Jessica Hamilton-Jones
124 Clinton Ave, Winslow, ME 04901
(207)346-0931
jhamiltonjones@aos92.org http://www.jessicasart.art
EDUCATION
2025-Present THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII Online course in Philosophy for Children with Dr. Toby Yos. ( 3 credit course)
2024 THE ART OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY, Iowa. Online Master of Arts Education Courses.
2017-Present. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCES (CEU) : Alternative Education, STEAM, Interdisciplinary Education, Community-Based Education, Co-Teaching Methods, Outdoor Education for Teens, Student Engagement ,Visual Art Education . Offered through the Maine Department of Education, The Maine Art Education Association, Waterville Public School District, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Colby College, Colby College Museum of Art, and Waterville Creates.
2023 MAINE MEDIA WORKSHOPS Rockland, Maine. Summer Bookmaking workshop with Richard Reitz Smith.
2022 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE Lewiston Maine campus, Credited Coursework in Alternative Education
2019-2021 UNIVERSITY OF MAINE, Orono, Master of Interdisciplinary Studies in Maine Studies
2017 UNIVERSITY OF MAINE Augusta, Bachelor of Arts in Education. Graduated with honors.
2015 CENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Auburn, ME. Coursework in Education
1992 SOUTHAMPTON COLLEGE OF LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY, Southampton, NY. Graduate courses in Education
1989 PRATT INSTITUTE, Brooklyn, NY. Bachelor of Fine Arts Graduated Magna Cum Laude
1988 SCHOOL OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston, MA Summer Program
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2017-Present WATERTVILLE ALTERNATIVE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL,Art teacher, Waterville, ME.
2022-Present MID- MAINE REGIONAL ADULT COMMUNITY EDUCATION, Art teacher, Waterville, ME.
2022-Present COLBY COLLEGE, Green Block Studio Collaboration Course: Developing Your Artistic Practice teacher, Waterville, ME.
2019 COLBY COLLEGE, Sum Camp. Math Program Art teacher for grade four learners. Waterville, ME
2015-2017 L.C. BATES NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, Hinckley, ME, Museum Educator
2003 SOUTHAMPTON NEW YORK PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Southampton, NY, Substitute
1994 HAMPTON DAY SCHOOL, Bridge Hampton, NY.Assistant Art Teacher (elementary school), summer session
1990 PHILLIPS ACADEMY, Andover, MA. Assistant Art Teacher, summer session
OTHER EXPERIENCE:
2018- Present. LIVING INNOVATIONS: Shared living provider, maintaining CRMA certificate.
2020- 2021 WATERVILLE CREATES, Waterville, ME. Member of Art Kits For All COVID Community Volunteer Art Program
2012-2013 NEW LAND FLORIST, Ellsworth, ME. /Manager/ designer
2010-2012 ARTISTRY IN FLOWERS, Gorham, ME. /Owner/ designer
2009-2010 DODGE THE FLORIST, Portland, ME. /Designer
1991 MIRIAM SCHAPIRO. Bridgehampton, NY. Studio Assistant
1988-89 SELINA TRIEFF and ROBERT HENRI. New York, NY. Studio Assistant
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS, AND SHOWS
2026 and 2022 MAINE ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION MEMBER EXHIBITION @ Saco Museum in Saco Maine.
2025 MAEA QUIMBLY FELLOWSHIP, attending two week workshop at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts with stipend.
2025 MAEA MAINE SECONDARY ART TEACHER OF THE YEAR Award.
2025 WATERVILLE AREA ART ASSOCIATION MEMBER JURIED SHOW. Art chosen for show at the Oakland Library.
2024 CHASE FORUM Three Person Show in conjunction with the Together Waterville project, with artists Peter Bruun in Waterville, Maine.
2024 THE LUNDER INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN ART COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP, Studio use, open studio show in the Green Block and Studios Building. Waterville, Maine. .
2022 and 2025 MAINE ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION MEMBER EXHIBITION @ Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine.
2023 & 2025 THE ATRIUM ART GALLERY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE, MAEA exhibition
2021 UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: The Jack Pine Project: Working with art-related projects to be published in a study on the effects of COVID and the healing processes of the arts. Publication and Virtual Show of Student work and testimonies.
1989 VERMONT STUDIO SCHOOL. Johnston, VT. Summer studio residency with Wolf Kahn as a visiting instructor
CONFERENCES / MEMBERSHIP/ COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION:
2024-Present: CENTRAL MAINE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM, participant on the Alternative Education Special Interest Group.
2024-Present: BETTER TOGETHER WATERVILLE, Founding member. We aim to generate workshops in the arts and other areas to bring established community members closer to newly marginalized groups in our area, including new refugee and immigrant populations, to promote positive relationships and mutual understanding.
2018-Present MAINE ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION Conference participant and contributor at Haystack Mountain School of Craft. Monson Arts, Saco Ecology School, Belfast High School, Waterville Creates
2023-2024 NEW ENGLAND TEACHING ARTISTS COLLABORATIVE. (NETAC).NETAC aims to build regional capacity to develop thriving communities by preparing teaching artists to serve as catalysts who activate creative potential and foster partnerships with educators, organizations, and community groups. I attended the workshops to establish Waterville as a teaching artist hub
2018-present NATIONAL ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION MEMBER . NYC. Spring conference.panel presenter for Art Kits For All Program.
