Denise Gunter Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

· Co-founded a Great Good Space, a community art + design studio that partners with local institutes, small businesses, non-profits, and community spaces. We help design, create, and facilitate interactive art experiences for all ages.· We work with our community partners [current + future] to facilitate workshops + public programs, design public art experiences, organize team building events, curate informal art-making experiences for local pop-ups, and collaborate with others as part of our studio practice.· Current Partners: Dix Park Conservancy / Transfer Co. / Escazū Chocolates / Feature Flora / Burkett Farms· Past Clients: Red Hat / In Situ Studio / Marbles Kids Museum, TOTscotch 2023 / Pitstop for Birds / Rise & Ramble / Osoto Coffee / Mary Parker Ceramics· Committee Members: Arts at Dix Park, The Trailblazers Collective

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

· Collaborated and assisted within a Montessori-inspired learning environment for Early Childhood students which incorporated both administrative responsibilities & responsive pedagogical practices· Developed virtual asynchronous & synchronous instruction for remote learning via Zoom/Seesaw/Google Classroom · Curriculum Design/Social Emotional Learning, Arts Integrated Education, Community Building Resources---------------------------------------------*2020 to 2021 school year role: Co-teacher for the Preschool Online Cohort, the remote Early Childhood classroom established due to COVID-19 restrictions and concerns*2021-2022 school year: in-person Early Childhood classroom and teaching with remote learning lesson plans designed for required school-wide COVID 19 protocols

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

· Minni is a creative community space run by professional artists and educators. · Instructed and Facilitated Early Childhood art-making workshops within a studio setting· Curriculums designed to promote experience over the finished product, inspiring imagination in everyday materials, opportunities to take students on visits to the surrounding artist studios in the surrounding arts district

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Co-teacher for Pre-K Montessori learners in Auxiliary Program• acted as Assistant Teacher/Substitute in PreK & Toddler classrooms• Instructed creative lessons, curriculums that fostered independence & problem-solving• Interacted with Early Childhood and youth art education curriculums in classroom-led instruction and as a teaching artist where I actively maintained responsive partnerships and facilitated experiences that made the arts accessible to not just the perceived maker, but the whole.· Developed program initiatives & a "Makerspace”/third space concept inside and outside the classroom· Designed school-wide remote learning website during the COVID-19 remote transition, Spring 2020

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Co-teacher for Grade 1&2, Independent Day School• Developing inquiry-based curriculum that promote creative interactionwith Shady Hill’s co-educational mission and our lived experiences• Program Design, Interactive instruction for both Families and Students• Summer Session Teaching Artist, Designed Logo for 2019 STEAM Summer Programming

Providence, Rhode Island Area

· Co-teacher, working in collaboration with a fellow RISD graduate student, we facilitated a 10wk curriculum series with a group of selected teens from a local Woonsocket Highschool. Meeting once a week for 10weeks. Developed a constructive and inspired theme resulting in students creating an Interactive Public Art Installation. Students learned how to facilitate their own artistic process through design thinking skills. Acquired the ability to physically implement concepts they had originally visualized and produced (from sketches to scale models).· Students learned how to nurture & define their own creative process while making a piece together. At the end of 10wks, they created an interactive public art piece that would be on view at both their school and in the Project Open Door studios· Documentation. Design-Thinking Skills. Collaborative Curriculum + Assessment.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

· Varied administrative and public programming responsibilities for the Museum's Education Department· Mentored by fellow museum art educators in Public/Community Art programs.· Implemented a qualitative case study of the RISD Museum’s Out of Line Drawing Studio, a temporary in-gallery design space that received the 2018 SEGD Global Design Merit Award

Providence, Rhode Island Area

· Co-taught social justice motivated art themes and projects to a selected group of middle schoolers in an effort to promote Community Art. · Providence CityArts for Youth’s mission is "to ensure our capital city’s most challenged youth access to quality arts programs—unhindered by socio-economic barriers, and celebrating the arts as a means to youth empowerment, community building and social change." · Providence CityArts for Youth is a nationally-recognized non-profit organization.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

· Instructed + Supported the NCMA’s Teen Arts Council (TAC), a committee composed of local teens that develop art programs for the community. · Promoted art accessibility + youth arts leadership by establishing diverse learning environments & creating accessible studio pedagogical practices. Assisted in lectures & developing student-led pop-up projects within the Museum & the museum's collection.

· Curated + scheduled exhibition events, Identified budget needs, Managed program budgets· Contracted teaching artists, guest lecturers , and educators for Education and Curatorial public programming needs.· Acted as Program Associate for teaching artists, collaborators, and educator contracts for individuals that were set to instruct and present programs for the museum. I identified budget needs as well as contributed to contracted educator and student correspondence. This allowed me to go on to develop substantiated programs on my own behalf. This culminated into the NCMA’s 2nd Annual "Art Heals" Poetry Slam event, “Women Unite”, a program I orchestrated and hosted. We partnered with StandUp,SpeakOut to make certain the emphasis of the event would be to empower healing and expression amongst women who have been victims of domestic violence through the power of art.· Produced + published digital content and print materials for Education, Design, Curatorial departments ·Co-Authored and produced content for the NCMA Mobile App.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

· Facilitated and managed the NCMA’s online flipped-museum program: Artist in Process. It partners the NCMA with 9 public high schools in coastal and mountain regions in North Carolina. Students received art credits for their participation. As Lead Teaching Assistant, I collaborated with the Education staff to create an interactive relationship between the museum’s collection and the students while developing an engaged experience between the teachers and our Education Department as well.· Produced digital content for the NCMA’s pilot Distance Education program, Online Course: The Photography of Ansel Adams through a Contemporary Lens, that was open to the public (in connection with the Ansel Adams exhibit that was on-view at the time)

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Welcomed and assisted visitors at the Gallery exhibitions as well as exhibiting artists. Managed buyer’s experience and gallery sales prior to the Associate Director and Curator’s involvment.Peter Max, Opening Reception with the artist and artwork preview

Raleigh-Durham, Nc

· Active member of a team of artists that instructed beginner painting classes· Mediums taught focused on introductory acrylic methods on sized canvas for different forms of community engagement: social events, studio technique classes, and corporate team building events. · Developed lesson plans, designed curriculum, as well as instructed the companies children’s art camp, Art Buzz, each Summer season.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

· Collection Cataloguing (digital and physical)/Archiving Management· Exhibition Installation and Construction assistance

Master Of Arts - Ma, Art + Design Education

Thomas Ockerse, Concrete Books Andrew Raferty, Print-Collaborative Student Project Nancy Friese, Drawing Objectives Jerry Mishcak.

Design And Applied Arts

I'm actively enrolled in the following RISD CE online courses: Digital Design Techniques (Part A), Expressive Typography, 2023 A list.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Art/Art Studies, General

Activities and Societies: · Wolfpack Environmental Student Association, · V.O.X. Student Organization - Co-Founder/Secretary · French Club.

Certificate, French Language And Literature, Art And Business

IES Summer Study Abroad Program set in the intercultural industrial city of Lille, France. Collaborated with undergraduate students.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Fine And Studio Arts

Activities and Societies: I attended CofC for my Freshman year of college, the 2008-2009 school year. I transferred to North Carolina.