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Welcome.
My name is Rebecca. I am an art teacher, curator and advocate for community outreach through creativity.
I love my work as an educator, and I am ever grateful to be able to teach a subject I am passionate about. I enjoy cultivating a student-centred classroom, which challenges and develops my teaching practice and practical art knowledge to better support my students in their pursuit and appreciation of art and design.
I would like to share some of the projects from my career
that I am particulary proud of and impact my work as an arts educator.
This is QUA. The gallery that I built and ran in Hanoi, Vietnam.
The goal of the space was to create an open and inclusive venue for creatives to gather,
share their work, run art workshops, film screenings, and community events.
I took an abandoned room in a popular music venue, renovated and furnished it,
then opened it up to the public. I would invite artists to exhibit their work for free,
collaborating with them and curating their exhibitions.
Click here to learn more.
The venue also featured a shop to sell work from local artistsand an art book and zine library.
We were featured on Culture Trip and other local publications.During Covid it no longer became possible to run the space. Whilst closing its doors felt like closing an exciting chapter of my life, I took so many of the experiences from this and I was able to apply it to my classroom and enable my students to work with the art world that I had links to through the gallery, inviting artists to offer unique workshops, take students for tours with curators of large galleries and museums and facilitate curating exhibitions for our end of year shows.
All images are shared with the permission of the school, with the identities of the students protected.
Here is a selection of the many highlights from my work as the Head of Art at the International German School HCMC. Within my role, I taught from primary to IB, creating my own curricula in line with the German and IB curriculum standards. My students focused on a variety of artistic disciplines from traditional practice to more contemporary techniques, such as graffiti, installation and zine-making. Each year group engaged in debates and presentations on their projects and art history, and had the opportunity to work with practising artists based in the city as guest lecturers. During my time at the school, we developed a community arts fundraising program in partnership with a local orphanage, and our student art auction was able to raise a significant sum to support the charity, whilst raising awareness.
I am an experienced artist, working in a number of disciplines, including: illustration,
graphic design, animation, painting, printmaking, sculpture, filmmaking and photography.
You can find examples of some of my earlier work and photography in this link:
www.cargocollective.com/rebeccajoyhughes
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