Inspiring Art Education For Creative Students
Empowering students through engaging and imaginative art instruction.
Inspiring Creativity Through Art Education
Explore our vibrant student gallery showcasing diverse projects and inspiring artistic achievements.
Lisa Conrad
BFA Studio Art, MA Art Education
Passionate art educator with extensive experience teaching diverse techniques and inspiring creative expression in students of all skill levels. Dedicated to fostering a welcoming, imaginative classroom environment that nurtures individual artistic growth.
Teaching Philosophy
I cultivate a learning environment that re-creates the conditions necessary for authentic artistic engagement through a structured, exploratory, and sensory-based pedagogical approach with acute consideration of developmental growth. Art embodies an essential way of knowing, basic for all students, and is a vital component of a fully developed education. By offering students alternate ways of understanding, art education facilitates identification, processing, and expression of ideas in new modalities, relevant for the multi-faceted learners who embody the contemporary classroom.
Experienced
Over a decade of experience teaching art in public and private schools, for non-profit art centers, and in museum settings. Additionally, Conrad is the Founder of the Newark Print Shop, a non-profit printmaking studio in Newark, NJ, where she served as the Executive Director for 10 years.
Engaging
Engaging students across ages and abilities, Conrad tailors and executes curriculum across K-12 classrooms, from kindergarten through high school AP Studio, that is engaging, meaningful, rigorous, and fun.
Professional
Helping learners curate their best artwork to showcase their unique artistic voice, Conrad secures art awards and exhibition opportunities for her students, as well as creating displays throughout the school community.
Fostering Imagination Through Engaging Art Education
Explore our specialized teaching programs designed to nurture artistic skills and inspire every student.
Schoolwide Art Displays
Student art exhibitions showcasing exemplary work, beautifying schools, empowering student artists, and highlighting the importance of art education.
Collaborative Projects
Collaborative art projects and installations, engaging all art students to work together for a common goal to make our world more beautiful while teaching students that we can each contribute towards individually towards a larger, community-driven goal.
Classroom Inspiration
Art classrooms developed with the artist in mind, creating visual aids, organized materials, and project and portfolio management systems streamlining the art class experience.
Inspiring Creativity Through Engaging Art Lessons
Discover what students and parents say about our classes.
She has a true gift for designing curriculum that pushes students creatively while keeping them genuinely engaged, and her range as an artist and educator allows her to bring depth and rigor to whatever she’s teaching.
Museum Director of Education and Community Engagement
An inspiring approach to teaching that makes every art project exciting.
High School Student
Exceptional dedication to art education and nurturing young creative minds every single day.
Fellow Educator