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Cindy Ingram
Art Class Curator Cindy Ingram has the awkward habit of crying in front of artworks and wants the rest of the world to do it too. This noble quest has culminated in the creation of The Art Class Curator. With an MA in Art Education and a BA in Art History, she has more than fifteen years of teaching experience in schools, museums, and non-profit organizations. She has been a Marcus Fellow, a fellowship dedicated to arts leadership from the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. In addition to working in museums and teacher professional development, she has taught art in the classroom to all grades–elementary to college.In response to our recent health crisis, Cindy organized an online conference for art educators, called the Art Un-Conference with over 40 presenters in the span of a week!
She lives in Dallas, Texas, with her husband and two lovely daughters (ages 5 and 8). She loves traveling–to visit favorite and new museums and galleries and art history sites, of course–in the US and abroad, and is midway through a 10-year plan to take her family on a grand art education adventure around the world. To date, she has not yet made any of her students cry (knowingly), but there is still time. |
Laura Grundler
The Creativity Department Laura Grundler is an educator and artist from Plano, Texas. Both she and her husband are educational consultants, presenters, and bloggers. Together they co-founded the popular Twitter Chat #K12ArtChat and “The Creativity Department” podcast. As a proud parent, Laura is passionate about raising her three creative children, sharing with them her love of art and art education. As part of her endeavor to emphasize the importance of creativity within her community and among her colleagues, she is committed to creating art every day.
As an artist, Laura has always relied on her intuition. She playfully explores imagery and themes in her journals in order to develop ideas for mixed media works. Her style is a dash of this and a dash of that- combining colors and textures that suggest movement and evoke memories. When asked to describe her artistic influences, Laura cites her go-to artists such as Chagall, Frankenthaler, O'Keeffe, Stella, Rauschenberg and the dynamic Dr. Seuss, many of which are deeply rooted in her specific childhood or educational memories. She was also heavily inspired by Mrs. Sharron Harjo, her middle school art teacher. Mrs. Harjo introduced Laura to fiber arts, such as felting, stitching, and basket weaving, all of which can be seen in various forms throughout her art. Laura's current series was created via assembling scraps of color-filled paper with paint, collage, and stitching. Her inspiration comes from a collection of experiences, evidenced by vivid colors that allude to times of joy and happiness. Often working in collaboration with her three children, Laura includes many of the magical pieces her children have made within her collages. |
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