ACADEMIC INSTRUCTION

Email
michellebaan (at) hotmail (dot) com

 

 

  • CLASSES 

    Introduction to Drawing, Drawing for Beginners, Drawing II, Advanced Drawing, Drawing with Color, Drawing with Confidence, Botanical Drawing, Watercolor Painting for Botanicals, Line in Landscape Drawing, Conceptual Drawing, Figure Drawing, Drawing for Design & Merchandising, Drawing for Fashion Design, Introduction to Painting I (oil, acrylic, watercolor), Plein Air Acrylic Painting, Painting II, Advanced Painting, Watercolor, Color Theory, Painting with Color and Abstraction, Two Dimensional Design, Ceramics, Silkscreen Printmaking, Painting from Observation Acrylic Painting, Large-Scale Collage

  • 2022 – present
  • Adjunct Instructor, Drexel University, The Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, Philadelphia, PA 
  • INTRODUCTION TO DRAWING, Learn essentials of the drawing language, line, shape, gestalt, value, composition and perspective

 

  • 2020 – 2022
  • Rowan University
  • Ric Edelman College of Communication & Creative Arts
  • Glassboro, NJ
  • Adjunct Instructor in person
  • Introduction to Painting, oil painting to all levels of undergraduate majors and non-majors

 

  • 2020 – 2021
  • West Chester University
  • West Chester, PA
  • Adjunct Instructor in person and online
  • Taught Introduction to Painting and Introduction to Drawing to all levels of undergraduates

 

  • 2019
  • SUNY, Purchase College
  • Purchase, NY
  • Adjunct instructor
  • Taught Introduction to Painting, oil and acrylic painting
  • to studio art majors and minors

 

  • 2020
  • Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
  • Introduction to Drawing, in person

 

  • 2015 – 2019
  • Drexel University
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • Adjunct Instructor and Sabbatical Replacement Position
  • Taught Introduction to Painting and Painting Basics to Design and Video Students

 

  • 2016 – 2019 
  • The University of the Arts
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • Senior Lecturer
  • Taught Ideation, a Sophomore Level Drawing Class, and Natural Forms, a First Year Drawing Class, and Introduction to Drawing
  • Continuing Education:
  • Introduction to Perceptual Painting, Painting: Abstraction and Color, Collage

 

  • 2016 – present
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
  • Continuing Education
  • Philadelphia, PA
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  • in person and online
  • Teach courses such as Acrylic in the City, Plein-Air Painting, Line in Landscape: Drawing; Night Painting;Drawing with Color: Color Pencil; Calligraphic Sketching in the Park, Passion for Palette Workshop

 

  • Figure Drawing:
  • Week Long Intensive Workshops for High School Students

 

  • Watercolor Painting:
  • Week Long Intensive Workshops for High School Students
  • 2014 – 2015
  • Bowdoin College
  • Brunswick, Maine
  • Visiting Assistant Professor in Painting and Drawing
  • Taught Introduction to Painting and Introduction to Drawing

 

  • 2013 – 2014
  • Bucknell University
  • Lewisburg, PA
  • Painting and Drawing Sabbatical Replacement
  • Taught Drawing I, Painting I, II, & III

 

  • 2012 – 2013
  • Drew University
  • Madison, NJ
  • Adjunct
  • Taught Two Dimensional Design

 

  • 2012
  • Moravian College
  • Bethlehem, PA
  • Adjunct
    Taught Painting 1 and Visual Foundations Design Basics

 

  • 2012
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
  • Continuing Education
  • Philadelphia, PA
    Passion for Palette, Critic

 

  • 1999 – 2012
  • Drexel University
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • Adjunct Instructor
    Taught Color Theory, Design I, Drawing I, and  Figure Drawing

 

  • 2006 – 2008
  • Washington University
  • St. Louis, MO,
  • Visiting Assistant Professor
    Taught Drawing I & II, Two Dimensional Design, Conceptual Drawing: The Narrative

 

  • 2003 – 2006
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • Adjunct Instructor
    Taught Drawing I for all undergraduates

 

  • 2002
  • Tyler School of Art
  • Temple University
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • Adjunct Instructor Basic Design

 

  • 2001
  • Swarthmore College
  • Swarthmore, PA
    Sabbitical Replacement Position 
  • Taught Studio Art: An Introduction to Drawing and Acrylic Painting

 

  • 1997
  • The Fabric Workshop and Museum Apprentice and Teacher
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • Taught High School Students in the gifted program SilkScreen Printmaking