As a teacher, it is my responsibility to expose my students to as wide a variety of images and ideas as possible, and to encourage them to make personal interpretations. The relationship with my students is an effort to establish myself as a competent teacher and, a thought-provoking advocate of the concepts presented in my courses. I try to foster a classroom environment that is conducive to the free exchange of ideas, yet structured enough to see the best of these come to fruition. I do everything I can to tap my students' internal drives, spark introspection, and help them develop content based on their personal experience. After working on the assignments presented in my classes, students should have a better understanding of how the underlying principles of design and subject apply to the work of others artists. This awareness should strengthen their command of these concepts so that they may effectively use them to enhance their own ideas.

Teaching  Philosophy