This semester has been a challenging one to say the least. From a student perspective, I have never felt so overwhelmed by both academic work and outside stressors. Zoom is frustrating, and especially as someone who has mosly hands on art and theatre classes left take, just not the same. And while we’ve had to…
Author: jessfitzpatrick5
Theatre and Collaboration: Finding a Mentor and Learning How to Teach
When people ask me how I found my faculty mentor for this fellowship, I tell them that it was actually flipped. My faculty mentor, Gianni Downs, sent me an email with this opportunity after I expressed interest in TA’ing his scene painting class. Together we worked on what this project could be and how I…
Painting in a Pandemic: My CUTF Project
Hello, my name is Jess Fitzpatrick, and this semester I am working on a CUTF project for the Theatre Arts department’s scene painting class. This class explores the fundamentals of painting for the theatre by teaching color and paint techniques while guiding students through creating large scale projects. Working with my faculty mentor, Gianni Downs,…