NAME:
Miss Kristi Atkison
SCHOOL:
Kendale Lakes Elementary- Home of The Tigers
CLASS:
art, art club for 4th and 5th grades
SCHOOL PHONE:
305-385-2575 and don't forget to visit the school website at www.kle.dadeschools.net
Miss Atkison has lived in Miami most of her life. She was a graduate of
Gulliver Preparatory. She was on the school's tennis and softball teams and
competed in tennis on statewide competitions. She is also a member of the
Women USTA league for tennis and is found playing on Monday and Friday night
playing singles and doubles. She also plays mixed doubles tennis on Mondays,
Thursday and Friday nights when the weather allows her. Another sport she has
recently taken up is golf and can be found playing with her parents, friends
and oldest nephew on the weekends. She didn't get interested in art until she
was attending college at Florida International University. Miss Atkison is a
graduate from Florida International University with five seperate degrees.
She began teaching in 1992 at Olinda Elementary which she earned the rookie
teacher of the year award. She transferred to Kendale Lakes Elementary in
1999. She has a minor in Fine Arts, a Bachelor's in Psychology, a Bachelor's
in Art Education, a Master's in Art Education, and a Specialist in Art
Education. She has currently passed her national boards as of November 2009.
With her degree in art education she began developing her own unique style of
art and creating a working portfolio that she uses in her profession as an
artist. She is a working artist that specializes in pastels and watercolors
and competes in a variety of shows and contests with her art work. Examples
of her style of work can be found in Atkison art gallery on the home page.
She has won several awards and recognitions for her art at contests and sells
her work to the public. When she is not working at school or playing tennis
you can often find her at home either painting with her pastels or watercolor
paints or playing with her dog Pepper. Pepper is a silky terrier that she
adopted from the Miami Humane Society in November 2004. The loves of her
life are her dog, parents, brother, sister-in-law and her two nephews (one is
in fifth grade this year and the other is in second). She is very happy
that her family lives close by so they see each other often.
The art class mission is to expose the students to various styles and
mediums in art. The student learns about artists of the time and the
development of the individual styles. The art teacher instucts students to
develop their skills in drawing, pastels, watercolor painting, tempra
painting, sculpture, and cutting and pasting with paper. There is also an
art club for students in the 4th and 5th grades. Students try out for the
club and get to experience art more often than they would in the regular
classes.