JSMatteson’s past 12 years of experience include:
MFA & BFA (summa cum laude) academic
art museum education curator, assistant, & docent
public school substitute art & graphic design teacher
private school art & photography instructor
STE(A)M summer camp director
university studio art & art history instructor
community college guest speaker/lecturer
public art acquisition committee member
art gallery programmer & preparator
artist-in-residence (AIR)
art competition winner & juror
published terminal thesis & art journal submissions
“Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.” – G.W.F. Hegel
“To study one artistic medium in isolation from others is to study an inadequacy…partly because the artists themselves insisted again and again upon the inextricability of the arts.” – Daniel Albright
“Fine art, by its very name, implies fine relations.” – Arthur Wesley Dow
"I do not want art for a few, anymore than I want education for a few, or freedom for a few..." – William Morris
“A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection―not an invitation for hypnosis.” – Umberto Eco
"It is, though, an ironic truth that the moment when art claims to be 'above' contemporary life is always the moment it becomes controlled by it." – Alastair Mackintosh
"This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well." – Paulo Freire