Teacher with many related skills & excellent qualities
Resume:
LYNN SANDAGE
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Mendon, Vermont 05701
I am a multimedia artist/teacher with a strong academic background & a
lifetime of seeking/finding solutions. From exploring the visual arts,
music, writing & incarnation, from healing thereby & from teaching all
ages, I have witnessed for decades that we can become effective instruments
of AGAPE. I want to help children learn how to learn! That way they can
become lifetime problem solvers as I am.
VOCATION Teacher, Artist, musician, writer in diverse media with lifetime
theme:
NOUS SOMMES INSTRUMENTS D'AMOUR (WE ARE INSTRUMENTS OF LOVE)
2012 Seeking any position to help implement the Civilization of Love to
replace this current chaotic status quo resulting from tragic ignorance of
how to experience true happiness through exploring knowledge.
2011 Choir director while they sought organist, The Methodist Church,
Poultney, Vermont, four months.
2011 Lecturer & workshop facilitator at The Killington Grand: 1.) The Art
of Power 2.) What's Your Beef? 3.) Mandala 4.) Let's Make a Song to
wealthy clients of resort hotel. Killington, VT. Summer.
2008-10 Multimedia visionary theater piece, A MIRROR TO SOMEWHERE URGENTLY
to be performed, hopefully, in NYC at THE PUBLIC THEATER. Complimentary
letter from Theater Dept. Director stating now is not the time to produce
my play. Less controversial version submitted 10/11.
2008-9 Music teacher at Killington Mountain School, VT. Worked w/ ages 11-
17 on voice & instruments.
2006-7 Musician at the Cortina Inn & Hawk Inn & Mountain Resort, 2
holiday seasons, Vermont.
2005 Portrait artist. Free studio space in The Grand Hotel on Killington
Mountain during the ski season.
2003 Instructor in portraiture. Taught public school teachers based on
my experience, using text, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.
University of Hawaii, Manoa Campus, Oahu.
1998-2008 Regional Director. With several nutritional supplement
companies. Job responsibilities included study of modalities for
rejuvenation & maintenance of wellness through intention, affirmation &
intelligent supplementation. Networking business, part-time.
1999 Director of art, music & theater. At Camp Abnaki, a private summer
camp for boys on Lake Champlain. Based on research, wrote, produced & with
staff & campers, performed for large audience, filmed & shown on public
access TV, a one-hour commemoration of Dad Clark, camp founder.
Participation of 150 children in successful programs of drawing, painting,
poetry, newsletter, music & performance. Seventy hours/week. My son able
to participate in all programs, including extensive navigation on Lake
Champlain in sailboat. North Hero, VT.
1998-2000 French teacher. After-school programs in elementary schools.
Developed materials & program. Led overnight trip of parents & children to
Montreal, Canada. Cornwall & Weybridge, VT.
1995-present Sole proprietor of Artwork Lynn Sandage. Home-based
business to distribute fine art greeting cards based on my paintings, and
to create multimedia events that promote harmony & understanding. Produced
Events in France---beloved French songs, bossa nova on flute, & American
standards to promote love & help humanity evolve in positive direction.
Duo w/ Calabrian guitarist.
1996 Program Director of "Communicating Joy through Creative Expression".
Designed to develop spirit & self-esteem by giving children access to
their innate creativity. Every day a pair of opposites, such as
"fear/love" or "complexity/simplicity" explored during a 2-1/2 hour period,
in 3 distinct media: 1.) music 2.) words & 3.) hands-on art projects
(each of which produced something to take home). Children wrote
play based on their choice of characters & text that I edited, w/
performance for parents, friends & shown on MCTV. United Methodist Church,
Middlebury, VT.
1992-3 "Communicating Joy through Creative Expression". Children's
choice honored to create puppet plays. Nine original scripts.
Invitations, programs, media coverage, theater, 15 hand-painted sets, 100
elaborate puppets, video recording of performance. For audience of over
300 in rural setting that had never had any such experience. Children's
enthusiasm & capability provided good publicity for a school in trouble
with taxpayers. Supported by Chapter 2 Grant for Innovative Teaching.
Sutton, VT.
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1986-90 Bilingual gallery staff person representing self & other artists.
