Jenifer K Wofford
Education
MFA 2007 University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
BFA 1995 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Professional Experience
*indicates university-level instruction
2008
Instructor, The Language of Drawing*
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
July-Aug 2008
A 6-week, 16 hrs /week summer session intensive. A study of drawing as a tool for articulating what the eyes, hand, and mind discover and investigate when coordinated. Some sessions will be devoted to drawing the human figure. Lectures and demonstrations introduce students to techniques and varied applications.
Instructor, Filipino American Arts*
University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Jan-May 2008
An interdisciplinary studio/seminar course introducing students to Filipino-American artists and history across multiple disciplines and generations. The course incorporates lectures, numerous field trips, gallery/museum visits, and guest artist presentations. Projects include journals, essays, art projects, a public course blog and active discussion/participation.
Instructor, Filipino Performance (Barrio Fiesta)*
University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Jan-May 2008
Production class directed primarily towards the creation of the university’s annual PCN (Philippine Cultural Night), with a multidisciplinary focus on all aspects of theatrical production, from set design through choreography. While most of this is student-driven, I assess the overall productivity of participants, and facilitate discussions and written assignments.
Instructor, Art Education: Ideas and History*
California College of the Arts, Oakland, California
Jan-May 2008
Seminar course introducing students to the basic concepts, theories and history of arts education and pedagogy through readings, discussion, research and writing.
2007
Instructor, Filipino American Art History*
University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Jan-May 2007
Co-taught, with Ricardo Reyes, an interdisciplinary studio/seminar course introducing students to Filipino-American artists and history across multiple disciplines and generations. The course incorporated numerous field trips, gallery/museum visits, and guest artist presentations. Students maintained a public course blog, and projects included journals, essays and art projects.
Instructor, How To Run A Worthwhile Critique*
California College of the Arts/Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland, California
November 2007
Created and led a one-day workshop for educators on how to create and facilitate productive, meaningful, safe group critiques of artwork for students ages 5 to 17. Fundamental issues, and specific language, goals and objectives for critiques, were discussed.
Interim Instructor, Introduction to Drawing*
City College at Marina Middle School, San Francisco, California
September-October 2007
Filled in for two weeks for primary instructor Bill Samios in an evening continuing education course designed for adults who wanted to build basic drawing skills. Focus was on the basic elements of art, and making observational drawing in charcoal.
2006
Graduate Student Instructor, Introduction To Visual Thinking*
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
August-Dec 2006,
Taught an undergraduate studio art course, introducing students to the basic concepts of contemporary visual art. The class was a dynamic mix of seminar, studio, slide lecture and field trips to art spaces and artist studios, with both written and studio assignments (short exercises and 3 major projects). Responsible for syllabus, projects/objectives, and all final grades.
2005
Teacher, Photography, Out of Site Youth Arts Center
Out of site at City Arts and Technology High School, San Francisco, California
Co-taught (with Bayete Ross-Smith) an introductory-to-intermediate after-school photo class for high-schoolers. Taught the basics of composition, organization, subject/theme, printing and presentation, with several marathon darkroom dates at San Francisco’s Rayko Photo.
Workshop Instructor/Curriculum Collaboration, The Values Project*
California college of the arts, San Francisco, California
June 2005
Collaborated with Eduardo Pineda and Virginia Jardim on curriculum, and taught the visual arts component of a training workshop aimed at teachers wanting to implement “Teaching for Understanding/Harvard Project Zero” methodologies in their classrooms.
Guest Artist/Co-Instructor, Youth Public Media course*
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California
January-May 2005
Co-taught with Julio Morales. Introduced students to primary concepts and structures of arts education and community arts, including writing syllabi and rubrics, time/classroom management, and finding effective ways of working with youth in a structured, disciplined, but personal manner. Course culminated in collaborative arts projects between college and high school students, and an exhibition at S F’s Galeria De La Raza.
2004-05
Program Director, Teacher, Out of Site Youth Arts Center
Out of site at City Arts and Technology High School, San Francisco, California
September 2004-July 2005
As Program Director, I worked with Executive Director Beth Rubenstein to build programs, design curricula, provide teacher training, and connect students and counselors from local high schools with our programs. As Teacher, I led and team-taught (with Leo Bersamina and Ana Szyld) an innovative after-school, for-credit class open to students from several different S.F. high schools, which combined traditional and conceptual art-making skills, urban history, art history, and community awareness. I also solo-taught a 3-week summer intensive in a similar vein, called “Art Boot Camp”.
Lead Arts Teacher
City Arts and Technology High School, San Francisco, California
August 2004-May 2005
Coached, assessed and supported five part-time arts faculty to develop challenging, consistent, standards-based curricula. Advised on some of the unique challenges of teaching at a first-year charter school. Acted as a liaison between part- and full-time staff, and helped provide arts integration for the school as a whole.
2004
Interim Instructor, YouthPublicMedia class*
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
September 2004
Filled in for several weeks for primary instructor Julio Morales. Introduced students to primary concepts and structures of arts education, including writing syllabi and rubrics, time/classroom management, and finding effective, structured, personal ways of working with youth.
