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TEACHER FEATURE
Nimbus (Santa Monica, CA) Photo by Joan Dooley
NATIONAL TEACHER AWARD:
PATRON SAINT OF PHOTOGRAPHY:
Our Media Arts Lead Teacher, Joan Dooley, is both an award-winning photographer and teacher. She has won many teaching awards but a crowning national achievement was being dubbed "Patron Saint of Photography" by Santa Fe Center of Photography in 2007-2008. Each year the Center, an organization of great esteem in the photo world, grants this "Excellence in Teaching" honor to one photography teacher after a nation-wide search amongst high school, college or postgraduate photo teachers. The selection is made based on the following
CRITERIA
• A passion for teaching
• An ability to excite students to learn
• A concern for students as individuals
• An enduring artistic curiosity
Joan's Photography / Background / Teaching Philosophy:
Center - formerly the Santa Fe Center for Photography
Joan's Students' Photography:
Center - formerly the Santa Fe Center for Photography
MOST RECENT AWARDS:
- CALARTS CAP HONOREE
- NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO AWARD
Self-Portrait Photo Collage by Joan Dooley
Sample for Student Assignment
CALARTS CAP HONOREE
Most recently, Joan was honored by the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) at their 20th Annual Community Arts Partnership (CAP) Luncheon on October 1st for her dedication and service to the CAP program and her mentorship to her HS students to achieve acceptance into CalArts.
CAP was established 20 years ago as the first program of its kind in the U.S. linking an Arts College to community art centers and public schools as part of an expanding joint endeavor to provide college-level arts education to middle and high school students. CAP forms a bridge between the talents and resources of CalArts, an internationally renowned, four-year art college founded by Walt Disney in 1961, and students in under-served communities across LA to train and encourage promising young artists.
Thanks to Joan's dedicated work over the past three years helping launch a CAP program at Bell High in Southeast LA where she taught previously, we are happy to say that her CAP program will follow her and move to our school. As a result, an after-school CAP Animation class will be taught at our school this year in the spring semester. Steve Brown, an animator and CalArts faculty member, will teach "Experimental Video and Animation" starting January 2010 on Tuesdays from 3:15-6:00 p.m. At the end of the class students will have their animations screened at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater. As an added bonus, CAP students qualify for a CalArts college scholarship.
More info:
http://campus.digication.com/MediaArtsVAPA/CalArtsCAP
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO AWARD
Trinity (Rome, Italy) Photo by Joan Dooley
Joan has also won many awards for her own photography. Most recently she was selected for a national Merit Prize by National Geographic for their Traveler's international World in Focus photography contest. Her image, selected from thousands of entries from photographers across the world, will be exhibited in NYC in October and published in the National Geographic Traveler and or Photo District News magazines as well as being featured on the World in Focus website:
http://worldinfocuscontest.com/
OTHER AWARDS
Teaching:
http://campus.digication.com/MediaArtsVAPA/Teacher_Awards
Joan's Photography:
http://campus.digication.com/MediaArtsVAPA/My_Own_Photography_Awards
Student Work:
http://campus.digication.com/MediaArtsVAPA/Student_Awards
FORMER GETTY CURATOR
Previously, Joan worked for 12+ years as an Assistant Curator of Photography at the J. Paul Getty Museum where she organized many exhibitions. Exhibits she worked on included: Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Weston, Lisette Model, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Edgar Degas, and August Sander. She also helped organize many loan exhibitions for the museum and traveled extensively conducting museum research. Her former department's website:
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/exploreArt?typ=2033125
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/penn/
BRINGS STATE CAEA CONFERENCE TO OUR SCHOOL
& TEACHES MASTER CLASS
Joan's leadership in the arts education community reaches to a statewide level. She help the California Art Education Association (CAEA) coordinate a Digital Focus Day at our very own school. This will take place on Saturday, November 14, 2009 during their annual conference to be held at the Wilshire Grand, November 12-15.
Joan will also teach a Master Class that day called “Stop Motion, Insert Magic”. In this hands-on class she will instruct stop-motion (frame by frame) animation, using the pixilation and/or paper puppet techniques. The materials used will be iStopmotion software and a digital camcorder connected to a computer.
CAEA, formed in 1965, is a professional organization dedicated to the advancement of visual arts education in California. One of its main purposes is to increase public awareness regarding arts education, developing and implement strategies for statewide advocacy.
More info:
http://caea-arteducation.org/www/Pages/conference.html
keynote speaker, media arts strand
http://campus.digication.com/MediaArtsVAPA/CAEA
CLASS WEBSITE
Website for Joan's Media Arts classes here at V & P Arts HS:
http://campus.digication.com/MediaArtsVAPA
Student Digital Imaging Work from V & P Arts HS:
Photo by Haquika Howze, 11th Grade Photography Student, V & P Arts HS
Photo Collage by Benito Rojas, 11th Grade Photography Student, V & P Arts HS
For more great photos and collages by V & P Arts HS students - click here:
http://campus.digication.com/MediaArtsVAPA/Journal_Covers