Residencies challenge, excite, and motivate student and artist alike.
I'm especially targeting the kid who doesn't think of himself as creative, helping him understand that it takes a form of creativity to solve a math problem, to make a cut to goal not just to paint or to play the cello. Once we get there, the sky is the limit. Background After graduating a Distinguished Major in English from the University of Virginia I taught English and coached track and cross-country at Episcopal High School, a boarding school in the Washington, D.C. suburbs for seven years. On a Thursday night I would often find myself on stage performing at a Georgetown venue, out of practice for all the hours I had spent on class-work, on dorm, and on my boys' and girls' track teams. The next morning, despite my best intentions, I would often not have that set of essays to hand back to my AP English classes.