Meet the Team
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Executive Director
Teacher, Baxter Elementary School
Board Member, Northern Culture Exchange
Freelance Composer
M.A.T. Elementary Education, University of Alaska Southeast (in progress)
M.M. Music Composition, University of Northern Iowa, 2016
B.A. Music and Philosophy, Middlebury College
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Artistic Director
Adjunct Professor of Art, Drawing, Color Design and 2D Design, University of Alaska Anchorage
Radio Broadcaster, Out North Radio 106.1 FM
Former Commissioner, Anchorage Arts Advisory Commission
M.A. History of Art, Birkbeck College
Post Graduate Diploma in Painting and Printmaking, Brooke’s University; Life Drawing, St. Martin’s School of Art
B.A. Art and Art History, Brooke’s University
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Education Director
Former Educator, Assistant Principal, and Principal, ASD
Board Member, Anchorage Nordical Ski Club, Girls on the Run, South Central Alaska
Owner, Bore Tide Designs and Bore Tide Pretzel Co.
Coursework in Educational Leadership, University of Alaska Anchorage
M.Ed. Portland State University; B.A. Education, University of Oregon
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Advisor
Performer, Entrepreneur, Musician, Educator
Current Board Memberships: Access Alaska, Alaska Jazz Workshop, Institute of the North, Northern Culture Exchange
M.M., New York University
Postgraduate Certificate Jazz, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
B.A. Theater Arts, Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama
Bachelor in Language Arts, University of Bergen, Norway
About.
Mission
The mission of Place.ment is to open interdisciplinary collaboration among young artists about people’s relationship with place.
Vision
We envision a community of educators, creative professionals, community organizers, business people, philanthropists, and students knit together by their passion for art and education, coming together regularly to understand the connection between who we are and the places we live.
About
Wonderful things happen when you really listen to kids. Most obviously, you learn about them and their wild, unfettered imaginations. More importantly, they feel valued and begin to value themselves in response. When they do, those wild imaginations take flight and we get to dream with them as a community.
The experience of listening is even more meaningful when you encourage them to explore an inspiring place. Our program was founded in Alaska, which is blessed with beautiful scenery, but our people’s relationship with place goes deeper than appearances. Place is context, and it is context that gives meaning to much of what we do as kids and as adults. We encourage young people to represent their own relationship with place through art.
We do this as teaching artists—adults with experience and credentials in teaching and with creative passions of our own. We weave student interests into collaborative, interdisciplinary projects that they are excited to share with their community. We help students develop the skills they need to carry out their projects by bringing in experts. We coach them through reflections on their own relationship with place and plant seeds for reflection on that theme. We celebrate their success and follow up with them after camp is over.
We do this because art and education empower people to understand and express themselves.
