Linda Zolten Wood
Linda Zolten Wood earned her BFA from Cleveland Institute of Art in 1987. She started out as a scenery and props artist at Cain Park and The Cleveland Play House, then went on to create large-scale murals in the Greater Cleveland Region.
She became inspired by conservation principles influenced by her 1988 travels in India, with a 'no waste' ethic, in which practically everything is re-used in some way, and water is viewed as precious. Linda received a 2013 Community Partnership of Arts and Culture ‘Artist in Residence Grant’ and The Cleveland Foundation's Neighborhood Connections Grant for her Collinwood Painted Rain Barrel.
In 1993, Linda won The Cleveland Museum of Arts’ Parade the Circle Poster/T-Shirt Design competition, and she held a solo exhibit in The Corning Gallery at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, where she taught wildlife drawing. She currently teaches acrylic painting at Kirtland Public Library, Fairmount Center for the Arts and Shore Cultural Centre and has taught Upcycled Arts Exploration at Cleveland Institute of Art’s Continuing Education.
Her work can be viewed at The Collinwood Recreation Center an online at Zolten Wood Design on Facebook.
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CAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT BADGES EARNED
CAL's Teaching Artist Professional Development series provides a complete system to effectively prepare, professionalize, and recognize teaching artists' unique skill sets. Learn more about this initiative.
This is potentially a 3-part workshop series:
Students, in one class session, will: identify their favorite healthy vegetables and create cartoon superheroes, drawing and naming them, identifying the facts of how the fresh vegetables affects their health, and give their character those as powers to fight illness.
Students will learn how to try new foods, if allowed to taste vegetables in class.
One Added Session: Students will create a page of a comic book with their characters saving someone's health with their powers.
5 Sessions: Students will help create Action Cards for the deck of the Giant Action Game for their school to use, with older students helping early readers play.
10-15 Session Residency: Students will help build and plant a raised bed vegetable garden with their characters painted on the sides, along with a painted rain barrel to support the garden. Schools will need clearance for installation of both garden and rain barrel into the roof rain gutter system, to support healthy eating and water conservation through science, and SEL: How to care for growing plants through responsible watering and gentle but consistent care. Volunteers will be needed for Summer months.
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Linda Zolten-Wood