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  • Home
    • Articles about ceramics
  • About Ms. Gray
    • Ms. Gray's Art
  • Ceramics
    • Welcome! >
      • Syllabus &. Procedures
      • Social Contract
      • Wheel Throwing
    • Monday Videos
    • Introduction
    • Identity
    • Imagination
    • Dino
    • Craft & Design
    • Midterm
    • Sculpted Mug
    • Vase
    • Shoe
  • Ceramic Studio
    • Welcome! >
      • Syllabus and Procedures
      • Social Contract
      • Monday Videos
    • Introduction
    • Abstraction
    • Emotion
    • Nature
    • Flower Pot
    • Midterm
    • Self Portrait
    • Inspiration
  • AP - 3D
    • Welcome! >
      • Syllabus and Procedures
      • Previous Students
    • Intro to the course
    • Summer Prep
    • Inspiration
    • Sustained Investigation
    • Make Art
    • SENIOR ART SHOW
  • NAHS
    • Broadway in the Park
    • Tustin Art Walk
    • Senior Art Show
    • Museum Visits
    • Call for Artists
  • Lesson Archives
    • Wheel Throwing >
      • Beginning Wheel Throwing
      • Mugs
      • The Perfect 10
      • Plates
      • Vase
      • Midterm
      • Lidded Container
    • Classroom Management >
      • Social Contract
    • Art Concepts >
      • Monday Inspiration
      • Craftsmanship, Creativity, Effort
      • Art Lesson: Artistic Process
      • Art Lesson: Principles of Design
      • Art Lesson: Elements of Art
      • Art Lesson: Studio Habits of Mind
      • Art Lesson: Art Analysis
      • Art Lesson: Importance of Art
    • Quick Builds >
      • Quick Build: Name Plate
      • Quick Build: Photo Holder
      • Quick Build: Bowl Mold
      • Quick Build: Mug
      • Quick Build: Eyes, Nose, Mouth,
      • Quick Build: Hand
      • Quick Build: Mini Sculptures
      • Quick Build: Stamps
      • Quick Build: Sgraffito Magnets
      • Quick Build: Wall Vase
    • Surface Design >
      • Create a Glaze
      • Surface Design
    • Coil >
      • Public art
    • Assessment >
      • FINAL
    • Slab >
      • 3 MUGS
      • Slab Sculpture
      • Wall Piece
      • Darted Tumbler
    • Sculpting >
      • Teapot
      • Mobile/Windchime
      • Surreal
      • Figurine
    • Themes >
      • Home
      • Gratitude
      • Play
      • Prettiness & Hope
      • Struggle & Expression
      • Beauty
      • Food
      • Anthropomorphic
      • Extreme Emotion
      • Impressionism
      • Inspiration
      • Investigation
      • Holiday Sale
      • Slab Architecture
      • Expressionism
      • Mashup
      • Craftivisim
    • AP-3D >
      • Breadth >
        • Review of the EOA & POD
        • Styrogami
        • Negative Space
        • Found Object
        • Container
        • Cardboard
        • Clay Composite
        • Wearable
      • Concentration >
        • Your voice
        • Project Proposal
        • Friday Critiques
        • Writing Your Statement
  • Sub Plans
    • Tools and Materials
    • Education and Careers in Art
    • Ceramic Terms
    • Art Lesson: EOA & POD
    • Artist Research
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BIO
Ms. Gray is a high school ceramics teacher at Tustin High School in Tustin, California. She has been teaching for 8 years and currently serves as the VAPA department instructional coach. Her classroom emphasizes fun and creativity for all students and emphasis is placed on how the arts influences our everyday lives. 

She has been making and selling ceramics for over 20 years and has personally experienced the therapeutic benefits of making. Her passion for making has resulted in several art shows and selling her work in craft booths, on school campuses, and currently in local coffee shops in Long Beach, California. 

In addition to ceramics she loves going on adventures with her pup swoon and exploring all that nature has to offer. Living near the ocean has a big influence on her artwork. 

CONTACT
Email:
ygray@tustin.k12.ca.us
Instagram:
@thsceramics @gray___clay
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Teaching
  • Department Chair
  • 2022 NCECA Speaker: "Anti-Racist K-12 Ceramic Teachers"
  • Developed PD for district: "Big Ideas in the Visual Arts"
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Artistic ​
  • Currently Selling: Lord Windsor Coffee and Wolf's Brew. Long Beach, CA
  • 2012-2013 Creative Collective, San Pedro, CA
  • 2010 BFA Show, "Little Lines" CSULB, Long Beach, CA
  • 2009 Solo Show, 4th st. Vine. Long Beach, CA

Teaching Experience
05/2015 to Present: Tustin High School
  • Teacher of Ceramics grades 9-12. Developed program to include AP 3-D and designed curriculum. Current Department Chair.
​05/2011 to 05/2014: South Bay Aquatics
  • Infant Aquatics Specialist. Instructed students from 6 months to Adults in swimming skills that lead to water safety. Trained new instructors on swimming methods and child psychology. 
​06/2004 to 05/2011: City of Lakewood
  • Lifeguard/Swim Instructor. Supervised and trained 50+ lifeguards and swim instructors based on Red Cross standards. Earned promotion through work ethic, exceptional teaching techniques, and safety focused mentality.
08/2010 to 04/2011: Young Rembrandt's
  • Art Teacher. Administered after-school art lessons to groups of 20+ elementary students that increased creativity and knowledge of basic art principles.
09/2007 to 06/2009: Southwestern Longview Private School
  • Art Teacher. Developed and implemented lessons in 2-D design administered to grades 9-12.
02/2006 to 06/2007: City of Lakewood
  • Ceramic Instructor. Taught beginning and intermediate wheel throwing to adults. 

Education
Eastern Illinois University                                   Charleston, IL
M.A. Art Education                                               In-Progress

California State University Long Beach.           Long Beach, CA
Single Subject Credential: Visual Arts               January, 2015

California State University Long Beach            Long Beach, CA
B.F.A. Ceramics                                                     May, 2010