ABOUT ME AS AN EDUCATOR

Teaching Philosophy

I advocate maximum learning. I believe that more is more. More books, more artists, more research, more techniques, more critiques, more dialogue, more questions, more answers!

Each new experience brings opportunity to become a better learner and a better teacher. Infusing action with my enthusiasm, I strive to connect students to learning through dialogue (verbal/auditory), visual examples and hands-on investigation. Even if students don’t start with a passion for the courses I teach, I share mine and plant seeds for their future engagement. Curriculum should have space to develop organically, incorporating the interests and research of the students it is meant to serve while supporting them as a community of learners.

I meet my students where they are with a goal of helping them to develop to the next level of their conceptual and perceptual abilities. This requires adaptability in me as an educator and in my students as learners. I support a classroom atmosphere where it is safe to take chances. This approach to teaching encourages learning that is fun and challenging. I always want to empower students. I consider my high expectations a gift, allowing students to achieve more than they initially believed of themselves.

There is a great exchange of energy and information in my classroom that inspires everyone to contribute as much to the dynamic as possible. It is important to be knowledgeable about all subjects that I teach so that I can approach them with confidence. However, I remain more interested in the people who are my students. The product is less important than class participation in the process. A positive learning environment instills in students two characteristics of life-long learners, curiosity and the courage to explore. These characteristics are also found in many artists.

BIO

Brooke Hunter-Lombardi is an artist/educator from Columbus, Ohio with deep Appalachian roots. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art degree from Columbus College of Art & Design (CCAD) and her Master of Fine Art from The Ohio State University (OSU). While at OSU she was awarded a College Book Art Association Project Assistance Grant, a Graduate Teaching Associateship, an Arts & Humanities Graduate Research Small Grant, was a finalist for the Hayes Graduate Research Forum and was a two time recipient of the Fergus Memorial Scholarship Award. Ms. Hunter-Lombardi's current body of work incorporates her love of science, history and storytelling through ceramics, watercolor, mixed media, printmaking, book arts and assemblage. Teaching since 1994, she seeks to facilitate maximum learning, as she works with all age groups including 16 years' experience teaching college art foundations and over a decade of teacher training. Ms. Hunter-Lombardi is currently on faculty at Arts & College Preparatory Academy in Columbus, Ohio which is nationally recognized and rated as one of Ohio’s top Charter Schools. She teaches Ceramics, Painting, Drawing PreAP Art & Design and Advanced Placement Art & Design.

RESUME

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Education

MFA, The Ohio State University (OSU)

BFA, Cum Laude, Columbus College of Art & Design (CCAD)

Teaching Experience

2015 to current Faculty, Arts & College Preparatory Academy. Visual Art Teacher (3D, AP Studio Art), Columbus, OH

2013-2015 Faculty, Columbus School for Girls, Program for Young Children classroom teacher, Columbus, OH

2012 to current Faculty, Franklin Park Conservatory, Youth and Adult programs, Columbus, OH

2011-2013 Faculty, Cultural Art Center, Columbus, OH

2012-2013 Workshop Instructor, Thurber House, Youth and Adult programs, Columbus, OH

2011-2012 Faculty, Peggy McConnell Art Center, Worthington, OH

Art Instructor, After School Program Columbus Montessori Education Center (CMEC)

2004 to current Advanced Placement College Board Consultant for Studio Art

2009-2011 Graduate Teaching Associate, instructor of record, Art 206: 2-Dimensional Art, The Ohio State University

2010-2012 Summer Workshop Instructor, Wexner Center for the Arts

2009-2012 Art Instructor, Camp Montessori (CMEC)

2009-2012 Art and Nature Camp Educator, August in Action, Columbus School for Girls

2009-2013 Guest teacher, Program for Young Children, Columbus School for Girls

2009 Art Instructor, J. Ashburn Youth Center – taught visual art integrating nature/gardens to K-5 grade students

2008–2009 Instructor, ESL Afterschool Community, Columbus State Community College (CSCC), Columbus, OH

Adjunct Faculty, Color Concept, Columbus College of Art & Design (CCAD), Columbus, OH

