Faculty Spotlight: Yaz Williams
Yaz joined Arts Corps last winter as a Classroom Assistant and this year they are stepping up as a Teaching Artist. Recently, they were kind enough to share some of their thoughts, experiences, and practices of being a teaching artist. “Being a teaching artist to me is being able to have influence and be influenced by the youth without being necessarily in a traditional educational setting”. Yaz had always wanted to be a professional creative but they never expected to be an educator. To them, traditional educational settings place teachers in a loop, bound by a list of requisites ...