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Cynthia began working with and teaching children art and athletics in 1997 through city based community programs in her home town of Roswell, GA. This community work continued through 2008 and culminated with the position of Art Director and Summer Camps Director for Roswell Area Parks and Recreation. In 2005 she graduated from the University of Georgia with her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Art Education/fabric focus; also earning a minor in Geography( meteorology focus). She began working for the Fulton County public school system teaching art in early 2006; earning a nomination for Teacher of the Year in 2007. In the summer of 2008, Cynthia moved to Austin and began teaching here at Gattis Elementary. With the 2009/2010 school year she will be splitting her time between Gattis and Teravista.
Cynthia has been involved in judging the Reflections contest for PTA; judging for the Roswell Photographic Society shows (state-wide and local); and has been an invited artist in a number of gallery events. Her students have had their work chosen to be shown at the following locals: Fulton County Board of Education Building; Roswell Starbucks; Roswell Visual Arts Center; Milton District Art Show; Roswell Public Library; RRISD Elementary Art Show; RR A+ Credit Union.
Our Mission this year is to engage in a cross-curricular holistic art education curriculum based on the Elements and Principals set forth in the ARRC.... Basically this means that we will study the "bones" of art through not only art making, but taking a look at art history, art critique (learning to look at and make judgments on art), and art aesthetics (what you consider beautiful or not so beautiful) all while tying our art projects back into a big idea learned in the "regular" classroom.