Lynn Sondag, BFA, MFA
BFA Savannah College of Art and Design, 1990
MFA California College of the Arts, 1997
Chair, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Art History, and Design
Website: www.lynnsondag.com
Biography
Lynn taught her first course at Dominican in the Fall of 2002. Five and a half years later, she began teaching full time and chairing the Department of Art, Art History, and Design. In each of her courses there is a guiding premise to provide students with experiences that develop both intellectual and intuitive skills such as visual literacy, creative inquiry, and craftsmanship. Students learn from a dynamic range of individual and collaborative exchanges between artists, artwork, and audience, in order to discover personal and alternative points of view.
Her top 3 loves of teaching:
- mentoring each student to become a skilled and thoughtful artist who can actively engage with and influence their future.
- increasing access to art and art education through service-learning pedagogy and community-based art projects.
- creating collaborative cross-disciplinary projects with Dominican colleagues.
Courses
- Beginning, Intermediate, & Advanced Watercolor
- Intermediate and Advanced Drawing
- Life Drawing
- Service-Learning Watercolor
- Service-Learning Art Fundamentals: Concept to Creation
- Service-Learning Shaping the Future Colloquium-
- Visual Responses: Artists Leading Change
- Beauty In the Struggle: Imagination for a Change
- Big History Through the Lens of Art and Design
Teaching Grants and Awards
- Fanjeaux, France Faculty Grant, Summer 2010
- Academic Excellence Award, Spring 2011 (Service-Learning Art Fundamentals:Concept to Creation)
- Dominican University of California Teacher of the Year, 2010-11
- Marin Community Foundation Grant, 2011-2012 (teaching and community partnerships with Bahia Vista Elementary School and Pickleweed Park Community Center)