1994-2008 Continuing Education Instructor, various topics, including Portfolio Preparation, Color Theory, 2D Design, Art Journaling, CCAD, Columbus, OH

Awards/Grants

College Book Art Association Project Assistance Grant

Hayes Graduate Research Forum, finalist

Fergus Memorial Scholarship Award

Arts & Humanities Graduate Research Small Grant

Selected Visiting Artist/Teaching Workshops

2015 Artist in Residence, Developing Rigor and Meaning Making and Advanced Placement Studio Art

Ottawa Junior/Senior High School, OH

2012 Artist in Residence, Worthington Christian High School, Worthington, OH

Visiting Lecturer, South Central Ohio Educational Service Center Teacher Professional Development, Portsmouth, OH

2011 Artist in Residence, Upper Arlington High School, OH

2009 Artist in Residence, Visual Journal and 2D Mixed Media Exploration

Ottawa Junior/Senior High School, OH

Visiting Artist, Artist as Educator, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Lakota West High School, Sketchbook Friday, West Chester, OH

The Wellington School, the da Vinci Diaries, Columbus, OH

2008 The Wellington School, Maximum Idea Generation, Columbus, OH

C-Tec Visual Communications through Art, Appropriation and Student as Art Director a.k.a. Fair Use of Photo Reference, Granville, OH

Notre Dame Latin Cathedral High, Maximum Idea Generation, Chardon, OH

Webster Schroeder High School, Sketchbook Explorations, Webster, NY

North Rose-Walcutt High School, Sketchbook Explorations, Walcutt, NY

Related Experience

2019 Juror, Youth Art Exhibition, The Ohio State Fair

2018 Juror, Earth Gathering Exhibitors, Chillicothe, OH

2016 and 2017, Curator, Faculty Show Arts & College Preparatory Academy, Columbus, OH

2016 Curator, Artful Books Concourse Gallery, City of Upper Arlington, OH

2012 Curator, Crossroads Exhibition @ eTech Ohio Annual Conference, OH

2011 Performance Art Assistant to Ann Hamilton, Verse, Thompson Library at OSU

Performance Art Assistant to Mark Tribe, The Dystopia Files, Wexner Center

2007-2008 Dixon USA, Art material and future product development

2006-2009 McGraw Hill-Higher Education, Review of college text books

2009 Event organizer/panel moderator, Art:21 Preview Party, episode screening and panel discussion at OSU Urban Arts Space

2007 Juror, Columbus Arts Festival, OH

2006 On-site Juror, Columbus Arts Festival, OH

2005 State Juror, Ohio Governor’s Youth Art Exhibition, Columbus, OH

Administrative Experience

2003-2008 Educator Outreach Coordinator, Columbus College of Art & Design

1991-2003 Admissions Officer, Columbus College of Art & Design

Solo Exhibitions

2012 Almost Home, The City Art Center, Delaware, OH

2010 Cicadas. Silkworms and Posable Dolls, Silver Image Gallery, OSU, Columbus, OH

2009 Alive Again, Della Brown Taylor Gallery, West Virginia State University, WV

2008 Transitions, Mt Vernon Nazarene University, Mt Vernon, OH

2003 Manifestation, Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, OH

2000 Daydreams, Art in the Halls Jackson Township, OH

1998 Landscapes & Libraries Columbus Metropolitan Library, OH

1997 Dreamlandscape, Waldo’s on High, Columbus, OH

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019 Meditations, Two-person Exhibit with Steven A Lombardi, Art of Yoga, Columbus, OH

2017 Faculty Show, Art & College Preparatory Academy, Columbus, OH

2016 The Greatest Show on Earth, Faculty Show, Art & College Preparatory Academy, Columbus, OH

Artful Books, Concourse Gallery, City of Upper Arlington, OH

2015 New Work, Two-person Exhibit with Martha Michael, Wherle Gallery at Ohio Dominican University, Columbus, OH

2013 art unbound : an invitational, Friends of the Library and Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, OH

ConTEXT: Text in Contemporary Art, Delaware Arts Castle, Delaware, OH

Printed Matters, The Shot Tower, Fort Hayes, Columbus, OH

Hello Science, The City Art Center, Delaware, OH

Sixth Annual Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Confluence(s), Urban Art Space, Columbus, OH

