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Crystal has been teaching artist in Boston for more than a decade. She was the Visual Arts teacher at The English High School and the Sound Art & Recording teacher at Margarita Muñiz Academy. She has worked with a number of organizations as a teaching artist and offers workshops as part of her public art practice. She most recently has faciliated workshops in Practices in Collective Imagination and Archiving as Care Practice. 




Teaching Artist, 2024
Design Studio for Social Intervention | Civic Design Course

Teaching Artist, 2024
ZUMIX | Practices in Collective Dreamwork series
Teaching Artist, 2024
Design Studio for Social Intervention |  Community Archiving: Practices in Collective Dreamwork

Teaching Artist, 2024
Massachusetts College of Art + Design | Practices in Collective Dreamwork Workshop

Teaching Artist, 2024
Watertown Public Library | Practices in Collective Dreamwork Workshop 

Teaching Artist, 2023-2024
Design Studio for Social Intervention |  Cyanotype and Linocut Print Workshops

Visiting Assistant Professor, 2022
Massachusetts College of Art and Design | Interrelated Media Practice, SIM Major Studio, Publishing

Teaching Assistant, 2022
Massachusetts College of Art and Design | Environmental Forum Course
Participate in weekly planning meetings, assist in class facilitation

Teaching Assistant, 2021 
Massachusetts College of Art and Design | Form Study Course
Presented personal artist works, led demo of folding tessellations with paper and weaving with reed

Teaching Artist, 2021
Massachusetts College of Art and Design | Precollege Summer Studios
Taught daily classes in Issues & Images course

Teaching Artist, 2020-2021
Institute of Contemporary Art | Art(Co)Lab Program
Taught weekly classes in visual art with youth inspired by the exhibit “I’m Yours”

Teaching Artist, 2020
Asian Community Development Corporation | Youth Placekeeping Interns
Series of storytelling and digital art-making workshops which culminated in a collaborative mural

Teaching Artist, 2020 
Castle Square Tenants Association | Media Makers
Series of storytelling and digital art-making workshops with youth

Teaching Artist, 2018-2020
The English High School & Margarita Muñiz Academy | After School Mural Program
Founded mural club at both schools, designed and painted 4 original murals with youth

Teaching Artist, 2019
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center | Red Oak Youth Programs
Series of radical imagination workshops and field recording workshops with youth

Teaching Artist, 2018
ZUMIX | Teen Arts Council
Radical imagination and collaborative bookmaking workshop with youth

Teaching Artist, 2018
SpaceUs | Pop Up Art Fair
Radical imagination and collaborative bookmaking workshop with event participants

Teaching Artist, 2017
Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción, Summer Youth Program
Taught sound design and radio to youth, youth presented radio segments live on-air at Zumix









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