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Highline Creative Schools Teaching Artists
Lauren Appel – Theatre Artist
Lauren Appel has worked as an arts educator at many cultural institutions in Seattle and New York, including Seattle Children’s Theater, Youth Theatre Northwest, Rubin Museum of Art, Abrons Arts Center, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and also currently works at Hilltop Artists in Tacoma, where she runs a visual art program for court-‐involved girls in Pierce County. She has worked with students of all ages as a visual arts educator, a theatre teaching artist, and a museum and gallery educator. She has a particular interest in curriculum-‐integrated arts learning and collaborating with classroom teachers and school administrators. Lauren holds a BA in theater from Smith College and a MSEd in Museum Education from Bank Street College of Education. Hazel Valley and Gregory Heights Elementary Schools
Carina del Rosario – Visual Artist Born in the Philippines, Carina A. del Rosario immigrated to the United States as a young girl. She earned her B.A. in Communication from Santa Clara University in 1991. She has studied photography with Magnum Photographer Alex Webb, Rebecca Norris Webb, Raul Touzon and Eddie Soloway, and a variety of visual arts media at Pratt Fine Arts, Cornish College of the Arts and other cultural institutions. In addition to her own creative and documentary projects, she is a teaching artist and helps youth use visual arts and digital media to explore their communities, advocate for what matters for them, and express their own experiences. She works with a number of schools, cultural institutions and community-‐based organizations to help students develop 21st century skills through the visual arts. She collaborates with non-‐profit organizations and educational institutions to help illustrate issues such as poverty, education, health and civil rights. She also founded IDEA Odyssey, a collective that promotes cultural diversity, community development and economic prosperity in the International District/Chinatown neighborhood through visual arts. In 2013, the International Examiner honored her with a Community Voice Award for an Individual Artist. Hazel Valley and Gregory Heights Elementary School
Nate Herth – Visual Artist
Nate Herth is a multi-‐disciplined visual teaching-‐artist who believes the process of art-‐making expands and informs our engagement with the world in critical, ever-‐changing, and ultimately positive modes. For over a decade he has facilitated playful, investigative, arts learning environments in the Pacific Northwest as an educator for Arts Corps, the Seattle Art Museum, the EMP, Gage Academy, and Seattle and Tacoma Public Schools. Nate has spent the last three years working as a Creative Schools Initiative Teaching Artist with Arts Corps and infusing visual and performing arts into core curriculums with middle school students at Orca K-‐8 and Madrona K-‐8 schools. Nate takes inspiration from his surroundings: the volatile interaction of human creations and the naturally occurring world is a collision of contrasting visual information that he reflects upon in his paintings, presentations, and collaborations with other artists. White Center Heights and Mount View Elementary Schools
Jéhan Òsanyìn – Theatre Artist Jéhan Òsanyìn is an Actor and Experiential Educator who uses theatre in wilderness spaces to explore racialized identity development and internalized racism and social messaging. She has been working with youth since 2002. She received her B.A. in Acting from Point Park University’s Conservatory of Performing Arts. She has performed in Chicago, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and on a ship sailing around the world. She recently wrote, directed, and produced a one-‐woman show, Sala Kakuhle, Mama with Chicago's MPAACT theatre in 2014. During the summer of 2015 she was accepted into and performed with Intiman Theatre's Emerging Artist Program. In the Fall of 2015 she will be working with Freehold Theatre's Ensemble Training Intensive. White Center Heights and Mount View Elementary Schools