Meet Your Teacher

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>MS Art</B></FONT>    |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="MS Art"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <B>Meet Your Teacher</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Class Bulletin Board"><U>Class Bulletin Board</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Other "><U>Other </U></A></div> <div> Meet Your Teacher</div> <div>                    <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Lucida Calligraphy" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Lucida Calligraphy" >Meet Your Teacher</FONT></div> <bR> <div>       My name is Jane Tobin Jacobs. I grew up in New York City and went to City College graduating with honors in Art. I had my first one person show on graduation at the Gallamaufry Gallery. </div> <div>       <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Lucida Calligraphy" >My husband Neal, teaches math in Monticello. We moved up here soon after our son Noah was born. Our daughter Sula was born in Sullivan County. Both went to school in Monticello.</FONT></div> <div>       I went to New Paltz  to earn certification to teach art , and then earned  an M.A. there in studio art, my specialty area being clay, both sculpture and pottery.  </div> <div>    <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Lucida Calligraphy" >  I have been teaching in Liberty for twenty years, first in the Elementary School , then the Middle School.  I am active in school and am on the following school committees: Curriculum, Professional Development, and  Mentoring. With the Liberty Faculty Association I am on the Social and the Sabbatical  committees. I am Director of Art, and advisor for the Junior Sullivan County Inter-Academic League Team and I supervise the after school Art Club.</FONT></div> <div>     Professionally, I have had Shows of my Art in galleries in Manhattan, in and around SoHo , in Sullivan County and  in Westchester.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div>      I have been awarded the section 7 (which encompasses Westchester to Albany) Art Teacher of the Year award as well as a Charter membership in Teaching and Learning by the Board of Regents. I have presented my lessons in New York State Art Teachers Association Conferences. I also have worked with BOCES in creating county wide conferences. </div> <div>     Outside of  school  I have represented Sullivan County for the New York State Art Teachers Association, and am a member of the Arts organization in Sullivan County. My hobbies are art, kayaking, hiking, rowing, gardening, and various other creative activities.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>