Ignition 4.0: Natural/Unnatural, Fuse Factory at The Shot Tower, Columbus, OH

19th Annual Fergus Scholarship Exhibition, Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Columbus, OH

Image – Self, Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Columbus, OH

New Arrivals, Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Columbus, OH

18th Annual Fergus Scholarship Exhibition, Ohio Union, OSU, Columbus, OH

The Last Gasp in Casket(t)!, Silver Image Gallery, OSU, Columbus, OH

Underneath It All, CS Gallery, Columbus, OH

Inventeur, Sound Stage of Haskett Hall, OSU, Columbus, OH

2009 Where We Belong, Silver Image Gallery, OSU, Columbus, OH

2008 Thumb Box Exhibition, Ohio Art League Gallery, Columbus, OH

2007 A is for Art, B is for Books, C is for Celebration, Ohio Art Council with Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, OH

Text, Image, Form, Hopkins Gallery, OSU, Columbus, OH

1995 - 2006 Faculty Biennial Exhibitions at CCAD, Columbus, OH

Memberships and Appointments

2009-2011 Member, OSU Student Printmaker Association (SPA)

Member OSU Graduate Student Art Association (GSAC)

2009 Board of Trustee, Greater Hilltop Area League for the Arts (GHALA)

2009 Artist in Schools panelist, Greater Columbus Arts Council

2005 to present Advisory Member, C-Tec Communications through Art

Selected Publications

2009 “Portfolio Preparation Tips for Teachers Part 2” article in SchoolArts

“Organizing Your Traditional Portfolio” in Preparing for a Career in Media & Design by Steven Carniol, Pearson Prentice Hall

2008 “Portfolio Preparation Tips for Students” article in National Art Honor Societies News (a publication of the National Art Education Association)

“Portfolio Preparation Tips for Teachers” article in SchoolArts

“Sketchbook & Journaling Advice” online article for SchoolArts

“How to Prepare Yourself for a Portfolio Review” article in National Art Honor Societies News

2006 “Butterfly Booklaces” article in Somerset Studio

Selected Presentations, Workshops and Symposiums

2014 “Cultivating Curiosity” and “The Curious Classroom” (workshop), Blacklick, OH, Ohio Voices for Learning (OVL)Winter Retreat

2013 “New Family Connections”, Columbus, OH, OVL Fall Inspired Teachers Institute

2012 “Mixed Media Mania” (workshop) Covington, KY Ohio Art Education Association (OAEA)

2012 “An Artistic Collaboration: Teaching and Learning through Raising Silkworms” New York, NY National Art Education Association Conference (NAEA)

2010 “Investigating Contemporary Artists for Portfolio Development”, “Empowering Students with Color”, “Artist in Residence Program Inspires School” and “smART Show: Putting Creativity in the Spotlight”, Columbus, OH, (OAEA)

“Educator as Artist: The Journey Continues” and “Color: Theory Meets Practice in 5 Advanced Lessons”, Baltimore, MD (NAEA)

2009 “Visual Journal as Creative Collaborator” (workshop with David Modler), “Educator as Artist: Studio based professional development” and “ThinkTank: ReThinking what artists should know and do”, Minneapolis, MN, (NAEA)

2008 “Visual Journal as Creative Collaborator” and “Color Power!”, (workshops)

Shepherdsville, KY Kentucky Art Education Association (KAEA)

ThinkTank3 (foundation art programs)at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, invited to participate as master educator

“Anatomy of a Portfolio”, New Orleans, LA, (NAEA)

2007 “Reinventing the Color Wheel” and “Everything is Appropriated in a Postmodern World”, Las Vegas, NV Advanced Placement National Conference

“Reinventing the Color Wheel” (workshop) and “Everything is Appropriated in a Postmodern World” (panel chair), Milwaukee, WI Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) at MIAD

“Creative Color Wheels” and “Everything is Appropriated in a Postmodern World”,

New York City, NY, (NAEA)

2006 “Developing a Successful Sketchbooking Habit”, Chicago, IL, (NAEA)