I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Arts education and am certified by the state of Indiana to teach art for grades PK-12. I also have been certified to teach art in North Dakota where, in order to obtain my certification, had to take a specific four-credit college course on Native American studies in which I did learn about the specific nations of each region of North America, including those of the Pacific Northwest, how those tribes lived and what types of art they made.  In addition, I have traveled across the United States and have learned art and culture directly from peoples of Native American nations of the Pacific Northwestern, plains, eastern woodlands, southeast, and southwest regions.  

The art project on the Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwestern will teach students about the types of dwellings those particular nations of just that region lived in as well as what types of foods they ate, the clothes they wore, and the types of art they made.  It will also teach students that the tribes across North America were not all the same but had different beliefs, cultures, ways of life, and art.

To obtain my degree, I have also taken several art history courses which did focus on the art movements, cultures, and artists I will be teaching in this course. In addition, to obtain my teaching license, I had to take two tests, one on teaching methods and one on art history.  The test on art history did include each of the cultures/ movements present in this course.

I have taught versions of each of these projects in public, private, and charter school; and this course is designed to meet the standards/ requirements for art in most U.S. states.