NAME:
Amy Woods and Betsy Huddleston
SCHOOL:
Prescott Central Middle School
CLASS:
Visual Art
SCHOOL PHONE:
(931) 528-3647
Amy Woods received her Bachelor's Degree in Art Education from
Tennessee Tech University. Before becoming an art teacher, she
worked in the theatre as an actress, scenic artist and costume
designer. A native of Crossville, she has lived in Cookeville for 24
years. Prior to teaching at Prescott, Mrs. Woods taught visual art in White
County for two years. She has been teaching at Prescott since the Fall of 2000.
Betsy Huddleston received her Bachelor's Degree from The Ohio State
University and taught in Ohio for two years before moving to Tennessee.
Betsy has lived in Cookeville for 19 years and shares her home with her
husband Terry, and her two children Kevin and Taylor Faragher. This is
Mrs. Huddleston's 12th year at Prescott (she's been here from the
beginning).
In addition to teaching art, both Mrs. Woods and Mrs. Huddleston are
active artists themselves. Mrs. Woods is a painter who works primarily
in acrylics and, also, creates "paper quilting designs". Mrs. Huddleston
loves to draw and also enjoys graphic design.
At Prescott, we strive to provide students with a well-rounded experience
in visual art. Classes are designed to provide students with the
opportunity to learn about art criticism, history, and application.
For most of our fifth grade students, this is their first experience of
learning art from an art professional. Therefore, we cover the basic
elements of art--shape, form, line, color, value, space and texture. We
enjoy using a broad variety of media with our students--paint,
clay, metal, paper mache and, sometimes, even salt, to name a few! It
keeps art fun and interesting for the students and provides opportunities
for everyone to enjoy success in their artwork.
In sixth grade art we will be building on the elements of art that students
learned in their fifth grade art class. They will be working on more
challenging and extended art assignments using the media of pencil,
markers, colored pencils, clay, paper sculpture and paint.