Art Educator

COMMITMENT TO STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING THROUGH THE ARTS

KATRINA AVINO-BARRACATO

***-******** – Brooklyn, NY – 11220 – P: 917-***-**** – E: *******@*****.***

Education

Hunter College, New York, NY

MA: Visual Arts Education Hunter College

Anticipated graduation date with NYS initial Certification is June 2022

Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

BFA: Fine Arts / May 2013

Awarded “Best of Suny Student Art Exhibition” Albany Museum, June 2013

Key Skills

Software: Spreadsheet Skills Internet Navigation Skills Promethean board Skills

Media: Painting Drawing Printmaking Sculpture Photography

Experience

Arts Connection (DOE Contract), New York, NY

Elementary Teaching Artist 2014-Present

Engage Students in a practice in inquiry and discovery that is cognitive as well as kinesthetic and affective

Inspire, guide and mentor student learning in their art form

Serve as a role model for students to discover their passion and define their life’s work through concentration, commitment and effort

Construct a broader understanding of student’s own culture and their place in it, as well as the cultures of other people

Expand student vocabulary and build their capacity to articulate their own artistic and educational process and goals

Encourage students to reflect on new ways of seeing, thinking, understanding and living in the world

Collaboratively working with classroom teacher to develop a learning environment that nurtures creativity and curiosity

Pinot’s Palette, Staten Island, NY

Art Instructor / 2014-2016

Awarded Number one location in the United States

Gave explicit instructions to children and adults on how to paint

Encouraged a festive atmosphere

Managed art studio, and maintained art supplies

EXHIBITIONS

M55 Art Gallery Exhibition “Framework”, Queens, NY. 2010

Linger Café Solo Exhibition “Happy Hour”, Brooklyn, NY 2011

Hosteling International Art Exhibition “Room with a View”, New York, NY 2011

The Catalina Hotel, “Select Art Fair” Art Basel, Miami, FL 2012

Hosteling International Art Exhibition “Surface Value”, New York, NY 2012

The Catalina Hotel,” Bamboo Pool Instillation Art Basel, Miami, FL 2012

Greenpoint Gallery “Summer Solstice Salon Show”, Brooklyn, NY 2013

Gallery 364, “Eclectic”, Brooklyn, NY 2013

New York Albany Museum Art Exhibition “The Best of SUNY Students”, Albany,2013

FIT, BFA Fine Arts Thesis Show “Beam me up, Scotty, New York, NY 2013

Torche Galerie Art Exhibition “Grand Opening”, Belmar, NJ 2013

Hudson View Gardens Emerging Art Exhibition “Panoply “New York NY 2013

Bushwick Open Studio “Framed Practices” Brooklyn, NY 2013

Yonkers Art Weekend “I Park Exhibition” Yonkers, NY 2014

MSB Gallery “Limitations without limits” New York, NY2015

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