ARTS EDUCATION
As an arts program coordinator, I love to work with communities to create art workshops, lessons and experiences using custom curriculums focused on nurturing creativity through photography, craft and visual storytelling.
Folk Art: Using a focused theme such as Mexican Folk Art, I review with students a short history of a specific practice and materials of the genre. Together students create their own interpretation of the specific subject such as “Allebrijes” (spirit animals), using air dry clay and acrylic paint to sculpt their own fantastical creatures. Amate Bark Painting, using mulberry bark paper, or traditional festival masks after learning the symbolic identities of various icons. Curriculum can be created for most cultural arts and skill level including adults.
Photography. "As an arts educator, Ive worked with K-12 students using custom curriculums focused on experiential growth through photography. With K-1 students, we focus on a self-esteem and community building project called "What I love" in which we study the portrait and combine photographic and water-color self-portraits of students with a favorite object". With Grades 2-5, we learn about composition and pattern and work with found or collected objects to transform them into carefully crafted photographs. In my grades 4-12 curriculum "Joiners", I work with students to study the cubist art movement and the work of David Hockney to create multi-perspective photographic collages." — Lisa Bauso
Contact Lisa Bauso for more information about her work with students in the Pacific Northwest or New York tri-state area.