If you have a website featuring your students' artworks to share with other OAEA members, please send a short paragraph about yourself and what levels you teach, along with the website's URL, to membership@oaea.ca. If you want to start a new website for your students, visit Artsonia.
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Austin Clarkson
Julie Frost
Kristine Lukawecky
Craig Morrison
Jody Wright-Roberts
Rebecca Zak
Austin Clarkson
The Exploring Creativity in Depth™ program has been developed over a period of two decades by OAEA member Austin Clarkson, Ph.D. and a team of artist-teachers. Since 2002 the ECID has been provided to over 4,000 children, grades 1 to 8, from twenty-five schools in the Toronto area. The program is also available for children in special education and youth with special needs. The program has been funded by grants from the Ontario Arts Council, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Toronto Arts Council, and gifts from private donors. For more info: http://www.exploringcreativity.ca
Julie Frost
OAEA member Julie Frost is the Executive and Artistic Director of Arts for Children and Youth, a Canadian non-profit agency that engages young people living in priority neighbourhoods in high quality and accessible arts educational programs that are meaningful, relevant and collaboratively developed with community and education partners. AFCY positions arts programs in schools and neighbourhood venues as a means of building community, and empowering marginalized children and youth to reach their full potential as artists and social contributors. For more info: http://www.afcy.ca/
Kristine Lukawecky
OAEA member Kristine Lukawecky is the Visual Arts Teacher at Tecumseh Public School in Burlington. This website features a variety of art works created by her grade 7 and 8 students, including drawings, paintings, sculptures, prints and digital art works.
http://www.chatt.hdsb.ca/~lukaweckyk/
Craig Morrison
Craig, a long standing OAEA member, is an artist and the founding teacher of the Oasis Skateboard Factory, rated #1 on the Toronto Star's "Coolest Schools" List. As the first school site fully dedicated to offering all subjects with a skateboard design and street art focus, the Oasis Skateboard Factory helps students reengage and earn high-school credits by running a community focused entrepreneurial business where they learn hands-on to build skateboards, design original custom graphics, work with local artists and community partners, market and display their work and earn an honorarium. For more info: http://oasisskateboardfactory.blogspot.com
Jody Wright-Roberts
OAEA member Jody Wright-Roberts is currently teaching middle school visual arts at The York School, a technology rich school. To view her students' work, visit: http://blogs.yorkschool.com/art/
Rebecca Zak
Rebecca Zak is an OAEA member and artist/researcher/teacher currently teaching in Peel and undertaking a PhD in education at Brock University. Her doctoral research centers on nurturing creativity in and outside the classroom. Rebecca is also an oil painter who favours working in both abstraction and high realism. She is the recipient of the 2011 ETFO Art & Culture Award for her children's book, The Cutest Face, which features her painted portraits of a diverse class of kids. Visit her school website at: http://lisgarart.com/