Visiting Professor - University of Houston - Houston, TX
(2024-01 - 2026-12)
- Helped students refine their individual practices
- Developed a specialization sequence to ensure that habits could be scaffolded consistently through two years of study
- Sponsored student organizations
- Courses taught: Junior and Senior Block Photo, Graduate Photo Studio, Fundamentals of Photography
Community Consultant - Houston In Color - Houston, TX
(2022-01 - 2026-12)
- Participated in planning and drafting of outreach and expository documents
- Worked with a panel of consultants to encourage, assist, and evaluate applicants to BANF grants
- Shared experience, ideas, and critiques in a variety of action groups dedicated to specialized problems
Consultant - High School for The Performing and Visual Arts - Houston, TX
(2021-01 - 2025-12)
- Designed units that allowed the students to focus in on the particularities of photography, creative writing, and video while still applying their ongoing aesthetic concerns
- Designed a new visual storytelling course that covers the gamut from illustration to music videos
- Courses taught: Photo Elective, Narrative Forms, Creative Writing, Intro to Video
Instructor - Art League - Houston, TX
(2021-01 - 2021-12)
- Designed a synchronous online course that challenged the expectations of art aficionados and introduced them to a variety of concepts linking the arts across cultures and eras
- Course taught: Art Appreciation
Adjunct Faculty - University of Houston - Houston, TX
(2017-01 - 2022-12)
- Organized different units designed to engage students in collaborative work and long-term planning, refine resource and time management, analyze and design exhibitions and publications
- Courses taught: Junior Block Photo, Senior Block Photo, Fundamentals of Photography
Instructor - Houston Center for Photography - Houston, TX
(2015-01 - 2019-12)
- Organized small, month-long workshops for neophytes and experienced photographers looking to build up their skills and knowledge in specific areas
- Created curriculum for Composition II class
- Courses taught: Photography I and II, Composition I and II, Photo History, Portfolio, Self-Publishing
Adjunct Faculty - Lone Star College - Houston, TX
(2012-01 - 2026-12)
- Led discussion and media-rich classes that brought students into dialogue with current art practices and their historical antecedents
- Introduced students to the great possibilities that Houston's thriving art scene offers to both audience and artists
- Helped students develop an eye and a language for aesthetic appreciation
- Course taught: Art appreciation
Adjunct Faculty - Art Institute of Houston - Houston, TX
(2012-01 - 2020-12)
- Designed course work based on Art Institute's pedagogical goals for a variety of classes
- Implemented course work with a focus on differentiated education to accommodate students' various career goals
- Made history and audience an important part of all discussions
- Guided the design of many publications and exhibitions
- Courses taught: Fundamentals of Photography, History of Photography, Photo Design, Photo Essay, Creative Concepts, Portfolio, Photoshop 1, Principles of Aesthetics, Exhibition Printing
Teaching Assistant/Teaching Fellow - University of North Texas - Denton, TX
(2009-01 - 2011-12)
- Facilitated students' transition from art theory to art practice
- Monitored and guided their progress at the craft and conceptual levels to a variety of projects
- Built up their critical thinking skills through written and oral exercises and discussions
- Courses taught: 2-D design, Fundamentals of Photo
