GOZDE EFE
Artist and Educator
Founder of Stories Make Us
My goal is to get my students to think.
I act as a creative resource and set an example.
Creative problem solving and the creative process - from ideation to completion - are in the core of my practice.
I am also a communications management professional. Download my resume here.
My Professional Experiences
2022 - present
Mentor, Educator
Site Venetia Valley K-8 School
San Rafael
Grades TK-5
From ideation to completion, I guided TK-5 children in making their own decisions, ideation, planning and creating. My goal was to create a an environment where everyone learned from each other and experienced the creative process as a community.
Primary Theme: I can learn from/about and share my knowledge with the community through the arts.
Primary Project: Make Your Own Museum
Coming up with an idea to build a museum of/about, research, plan, build your foundation, choose colors and materials, color, collage, experiment, repair, add details, reflect, install, prep a community exhibition.
Secondary Theme: I contribute to the stories of my community and let my own story grow with theirs.
Secondary Project: Collaborative Project, Making a Large Scale Folding Book
Circles became donuts, donuts became planets, planets became eyeballs. Students added onto each other’s stories one shape at a time. Every time students heard their teacher say ‘switch’, they moved onto another story. Every time they switched, they looked at each other's work with a new eye and added something new to it. From TK to 5th grade, all of the students, classroom teachers, and teaching assistants worked on the pages one large folding book. TK and K children colored in with paint while others used collage paper, sharpies, colored pencils and oil pastels to add to it.
Click here to see images from this class.
Other
Site San Francisco, Amsterdam,
Istanbul
Drawing With Light, Messy Art Lab, 2017, San Francisco Making Statements with Neon Signs, ARTifact, 2017, San Francisco and
Corte Madera
Art in Turkish Language, Berkeley Turkish School, 2018 Fall Term
Tiny Books Big Thoughts, Noorderlicht Studio, Amsterdam, Netherlands and
Istanbul, Turkey
Youth Mentorship, UnCollege Gap Year, 2016-2018, San Francisco
Click here to see documentation images from these workshops and events.
2018 - present
Mentor, Educator
I write Conceptual Art curriculums for pre-school aged children ages 3 to 5. My classes include Making Friends with Household Objects, The Hidden World Inside Household Objects, Seeing The World Through Artist Goggles, Making Cardboard Cameras, Making Artist Goggles, Classroom Art Walks and more.
Site Montessori Children's House of the West Cost, San Francisco
Grades Preschool
2018-2019
Education Fellow
I taught weekly art classes at St. Peters Elementary School, prepared and ran a summer youth workshop Neither Moving Nor Still: Making-of GIFs, exhibited at New Growth 2019: Shared Stories, and mentored youth education interns. My classes at St. Peters included creating animations by pen and paper, flip book making and creating digital animations by using photography.
Site St. Peters Elementary School,
San Francisco
Grades 4-5
2019-2020
Eureka Valley Arts
Mentor, Educator
My projects for Eureka Valley Arts included Make Your Own Museum, Design Your Own Game, Mix Them All Media.
Site Eureka Valley Art Studio,
San Francisco
Grades 2nd-5th
2016 Summer Term
Intensive Filmmaking Program
From ideation to completion, I guided pre-college students in digital filmmaking techniques. I wrote an original curriculum where students experienced all phases of making off a short film including writing, set design, sound recording, editing and adding effects.
Click here to see documentation images and students' films from this class.
Exploration School at Yale
Faculty
Site Yale University, New Haven
Grades Pre-college
2014 - 2016
San Francisco Art Institute
Teaching Assistant
I assisted faculty Tony Labat and Sharon Grace in New Genres II courses.
Site San Francisco Art Institute
Grades College