The Exploratory Art Lab
 
Contact: Jacqueline Rush Lee
Tel: 808.228.8906
Email: phoenix9@hawaii.rr.com
                                
As a teaching artist for the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts I am a sculptor who brings an innovative teaching style and Fine Arts knowledge to students, artists, and teachers. Formerly a college art instructor, I specialize in creative curriculum and project design where I incorporate exciting hands-on art projects into core curricula that meet with DOE standards. Whether in the classroom working collaboratively with a teacher as an artist-in-residence or running an arts workshop, I enjoy working with all age groups and abilities. I also offer private individual lessons and consulting services.
 
Through the “Exploratory Art Lab” experience classroom or workshop participants will typically explore artistic ideas and processes by working with traditional and non-traditional art materials in both independent and collaborative projects. With a goal to create a stimulating, creative and process-oriented environment, participants will expand their knowledge of how artists work, think, express, and present concepts visually. 
 
Jacqueline currently works for the Honolulu Academy of Arts’ Art to Go Outreach Program where she teaches all age groups and levels K-12 in the public schools as well as working with Big Brothers and Sisters of Hawaii. Jacqueline finds that children love expressing ideas through art and she enjoys and excels at providing a first class and authentic visual arts experience for them.
 
Jacqueline exhibits her artwork nationally and internationally and her work is in private and public collections. She has an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a BFA in Ceramics with Distinction. An award winning artist, she was invited to exhibit a body of work at the Contemporary Museum’s Biennial of Hawaii Artists in 2005.  She will be the featured artist at the Center for Book Arts in New York in January of 2009 showcasing works from the Biennial and her 2002 solo exhibition Volumes.