Maygen Lotscher                                                                                     ________ 
Homer, AK 99603  907 399-0511   
mjearthworks@gmail.com

EDUCATION:    Masters of Education/4.0  University of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska
                         Alaska Teacher Certification Elementary Classroom K-6/Art K-6: June 2003
                        Highly Qualified for teaching Art K-12

                        Masters of Fine Arts Candidate: Ceramics
                        University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 1999-2000

                        Bachelor of Fine Arts: Ceramics/Cum Laude
                        Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan 1993-1998

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Homer High School, Homer, Alaska/Art Department Chair/Art and Ceramics Teacher 2006-2015
Job Duties: Teaching and running a ceramics studio for roughly 70 students a semester.  Developing
and implementing the ceramics curriculum.  Teaching, developing, and implementing the 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional art curicullum for roughly 50 students a semester.  My role as secondary educator is to be a guide that supports highly individualized student centered learning and empowers student’s discovery of their creative inner self.  
 
University of Alaska, Kachemak Bay Campus/Adjunct Faculty, 2005-present, Instructed 7 semesters
Job Duties: Instructing college students in Beginning Wheelthrown ceramics, Beginning Handbuilt Ceramics, Intermediate Wheelthrown Ceramics, Intermediate Handbuilt Ceramics

Project Grad, Homer, Alaska/Workshop Instructor in Ceramics, Summer 2010

Otter Beach Educational Center/ Educator K-3,2003-2006
Job Duties: Teaching, developing, collaborating, and implementing a curriculum for roughly 20
Kindergarten through 3rd graders at an alternative, private, non-profit school.  The mission was
to foster the love of learning through the arts, movement, and, experiential learning.  I was responsible for
the development and implementation of the art and music program, math and literacy for the 2nd-3rd graders, collaborating and co-teaching with the other teacher on thematic based studies.  

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee. 1999-2000:Full Scholarship: Graduate Teaching Assistant
Job Duties: Assistant Instructor for Ceramics 1: Beginning Throwing, Ceramics 1: Beginning Handbuilding, Sculpture 1: Casting (Bronze, Iron, Aluminum).  Clay Technician (responsible for mixing clays and glazes for studio)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
Art Coordinator: Alaska All State Art Competition, 2010
Alaska Arts Educator Association Conference: Homer, AK 2008
Randy and Jan McKeatchie Johnson Clay Workshop: Halibut Cove, AK, 2006
International Wood Fire Conference: University of Iowa, 2000
NCECA: National Clay Conference: Denver, 2000, Chicago, 1998, Rochester, 1996.

STUDIO EXPERIENCE:
Ceramics 1993-present: Experience with firing in oxidation, gas reduction, salt, soda, raku, and wood fire kilns. Experience with coiling, slab,press molds, slip casting and wheel throwing techniques. Experience with clay chemistry of mixing clays, glazes, and slips.

Sculpture:  Experience with metal casting in bronze, iron, aluminum including the use
of firing furnaces and burnout kilns.  Experience with lost wax sand casting, concrete, plaster, found object,
blacksmithing, woodworking, adobe, and sod sculpture techniques.

Arts Skills: Basket making, knitting, crocheting, sewing, fiber arts, wood, paper art, bookmaking, painting, drawing

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS: 
Anchorage Museum of Art, Anchorage, Alaska.  2006
 
AWARDS:
Arts Educator Grant, Rasmuson Foundation.  2008
Stranded Art Fund Grant. 2006
 
EXHIBITIONS:     
Communities, Disaster, and Change, Valdez Museum of History and Art, Valdez, Alaska, Honorarium Invitational Traveling Exhibit.  2013-2015
All Alaska Juried XXXIV, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska.  Statewide Juried Traveling Exhibit, 2012-13
Sentiments of Bristol Bay, Pratt Museum, Homer Alaska, Two Person Exhibition. April 15-June 26, 2011   
Masters of Mud V.  Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska.  Statewide Invitational Exhibit, 2010
Born Into Form. Bunnell Street Gallery, Homer, Alaska, Two-Person Exhibition. September 2008     
Kachemak Clay.  Homer Council on the Arts, Homer, Alaska.  Invitational Exhibit. May 2008   
Masters of Mud IV.  Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska.  Statewide Invitational Exhibit. 2007
Shed: To Release or Let Fall.  Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, Alaska.  Solo Exhibition. December 2006    
Masters of Mud III.  Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska.  Statewide Invitational Exhibit. 2006
Taking it Outside.  Gallery 7126, Portland, Oregon.  Statewide Invitational Exhibit.  2006
The Human Body.  Bunnell Street Gallery, Homer, Alaska.  National Invitational Exhibit.  2006   
2004 Juried Art Show. Pratt Museum, Homer, Alaska.  Two ceramic pieces, regional juried competition. 2004

STUDENT AWARDS:      
Alaska All State Art Competition. Best of Show, Metals 1st place, Sculpture 3rd place, Mixed Media 3rd place, Ceramics Honorable Mention
Alaska All State Art Competition.  Ceramics 2nd place, 2012
Alaska All State Art Competition. Ceramics 1st and 2nd  place, 2010       
Alaska All State Art Competition. Ceramics 2nd and 3rd place, 2009
Alaska All State Art Competition. Sculpture 2nd place, 2007