I have taught art for the past 9 years at the Care Center, an internationally recognized GED preparatory school for parenting and pregnant teen mothers. Upon completion of graduate school I felt an emptiness when exhibiting my work and participating in the traditional art world. As my peers and I continued to make inaccessible contemporary art, my students didn't know who Pablo Picasso was, or didn't know what two colors mixed together made green.
My own work began to separate itself from the frame of the gallery walls and so did my consciousness as an artist. Since 2007, my work as an artist has been to intermediate the work of my students- bringing about work that is fresh, accessible to all, and made by the hands of "outsider" artists attending my classes every day. I push them to the limits of their creativity- giving them access to a foreign world of art- and attempt to bridge the gap between the under-educated masses and the educated minority of artists and art viewers of the world.
In 2011 our school was awarded the highest honor in the field; a prestigious Arts and Humanities award, presented at the White House.