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Educator
Rebecca Eve Baruc has been a teaching artist for 15 years across NYC and Chicago. She's taught a range of mediums to all ages at StudioUs, but has an expertise with teens having taught at Groundswell, Greenstar Movement, After School Matters, and Chicago Arts Partners in Education.
In 2022-2025 she taught at The Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts), re-invigorating the AP Drawing & Painting curriculum, and producing curriculum for Color Theory and Mural Arts electives.
Philosophy
For Rebecca Eve Baruc, the nexus between teacher and student is vital and eternal. She continues to be in loving conversation with the educators who molded her across her life, and has recently stepped into the joy of being a long-term mentor for her own previous students. Both the role of teacher and student are positions to be a life-long learner, and Baruc believes it's that spirit of awe and wonder that ought to circulate between them. In the classroom, Baruc sets the tone with humor, curiosity, and mutual respect. Nurturing a student is to attempt to understand a galaxy, and at the center of the universe that Baruc wants to help build is love. Love is a steady presence that invests in community, is honest, and enjoys the small moments. This philosophy is inextricably tied to that of Baruc's art practice. The nexus between teaching and an artful life is vital and eternal.
Baruc and ChiArts seniors of '25, photo by Patrick Lentz
Art21
In the summers of 2023 and 2024, Baruc attended the Art21 Educators Summer Program. This program "is an intensive, year-long professional development initiative and learning community. The program is designed to support K–12 educators in any subject area who are interested in bringing contemporary art, artists, and themes into classroom teaching and learning."
Here is the submitted video that won her acceptance into the program. She put the camera in the students' hands and invited them to film what they wanted of the school and classroom.
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