Jenna Bauer has shared the joy of art-making with children for over 20 years in a variety of settings from elementary school classrooms and museums to city parks. Her students have ranged in age from 2 to 92. She is an inspired educator who considers her work as a teaching-artist as part of her studio practice, which includes painting, printmaking, drawing, ceramics; creating and implementing custom-made progressive arts-curricula, also developing not-for-profit organizations such as SCOSAG: The South City Open Studio and Gallery (renamed Artscope); and Colorbridge Art. Bauer is an accomplished upright bass player and jazz singer. Her personal visual artwork focuses on investigations of color, mark making, gesture and landscape with the aim to create moments of respite for the viewer.
EDUCATION
2013 Masters of Fine Art ~ Painting: Hunter College, New York, NY
2002 Community Artist Training Institute, Regional Arts Commission, STLMO
2000 Bachelors of Fine Art - Painting: Webster University, Saint Louis, MO
1995-97 Elementary Education/Music Education Major, Indiana University
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 to present Art Music and Movement teacher at Notre Dame de Sion for Petites (2 year olds) and Montessori Students (3, 4 and 5 year olds); Kansas City, MO
2014 to present: Colorbridge Art: Founder and lead teaching-artist, providing multifaceted customized art lessons, including signature curriculum: Color Wheel Connections: Handmade Books About Human Beings. One-on-one private art lessons, small to large group lessons, on-site at local schools and community centers as well as at our Macklind Avenue Educational Art Studio, St. Louis MO Drawing, painting, bookmaking, printmaking, ceramics, collage.
Fall 2019:
Art Educator: DeLaSalle Middle School: 6th, 7th and 8th grade, St. Louis, MO, designed and implemented a well-rounded arts curricula including socially-minded and current art history, color theory, drawing, painting, bookmaking, collage, ceramics.
2015 to 2021
Springboard to Learning, Saint Louis, MO: providing socially minded studio arts curricula for St. Louis school children. “Smiling at Diversity” “Color Wheel Connections”
2015 to 2021
Instructor: Introduction to Studio Art, Introduction to Drawing,
Webster University, Saint Louis, MO
Fall 2015
Instructor for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis’
middle school LEAP program
2011 - 2014
Washington Market School, Tribeca, NYC: Responsible for developing studio art curriculum for 2 and 3 year old students. Studio projects are multidisciplinary and focus on fine motor development as well as increasing confidence, independence, and an art vocabulary. Topics covered include drawing, painting, color mixing, mark making, print making, sculpting, clay, sewing and bookmaking. Often times projects are thematic, relating to classroom interests such as music, animals, garden, urban planning! etc.
Fall of 2010 - Spring 2011
Studio School, Upper West Side, NYC: Developed and implemented a weekly studio art curriculum for 5th through 8th graders. Topics included color, composition, mark making, drawing from life, printmaking, and bookmaking
Fall of 2008 – Spring 2010
Oakwood Friends School (boarding and day school), Poughkeepsie, NY:
Director of the middle school after-school program, responsibilities included development and implementation arts-based curriculum; other responsibilities included assisting with study halls; teaching high school ceramics, developing OFS summer camp, serving as a dorm parent and weekend crew chief
2009, 2010, Summer
Mill Street Loft's Dutchess Arts Camp, Poughkeepsie, NY: Ceramic and multidisciplinary Arts instructor for children ages 4 through 14
Summer 2011, 2012, 2013
Super Summer Fun Camp Director at Oakwood Friends School, Poughkeepsie, NY: developed and implemented multiple two-week summer camps for children in kindergarten through 5th grade. Camps are multidisciplinary and take place primarily outdoors on the Oakwood Friends School campus. Activities have included bookmaking, painting, drawing, large sculptural projects, musical instrument construction, sing-alongs, song writing, playwriting, talent shows, raspberry picking, and many many more. For more information visit: http://oakwoodsummerfuncamp.blogspot.com
2000, 2001, 2008, 2009, Summer
Center of Creative Arts, COCA, St. Louis MO: Art Instructor for intensive full and half day summer camps. Designed multidisciplinary art projects based on themes in nature, literature, theater, and other aspects of culture for children aged 4 to 10 years. Collaborated with movement teachers, circus clowns and magicians
2000-2002 and ‘07/’08
New City School, St. Louis MO: Daily substitute teacher, general academic classroom: pre-primary through 6th grade, visual arts, performing arts, and bodily kinesthetics, (including a three month maternity leave for the art teacher.)
2002 – 2007
South City Open Studio and Gallery, SCOSAG, St. Louis MO: Founding Executive Director; Art instructor for daily “Open Studio Hours” where students between the ages of 4 to 12 “dropped in” to participate in 60 minute lessons in ceramics, collage, printmaking, painting, drawing, bookmaking, music, and crafts. Designed and taught 6 week course descriptions for fall and spring classes. Instructor for senior citizen’s weekly clay class and outdoor community festivals. Taught ceramics classes for children aged 4 to 16 and maintained ceramic studio at the Potter’s Workshop, a off-site location of SCOSAG.
2007, winter
Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO: Collaborated with other artist-educators to develop unique programs for visiting schools and community groups during the “Beauty and the Blonde” exhibition
2002, winter
Saint Louis Art Museum: Developed and taught multimedia art class for k-2nd grade in conjunction with SLAM exhibition of University City Ceramics
1999, fall
City of Ballwin, MO: Designed and taught “Super Saturday Studio” workshops
1998, 1999
City of Ballwin, MO: Summer Camp Director and Instructor
1995, 1996
City of Ballwin, MO: Summer Camp Counselor