Art Teacher

Looking over my students' art portfolios and the photographic and the video footage I've shot in the last 16 years it occurs to me there exists a trove of information that shows how participation in the Art and Writing Workshop can be a major contributing factor in people starting to believe in themselves. ---Rachael Romero

Rachael Romero  encourages her students to engage in self-determined art exploration. Her teaching is particular and personal. Her students work has been shown four times at the Cork Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, twice at the New York Public Library on 125th Street and are now working towards a show at St Peters Church, the Jazz Ministry, NY.

An award-winning filmmaker, photographer, and graphic designer with a background in painting and printmaking, Romero leads art workshops as an integral part of her work as an artist. She designs and conducts numerous year-round art workshops for adults and children in various and multiple settings, providing an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose. Romero curates and mounts exhibits; archives student work; edits, designs, produces and publishes journals, web sites, calendars and video of the art process.

Romero's artists’ books, prints and paintings are in collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; The Whitney Museum, New York City; Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York City; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Romero holds a double M.A. in Studio Art and Art Education (with an emphasis on work with special populations) from Antioch University .

Some press on the Hobos to Street People exhibit spanning the New Deal to Now, in which Romero has some work.

SF Chronicle March 1, 09

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/01/BAIM162096.DTL

An interesting list in the SF Chronicle

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/19/NSGJ15TTLA.DTL&hw=11+things+homelessness&sn=001&sc=1000

 Oakland Tribune, (Bay Area News Group) on the show.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/theater-and-arts/ci_11834967