Reed Jablonowski is a senior Drawing and Painting major at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, working in oils, mixed media, charcoal, and graphite. Their practice happens at an overlap between ecology, queerness, and ex-Catholicism, and draws influence from Italian Renaissance techniques, abstraction, and scientific theory. Caroline’s artwork surrounds their experiences as a queer person, and is often an attempt to understand their relationship to the natural world before and after leaving organized religion behind. Caroline is a TA for a painting course in a college-level summer program for high schoolers, and enjoys working with students in high school and older. Their educational philosophy takes an equity-based, individualized approach, prioritizing connecting with students to give curated guidance through the art-making process. They believe teaching someone to paint is partially about helpful techniques and rules and ways to break them, but even more about expanding students’ modes of thinking and introducing them to resources that may otherwise be inaccessible. The act of learning to paint itself is developed by the unique body and movement of each painter, and the educator facilitates that process.

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