Laura Mitrow Email & Phone Number

Canada

Halifax Regional Municipality, Ns, Ca

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Experienced art educator, elementary learning specialist and health teacher. Highlights include: ● Designing and delivering innovative and curriculum-based lessons and units to students in grades JK-9. ● Guiding students to learn a broad array of art mediums, processes and techniques. ● Growing student's appreciation for art history, art theory and contemporary art.● Modifying lesson outcomes and teaching strategies to meet student's learning styles.● Planning and facilitating student art showcases and school-wide art events.

Halifax, Canada Area

►SOLO EXHIBITIONS:2013 Transformation, Transduction and Prolonged Formation, ArtLab Gallery, Western U2010 Hybrids, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS ►GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2014 Nature of Form-The Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, ON 2014 No Boys with Frogs- DNA Artspace, London, ON2012 Make/Shift- ArtLab Gallery, Western University, London, ON2012 Fresh Paint- Gallérie Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec2010 NSCAD University Twenty Ten-Graduation Exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery,Halifax 2009 Annual Student, Staff, Faculty Exhibition, Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS2009 Spotlight at Seeds, Seeds Gallery, Halifax, NS2008 Sculpture Society of Canada Annual Graduating Student Sculpture Exhibition Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON2008 Act(ivat)ion, Forest City Gallery, London, ON2008 Minty Fresh, McIntosh Gallery, London, ON ►PRESENTATIONS & ARTIST TALKS: 2014 Artist Talk, "Nature of Form", The Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, ON2013 Keynote Speaker, Annual Fine Art Graduating Student Exhibition, Fanshawe College 2012 Photography lecture, Fanshawe College, London, ON2011 Artist-in-Residence Speaker’s Series, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON 2011 Visiting Artist Speaker Series, Fanshawe College, London, ON2009 Visiting Artist Speaker Series, Fanshawe College, London, ON

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Art educator with PAINTS (Professional Artists in the Schools), where I facilitated in-person and online art workshops to students in Nova Scotia public schools.

Wolfville, Nova Scotia

Visual art program director and art educator of an innovative program for students with diagnosed learning differences. Highlights include: ● Designed and delivered lessons and units for students in grades 3-12 that integrated contemporary art concepts with studio art methods, mediums and processes. ● Increased student engagement through demonstrations, role-playing, small-group activities and digital visual aids.● Developed individual program plans tailored to meet student's learning needs.● Increased the profile of Landmark East's art program through bi-annual showcases of student artwork.

Ailsa Craig, Ontario

● Developed and instructed a visual art camp for students in grades 3-12.● Guided students to learn a broad array of art skills through exploring traditional art processes and topics in contemporary art.

London, Canada Area

►TOUR GUIDE -School Education Program ● Designed and delivered weekly curriculum and exhibition based art tours to large and diverse student groups from K-12.● Enhanced student engagement through visual aids, story-telling and role-playing.►TOUR GUIDE -Public Art Walking Tour Program ● Designed and lead guided walking tours of London’s public artworks to large audiences.● Promoted Museum London's current and future exhibitions. ►PROGRAM ASSISTANT- Making Art, Creating Communities ● Instructed community-themed art program for students from high-needs schools. ● Guided students to build a strong foundation in art making processes. ►ART WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR -Youth-Art-a-Thon ● Designed and instructed art workshop to student groups from grades 7-12 as part of the museum's annual Youth-Art-a-Thon, in recognition of National Youth Arts Week. ►SCULPTURE INSTRUCTOR January-May 2013● Designed and instructed introductory course on constructing realistic clay portrait sculptures.● Supported student's learning through interactive strategies that included demonstrations of techniques pertaining to clay modelling and tool skills.

Fanshawe College

● Worked with third-year fine art students to support their studio practice through mentorship and weekly studio visits.

London, Canada Area

● Assisted in the planning, coordination and instruction of intensive second-year sculpture course. ● Enhanced student's learning through leading discussions that supported course material● Lead demonstrations of technical skills and material processes that pertained assignments. ● Monitored student's academic progress and referred those who struggled to campus resources.● Supported student's academic success through timely and effective assessment and feedback.

London, Canada Area

Co-designed and instructed an intensive introductory course on two-dimensional image making that focused on the related theory, history and processes of broad variety of image-making mediums. Highlights from this experience include: ● Organizing and mediating class discussions that explored content of lecture and reading material. ● Leading demonstrations of techniques that pertained to variety of image-making mediums. ● Designing and delivering lectures, selecting and preparing course readings and leading critiques.

►GALLERY VOLUNTEER -Forest City Gallery, London ON ●Greeting visitors, promoting exhibitions and special events, fielding inquiries about publications and artwork sales, providing information about artists and interpreting artwork. ● Assisting in the installation and take- down of exhibitions, including packaging artwork for delivery. ►RESEARCH ASSISTANT- McIntosh Art Gallery, London, ON October-January 2010►GALLERY INTERN, St. Mary's University Art Gallery, Halifax NS Sept.2009-Dec.2009► TOUR GUIDE, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia- Sept. 2008-April 2010-Halifax, NS● Designed and delivered extensive guided tours of Nova Scotia’s Provincial Art Gallery to large groups of public visitors, including public school groups, University classes and tourists. ● Served as a volunteer assistant for public programs that included Nocturne: All-Night Art Festival, Family Art Sundays and School Break Day Camps.

Master Of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Fine And Studio Arts, Graduated With Distinction

Activities and Societies: Society of Graduate Students, Visual Art Supporter's Association.

Bachelor Of Education (B.Ed.), Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education And Teaching, Graduated With Distinction

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Studio Art And Art History, Graduated With Distinction

Activities and Societies: Port Campus Sculpture Department.

Special Education And Teaching

Completion of special education for teachers parts 1 & 2.

Advanced Fine Arts Diploma