My teaching approach draws from craft experience, critical design, and storytelling, viewing design as more than a market service. I emphasize design as a vehicle for social transformation, encouraging students to sustain values through ongoing learning, critical inquiry, and creativity as a lifelong orientation.
In the classroom, I approach creativity as a relational and collaborative process rather than an individual pursuit. In my teaching, I encourage students to recognize how artistic production emerges through networks of creators, while critically examining authorship, labour, and power within creative work.
I believe every student brings unique talents and perspectives, and my role is to nurture those strengths while guiding them on their own paths of reviving memory, culture, and imagination. Students are invited to bring their authentic selves into their studio practices, cultivating a space of mutual trust and actively engaging in group dialogue, helping build a collaborative and supportive learning environment.
Creativity and Concept
Drawing and Printmaking, Nickel, Copper, 5 x 3 in.
Unfunctional
Unfunctional, Brass, Copper, Saw, Nickel, Steel, 10 x 1 in.