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Meet our Teaching Artists
Through music, art, story telling, and poetry children discover the beauty of nature, and how environmental and biological systems work together to make life possible.
Our award-winning team of teaching artists provides activities and skills that inspire full sensory engagement with environmental education in our
Celebrating the Art
in Earth
program.
Nancy Robb Dunst, founder,
Celebrating the Art in Earth, program coordinator, and multi-media artist.
 Nancy
has been a professional artist for 40 years. She has master's degrees in Education and Counseling. Her art installations adorn many public places throughout Arizona and numerous art collections. She created Camp Bear Wallow
, a summer art camp, now in its nineteenth year, where she teaches multi-media arts related to ecology, habitat and nature.
Her public art is sometimes whimsical, often historical, personal, or with content relating to place or to community issues. She brings together many different materials always with fanciful and beautiful results.
Celebrating the Art in Earth grew out of her extensive work as an artist in the classroom, and her long-time involvement with Gardens for Humanity.
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 Maleita Wise, multi-media artist and long-time art educator, says of her art, "My art-life is a mirror to me of all the rest of my life. I see this as dialogue and participation, with the goal of always being open to surprise and new ways to approach my own life canvas.
The gifts of color, shape, and composition that flow from the inside to inform us about ourselves have the power to transform and inspire." Maleita inspires her students to not only discover the beauty and knowledge of how the natural world works, but gain insight into how they, themselves, work!
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Sharron Porter
 A gifted artist and educator, Sharron says, "I am painting to see and understand the world. I revel in its colors and forms and textures, and attempt through observation and contemplation to find the relationships between the way things look and what they mean."
Of Sharron's paintings author Louise Sheldon MacDonald says, "Rocks protrude, surging crazily over one another, trunks lean anxiously, twigs grapple rapaciously for water. Colors brighten to their highest hues. Nature is stridently alive in her paintings." -
Sedona's Best Artists
From Sharron's perspective and guidance students learn many elements of art, color and design, with eye-opening observation of nature.
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Gary Every
 Gary feels that his work can be divided up three ways no matter how you look at it. Sometimes he divides it into prose, poetry, and fiction. Other times he divides it into journalism, science fiction, and beatnik. He has discovered that he needs to explore all these fields to best explore his own human condition. He has won awards for writing and performing in many different fields, from journalism, to fiction, to slam poetry.
He brings to his students knowledge, humor, stories, and dedication from his life-long quest and discovery of his kinship to nature. This year he will explore the poetry of water with his students, as well as the importance and function of the water cycle in various ecosystems.
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Jeanie Carroll
 Jeanie's experience and talent embrace a wide range of musical genres, ages, languages and cultures. She energetically performs while still making time to teach children. Formerly the music teacher at West Sedona School, she is currently the director of the local Sweet Adelines chapter of Red RockAppella chorus, is a member of The Flagstaff Master Chorale and is a performing member of the Red Earth Theatre, Theatrikos, and the Flagstaff Light Opera Company. She now brings her many talents in music and education, and shares her joy to our
Celebrating the Art in Earth program!
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You can help provide art and environmental education by donating to Celebrating to Art in Earth.
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I will never look at a vegetable or a flower in the same way again!
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$50 will provide 25 students one hour of art instruction with amazing teachers!
We have expanded our program this year, and include several new schools: Mountain View Prep, Cottonwood Elementary School, and Clarkdale-Jerome Elementary School.
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Gardens for Humanity's mission is to develop and share our relationships with Humanity and Nature through gardening, art, and education.
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