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Teaching

Prof. JASON ROBERT BELL, MFA

Teaching Employment

Private Art Tutor, New York, NY

Offering private one on one in house art instruction in Studio and Digital Arts, Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Video.
Focusing on helping to build art education for young and older novice art students and artists, and assisting in portfolio creation for college and art school applications.

contact for more information
cavemanrobot@gmail.com

Creative Art Works, New York, New York

Teaching Artist (2015 to 2016): Teaching 6th and 7th grade after-school art classes employing digital media and traditional art materials Animation, Cartooning, Video, and Photography. Archiving students work and installing exhibits of student work.

Artist in Residence, Bronx Charter School for the Arts, Bronx, New York (2009 to 2012)

Teaching small workshops of 5 to 10 students grades K to 6, in animation, covering principles of cartooning, filmmaking, and photography. Producing short subjects for school wide presentations. Overseeing and directing the integration of student artwork with final designs of posters, postcards, promotional video, sets, theatrical programs and props for year- long school-wide musical. Working with students from across the grades based on each project.

Guest Speaker: University of Chicago (Jan. 8, 2009) Dept. of Visual Art

Gave a one-hour lecture on my artwork in relation to concerns of figurative art, learning to draw, and dealing with concepts of visual communication, for undergraduate drawing students.

Guest Speaker: Federico Santa María Technical University(Sept. 25, 2008) Department of Information Technology, Valparaíso, Chile

Gave an one hour lecture on the use of Digital Media in my Fine Art and Comic Book Projects, and the development of ideas through interdisciplinary collaboration. Consulted with the school's administration on the development of creative design course.

Artist Education Specialist, Bronx Charter School of the Arts, (Jan to June 2008) The Bronx, New York

Duties focus on teaching two 9 week classes in Printmaking and Sculpture, for grades K to 6 a total of 12 classes a week with over 300 students, along with classroom management and various school wide art projects.

Long Term Artist in Residence, Studio in a School (Oct. 2006 to June 2007) New York, New York

PS 325: Duties focus on teaching doing art projects with grades 1 through 5, exposing students to the fundamentals of art making and materials, based on the Studio in a School program and the DOE Blueprint for Art instruction.

Visiting Professor of Fine Art: Moravian College (Aug. 2004 to May 2006) Bethlehem, PA

Duties focus on teaching semester long courses from beginning to advanced levels in Painting, Drawing, Color Theory, and Performance Art, involved development of students' technical skills and conceptual understanding. Multiple classes each semester in Drawing and Painting, as well as four semesters of Color Theory, two semesters of Performance Art, and an Intro to Digital Design summer class, along with supervising independent studies for students in Art History, Comic Book Publication, and Painting for advanced students. Conducted course advisement to individual students, organized student performance showcases and film screenings, and gave demonstrations on documenting and archiving studio projects.

Visiting Artist and Critic: 2004

- School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Nov.22, 2004) Chicago, IL
- Northern Illinois State University (Nov.18, 2004) DeKalb, IL
- Yale Summer School of Art at Norfolk (June 2- June 3, 2004) Norfolk, CT

Adjunct Professor, Lehigh University Art Department (Aug. 2003 to May 2004) Bethlehem, PA

Two semesters of Introduction Design and Drawing for first year architecture and engineering students. Projects involved working from life, imagination, and photographic sources, with discussion of the merits and challenges associated with each. Giving individual and group critiques. Required each student to write a mid-term essay proposing their final project, give a verbal presentation of this project, and take an active part in critiquing their peers' work.

Adjunct Professor, Moravian College (Aug. 2002 to May 2004) Bethlehem, PA.

Duties focus on teaching semester long courses in Painting and Drawing at the college level, classes involved development of students' technical skills and conceptual understanding, working from life and imagination. Dealing with Figure, Still-life, Landscape, Portrait, Diagram, Collage and Abstraction. Assigning reading, giving slide lectures, and giving critiques.

Guest Speaker: Pennsylvania Library Association of America,

Spring Conference May 22, 2003 McShea Student Center, DeSales University Center Valley, PA: The Crisis of Graphic Novels: A History and Introduction. Included a history of comics as an art/media form, including the political and cultural factors that relegated it to a lesser or childish art form. Covering form versus content, the medium and its message(s), the worldview of graphic novels and comics as a sequential art form in printed form.

Art Teacher Assistant: Yale School of Art (Aug. 1999 to Jan 2000) New Haven, CT.

Duties focus on assisting and teaching a college level Intermediate Drawing Class, classes' involved development of students technical skills and conceptual understanding, working from life and imagination.

Art Teacher Assistant: Yale Summer School of Art at Norfolk (May 1999 to July 1999) Norfolk, CT.

Duties focus on assisting and teaching a six week Drawing course, Giving critiques and assisting in the general running and organization of the summer undergrad program.