Artist Instructor, Meridian Interns Program
Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, California
July 2004
Taught drawing and youth development skills to teen interns in a gallery- and outdoor-based five-week program that responded to environment.
Humanities Instructor, summer session
b.a.y. fund, San Francisco, California
June-July 2004
Created and taught a six-week language arts curriculum to improve reading and writing comprehension for students entering 9th and 10th grades.
2004
Guest Artist, ‘Out of Site’ class
Galileo High School, San Francisco, California
March 2004
Worked with primary instructor Jonn Herschend, introducing students to primary concepts of slowness, space, culture and symbology, through contemporary art, an Asian Art Museum proect, and a collaborative culminating project cut-paper wall piece in one of Galileo’s corridors.
2003-2004
Fine Arts/Art History Teacher, Asian Pacific Islander Club Advisor
Leadership High School, San Francisco, California
August 2003-June 2004
Returned after a one-year hiatus (Please see 1999-2002 for full descriptions.)
2003
Guest Artist, Out of Site program
Galileo High School, San Francisco, California
December 2003
Worked with primary instructor Jennifer Stuart, working with high schoolers to create an end-of-semester final project transforming one of the school’s hallways through painting, sculpture, installation, writing, performance and video.
2003
Guest Artist, Family Day Workshop
S F Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
July 2003
Created and taught a day-long drop-in painting and writing workshop on “narrative” for families inspired by the Philip Guston exhibition.
Artist Instructor, “Picturing Words”
b.a.y. fund, San Francisco, California
June-August 2003
Taught a weekly summer program for 14 year-olds, making drawings and paintings inspired by poetry, nature, their environment, and modern art, culminating in each youth creating an end-of-summer portfolio of their work.
2002
Guest Artist, Family Day Workshop
S F Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
May 2002
Created and taught a day-long drop-in “unusual materials” sculpture workshop for families, inspired by the Eva Hesse exhibition.
2001-2002
Arts Integration Specialist
Leadership High School, San Francisco, California
August 2001-June 2002
Created support curriculum, objectives, outcomes and lesson plans to integrate art into more non-arts classes at all grade levels.
2001-2002
Teacher, Advanced Art: Visual Communication and Design
Leadership High School, San Francisco, California
August 2001-June 2002
Taught 1 section of what was essentially 2 small 12th-grade classes: Advanced Art (a 2nd-year studio art class) and Yearbook. While the 2 separate halves had specific projects (eg portfolio projects in Advanced Art, layouts and copy in Yearbook), the class was unified through mutual exploration of advanced ideas in visual art, media literacy, and design. Both halves came together for monthly seminars in which a text (eg, writings by John Berger, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Marshall McLuhan) was discussed, and artworks were generated in response.
12th Grade Advisor
Leadership High School, San Francisco, California
Taught 1 section of Advisory, a year-long class/home room. Served as an academic advisor and counselor for a small class of 12-15 students, supporting, coaching and mentoring them through academic challenges, college applications, Senior Project/Portfolios, and graduation.
2000-2001
Teacher, Advanced Art
Leadership High School, San Francisco, California
August 2000-June 2001
Taught 1 section of a year-long, 12th-grade-only,UC-approved class, modeled on the expectations and portfolio requirements of a traditional Advanced Placement Art class. Students were expected to create a master portfolio of works in 2- and 3-dimension, emphasizing formal excellence and intellectual and emotional investment.
12th Grade Advisor
Leadership High School, San Francisco, California
Taught 1 section of Advisory, a year-long class/home room. Served as an academic advisor and counselor for a small class of 12-15 students, supporting, coaching and mentoring them through academic challenges, college applications, Senior Project/Portfolios, and graduation.
1999-2002
Fine Arts/Art History Teacher
Leadership High School, San Francisco, California
August 1999-June 2002
Created and taught 3 sections of Leadership High School’s first art class. The course was a year-long, UC-approved, introductory 2D studio art class (commencing with traditional skill-building in drawing, painting and collage, and evolving into more complex and experimental themes and ideas), as well as a slide-based college-level art history class (emphasizing the birth of Modernist art and ideas, beginning with mid 19th century European art, and progressing into the diversity of contemporary postmodern visual culture). Students were required to give formal, highly creative portfolio presentations of their work to their classmates at the end of each semester.
Asian Pacific Islander Club Advisor
Leadership High School, San Francisco, California
Oversaw and advised weekly club meetings and events such as the annual club-sponsored “Luau” school dance, the annual school assemblies showcasing Asian contributions to the arts, and, of course, the bimonthly home-made Asian food sale,
Instructor, “Art Boot Camp”
Leadership High School, San Francisco, California
April 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004
Created and “taught” a 4-day spring arts elective for a small group of students, exploring their Bay Area arts legacy through field trips, on-site art projects, ridiculous costumes and role-play, and (this is the “boot camp” part) culminating in a 24-hour, non-stop art-making marathon in which no member of the troop was allowed to sleep, to build stamina, character, and camaraderie.
