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Focus on the Masters Welcomes
Learning To See Coordinator Aimee French
Focus on the Masters (FOTM) is proud to welcome an important addition to its staff. Aimee French has joined the force of FOTM as the Learning to See (LTS) Youth Outreach Program Coordinator. Aimee's extensive arts education experience includes class instruction, program development and management serving populations from all ages, socioeconomic backgrounds and learning levels.
Aimee received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and drawing from Ohio State University. As a lifelong artist, she has worked in, experimented with, explored and has been inspired by hundreds of art mediums, techniques and ideas. Her former position as Director of Museum Education for the Jacqueline Casey Hudgens Center for the Arts in Duluth, Georgia, as well as her present position as Education Coordinator for The Humane Society of Ventura County has prepared her to lead the Learning To See Youth Outreach. Her experience in arts education coupled with her experience in humane education has given her a broader insight into how we learn, and the importance of how what we learn manifests in a student's life. Her goal is to nurture inspiration and creativity. To learn more about Learning To See, please email Aimee at Education@FocusOnTheMasters.com .
Learning to See is an eight-session, one-hour-per-week cross curricular program that teaches about the Ventura County artists documented through the Focus on the Masters educational archive. Lesson plans and art projects are developed based on the artist's biographies, life experiences and the medium in which they work. Each week, a different artist is featured in a short PowerPoint presentation. The relevance of each artist's life and work is woven into the subjects that students are studying in school. After a "round table" open discussion, the students have a hands-on experience of creating their own work of art inspired by the artist being featured.
Aimee's administrative position is made possible through the generosity of Jordan and Sandra Laby, the Meister Family Foundation and Micheline Sakharoff. Additional funding is always needed. To help bring our Learning To See Youth Outreach into our schools, please click here.
The Learning to See Youth Outreach is an extension of Focus on the Masters, a non-profit organization that documents, preserves and presents the works and lives of accomplished Ventura County artists, emphasizing the importance of the arts in a healthy community. The FOTM archive contains extensive files featuring the area's most accomplished artists that include oral histories, video biographies, photographs, visual library, written materials and various ephemera.
To learn more about the Focus on the Masters and Learning To See Youth Outreach log onto: www.FocusOnTheMasters.com .
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