At a successful art gallery,
La Main d'Or, in the most visited village of Europe. Part-time. St. Paul
de Vence, France.
1984-5 Theater history teacher & drama coach. For le Lyc e
Internationale, a private high school in Valbonne, France.
1983-4 Teacher in French public elementary school, pilot project. To
introduce English to French children, ages 6-11. Developed ways to teach
English via drawing, singing, playing games, incorporating cultural
information. Program adopted by l'Education Nationale. Valbonne, France.
1982-4 English teacher. To French adults at CERAM, a branch of La
Chambre de Commerce. Utilized videos, cassette tapes, etc. Based on an
immersion method developed in England. Nice, France.
81. Painter of murals and graphic designer of signage. Self-employed
with partner,
Thomas Kinter. Clients included The Holiday Inn, Sugar & Spice
Restaurants. Cincinnati, OH.
1977-8 First director of The Malton Gallery, a fine art gallery. Among
shows organized: an exhibition of Soviet exiles then residing in New York
City. My work also displayed there. Cincinnati, OH.
1974-6 Director/teacher of community art classes. Wrote & received
grant, sponsored by Hamilton Arts Council, awarded by Ohio Arts Council, to
convert an abandoned school building into an active art center. 150
students served during 2-1/2 year period. Multimedia performance of
original puppet play, "haunted house" & show of paintings attended by
enthusiastic public. Media coverage. Hamilton, OH.
1969-71 Art teacher to children & adults. The Young Peoples Studio.
Simultaneously conducted drawing atelier with models, from my home. Shows
of work presented to public in Woodstock, New York.
1970 Illustrator. For Playboy's Book of Games, written by then husband &
published by Playboy Press.
1967-68 Teacher of reading & study skills. At private colleges. Daily
classes in 6-week cycles. Seven Reading Strategies, developed by Ken
Baldridge were based on John Dewey, Maria Montessori, Jean Piaget, etc.
Highly effective method to help students learn to learn better! Greenwich,
CT.
MULTIMEDIA SERVICES (Some 35 group shows in France, Monaco, Italy, NY, VT,
are not included.)
2/2010 Radio interview in French about my work, plus 3 songs sung with
guitar accompaniment, in Bordeaux, France, available in MP-3 format.
Innovative ideas to solve current societal crisis presented.
4/09/2009 Inn at Long Trail Multimedia Service for Peace. Flute
improvisation w/ Gershwin, Bach, Mozart, Bob Dylan, plus songs accompanied
on guitar & research on current dilemma presented, recorded.
1/19/2008 Multimedia Service for Peace. Original songs & poetry in French
& English, iconic paintings, flute improvisation w/ Gershwin, J.S. Bach,
Mozart, Bob Dylan, Melanie, & Leonard Cohen televised & covered in various
media. Unitarian-Universalist Church, Rutland, VT.
2003-2006 Two multimedia TV programs of 75 min. each disclosing troubling
distortions of truth we are subject to from corporate media, putting this
into context of spiritual battle. Documentation cited of facts, quoted
from online & from respected publications. Original poetry & paintings
expressing discernment & faith, for MCTV, Channel 15. Station has recently
requested that I produce another updated segment.
11/11/2000 " 99th Monkey: We Are Instruments of Love". Service for Peace
on a Saturday during full moon & 200th anniversary of Middlebury College.
40 paintings, original & traditional songs in English & French, accompanied
on guitar. J.S. Bach sonata for flute & piano with head of Middlebury
College Music Dept. on piano. Exchange w/ Middlebury College students. CD
available. Mead Chapel, Middlebury, VT.
1999 "We Are Instruments of Love". Paintings, portraits, poems & music
in a private art gallery.
Well-attended opening where guitar accompanied singing of artsongs.
Demonstrations of portraiture & flute improvisation daily. Paintings,
cards & posters for sale. Ferrisburgh Artisans Guild, Ferrisburgh, VT.
1996 Fund-raiser for Flynn Theater. Songs accompanied by folk guitar.
Flute improvisation to classical guitar. Baroque duets for guitar & flute.
$30,000 raised by group effort.
