Art and teaching have both been a large part of my life for a long time. From an early age I discovered the love for art when I first picked up a pencil and a scrape of paper to create a small comic about fairies and wizards. From there I kept drawing year after year and only in junior high I discovered that one could make a career out of art when my mother told me about an art high-school called "OCSA". An art charter school, I had to apply and interview with the art program there, but after I finished junior high, I quickly joined OCSA's digital media conservatory. Which is where I would spend the next four years falling even deeper in love with art, and also where I got my first taste of a real art class. There, I cultivated a love for fast paced drawings and came to find that I had a knack for creating comics and storyboards.
Four years passed by in a breeze and soon I found myself at Cal State Long Beach which, by the way, was the only college that I had been accepted to. Naturally as a young teen I was greatly disappointed, but in hindsight I would have it no other way. It was at CSULB that I honed my skills, as well as meet many wonderful professors and friends. It is here at CSULB I learned that one could teach art to others, and I was inspired to do this through one of my early professors Marien. I recall one day, it was before class had started, Marien loved to talk about her experiences with the students before class and on this day she was talking about her experiences of being a professor. She said that for artists to truly understand their craft, and to learn and become a greater artist, they should teach.
Teaching others not only allows for oneself to review all they had learned but it also inspires upcoming artists. It allows for the teacher to have an open mind when teaching, because no matter the experience, everyone will have something new to say and to teach themselves. Students learn as much from the teachers as the teachers the students. So, I decided then I will learn and study to become an art teacher. So that I can help inspire and lift up new and upcoming generations of artists, as well as learning from the ever changing world myself.
Four years passed by in a breeze and soon I found myself at Cal State Long Beach which, by the way, was the only college that I had been accepted to. Naturally as a young teen I was greatly disappointed, but in hindsight I would have it no other way. It was at CSULB that I honed my skills, as well as meet many wonderful professors and friends. It is here at CSULB I learned that one could teach art to others, and I was inspired to do this through one of my early professors Marien. I recall one day, it was before class had started, Marien loved to talk about her experiences with the students before class and on this day she was talking about her experiences of being a professor. She said that for artists to truly understand their craft, and to learn and become a greater artist, they should teach.
Teaching others not only allows for oneself to review all they had learned but it also inspires upcoming artists. It allows for the teacher to have an open mind when teaching, because no matter the experience, everyone will have something new to say and to teach themselves. Students learn as much from the teachers as the teachers the students. So, I decided then I will learn and study to become an art teacher. So that I can help inspire and lift up new and upcoming generations of artists, as well as learning from the ever changing world myself.