ARIEL DESIGNS On exhibit: May 14 - May 27 Artist Reception: Friday, May 17 from 4 - 7 PM
Artist Statement: I am a dancer, director, choreographer, set and costume designer, artist and retired high school teacher, originally from the San Francisco, now living in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Before retiring from my thirty-year teaching career, I created a program at Brookline High School called the Arts Infusion Lab. This program served three groups of students who were not able to access an arts curriculum due to an alternative daily schedule. The programs included Community-Based Classroom, which served students on the autism spectrum; ACE, a program for students who needed a focused and condensed learning curriculum; and Winthrop House, a program for students with social and emotional challenges.
In designing art-focused lessons for the students in these programs I also created the roots of what would become Ariel Designs in my retirement.
