NAME:
Miss Kristi Atkison
SCHOOL:
Kendale Lakes Elementary- Home of The Tigers
CLASS:
art, art club for 4th and 5th grades
SCHOOL PHONE:
305-385-2575 and don't forget to visit the school website at www.kle.dadeschools.net
Miss Atkison has lived in Miami most of her life. She was a graduate of
Gulliver Preparatory. She was on the school's tennis and softball teams and
competed in tennis on statewide competitions. She is also a member of the
Women USTA league for tennis and is found playing on Monday and Friday night
playing singles and doubles. She also plays mixed doubles tennis on Mondays,
Thursday and Friday nights when the weather allows her. Another sport she
has recently taken up is golf and can be found playing with her parents,
friends and oldest nephew on the weekends. She didn't get interested in art
until she was attending college at Florida International University. Miss
Atkison is a graduate from Florida International University with five
seperate degrees. She began teaching in 1992 at Olinda Elementary which she
earned the rookie teacher of the year award. She transferred to Kendale
Lakes Elementary in 1999. She has a minor in Fine Arts, a Bachelor's in
Psychology, a Bachelor's in Art Education, a Master's in Art Education, and
a Specialist in Art Education. She has currently passed her national boards
as of November 2009.She has earned the teacher of the year honor at Kendale
Lakes Elementary this year 2010-2011. She has also been elected as one of
the 5 finalist for the region IV. With her degree in art education she began
developing her own unique style of art and creating a working portfolio that
she uses in her profession as an artist. She is a working artist that
specializes in pastels and watercolors and competes in a variety of shows
and contests with her art work. Examples of her style of work can be found
in Atkison art gallery on the home page. She has won several awards and
recognitions for her art at contests and sells her work to the public. When
she is not working at school or playing tennis you can often find her at
home either painting with her pastels or watercolor paints or playing with
her dog Pepper. Pepper is a silky terrier that she adopted from the Miami
Humane Society in November 2004. The loves of her life are her dog,
parents, brother, sister-in-law and her two nephews (one is in seventh grade
this year and the other is in fourth). She is very happy that her family
lives close by so they see each other often.
The art class mission is to expose the students to various styles and
mediums in art. The student learns about artists of the time and the
development of the individual styles. The art teacher instucts students to
develop their skills in drawing, pastels, watercolor painting, tempra
painting, sculpture, and cutting and pasting with paper. There is also an
art club for students in the 4th and 5th grades. Students try out for the
club and get to experience art more often than they would in the regular
classes.
