It’s Arts Education Month, and to celebrate, the Edmonds Arts Commission is presenting an exhibit featuring work by four Edmonds School District high school art instructors: Nancy Brancheau, Angelo Comeaux, Tim Cashman and Jill Van Berkom. The exhibit at the Edmonds Library runs now through June 15.
Brancheau has taught ceramics at Edmonds-Woodway High School since 1995. In addition to classes at the high school, she also has taught classes for children through Edmonds Parks and Recreation. The exhibit features a collage by Brancheau, the only non-photographic work in the display.
Comeaux, a Mountlake Terrace High School teacher, once collected the foil tops off hot lunch trays to make dinosaur sculptures. Moving from dinos to traditional drawing and painting, he earned a bachelor’s of fine arts from Loyola University in Chicago. After stints as a producer and video technician, Comeaux currently teaches broadcast productions, video productions and digital photography at Mountlake Terrace High School. He takes thousands of photographs each year, some of which are displayed at the library exhibit.
Cashman learned to love art from his artist mother and later studied the subject. He came to the Edmonds School District in the 1980s and started teaching art at Scriber Lake Alternative High School, focusing on pottery. He then moved on to teach four years of pottery at Mountlake Terrace High School and later taught photography. The photographs Cashman is exhibiting were taken during a trip to Hekinan, Japan, with the Edmonds Sister City program in 2008.
Van Berkom majored in art education at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and earned a master’s of education after moving to Seattle in 2000. She began her teaching career in Gig Harbor and currently teaches at Meadowdale High School. She takes advantage of her summers off to travel and explore — the photos in this exhibit are from a recent trip to Thailand.
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