Teaching

Guided Painting Class at Columbia, May 2024

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Jessica developed a guided painting class around the iconic Columbia Low Library, and taught it to the Columbia staff as a team-building session

Drop-in and Create at The Heckscher Museum of Art, Summer 2021

Project 1

Inspiration

Rubens Santoro, Grand Canal, Venice (n.d.)

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Connection

Santoro was inspired by his travels.

What would you see if you were traveling?

What would your binoculars show you if you were in Venice?

What would your binoculars, and map, show you in the Heckscher Park?

Project 2

Inspiration

Daniel Ridgway Knight; Waiting for the Ferry (1885)

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Connection

What would you have packed with you while “waiting for the ferry”?

Where would you be going?

Project 3

Inspiration

Melchior D’Hondecoeter Stripped of Borrowed Feathers; The Raven-Jackda

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Connection

Making own bird of “borrowed feathers”

Project 4

Inspiration

Evelyn Beatrice Longman; Youth Eternal (1920)

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Connection

Making model magic sea creatures for Longman’s fountain.

Project 5

Inspiration

Alice Rahon; La Conjuration des Antilopes (1943)

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Connection

Inspired by pointillism, using dots to make own landscape