1995-2005 Song leader for Church Women United. Served a variety of
ecumenical events. Accompaniment by Dorothy Elmer on organ, or by myself on
guitar. Cards based on my paintings also on sale to help various causes.
Addison County, VT.
1995 Paintings of Angels. Also, kind caricatures (called "whimsicals")
in pastel, made on location. Artrain, America's Museum in Motion.
Middlebury, VT.
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1994 Nous Sommes Instruments d'Amour. Poetry & songs accompanied by
guitar. Classical & improvisational flute. Bass, harp & sacred dance by
friends. Video, CD, program, press coverage. Radio interview & songs
broadcast to over 150,000 from Monaco. Eglise Notre Dame de la Mer,
Cagnes, France.
1994 Nous Sommes Instruments d'Amour . Voice, flute, guitar by Sandage
with cello, Zela Terry
(1st cellist of Nice Philharmonic Orchestra), poetry of Aim e Andr (poet &
author of self-help books in France & Switzerland). Video, program, press
coverage. Eglise de St. Paul de Vence, France.
1994 We Are Instruments of Love. Paintings & Opening with "Sacred French
Songs" at The Awakening Center, a wellness center including offices of 25
practitioners. Three months. Shelburne, VT.
1993 Forty paintings & four concerts. Including "Sacred Songs of
France", "Songs to Remember" (American popular & folk songs), classical
flute accompanied by recorded orchestra, and improvisational flute
accompaniment to North Country School of Dance troupe. Catamount Arts in
St. Johnsbury, VT.
1991 Paintings, poems & consciousness-raising coverage. At the Crescent
Beach Art Gallery.
Fund-raiser for James Bay Task Force. Goal: To protect North America's
largest wild bird habitat from irresponsible development. St. Augustine,
FL.
1987 Birth of son, Martin Farley-Sandage. Full-time mothering for two
years. Martin graduated from McGill University, Montreal, has become
French citizen & in graduate school studying biology in Holland.
1985-86 Nous Sommes Instruments d'Amour. "Plastels", paintings,
drawings, poetry & original music in French & English at La Galerie
Herouet. Paris, France.
1985 Nous Sommes Instruments d'Amour. Multimedia extravaganza comprised
of 100 paintings, improvisational & traditional music as well as poetry.
Artist present every day for 2 months (held over an extra month due to
volume of visitors). 500 at opening (including many dignitaries).
Saturday evening news coverage on FR-3, French television, & reviews in
print media. Mus e de St. Paul de Vence, France.
1983 2e Rencontre d'Arts Plastiques. Important group show held in
ancient chateau of Vence. Reviewed in Le Figaro & Nice-Matin. Led to
l'Atelier, organization of which I'm a founding member. Vence, France.
1981 First one-woman show. Oil paintings, drawings, pastels and
presentation of ideas, at Europe's IBM Research Center. La Gaude, France.
1981 Pastel portrait artist in United States Senate. For Walter
Cronkite, CBS News, Washington, D.C. Drawings televised nationwide as
visual witnesses to news reports of Senate hearings.
1975 Watercolor portrait artist on ocean liner, Queen Elizabeth 2.
1970-71 "Seven & the City". Organized 2 multimedia exhibitions for
artists, including self. Sponsored & paid for by Joseph Papp, world-
renowned producer, at The Delacorte Theater, Central Park, & at The New
York Public Theater, St. Marks Place, NYC. Reviewed in Art News Magazine,
the New York Post.
LICENSURE
1998-2008 Teacher's license awarded in French, 7-12, by Peer Review upon
recommendation of Middlebury College French Professor Carol Rifelj,
certified oral proficiency tester & former head of Middlebury's French
Language School in Paris, France. Renewal deferred due to my
disappointment with approach of public school system as it marginalizes or
excludes my fields of competence. Looking for a place to teach where I can
share with students creatively, rather than conform to clearly failed
practices.
1997-2008 Teacher's license awarded in art, k-12, following six weeks of
full-time "practice teaching" with 440 students, one hour each per week! At
Neshobe Elementary School, Brandon, VT.
EDUCATION & PRACTICE
To tune in, I pray, sing, play flute, practice yoga and write poems that
inform (some 300 to date). Pilgrimages: Lourdes, Chartres, V zeley,
Barcelona, l'Oratoire St. Joseph, Ravenna, Florence & Taos.
