"When did you first know you wanted to teach?"

I’ve known I wanted to teach art for quite a while now, but only recently has the prospect of teaching students actually appealed to me. Even when I was young, I knew that I wanted a career in an art related field. By the start of my junior year of high school, I had already considered pursing art education, but it was honestly for the convenience of resources. Aside from all of the resources of the art room, many high schools also have a metal shop, wood shop, auto shop, or industrial technology center, all helpful in making my art. But the more I told people I was considering education, a surprising number of people assured me that I was very good at explaining things and would probably make a good teacher. By the time I graduated high school, I had re-decided that I wanted to teach, and that I might actually enjoy teaching as a career. As took classes at the University, I realized that I had missed a lot of critical art related information and concepts in my high school classes. Learning of works by artists like Duchamp opened my eyes tremendously to the world of art, a deeper level of thought and concept that I had never experienced in high school. The more art and education classes I took, I realized how many students miss the ability to explore their potential early in their artistic careers because they haven’t been exposed to the broader concepts that make art into “Art”. Defiantly not trying to lead an Intermedia crusade, by any means, I’m just finding myself more and more interested in providing the knowledge and resources for a student to explore alternatives artistic practices that interest them.