Katie Walck
My practice as a teaching artist focuses on creativity, exploration, and expanding students’ ideas of what art and design is. I believe art and design education allows students to create connections beyond the art room and start to see how creative problem-solving and investigation is at the root of so much of what we do as humans. While strong studio skills and attention to craft are a part of what I aim to teach, the emphasis is on flexible thinking and not being afraid to try new things. I aim to create a classroom environment that is oriented around perspective sharing and all-around inclusivity. As a quilter, I see a strong connection of quilting as a metaphor for the classroom; a gathering of material, each of us making up the many parts, and a place where we each come with our own different backgrounds but together create a cohesive whole.
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Place Based Pattern Painting
Lesson theme
2022
Sixth grade art lesson, working with the theme of environment, inspired by the art of Katherine Bernhardt
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Power of Words in Public Art
Lesson theme
2022
Seventh grade art lesson, working with the theme of power, specifically artists who use the power of words in public art
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New York Alleyway Pattern
Oil pastel and watercolor
18x24"
2022
Student artwork, creating pattern based off a place. Thinking about how we can break down a location into symbolic images
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Do I Really Matter?
Fabric collage
12x12"
2022
Student artwork, fabric collage quilt block. Students create quilt blocks sharing a message about something they cared about.
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Text and Image collage warmup
cut magazine, paper, and glue
8.5x11"
2022
Students paired images and text from newspaper & magazines to create new meaning or strong meaning when paired together
- Architecture
- Ceramics
- Design Engineering
- Digital + Media
- Furniture Design
- Global Arts and Cultures
- Glass
- Graphic Design
- Industrial Design
- Interior Architecture
- Jewelry + Metalsmithing
- Landscape Architecture
- Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies
- Painting
- Photography
- Printmaking
- Sculpture
- TLAD
- Textiles