History
Our story originates with our founder, fresh out of graduate school in New York City, cobbling together a career teaching art by traveling across boroughs and teaching everything from private classes to five year olds to school-wide lessons in Title 1 schools. She eventually began teaching as a full-time art teacher in a Title-1 School in Brooklyn. Through all this she was exposed not only to the difference in artistic opportunities students, sometimes only blocks apart, were being offered, as well as to the quality of arts education in some of the schools where teaching art was an additional burden laid on the classroom teachers. As a result, Tempest left her school to found Doodles Academy, with the goal of creating a curriculum that combined open-ended art lessons that was as easy to follow and implement as cut-and-paste ones. Doodles tests its content in Portland, Oregon through small, intimate sliding scale classes before making it live online for schools to use.
Specialties
Art education, art, art school, after-school classes, art curricula, art curriculum, school partner