Jennifer Nelson

Teaching with Heart: Lessons Learned in a Classroom

Category: Portfolio

  • Q&A with Ellen Koment

    Q&A with Ellen Koment

    A native New Yorker, Ellen Koment earned an MA in painting from UC Berkeley and a BFA from Cooper Union Art School. She taught and exhibited her work in museums and galleries in the Bay Area for twenty-five years before moving to Santa Fe in 1994. There she started working in encaustic, which is paint…

  • Q&A with Maggie Evans

    Q&A with Maggie Evans

    Maggie Evans is fascinated by how people aspire to be individuals, but also part of a group. The artist, who’s based in Savannah, Georgia, examines this concept of collective behavior through her drawings, installments, and paintings. Her work has been included in more than fifty national and international juried exhibitions, and featured in ten solo…

  • Q&A with Katherine Daniels

    Q&A with Katherine Daniels

    Katherine Daniels’s beaded sculptures, weaving, and site-specific installations have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including throughout the New York City metropolitan area, as well as the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, New Jersey, and at Le Beffroi Art Center in Montrouge, France. Her awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in painting,…

  • Q&A with Teresa Meier

    Q&A with Teresa Meier

    Teresa Meier is an artist and teacher from Oregon whose creative photography has been exhibited internationally and published in Communication Arts. All her life, she has loved puzzles. She likes sifting through the pieces, analyzing their parts and finds immense satisfaction in seeing how all the pieces fit together. For her, a photograph and a…

  • Q&A with Amy Cheng

    Q&A with Amy Cheng

    Amy Cheng was born in Taiwan and raised in Brazil, Oklahoma, and Texas. She received a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York. She has exhibited her paintings nationally and internationally; her work is held in a number of corporate and public collections.…

  • Q&A with Amy Genser

    Q&A with Amy Genser

    Amy Genser plays with paper and paint to explore her obsession with texture, pattern, and color. Evocative of natural forms and organic processes, her work is simultaneously irregular and ordered. She uses paper as pigment and constructs her pieces by layering, cutting, rolling, and combining paper. Amy’s love affair with paper began in a paper-making…