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| Meet the FIS Upper School Visual Arts faculty members and learn a little about what they do both in the art studios and outside of school. Darren Trebel
William Owen William Owen joined the art department in 1997. He has a BA in Fine Arts (with Honours) and received his Art Teacher's Diploma with distinction. Although Mr Owen started his career in 'normal' schools, he enjoyed the multi-cultural experience of teaching Chinese students so much that he went on to teach in an Arab school and then in the Frankfurt International School. He has prepared students for O/A level, GCSE, and IB art examinations. His after school art clubs are popular and have increased from 1 to 3 sessions per week. Mr Owen is an exhibiting painter and has taken part in over 40 art exhibitions in several countries and his paintings are in private collections across the world. Mr Owen teaches grade 6 art, grade 7 and grade 8 art classes. He can usually be found in room 347 on the Main Campus. Contact Mr Owen here.
Yvonne Murray Yvonne Murray joined the faculty at ISW in 2003 and has been working at the Main FIS campus as an Upper School art teacher since 2004. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, where she studied Printed Textile Design. She was awarded a Masters in Printed Textiles from the Manchester Metropolitan University in 1994, before going on to work as an artist in Residence in the Western Isles, Scotland. After working on several community arts projects for the Highland Festival she later completed a further Post Graduate Course in Teaching at Moray House, Edinburgh, and was awarded her PGCE in Art Education in 1997. She has taught art for five years. Ms Murray is actively involved in creating her own art work - working on mixed media collages and has an art studio in Mainz where she is currently working on a series of collages on the theme of birds.
The art faculty at FIS take great pride in their work in the classroom and in the work that their students produce. They also take very seriously their obligations as heirs of a long and colorful tradition of excellence in art education in one of Europe's oldest and largest International Schools. In addition to their regular classroom duties, the art teachers in the Upper School feel strongly about the need for art teachers to be practicing artists themselves, making art as they teach art; leading by example and (whenever possible) doing so in the presence of their students. Finally, the art teachers in the Upper School take their professional development very seriously, attending regular annual conferences of many of Europe's leading educational associations (such as IB, CIS and AGIS) and taking a leading role in the school's current efforts to develop curriculum documentation. Darren Trebel, in addition to his IBO examining duties. is a former Art Committee Chair and experienced Visiting Team Accreditor for the Council of International Schools, while Bill Owen is a regular presenter at the annual Association of German International Schools conferences. Yvonne Murray regularly attends IB Diploma conferences and takes time to develop her contacts with German art associations and local artists. She is also unique in setting goals for herself: she has thus far kept to her vow to familiarize herself with a new artistic medium (through formal classwork or training) every year.
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The PTG Fine Art Exhibition, usually held in March or early April, has evolved into a major cultural event not only for the school but for the surrounding communities of the Hochtaunus region as well. In 2007, the exhibition celebrated its 13th year and attracted visitors from all over Hessen and central Germany. 48 artists from 21 different nations participated and sales set new records. The art faculty at FIS routinely participate in the PTG show and feel it is important that this mainstay of the visual arts in the Frankfurt region recieves all the support the school's art department can give. This year's exhibition inaugurated the display space in the newly completed Arts & Sciences Center at FIS. 50 artists exhibited their work. The show opened Friday evening at 19:00, 7 March and continued through Sunday, 9 March when it closed at 16:00. Over 16,000 Euro worth of sales in the three days marked one of the highest sales records for the show in its entire history! For more information on the art ehibition, contact exhbition chairperson Cynthia Fenner at cynthia_fenner@fis.edu.
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