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Jackie Swann
I love teaching elementary art to your children. We are having a great time creating and learning together. I hope that your child enjoys their art class as much as I do.
I received a BA degree from Auburn University in 1981. In my checkered career, I have played many roles…secretary, high school French teacher, substitute teacher, homemaker, mom, teaching assistant in K6 (in the Village here at GACS) and now elementary art teacher!!! College prepared me for some of that, but the Lord has also provided for me many mentors and examples for which I am grateful.
Most of my employee roles and areas of Christian service involve working with children. The Lord has given me a love for children. It is my sincere hope that I can not only expose your child to art and creative expression but that I can be one of his or her biggest fans.
Lynne Waide
I started “doodling” in Junior High Study Hall- cartoon characters, drawing album covers and music stars. It wasn’t until my senior year in high school that I realized that art would be forever a part of my future.
I graduated from Lubbock Christian University in 1991 with a BA in Fine Art with an emphasis in advertising/graphic art. (I married my best friend, Rory Waide, in May of 1991. He is currently the controller at Greater Atlanta Christian School.) During college I worked at a t-shirt shop designing logos and graphics for our busy college town, Lubbock, Texas. I went on to work as a graphic artist with a local advertising agency. As I continued to freelance for this agency, I became the Advertising Manager of a local department store illustrating fashions for newspaper ads. That was awesome!
In 1999, I was blessed to have the first of my two daughters: Ashley and Bryanna, both students at GAC. (Bryanna was born in 2001.) Their wide-eyed wonder, boundless energy, and complete fascination with the world around them inspire me daily. I can’t take enough pictures it seems and I love to draw their portraits as they grow. I also love to paint, watercolor being my favorite (I’m too impatient for oils!). Collage and mixed media artwork is probably my all-time favorite as I combine the worlds of 2D and 3D art. If I’m not drawing or painting, then I’m cooking, antiquing, hiking, camping or doing laundry!
Teaching elementary art is amazing and a truly wonderful experience everyday. It is also just plain ol’ fun! Rarely is someone blessed that they have a job that they can’t wait to “get to work.” It’s great to see a child “light up” when the work “of their hands” is praised, displayed and cherished. It’s also good to see a forehead scrunch up when we tell them that it’s OK to color outside of the lines; a tree is not just green and brown and that it’s OK to let it be red or orange; snow is not just white and the sky is not always blue.
I am reminded daily, as I watch the children work, that we are all works of God’s hand. “O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all work of your hand.” (Isaiah 64:8) Children are ever-inspiring and the works of their hands are one-of-a-kind creations, just like you, I, and GACS students, are God’s unique creations.
So let’s get messy, have fun, learn and create!
