American School of Bangkok Elephant Mahout Camp



I recently traveled with a group of students to Pattaya Thailand on an Environmental Leadership Program to learn about the Endangered Asian Elephant.

Students worked in small groups with an elephant & their trainer (mahout).
We spent 3 days learning how to train, ride & care for elephants.
Students experienced the way a mahout lives, and the importance of elephants in Asian culture & history.

Togiak School Banner Project



Each Togiak High School art student was involved in the creation of permanent school banners based on local beliefs & traditions.

Other Projects…



Manokotak mural based on subsistence activities.




 

Native Youth Olympic Banners



Dance Fans

Local storytellers visited the art room weekly to tell traditional Yup’ik stories to Middle School Art students.



Elementary students created “snow goggles” at Yup’ik Cultural Day celebrations.

Projects brightened up the hallway for the end of the semester Art Show.

Current Work

I am currently working on a variety of illustrations, for the establishment of a children’s story based on cultural beliefs & creation myths.



The White Buffalo Calf Woman, in Lakota mythology, is a sacred woman of supernatural origin who gave the Lakota their "Seven Sacred Rituals”



Tlingkit Raven Creation Myth


Coatlique, Lady of the Skirt of Snakes, from the Aztec Creation Myth.

Important animals for the Yup’ik Eskimo of Southwest Alaska, the bones are shown, for the belief an animal is reborn through it’s bones, and the bladder which contains the animal’s inua, or soul.