Cassandra Monson – Art Instructor

Specialties

Cassandra Monson is a professional artist and a freelance art teacher. Cassandra has a BFA from the College of Visual Arts and many years of teaching experience. She teaches art classes all over the Twin Cites and facilitates community-​based collaborative public art projects and artist residences in public and private schools. Cassandra teaches students to invest themselves in the creative process so that they will build a quality product. She has a fluid but organized teaching style that works with children and adults of all ages. She teaches all art forms from painting to papermaking and sculpture to bookmaking. Cassandra combines quality art materials with reusing and recycling to enhance her student’s creative problem solving skills and promote environmental consciousness. Cassandra exhibits her artwork on a regular basis, this provides a rich opportunity for her students to learn from a working artist.

History

Established in 2000.

While studying art and art education at the College of Visual Arts Cassandra began teaching. She found developing curriculum and creating art with children fulfilled her desire to be helpful and active in the larger community. She felt painting alone in her studio wasn’t fulfilling as a long term career. Cassandra found the balance between creating art on her own and facilitating art in the community and in the classroom a perfect fit for her. Since 2000, Cassandra has been exhibiting her own drawings and paintings in galleries AND creating art with children!