Visual Arts Educuator Arts Integration Curriculum BFA, AAS, MFA, MSEd
AR Teaching Artist Biography
Alysia Raycraft is a painter and teacher of Visual Art and Design Studies. She currently lives and teaches Visual Art EC-12 in Austin, Texas.
Her BFA was in Painting and Sculpture from the University of Texas at Austin with Classical Foundation Studies of Art and Art History honed in both Austin and UT Italy. She began her professional career as a Painter, Textile Designer and Theater Professional in NYC with an AAS in Textile Surface Design from The Fashion Institute of Technology. She later earned an MFA in Costume Design from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Department of Design for Stage and Film. She designed costumes for the Film, Theatre and Television Industry from NYC to LA, keeping a presence in Museum and Charter School classrooms teaching Visual Art Studies between projects, later earning her MSED in Arts Integration into General and Special Education Studies from Bank Street Graduate School in Harlem, NY. Alysia taught in the NYC Public School system as part of Arts enrichment programs.
She designs Arts Integration Curriculum through the lens of a professional Artist and Designer, Problem Solver and Innovative Thinker of Original Ideas. Her classrooms are Safe Spaces for Learning and THINKING both in the Linear and Abstract to create original works of art based in a Classical Foundation of skill set development. She aims to reach students of all Learning styles and levels of artistic skills to Develop their OWN Voice. She believes that all study is relative for young learners and that studies connect through hard work and concentration, stemming from a place rooted in quieting the mind to find one's unique creative power.