Nine-month pilgrimage: Le Chemin de St. Jacques de Compostelle. Spain &
France. Worked with guitarist near Bordeaux, learning new repertoire &
singing in various venues.
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Summer, 2002 Master's degree candidate in English as a second language.
3.7 average at St. Michael's College with 10 credit hours in linguistics,
grammar and teaching materials & methods. Colchester, VT.
1997-2003 Advanced computer applications in Microsoft Office. Sixty
class hours with certificate.
1995-6 Trinity College Women's Small Business Program. Fifteen weeks
full-time, leading to graduation. Business plan used to launch Artwork
Lynn Sandage, Burlington & Middlebury, VT.
1979 Histoire de la Peinture Fran aise. Summer course. Awarded diploma.
Le Louvre, Paris, France.
1973 Master's degree candidate in architecture. Miami University,
Oxford, OH.
1967 Education philosophy as well as reading & study skills strategies.
One month full-time, intense preparation to teach in high schools &
colleges, while on salary with Baldridge Reading & Study Skills, Inc., an
innovative, educational company. Greenwich, CT.
1966 Stained glass apprentice. Built samples, researched iconography,
drew full-scale cartoons for finished stained glass windows. Atelier of
Samuel Wiener, Jr., 100 Fifth Avenue, NYC.
1962-66 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Bachelor of Science degree, cum laude, on
full scholarship through graduation while earning all living expenses as
editorial assistant, executive secretary to doctors & lawyers, & as
waitress. Major: art history. Minor: French literature. New York City.
2. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Champaign-Urbana. Lydia E. Bates Scholar in
Fine Arts.
Honorary sorority. Major: fine art. Minor: political science. Selected
as "most likely to succeed" by art faculty. All living expenses earned as
folk singer for faculty parties & community groups.
Miscellaneous skills developed as full-time legal secretary to successful
lawyers in Washington, D.C. & as editorial assistant for three professional
journals: The Journal of Urology, The Seventh Art and Art Index.
I am also a very good cook and beginning gardener. Am a lifelong student
of history. Some thirty or so of my letters-to-editor have been published
throughout Vermont. It has been my pleasure to host numerous dinner
parties where intelligent conversation is encouraged. Have written a new
play, My Wheel Deal. Am revising my book-length Ode to An Aborted
Daughter. Have discovered a wide variety of methods for healing emotions
that can easily be taught to children!
I am privileged to have studied with Meyer Schapiro, Nathan Oliviera, Peter
Agostini and Kenneth Baldridge---to have shared the stage or altar with Bob
Dylan, Tom Paxton, Zela Terry, Aim e Andr and Greg Vitercik---and to have
worked with Joseph Papp at The NY Public and The Delacorte Theaters. My
intervention w/ Creative Alternatives to Prison succeeded in changing law
in nation's capitol to permit criminals (normally imprisoned) to serve
community under benevolent surveillance. Method proved to considerably
reduce recidivism rate!
Those who exploited my good will have taught me important lessons. I
welcome any position that offers the possibility of engaging truth and
creativity. We are in the death throes of the old, moving toward the GREAT
SHIFT--- from ego-centered to love-centered civilization. It is my
privilege and passion to help mitigate the considerable damage egomaniacs
continue to wreak on society. My gifts witness to the unfailing help we
receive when we call on Creator for guidance in the ongoing struggle.
As a theatrical personality, am able to assume characteristics required to
honor taboos associated with the job, though I prefer being open, even when
this may cause some discomfort in those attached to unyielding (sometimes
abusive) patterns. It has taken me a very long time to develop into
someone who has so much to offer. Am not competitive but rather
cooperative in style.
Note: If we do not encourage and support the creativity & integrity we
were born with to flourish, then how can we hope to climb out of this
general mess we are experiencing in society right now? Letters of
recommendation, CD's of music, cards based on artwork, poetry, news
coverage of events, letters-to-editor available on request. You may count
on my discretion, dedication, humility and total sobriety. Though I am an
older person, my health & energy level are EXCELLENT as have studied
profoundly ways to rejuvenate & be attuned with enthusiasm for each new
day.
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