Leadership for the K-12 Art Department

Congratulations to Nellie Worden and Kirk Benson for seeking and securing the K-12 Art Coordinator leadership position for our district.

Nellie is in her third year of teaching art at Hawthorne STEM Elementary as well as the Waukesha Juvenile Center. She has taught at the Waukesha ONE Conference on personalized learning in the art room, as well as participated in CESA's Personalized Learning Conference last fall. Currently, she is working on co-creating a Kid Art Magazine and building connections to art classrooms globally. You can find her after school in Art Club or spending her school free time leading "loom lunches". Nellie dabbles in all mediums but her love is fiber arts and she is always seeking out new opportunities to learn and grow.

Kirk has been teaching art for the past four years at the Waukesha STEM Academy-Randall Campus where he has worked to provide choice based and personalized learning opportunities for students in the art classroom. He also facilitates a mix of after school activities including Coding Club, Vex Robotics, and Cross Country. Kirk has recently collaborated to help launch the Waukesha STEM Academy's new Makerspace and is excited to continue to see the space grow. Kirk is also a practicing artist and focuses much of his work in the area of printmaking.