Angie Hani the Art Educator
Angie Hani's dynamic spirit is represented in her art making process through her live performances and her captivating Visual Art lessons. Angie Hani is loyal and passionate to her life in Art. She specializes in Visual Arts Education for High School students on an international level. Her cross-cultural experiences allow her to visually communicate deep concepts in a broad range of media and art-making forms. Angie has over 26 years of high school teaching experience, within the educational systems of Australia, NSW NESA, and extensively with the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) in Middle Years Program (MYP) and Diploma (DP) Visual Arts. Angie's art education, curriculum development and experience with the IBO, designing, implementing and teaching Visual Arts Diploma courses, are her strengths. She constantly challenges her students to go beyond their comfort zones and be true to their authentic artistic journeys.
Angie's amazing experience in teaching Visual Arts this has allowed her to create strong curriculum design, focused on the integration of art history, art making, art criticism and art curation. Angies states, "I am truly blessed to have experienced a global fusion of cultures in the study of Visual Arts. In my classes I am both the teacher and the student, creating project exemplars for the students as they work, to have as a template for observation and contemplation. This has allowed my students to comprehend conceptual art in the making, expressing and exploring concepts in contexts outside of there comfort zone, overcoming fears through structured process for progress. I have the highest expectations of myself which I aim to exceed in every aspect of my life. I aim to model these high expectations for students so they reach for the best in all they do."
The students graduating from her IBO Diploma Visual Arts program are in the top 5% of the world average and most continue to study the arts abroad returning to their home countries richly, culturally cultivated and open minded. You can view the Final DP Grade 12 artworks here. Going international as a teacher has been extremely rewarding and enriching for Angie both artistically and culturally. Bringing together varying cultural perspectives and depicting these concepts through her Art from conception to completion of a body of works.
View some of the amazing art educational experiences here.
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Angie also offers extremely successful, exclusive Mentorship Sessions, focusing on catering to individual needs in the creative process to create art-making progress. Angie offers continual guidance and vision for art teachers, artists and students through tailor-made sessions catering to the needs of each specific client.
The program is either one to one or school sessions.
Take this enlightening opportunity to extend your art thinking into art creation.
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Angie Hani's Teaching Philosophy
"I believe education is a profession which requires passion and love. As a Visual Arts educator, I whole heartedly nurture each of my students as unique individuals with creative souls and minds. I endeavor every lesson to cultivate, the whole person in each student, strengthening and developing not only their artistic skills and creative conceptual abilities, however, also building and instilling within their personalities and characters an understanding and sense of pride, self belief, cultural identity and inner strength. I absolutely love my life as a Visual Arts teacher, and I feel blessed as I followed my true passion in life. I wake each morning to teach and guide with love, warmth, compassion, passion and with total care. This is quality education....... Love!
My focus is to lead each of my classes professionally, with structure and purpose. As a role model who engages with my students on a deep conceptual and creative level, I hope to inspire and influence each of them through my own experiences making a positive impact during the time they are in my class, and creating memorable, meaningful and inspirational lessons." Angie Hani