general art classes grades 6 and 7
art elective classes grade 8
Position:
instructor
Personal Information:
About Me:
I have taught at my current position for more than 20 years at a school in the community in which I reside with my family of a wife, two daughters, one dog and two cats. I also serve on town council. I am the editor for the Local Music Collective, a column writer and consultant for a comic book and along with my wife (and sometimes daughter) I play music. www.edrhoades.com
College and Degrees:
Bloomsburg University
TylerSchool of Art (Temple University)
Penn State
Wilkes University
Activities:
Various Published articles about artists
Commercial Art: Freelance, TV graphics for A&E
Portrait Artist for Louis Lavin Studios
Illustrator for Lithographic Publications Inc.,
Contribution to Kreskin's book
Consultant for Moonstone Publications
Illustration and short story published in Moonstone book 2007
Favorite Books:
anything by Philip Jose Farmer, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.,
Favorite Quotes:
Talent is the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way (Winslow Homer)
Interests:
art, music, writing, science
Employment History:
Teaching, commercial art, music
Why Do I Teach?:
When you can help a student do something they are proud of, it has a positive impact on so many things in their life - in school and elsewhere. Teaching affords me that opportunity.