Eswine Introduction

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Hi Everyone, I’m Sharon Eswine This is me with my daughter and husband in North Carolina. I can’t believe it but I have been an art teacher for 32 years! My husband has been a science teacher for 42 years. We both teach at Savannah Country Day School where I teach grades K-5. Our daughter will be senior at SCDS next year.

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Hi Everyone,

I’m Sharon Eswine

This is me with my daughter and husband in North Carolina. I can’t believe it but I have been an art teacher for 32 years! My husband has been a science teacher for 42 years.

We both teach at Savannah Country Day School where I teach grades K-5.

Our daughter will be senior at SCDS next year.

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Art TeacherYou might guess that I love teaching art since I’ve done it for more

than 30 years and you’d be right.

My students are smart and talented and they love art - how could I not love it?

Left: My second graders are drawing plants outdoors.

Right: Third graders are working on one point perspective drawings in the art room.

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ArtistI’m sad to say it took me about 15 years to decide that I’d be a better art

teacher if I practiced what I preached. Since then I have been painting.

I am a plein air oil painter, which means I paint with oil paints outdoors. It just sounds better if you say it in French.

Left: I am wearing the white hat and I’m with West Frasier (an artist who makes a living at it) and my colleague Ann Jones, who teaches Middle School art. West was our teacher for the day.

Right: We’re all cleaned up and standing with our paintings in the Jepson Center in Savannah. As you can plainly see they are not hanging in the restroom as my daughter speculated they would!

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Camp CounselorEvery summer (up to last summer) I worked with my husband taking

students to various coastal sites and teaching them about the ecology of the marshes and beaches.

In one activity we’d pull a giant seine net and learn about the creatures that we caught. Of course we practiced catch and release!

Environmentalism is an area of interest for me.

I am also very interested in interdisciplinary studies and creativity.

The Skidaway River Sapelo Island

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Much to Learn

I think this course will be very good (and challenging) for me.

I look forward to knowing each of you better as we learn together this summer.

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Much to Learn

I think this course will be very good (and challenging) for me.

I look forward to knowing each of you better as we learn together this summer.