Teaching experience

San Diego, CALIFORNIA

Current activities

Learn with the artist from Paris                                         Private art classes for children and adults in English, French and Czech language

Me And Clay Afterschool enrichment program, teacher, founder and business owner

San Diego French American School Visual Arts teacher

Teaching history

Online Art Classes Ceramics, Painting, Drawing online program 2020 -2021

Kids Like Clay                                                          2013 - 2018      After school enrichment program for elementary schools, teacher, co-founder

Village Arts and Education Foundation, Balboa Park 2016 - 2018 Community outreach, Board Director and visual art classes/workshops teacher

Get Centered Clay Studio, ceramics teacher 2014 - 2015

Spanish Village Art Center, Balboa Park, Studio 6       2013 - 2014       Community outreach, Board Director and ceramic classes for adults and children teacher

Paris, FRANCE

Atelier Artaim Paris                                                                     2001 - 2007

  •  Taught private art lessons for children and adults at my own art studio in central Paris. 

The Center for University Programs Abroad (CUPA)                     2004 - 2006 Independent organization founded in New York in 1963 as the Center for Overseas. Undergraduate Programs (COUP). CUPA has offices in Paris and the United States. Their transcripts are accepted by most US institutions. 

  • Taught American college students the ceramic-sculpture class and graded their artwork. Students received the credit for the grades earned

The Association Artistique de la Banque de France                        1992 - 2005

  • Taught ceramics and sculpture classes.

Association Pierre August Renoir

  • Kids’ Visual Art classes teacher, Program organized by Mme Evangeline Renoir, The Renoir Association Director and wife of Claude Renoir, grandson of the famous impressionist painter Pierre August Renoir at his hometown, Essoyes

Les Ateliers Bleus Art Program                                                                  1990 organized by the L’Éducation Nationale de France

  • As a foreign artist living in France, I introduced my Czech Culture & Art to French Elementary school children

Art Piece for our School 1990 under umbrella of the Éducation Nationale Française

  • Group creation of an art piece by young children, to be included in the architecture of the school

Art in Elementary School Program, organized by Rectorat de Paris.  

  • Workshops for school children.

Philadelphia, PENNSYLVANIA

Private Elementary School                                                                         1999

  • Taught at a private elementary school in exchange for studio space at the Clay Studio, Philadelphia

Invited Workshops AND SLIDE LECTURES/1993-2022

  • AIC 2022 Congress Geneva, Switzerland, Winning Strategies - How To Create Successful International Ceramics Event, Geneva, Switzerland

  • The Bishop’s School, La Jolla

  • Old Town Academy, San Diego

  • Grossmont Community College, El Cajon 

  • San Diego Mesa College, San Diego

  • La Petite Ecole, La Jolla 

  • National Council on Education of the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  • University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA 

  • Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke, New Zealand

  • Parsons School for Design, New York, USA

  • Art University of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

  • AIC conference, Prague, Czech Republic

  • Tama Art University Machida, Tokyo, Japan