JSMatteson’s past 12 years of experience include:

• MFA & BFA (summa cum laude) student

• art museum curator of education & 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

• career day presenter

• county fair art juror

• public art acquisition committee member

• art gallery programmer & preparator

• artist-in-residence (AIR)

“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