 Jennifer
Tong has extensive experience as an art educator. She not only
teaches Visual Arts at Alamo, but is also an art teacher at the Fine
Arts Museum of San Francisco.
Her experience includes working for LEAP, a San Francisco private
non-profit organization that places artists in residencies in Bay
Area elementary schools. Jennifer has also been an art teacher for
a research program on attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder organized
through UC Berkeley's Department of Psychology.
Jennifer is a freelance photographer with a photojournalism degree
from San Francisco State University. She is presently working on
a documentary project at Laguna Honda Hospital, creating photographs
of people, and stories of the residents.
Photography continues to be an outlet for creative expression for
Jennifer. It is an effective means to promote dialogue on issues
that may not readily promote themselves. Jennifer has been published
in the San Francisco Examiner Magazine and the San Francisco Bay
Guardian, and has been exhibited at the UC Berkeley Extension.
Jennifer's goal is to bring a positive and liberating experience
to children through art. She is interested is using visual arts
to encourage students to challenge and explore their perceptions
of the world. She believes that an enriching hands-on experience
can nurture self-confidence and creative thinking in all paths of
life. It can also be used as a tool to build cultural understanding
and tolerance.
Alamo is extremely fortunate to have such a creative and experienced
art teacher working with our students. We salute you Jennifer Tong!
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