gelindo_arts@yahoo.com

928-600-6848

Good afternoon,

After 24 years in public education, teaching fine art, primarily pottery and ceramics but also painting, drawing, sculpture, 3D designs, jewelry and metal design and over 30 years as a working artist making pottery, I would like to offer my skills to schools, groups, family art projects, senior centers, art centers and the like for hand building and wheel throwing clay activities, depending on venue…

I love to teach pottery and want to continue to do so while having fun. I enjoy teaching and plan to offer workshops with other working artists.

For a bit of background information:

• I am a graduate of the Arts WA Washington Teaching Artists Training Lab (WATAT), class of 2016.
• I have 24 years’ experience in public education in Arizona, Oregon and Washington as a visual arts teacher, teaching Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Pottery, 3D – Design, and Jewelry 
• I have primarily worked in hand built and wheel throwing functional and sculptural pottery.  
• I have taught K-12, community college, teen workshops, adult education classes, parent-child pottery classes, senior citizens and students with special needs.
• Presented “Creating in Clay- Beads to Bowls” workshop at the Silver City Clay Festival, 2019.
• Presented at Northern Arizona University Wood-Fire Workshop, 2018.
• Participated in the Mondial Tourniante, Faenza, Italy, 2002. (1st Place Aesthetic Division)
• Certified in Red Cross First Aid and CPR for adults and children.
• WSP fingerprinted and Background checked.
• I have a MA in Sec. Ed., NAU, (2000) an Education Administration Certification, University of Scranton, (2012), a minor in art history and a BFA in Ceramic Art from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. (1998). 
• I offer a wide variety of projects, depending on age groups, size of class, and abilities.
• References available upon request.

Please contact me at the above phone number or email if you have questions or need more information. 

            Sincerely,

            Gelindo L. Ferrin