Art Explorers & Petite Picasso
About the Teacher
Hello! My name is Kathleen Long-Ferenzi and there are no two things I love more than children and the arts. I feel truly blessed that I am able to combine my two loves as my profession. I cannot express how energized I am to continue imparting my knowledge and love for learning and the arts with you and your child this summer. When it comes to the joy of producing various forms of art, being creative with one’s own learning, thinking abstractly, generating new ideas, and teaching children (as well as learning from them), I can hardly contain myself.
I have attained a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Dominican University in River Forest, IL as well as a Bachelor’s degree in the arts from Columbia College Chicago. I have a wide variety of hands-on teaching experience, as well as a great deal of wisdom, ability, and excitement. My past work experience has included time at an alternative school for children with a primary diagnosis of autism, time at an elementary school, and time at an early childhood education center. I also have just recently moved to Austin, Texas with my husband and could not be happier.
I am very much looking forward to meeting and getting to know both you and your child better through the duration of this course. I have so many educational and fun things planned. I will be including a variety of activities and projects which will challenge your student at an appropriate level and also push them to discover they are even more capable than you and I already know they are! Along with a variety of mediums, I will also be enriching the projects with books, songs, activities, games, discussion, “acting out” and so much more. I can hardly wait to begin!
Some of the things the campers learned while in camp
- Style and Storytelling of ArtistS Joan Miro, Mondrian, Georgia O’Keiff, Burch, and Monet
- The difference between a line and a shape and how to identify them within an image.
- One can make just about anything out of different types of lines and shapes
- Finding one’s own meaning in a work
- Introduce concept of “Abstract” vs. “Real”
- The meaning of horizontal and vertical lines
- How artwork (lines, shapes, and colors) and music can make us feel emotions
- Introduce concept of foreground, middle ground, and background.
- Multi-step artwork and planning ahead
