Visual Arts
Krista Clark -- email
Kathleen Jackson, Visual Arts -- email
Kathleen Gillepse Jackson received her B.S. and M.Ed. degrees in Art Education from North Georgia College in Dahlonega, GA. Ms. Jackson was recently named The Georgia High School Art Educator of the Year by the Georgia Art Education Association for the second time. She has served as a Visual Arts Panelist for the Georgia Council for the Arts; Member of the Gainesville Rotary Club; State Judge for the Governor’s Honors Program; State Co-Chair of Youth Art Month at the Capitol, Leadership Class with the Hall County Chamber of Commerce and Board Member of the Georgia Citizens for the Arts. Ms. Jackson served as the Secondary Division Representative for the Georgia Art Education Association and is past State Conference Chair. As state chair, Jackson was instrumental in attracting speakers from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art and the Southeastern Region of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In 1997 the Georgia Department of Education appointed Jackson as one of two writers for the Quality Core Curriculum 9-12 Team, Fine Arts Division.
During her tenure as Director of the Quinlan Art Center in Gainesville, she curated numerous exhibitions including two shows in conjunction with the Cultural Olympiad focusing on the art of Oaxaca and Ocumichu, Mexico and of regions of Africa. An authority on the traditional crafts of the southern mountains, Jackson’s exhibit of the same name featured works by some of the finest craftspeople from six southern states. GEORGIA FOLK ART an exhibition she organized for Governor Miller was named the Best Visual Arts in Atlanta in 1991 by Creative Loafing Magazine. Jackson has worked with artist Georgia O’Keeffe’s photographer on two projects related to the artist and was awarded a residency fellowship by the Fulton County Arts Council and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences for her to created a series of drawings, pastels and paintings for exhibition; and the McColl Teacher Scholarship to the Penland School of Crafts Summer Program tostudy ambrotype photography with Toshi Ueshina.
Drawings and sculptures by Ms. Jackson have been featured in Brides Magazine’s Home of the Year” issue; in the state capitol exhibition “Twenty Four Georgia Artists” and in “Paperworks Southeast,” an exhibition of works on, of or about paper juried by High Museum of Art 20th Century Curator Peter Morrin. Jackson’s photography has appeared in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution as she was one of nine artists featured in the Foothills Guild Tour of Studios. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of the Georgia Mountains Museum, First National Bank, Suntrust Bank, Monsanto Carpet Company, Conde Nast and Bursten Marsteller Agency in New York. Ms. Jackson is the school sponsor of the National Art Honor Society and In-School Coordinator of the Fulton County Arts Council School Arts Program.
Jackson’s students have gone on to study art and design at such prestigious schools as New York University, Brooks Institute of Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, Notre Dame, Washington University, Pratt, University of Colorado, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Georgia Tech, State University and The University of Georgia.
Michael Scheifflee -- email
Michael Scheifflee comes to Alpharetta High School as a native of Pennsylvania. Studying at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Scheifflee has a vast background in the visual arts. In May of 2004 he received a Bachelor of Science in art education along with a minor in art history. Scheifflee has experience in many artistic media including, painting, drawing, 2 and 3D design, fiber arts, ceramics, sculpture and jewelry. Mr. Scheifflee brings strong influences in the 3D arts and is excited to build a renowned art program at Alpharetta High School.
With advanced credits in sculpture and jewelry, Scheifflee hopes to generate interest for future classes in the medium. Future plans also include an AP art history class which could be introduced to the AHS curriculum as early as the 2005/06 school year. Mr. Scheifflee will also offer jewelry and a computer art course second semester providing students with a wide range of choices within the visual arts.