Natalie Draz Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Instructional designer, technical writer, and QA editor of Elementary, Secondary and ESL curriculum for digital learning resources and ILC courses for Ontario's Public Education System.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Technical writing and editing Elementary (Grades 1 to 8) curriculum for digital learning in Ontario's Public Education System.

Stop-animation, drawing, pop-up bookworks, welded sculptures, and of course printmaking!

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Technical writing and editing Elementary (Grades 1 to 8) curriculum for digital learning in Ontario's Public Education System. Curriculum includes: Visual Arts, Music, Social Sciences, History, Geography, Science, Health & Physical Activity, and Kindergarten Numeracy. Part of QA team for produced courses.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Technical writing and editing Elementary curriculum for digital learning in Ontario's Public Education System. Specializing in Visual Arts interactive curriculum building for in-person, hybrid, and remote learners.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Natalie Draz is a professional artist who also loves to teach art! She teaches Visual Arts from Grades 1 to 8. Having previously taught Print Media at Concordia University, she also teaches art workshops to both children and adults through Seneca College, Articulations Art Camp, Graven Feather Art Gallery and at Maker Festivals in Toronto, Montreal and New York City. She has an MFA from Concordia University and a BA from the University of Toronto. Her work is collected by museums and institutions including MIT, the Library of Congress, the Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library and many more. She is an enthusiastic and welcoming artist who brings years of experience and an inclusive teaching philosophy to every class. You can see Natalie’s work online at www.nataliedraz.com and at Toronto’s Junction Arts Market.

Print Media Department, Concordia University

Co-curator with Hearyung Kim of MousePrint Gallery at Concordia University. Responsible for the gallery programming from Sept 2013 - May 2014 of 20 exhibitions with Hearyung Kim. Catalogue of exhibitions available (co-created with Hearyung Kim and graphic designer Sarah Robinson)

Bookbinding basics, pop-up books and boxmaking intermingle with sculptural and conceptual bookworks in a third-year class taught by Professor Jenny Lin, and TA'd by myself.

Lithography essentials taught by Stephanie Russ and TA'd by myself included stone lithography, plate lithography and using offset presses.

Screenprint Introductory class taught by Bonnie Baxter and TA'd by myself covered multiple forms of image-making, including hand-drawing, papercut, Xante printing and digital output.

Cheryl Kolak Dudek's introductory intaglio class included demonstrations of intaglio principles of etching, mezzotint and aquatint, with additional demonstrations in multi-plate printing, chine collé, and an all-day workshop on monoprinting and top-rolling, assisted throughout the term by myself.

Master Of Fine Arts (Mfa), Print Media, Studio Arts

MFA Print Media, specializing in Pop Up Books and Intaglio

Printmaking

Bookbinding 1, Bookbinding

Screenprint Intensive, Screenprint

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Cultural Anthropology & Print Media

BA with Honours - Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Printmaking & Medieval Book Culture, specializing in metropolitan anthropology and intaglio.