becomes a creative laboratory for students to invent, explore and discover different techniques and effects by investigating what materials and tools can and can’t do; during assignments, students are encouraged to seek answers from the materials and processes themselves. 

My instructional strategist consist in implementing more feedback from peers in critiques that can help inform students on their process and things they could incorporate in their thinking, based on what the the work is speaking in terms of materials and methods. 
I incorporate extensive time with them one-on-one checking in about their ideas, methods, materials, and the order of operations they are planning to execute their work with. This helps students with real time feedback that can inform the process of their work. 

Students' WOW! works.