Open Doors Instructor
 Following graduation from the Kansas City Art Institute with a degree in printmaking and creative writing in 2002, artist and educator Ted Lee Nathanson began teaching art classes to at-risk and adjudicated youth through the Sentenced to the Arts program at Kansas City’s Chameleon Inc.
While in Kansas City, Ted taught classes at Waldron Boy’s Home and St. Vincent’s Center for Families. In 2003, Ted co-opened aAlice Gallery for emerging artists and performance. During that period, he showed his art at aAlice as well as in several galleries in Kansas City and Chicago. For the touring production A Road To Paris, Ted designed and illustrated educational materials as well as designed and performed shadow puppets to work in conjunction with the live actors.
Since returning to Louisville in 2004, Ted has taught extensively for the southern Indiana libraries, Frazier International History Museum, Speed Art Museum, Louisville Visual Art Association, Brown School, Kentucky Center for the Arts, Preston Arts Center, and Bellarmine University.
After beginning his career as an art teacher through a literacy grant, visual storytelling has become a specialty and focus of Ted’s class curriculum. His workshops emphasize the connection between image making and storytelling; enabling students to tell their own stories through use of art and image. Ted strives to ’teach kids how the car works, help them build it, and then let them drive.’
Ted teaches workshops for LVAA at local schools including Mary Ryan Academy, an alternative school for at-risk high school students. www.tednathanson.wordpress.com
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