Hello. My name is Kjaer (care). I look forward to having the opportunity to work in your school as a Fine Art Teacher. I have a real passion for art and for teaching. Your students will benefit from my expertise, my enthusiasm, and my true joy of experiencing young people creating THEIR art!
I was born an artist. I would draw anything. I drew cartoons as I watched them, and drew portraits from a very early age. Anything creative and I simply lost all sense of time and space.
As an academic student, and a dancer, I left my artistic pursuits for many years. I learned, though, that I am happiest when I create... I love to share that joy!
I have been a teacher for 30 years. I have taught from Grade 1 to 12, including having the honour to be head teacher in First Nation Alternate Schools in Vancouver for many years. For the last 9 years, I taught ART exclusively and, with the Advanced Placement Program, I very successfully worked with numerous secondary students to earn University Credit in 2D, Drawing, and 3D Design.
I received the Muse Award in Mission as Visual Artist. I have been the Artist In Residence in Maple Ridge for the past number of years. I hope you notice that I am a local home business. I began a very successful one of a kind clothing line and was always honoured to be juried into every high end Art Show that I applied for.
I miss working with young people, and I miss teaching ART.
I am back as an Art Instructor because, through the Maple Ridge Arts Centre, and as the Artist In Residence, I have been returning to teaching elementary school art and absolutely loving it! Through this program, I met a teacher who was the mother of one of my after school art students. She told me about another artist in Surrey who is working in schools. I called up Joanne at saltwaterstudios.com and she was SO giving and informative. She welcomed me using her expertise in this field. Joanne is fully booked each year, and she books the classes at the beginning of June for the following year.
"Creativity is contagious, pass it on" - as quoted by Albert Einstein - and I intend to pass it on. I will be donating a portion of my fees to the Arts Centre in the city I work in. I will suggest that they might want to use this donation in their many art courses as a gift to a young person who may not be able to easily afford a class, and/or to add this money to their Scholarship Fund to support a graduating art student in our community. Remember to check your local Arts Centre for their art classes.
Thank you for your interest. I look forward to talking to YOU... 604-612-6070.. or email … [email protected] Please call immediately to set up a day of instruction, so that you won't be disappointed, for this school year. Space is quite limited already. Remember, too, that I am also available for Professional Development, and I would be pleased to offer after school classes as well, to students and or their parents.
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REFERENCES BY PHONE
For Kjaer Neletia Pedersen… certified teacher and artist
The last school that I worked in was - Kanaka Creek, Maple Ridge in July 2013 (year round school)
- I was hired by the PAC, as an artist, to create a clay mural with their 600 students:
· Kate Sullivan, Principal 604-467-9050 (and teacher, Dawn Flanagan)
References from Mission School District
- I worked as a teacher until June 2010,
-in Grades 1 to 12 and as a Secondary ART TEACHER
– successfully teaching AP Drawing AP 2D and AP 3D:
· Carolynn Schmor, Director of Student Services 604-826-6286
· Bill Dickson , retired Principal 604-820-1553
· I was Artist In Residence
-working closely with the ACT in Maple Ridge until September 2013, and I reported directly to:
· Carol Cheremkora, Arts Program Manager 604-476-2789
I have been a full time teacher in Vancouver, Chilliwack, and Mission
- I have run my own pottery studio
- I am now creating women’s clothing KOME Clothing
- as a certified teacher and an artist, I am looking to teach ART in schools
-in my new neighbourhood, during class time and particularly…
After School Art!!! www.artforschools.ca
I have a few Letters Of Reference below if you would like to read them.
I was born an artist. I would draw anything. I drew cartoons as I watched them, and drew portraits from a very early age. Anything creative and I simply lost all sense of time and space.
As an academic student, and a dancer, I left my artistic pursuits for many years. I learned, though, that I am happiest when I create... I love to share that joy!
I have been a teacher for 30 years. I have taught from Grade 1 to 12, including having the honour to be head teacher in First Nation Alternate Schools in Vancouver for many years. For the last 9 years, I taught ART exclusively and, with the Advanced Placement Program, I very successfully worked with numerous secondary students to earn University Credit in 2D, Drawing, and 3D Design.
I received the Muse Award in Mission as Visual Artist. I have been the Artist In Residence in Maple Ridge for the past number of years. I hope you notice that I am a local home business. I began a very successful one of a kind clothing line and was always honoured to be juried into every high end Art Show that I applied for.
I miss working with young people, and I miss teaching ART.
I am back as an Art Instructor because, through the Maple Ridge Arts Centre, and as the Artist In Residence, I have been returning to teaching elementary school art and absolutely loving it! Through this program, I met a teacher who was the mother of one of my after school art students. She told me about another artist in Surrey who is working in schools. I called up Joanne at saltwaterstudios.com and she was SO giving and informative. She welcomed me using her expertise in this field. Joanne is fully booked each year, and she books the classes at the beginning of June for the following year.
"Creativity is contagious, pass it on" - as quoted by Albert Einstein - and I intend to pass it on. I will be donating a portion of my fees to the Arts Centre in the city I work in. I will suggest that they might want to use this donation in their many art courses as a gift to a young person who may not be able to easily afford a class, and/or to add this money to their Scholarship Fund to support a graduating art student in our community. Remember to check your local Arts Centre for their art classes.
Thank you for your interest. I look forward to talking to YOU... 604-612-6070.. or email … [email protected] Please call immediately to set up a day of instruction, so that you won't be disappointed, for this school year. Space is quite limited already. Remember, too, that I am also available for Professional Development, and I would be pleased to offer after school classes as well, to students and or their parents.
------------------------------------------------------------
REFERENCES BY PHONE
For Kjaer Neletia Pedersen… certified teacher and artist
The last school that I worked in was - Kanaka Creek, Maple Ridge in July 2013 (year round school)
- I was hired by the PAC, as an artist, to create a clay mural with their 600 students:
· Kate Sullivan, Principal 604-467-9050 (and teacher, Dawn Flanagan)
References from Mission School District
- I worked as a teacher until June 2010,
-in Grades 1 to 12 and as a Secondary ART TEACHER
– successfully teaching AP Drawing AP 2D and AP 3D:
· Carolynn Schmor, Director of Student Services 604-826-6286
· Bill Dickson , retired Principal 604-820-1553
· I was Artist In Residence
-working closely with the ACT in Maple Ridge until September 2013, and I reported directly to:
· Carol Cheremkora, Arts Program Manager 604-476-2789
I have been a full time teacher in Vancouver, Chilliwack, and Mission
- I have run my own pottery studio
- I am now creating women’s clothing KOME Clothing
- as a certified teacher and an artist, I am looking to teach ART in schools
-in my new neighbourhood, during class time and particularly…
After School Art!!! www.artforschools.ca
I have a few Letters Of Reference below if you would like to read them.
