Small, supportive groups have worked with me over the past 2 years in my studio space where we explore fundamentals of visual art through acrylics, mixed-media, collage, introduction to print-making and more! These classes are aimed at adults who are either returning to a visual arts practice or venturing into the realm of color, line, shape and texture for the first time since childhood. For more information, please visit: www.carolynkingarts.com

For the past decade, I have worked freelance through Tax Credit and grant funding as a Visiting Artist or Artist in Residence in 6+ TUSD schools. Projects vary and are evolved through conversations with principals, teachers and myself. Some schools elect to bring their entire student body together to learn about, design, fabricate and install mosaic tiles for a student-designed mosaic mural. Other schools choose to partner me with certain teachers for Arts Integration projects aligned with specific curriculum areas. Projects might be painted tiles, Faux Batik painted fabric projects, painted murals on a school wall or large canvas panels , a quarter-long drawing program culminating in an exhibit of student work, etc., etc. The topic and the materials used for each school's exploration depend on the desires of the staff and teachers. I have also worked in a number of schools, both TUSD and charter, offering Visual Arts lessons during Summer Programs for students grades K-8.

Each year, Miles teachers, grades preschool - 8th, and I collaborate to integrate visual arts lessons with core curriculum subjects. Teachers select which area of study they would like their students to deepen through visual arts lessons and projects designed to stretch learning across both sides of the brain. The most recent Core Standards for the Arts include: Imagination, Investigation, Construction and Reflection as key steps exploration of learning in both the Arts and life, itself! This work at Miles has included both individual and collaborative, "community-based" art projects from book-making to tile murals. Among other goals, facilitating students to access their ideas and feelings in order to be able to synthesize concepts and communicate in a rich, full, meaningful way are foundations for my work in schools.

For over a decade, I have worked with residents at The Academy Village in an array of Visual Arts workshops. Drawing, Acrylic Painting, Watercolor Painting, Cross-cultural Mixed-Media, Flower Painting, Portraiture, Introduction to Print-making, Open Studio and Paper Mache are some of the classes we have explored together. In addition, residents and I have worked collaboratively over the years to create seven community-based projects like a mosaic mural, hand-painted tile murals, Australian Dot Painting-inspired 9' x 3' mural, 18 paneled painted mural, 3-D air-dry clay Tree of Life and more.

This position included the following: Interfacing with the musuem Docent Group, hiring and scheduling teaching-artists for the Adult Art classes, administrating, hiring, program design and over-seeing the Children's Summer program of 1,000 students per 10-week long program, creating a now on-going Sunday Family Art Days program for community members and their children.