Instructor, Lisa Rasmussen M.F.A is an award winning transformative arts educator. Her teaching style is essentially about self empowerment, freedom, play,inspiration, enthusiasm, and non-judgement. At the
ARTcart she with her collaborator Lauren Odell Usher, have facilitated this powerful Art making process with thousands of people in the Bay Area.
- Lisa also has over six years experience teaching expressive and empowering under served/at-risk communities. In 2006, she pioneered a Transformative Art Program at mental health institute in Oakland for emotionally traumatized youth, ages 5-14. Her award winning program was inclusive of an expressive art therapy curriculum and it built bridges into the wider community through youth public art installations and gallery fundraising exhibitions. Many of her students were empowered emotionally and monetarily with hundreds of dollars from the sale of their art.
- Lisa has also taught elders through the program, Art with Elders and teens through the youth art empowerment program Teen Art Explosion. Her students dream paintings were internationally published in the magazine Dream Time.
- Lisa is also an exhibiting and selling Painter. You can acquire and view her work at the Terrra Firma Gallery in San Rafael, CA. She is also has been a curator for critically acclaimed exhibitions and she also has extensive experience in fine art sales,selling 20th Century masters, such as Picasso, Chagall, and Dali.