1999
Instructor, Sculpture “Citylabs”
Leadership High School, San Francisco, California
April 1999
Gave a series of sculpture workshops for 9th and 10th graders, based on an “urban/anatomy” theme. Projects responded to their urban environ-ment, in the form of large figurative paper cut-outs, plaster body casts, and “kinetic” paper sculptures built directly onto student’s bodies.
1998
Artist Instructor, Mission Voices program
Casa de los Jovenes/Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California
June-July 1998
Worked with middle- and high-schoolers from Casa de Los Jovenes, as part of a multidisciplinary summer arts program. Program resulted in an exhibition of large-scale sculptures and installations, as well as a collaborative performance.
1998
Guest Artist, Family Day Workshops
S F Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
February/April 1998
Created two separate day-long drop-in workshops inspired by the Alexander Calder exhibition.
1997
Artist Instructor, Youth In Action
S.F. Conservation Corps, San Francisco, California
February-April 1997
Worked with a small group of middle-schoolers in an interdisciplinary arts program exploring writing, drawing, painting and sculpting, culminating in a collaborative installation project for the organizations’s spring finale.
1995
Art Instructor/Mentor
East Oakland Boxing Association, Oakland, California
June-Aug 1995
Guided teen interns through a summer program involving the building of a small stage, and visual- and theater-arts, including drawing, painting and sculpture to children ages 5 through 14. Program facilitated by Juana Alicia and Matt Schwarzman of the Oakland Urban Institute.
1994
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Sculpture*
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco California
Jan-May 1994
Supported Professor Richard Berger in teaching preliminary sculpture skills in clay and plaster.
1993
Teaching Assistant, Program Coordinator*
Instituto Allende (Diablo Valley College program), San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
July 1993
Supported primary instructors Joy Broom, Jerry Leisure and Fran Brown in coordinating students, studio class support, low-level translating for a summer art-study program in Mexico.
Lectures and Panels
2008
Panel Discussion, The MFA Experience, Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, California
Panel Discussion, Emergency Biennale in Chechnya, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California
Artist Talk, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California
2007
Guest Lecture, Asian American Contemporary Art Class, University of California, Berkeley, California
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
Artist Talk, Interdisciplinary Seminar, California College of the Arts, Oakland, California
Presenter/panelist, From Hedonopolis to Melancolony, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Presenter, Art Grill, Mag:net Katipunan, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Presenter/panelist, Galleon Trade, Old Routes, New Exchanges: Building a Transnational Dialogue in Arts-Making, Arts-Exchange, and Critical Discourse, Filipino Writers and Scholars Series, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines
Presenter/panelist, Galleon Trade, Old Routes, New Exchanges, Kritika Kultura Series, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines
Workshop and presentation, seminar, New College of California, San Francisco, California
Artist talk, Fermata, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Panelist, The Progressive Woman, Bindlestiff Studio, San Francisco, California
Panelist, Getting A Job in Community Art and Art Education, Center for Art and Public Life/CCA, Oakland, California
2006
Guest Lecture, Asian American Contemporary Art Class, University of California, Berkeley, California
Visiting Artist Lecture: Crossing Borders, The Artist As Global Citizen lecture series,
California State University Monterey Bay, Monterey, California
Presenter/Panelist, Filipino-American Art: Authenticity, Young Blood, New Genres, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California
Presenter/Panelist, Filipino and Filipino-American Contemporary Art: Furthering The Dialogue, Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii
Artist Talk, Future Prospects, Cubao, Metro Manila, Philippines
Artist Talk, The Living Room, Malate, Metro Manila, Philippines
Guest Speaker, Senior Seminar Class, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Guest Speaker, Youth Public Media Class, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Panelist, True Stories: Art Teachers Tell All, Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland, California
2005
Guest Lecture, Remapping Modernity: Asian American Art and Artists Class, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Screening, Asian American Performance Art Class, University of California at Davis, Davis, California
Guest Speaker, Youth Public Media Class, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Guest Speaker, Youth Mentorship Class, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Guest Artist Lecture, Filipino American Art History Class, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
2003
Panelist, Arts Education Class, California College of Arts, Oakland, California
Guest Speaker, Youth Mentorship Class, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Guest Artist Lecture, Filipino American Art History Class, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Guest Lecturer, Text as Image Class, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Related Projects and Collaborations
2007
Curator/Lead Organizer, Galleon Trade, Mag:net Galleries/Green Papaya Art Projects, Metro Manila
planning committee, Out of Time Space conference, UC Berkeley/SFAI, Berkeley/San Francisco, CA
member, Visuality and Alterity working group, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Participant/co-organizer, Creative Capital Post-Workshop work group, San Francisco/Oakland, CA
Curator, Manila Envelope, thirtynine hotel, Honolulu, HI
2006
Curator, Manila Envelope: A Snapshot of Manila’s Contemporary Arts Culture, Worth Ryder Gallery , Berkeley, CA
2004-05
Youth Advisory Board, Out of Site: Center for Art and Architecture Education, San Francisco, CA
Curatorial Committee, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
1999
Juror, Market Street Art-In-Transit Program, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
1995-on Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. collaborative artist team: please see additional CV