I am an artist educator dedicated to sharing the magic of creativity and  through art, nature, and yoga. I am currently a  full-time NJ Public School Teacher, teaching Kindergarten through Fourth Grade Art approaching 23 years of service. I enjoy creating and leading professional development support opportunities on the Power of the Arts and Creativity. Art and Nature has always been a place and space of reflection for me, offering moments where I can slow down & process everything going on in my life. Finding an undisturbed location in nature & having it all to myself - allows my mind to focus creatively. Making my art captures these moments - making the invisible experience into visible reality.

Vicki Evans, BFA, MA, Artist, Art Education Consultant, Art Instructor, SoulCollage® Facilitator. Creative Mindfulness, Mandalas, and Ethereal Reality Artworks. Nature, sacred geometry, and meditation inspire my artwork. Creating artwork has been a lifetime endeavor and the journey continues… Art on exhibit at Art in Public Places community partners, guest artist showings local galleries, facilitate SoulCollage® Workshops, Wimberley Valley Art League Board of Directors, Secretary. Retired from the art classroom after over 26 years of teaching Pre-K - college, mentoring teachers, online/blended teaching, course development Art, AP Studio Art, dual credit Creative Media Technology, Perkins Grant Director.

Visual Artist, Musician, Teacher, Gardener, Thinker, Activist, Mother, Wife, Sister, Daughter, Lover, Friend. RAIN was born and raised in Chicago, and is an artist working across Poetics. In her multimedia work, whether music or visual art, the intersection of social justice and spirituality is a thread that runs through all the disciplines of her work. As a teaching artist with students, from the classroom to the stage at the Art Institute of Chicago, she weaves a pedagogy with the same threads of spirituality and social justice. Her paintings, prints and drawings going back over 35+ years represent an artistic practice rich in ideas, content, creativity and authenticity. RAIN is currently a founding member of the art collective: MOTHER ART: REVISITED Educated in the Arts at University of California, Berkeley. RAIN holds two degrees from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a Master’s in Art Education, and a Master of Fine Arts. She has served as a teaching artist for the Chicago Public Schools for 22 years, and as adjunct faculty in Art Education at The School of the Art institute of Chicago. Recent exhibitions include Chicago, London, Athens, Mexico City, Barcelona, Monaco, Madrid, Prague, Slovakia, Spain, & Tokyo.

Jenna identifies as a white, non-disabled, cis-woman from the ancestral land of the Akimel O’Odham, Hohokam, and O’Odham Jewed, colonized today as Phoenix, Arizona. In addition to these intersecting identities, Jenna identifies as a contemplative artist + scholar and a museum educator + researcher. Currently she is a PhD student in Art & Visual Culture Education at the University of Arizona and a Graduate Assistant at the Center for Creative Photography. In her research Jenna centers trauma-aware art museum education and the social/care work of museums, contemplative and embodied pedagogies, and the burgeoning field of applied neuroaesthetics and color psychology.

Linda Eva Kourkoulis is an artist, art educator, and researcher. Born in NYC, she earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, and an EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University. Linda is a professor and Curriculum Coordinator for the Art Education Department at the School of Visual Arts, NYC.

Dr. Andrea McDonough has served for nearly two decades as secondary art educator and K-12 art curriculum leader for the Williamsport Area School District in central Pennsylvania. She supports the art and education departments at Lycoming College, working with preservice art educators and PK-4 certification seekers. Working for the Art of Education University, McDonough teaches graduate courses in an exclusively online learning platform for art educators. McDonough is a successful grant-writer with a passion for public art and the expansion of K-16 visual arts experience in local communities. Her current art-making practice involves the exploration of mindfulness through drawing and experimental works as well as mixed media approaches. McDonough received her doctoral degree from Drexel University, researching Creative Mindfulness in Secondary Art Education.

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Raine sees art as a powerful tool, not just for gratification of self-expression, but as a vehicle of personal and collective transformation. She believes art is prayer, a sacred and vital discovery of one’s own special connection with the world. Through creation, Raine teaches that a person illuminates and illustrates their inner being, while creating something which also stands separate from themselves. Through exploration and experimentation, Raine teaches how art can help us each shine light on our inner worlds, allowing us to utilize expression as a means of healing and remembering we are all connected.

As a practicing artist, teacher, mother of 2, and wife of a musician, my interests are all over the map. My artistic journey started in a darkroom developing film. After 10 years in the hustle and bustle of Virginia Beach, I have settled my family in the middle of the woods in Ashe County, NC to pursue a multitude of artistic endeavors that are more in tune with my holistic nature and my need to connect to the mountains surrounding me. I hold a B.F.A. with a double major in Print/Photo Media and Art Education, a M.S.Ed. with a concentration in Instructional Media. I am currently working on a M.A. in Appalachian Studies.