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Teaching & Curriculum

Bree Stallings has led classes and community arts engagement projects at Community School of the Arts, Get Ready With Words Preschool Initiative, ImaginOn Library, C3 Lab, Discovery Place, the Sandra and Leon Levine Jewish Community Center, the McColl Center for Art + Innovation, the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Behailu Academy, and many more.

She also has designed and written high-level curriculum based in extensive research and methodological approaches for:

The Arts Empowerment Project's Promoting Peace Program for police officers and youth in the juvenile justice system;

The Childrens' Home Society Network's See Me. Know Me. Love Me. project for youth to explore aspects of identity and perspective as they prepare to exit the foster care system.

Discovery Place - Training teachers to dispel "us vs. them" mentality for approaching classrooms in low socioeconomic resource areas.

Arts & Science Council - Culture Blocks Workshops - "How To Tell The Story Of Me And My Community" - a series of workshops focused on building story-telling scaffolding to a community so their voices can be elevated and celebrated.

Mecklenburg County Health Department's This Is Art | This Is Public Health Initiative - Leading the students of Behailu Academy to address issues of Racial Profiling In Tobacco Media, The Opioid Crisis, Food Insecurity and Inaccess, Sexual Health Advocacy and more to be expressed in a large-scale exhibition yearly.

The Light Factory's Through The Lens - Initiative started by the Light Factory and funded by the United Way providing high-level photography instruction to the students of Grier Heights, one of Charlotte's oldest historically Black communities.


"Just looked over the lessons and they are amazing. Very well thought out and they empower the youth tremendously to redefine their future and themselves. I think this will be life changing for all involved. Love the way Bree builds the lessons up to including acts of self love and then she shows and demonstrates how to love others without saying it explicitly, something that is crucial for those youth who don't know how to trust yet. To not tell them to, but to have practice do it without knowing that's exactly what they are doing is brilliant."
-- Shane Manier, Arts Empowerment Project Teaching Artist

In addition to curriculum building, Bree Stallings runs her own private and small group art lesson studio, The Learning Lab, where she teaches mixed media, drawing, acrylic & oil painting, watercolor, sketchbook habits & practices, figure drawing and intuitive mark making for adults and children of all age ranges and ability levels. The lab operates on 16-week committed cycles and currently offers lessons on weekday evenings and all day on Sundays.

To reserve a spot on her roster or waiting list, email: info@breestallings.com.

 

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Album cover type shit. . Also, I updated my websit Album cover type shit.
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Also, I updated my website today. Take a scroll. ♥️
“Three Wishes”, a poem. . If I was granted thr “Three Wishes”, a poem.
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If I was granted three wishes, 
I would ask for the obvious:
No more starving people,
Shelter as a right, our last war 
already through.
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I am, after all, 
A woman whose heart bleeds
For this empty cup of a world.
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It seems to be a woman’s job,
to patch the broken hearts of men
who make lives out of breaking things:
homes, countries, bodies, dreams.
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Maybe then it’s a wish for self,
for an easier workload. A few days off
as the world heals itself with less
of my tending, researching, effort.
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But if once those things were brought,
once the exchange made: labor for love,
ease for peace; then I might rethink my answers.
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If I truly, secretly allowed myself to be selfish,
to think of me before the world,
I would ask for easy beauty.
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I would ask for manicures at a snap,
And hair that is effortless.
I would ask for forever supple skin. 
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I would ask for a body that is skinnier.
Or maybe a body that was right for whatever person was looking at me.
An amorphous cloud of hot body.
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I would ask for easy beauty because it is an acceptable form of women’s power.
All women know this, not just the beautiful ones.
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I would ask for all the time back spent
primping and plucking and puking.
I would ask for the mental space to be restored.
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I would ask for it so I could clear my calendar to do what I really want:
Learn French, be in a girl band, sit down.
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Easy beauty would be like a tax return.
A refund of all the money spent 
At a salon, in the gym, trying on bras…
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If granted easy beauty, after all,
with all that energy and brain space back,
I could actually change the world.
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No wonder it is so demanding.
No wonder it is never granted.
Last weekend, a woman came into my studio whom I r Last weekend, a woman came into my studio whom I revere. She was like a liaison from the Universe, who conspired and thought, “how do I get this girl to listen?”, and, then, in she walked. She affirmed for me a few things that have been rolling around in my mind, like marbles tracking through lines of doubt and fear. She told me that my work is beautiful (I struggle with making work that isn’t thematically heavy in this world that isn’t light) and that I should raise my prices. She asked me to make three more like a piece she saw in process and that she wanted to present it to a collector as a triptych. Anyways, just sent her the images. 🤞 
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This is a post about the boundaries we make and break with ourselves and the small bits of magic that happen when you just simply show up to put paint where it ain’t. ⭐️
Wearing my necklace I purchased from @needlesandpi Wearing my necklace I purchased from @needlesandpinsjewelry for Hamilton tonight with my best girl. Certainly a statement piece. ♥️
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