TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Nora has been in the field of art education since 2013. She has worked with students with a wide variety of ages, abilities, and backgrounds, in both school and out-of-school settings. While she loves working with people of all ages, she especially loves teaching secondary school aged youth. She holds a Massachusetts Visual Arts Teaching License for grades 5-12.

Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse

In her role as Creative Education Manager, Nora was responsible for managing the organization's outreach education arts programming. The programming reflected Creative Reuse’s organizational mission (to inspire creativity, conservation, and community engagement through reuse) while supporting learning objectives of partnering organizations and classroom teachers.

While in this role from 2013-2019, Nora worked with thousands of community members during hundreds of hands-on creative education programs. She worked with school aged children from pre-K through college, and has facilitated professional development workshops with a variety of educators. During her time at Creative Reuse the organization was chosen as Friend to Art Education by the Pennsylvania Art Education Association and recognized during the 2017 PAEA Conference in Pittsburgh.

Examples of the lessons Nora had a hand in developing are: mixed media art, fiber collages, sewing, jewelry making, bookmaking, dioramas, trophy sculptures, instruments, DIY screen printing, STEAM projects (such as marble runs, spy gadgets, Nerdy Derby cars, and a program where students developed models of what they’d do with vacant urban spaces) and more!

Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh PA

Nora was a teaching assistant for Contemporary Craft’s Museum School Partnership at Woodland Hills Intermediate School in 2016 and 2017. She worked alongside the brilliant teaching artists Tina Brewer (quilted fiber arts), Gerry Florida (jewelry and recycled art), and Linda Van Gutchen (woodworker/woodturner) during two week residencies with junior high art students.

Nora was also a teaching artist for Contemporary Craft’s "Crafts and Drafts" series. She designed a class where participants would create unique contemporary jewelry using reclaimed laser cut wood scraps.

Student Teaching Experience, Revere High School

Nora completed, and absolutely loved, her student teaching practicum in the spring of 2013 at Revere High School in Revere, MA. Revere is a small working class city outside of Boston, with a large Hispanic/Latinx community. She assisted with and taught lessons in ceramics and sculpture classes. Here is a link to the teaching portfolio she created following the completion of her student teaching experience.