I’m about to do something drastic
The drastic step I’m about to take, and why I’m doing that now.
Notes from the Arts As Life! conference
Art from the Arts As Life! conference - including my sketchnotes and drawings from the students in my workshop.
How to Abolish Racism in Schools
Sketchnotes of a transformative, inspirational, useful week at the Dismantling White Supremacy Culture in School conference.
Scribble Art Experiments at San Leandro High School
Thumbnail image by Andrea, 9th grade.
High school students and their teachers used art to explore and express their feelings about the COVID vaccines and school during a pandemic.
The Art of Everything session #2
My sketchnotes from session #2 of the “Leadership Conversations” series about “The Art of Everything.”
This session was moderated by San Francisco Board of Education commissioner Gabriela Lopez talking with Dr. Janice E. Jackson, an educator with a highly distinguished career in academics and school administration.
Emancipating our Pedagogy with San Mateo County Educators
At the 3rd Annual Art Institute organized by Michelle Holdt at the San Mateo County Office of Education, we learned about Chip McNeal’s approach to Emancipatory Pedagogy and I lead a workshop where educators experimented with artistic note-taking together.
Arts Equity District
This is a manic mega meta sketchnote representing a year of meetings that I participated in as an arts partner and advocate for arts education with the San Francisco Unified School District. I became involved in all this as the executive director of the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area (I left that position in June 2020) and as director of the Where Art Lives program (which I continue to work on).
This is a dense painting with a lot of content and a lot of context…