TEACHING (K-5)
Ozel has been working with children throughout California and has touched the artıstic souls of more than 4000 students. His teachıng involves basic academic art education along with his own concepts and techniques. His students learn to create drawings, paıntings, and mixed media works using a broad range of media such as watercolor, acrylic, oil pastel, tempera, charcoal, color pencils, ceramic paints, wood, glue, paper, and found objects..
Ozel’s teaching method focuses on the student’s understanding and application of the concepts and techniques of basic academic art such as line, value, texture, shape, form, composition, color, color theory, tinting, blending, mixing, shading, abstraction, realism, and modernism.
The students develop critical thinking and problem solving skills as they work. They learn to observe and use vocabulary to describe, analyze and interpret what they see. Ozel uses a hands on approach and guides students as they develop their fine motor skills using tools such as, scissors, rulers, hammers, pliers, hand saw, drills, etc with a wide variety of media.
Photo: My students are in process of creating musical instruments. Safety goggles, hand files, sand papers, hand saws, hammers and pliers, are in use
Teaching Experience
For the past eight years Ozel worked with three California school districts; Palm Springs Unified, Desert Sands Unified and Coachella Valley Unified. Ozel facilitated elementary school students in all grade levels to collaborate in creating murals as large as 7 ft. X 30 ft, in acrylic and ceramic tile. The murals are located on school sites as well as other buildings and locations in the school district. Other student’s works are exhibited in the local museums, art galleries and festivals.
Palm springs Unified School Dist Palm springs, CA
Painting and Drawing, working with elementary schools
Desert Sands Unified School Dist Indio, CA
Painting and Drawing, Murals and worked extensively with Carrillo ranch Elementary School
Coachella Valley Unified School Dist Coachella, CA
Painting, Drawing, Murals,Work with Elementary & Middle School in Indio, Coachella and Mecca, Ca
Riverside Arts Council Riverside, CAPainting, Drawing, Murals, Work with Elementary & Middle Schools in Indio, Perris and Riverside, Ca
SPECTRA Cultural Councils Santa Cruz, Cabrillo College, CA
Painting, Drawing, Murals, Work with Elementary & Middle Schools in Santa Cruz, Watsonville, Felton, Ca
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Lecturer, Basic Drawing
Teaching Assistant Basic Drawing
Project Assistant, Art History
References Furnished Upon Request
Students works K-5
In 2015 Ozel received an award for his exemplary teaching. A film maker Chris O’Conner was intrigued by his extensive teaching career. He created a short film about Ozel and his students work. The film, called “Like Tomatoes” was selected for the opening show at the Digicom Film Festival in Palm Springs, California and was also featured in the 2015 Palm Springs International Short Film Festival. |
Mural’s