2022- present ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION OF MAINE ASSOCIATION 2025 Central Maine regional representative. My student was awarded the Martin Mackie Scholarship from this association.
2023-present. KENNEBEC RIVER ART EDUCATION ALLIANCE (Multidistrict Art Educators Committee): We meet approximately 4-5 times a year
2023 Waterville Creates Strategic Plan community review session as invited by Shannon Haines, president and CEO of Waterville Creates, and Serena Sanborn.
2020 SPaRC mission is to make Waterville a nationally recognized hub of education excellence.
CERTIFICATIONS
2024 Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and the Maine Department of Education. Educational Trip Leader permit
2024 Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.Wilderness First Aid (WFA) certification
2017-present Maine Teaching Certification, 620, Visual Arts, K-12
2017-present American Heart Association Heartsaver CPR AED Certification
2018-present CRMA certified to administer medications for shared living.
PUBLICATIONS
The Jack Pine Project: Art, Catharsis, and Recovery – Maine Studies – University of Maine. Maine Studies. (n.d.). https://umaine.edu/mainestudies/2021/06/17/2203/
Chocolate Church Arts Center (2020). From home in bunny slippers: Creations from a community in the weirdest year ever. Chocolate Church Arts Center. The Bath Printing Company ISBN 0964882116, 9780964882119
An Artist’s Sense of Place in Maine: Website of my Master’s Thesis Project. Six Chapters of interdisciplinary art projects combined with Maine topics. This research has been moved to my website, jessicasart.art https://jessicasart.art/ https://umaine.edu/mainestudies/program-news-and-updates/
2021 Selected botanical drawing and t-shirt design for the Bangor Land Trust project. https://umaine.edu/news/blog/2021/11/04/umaine-art-education-students-bangor-land-trust-collaborate-on-edible-landscape-project/
GRANTS
2024-2025 Appalachian Mountain Club Outdoor Education Grant
2024 Waterville Creates a Summer Art in the Park, a $400 micro-grant to pay my students to help create a Pride art activity! Three students designed and facilitated the “Creating Rainbow Art” lesson at the Paul J Schupf Art Center.
2023 Oak Hill Grant Interdisciplinary Project Bookmaking and Memoirs. Included a visit to Sappi Paper Mill.
2024-2025 Donors Choose project funded for bookmaking art supplies in 2024 and music recording.
2019 EcoMaine mural and community clean-up grant. I
MENTORING /TEACHER TRAINING
2025-2026 School Year Department Chair for the Waterville Senior High School Bridge Program (formally known as the Alternative Program)
2022-2023 school year Mentor to new art teacher Daralyn McColl
Designing and/or facilitating professional learning experiences for colleagues and other teachers
2024/2024 Recent training in student engagement with Dr. Pei Pei Liu to facilitate PD for other teachers.Colby College (beginning to implement with short demos at monthly faculty meetings)
EXTENDED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS
2024/2025/2026 Maine Region Scholastic Art and Writing Awards student submissions.
2019-present AP art courses offered to Alternative Students submissions to the College Board
2024-2025 Large Scale Woodblock prints and Steam Roller Event with Professor Amanda Lilleston from the Colby College Art Department. Collaborative Art Project
2018-present SLICE Students Learning Innovative Creative Endeavors through Waterville Creates . Special Effects Makeup for Stage + Film. Participated through Zoom as well.
2025 Jerome Reyes Lunder Institute of American Art fellow visit and workshop with Waterville Alternative students.
2025 Summer art show and student panel participation at Puddle Dock Village Festival facilitated by artist Peter Brunn.
2024, Alternative Students worked with Lucky Platt, a teaching artist, to design a “cranky” and create a storyboard from a poem for an Earth Day program. The scroll painting is based on a rhyming couplet poem written by a person in the Citizens’ Climate Lobby. This was an interdisciplinary project involving art and language arts.
2024 Together Project by artist Peter Brunn featuring Alternative Students. This program included opportunities for students to engage in public speaking, music performances, voice recording, and several workshops and art exhibitions. Voice recording on a loop from interviews conducted by Peter Brunn featuring 15 alternative school students played as background sound to accompany Peter’s art in the Ticonic Gallery at the art center.
2024 Gracie Horn’s Lunder Institute of American Art fellow visit and workshop with Waterville Alternative students.
2024 Papay Solomon Lunder Institute of American Art fellow visit and workshop with Waterville Alternative students.
2023 Genevieve Gaignard, Lunder Institute of American Art fellow, visit and workshop with Waterville Alternative Students.
2022 opening reception of Paul J Schupf Art Center with student soundtrack for video artists, Jennifer Steinkamp, Judy Crook 5 (still), Erin Johnson, Lake (still), Paul Kos, XC on Brushstrokes, Workshops run by Abby Newkirk Linde Family Foundation Senior Coordinator of School and Teacher Programs, Department: Museum Learning and Engagement.
2019- 2023 Student generated newsletters and yearbooks. Students practice interview skills, journalistic writing, photography, graphic design, and illustration while showcasing the art and work of the alternative program.
2021 The Jack Pine project, students created Maine Mind Maps and examined their thoughts on the pandemic. Their work was in a virtual show and small publishing.
2021, Alternative students designed, packaged, and filmed Art Kits for All November Kit as a volunteer project to support the community during Hybrid learning during the pandemic.
2018-present students’ volunteering activities. This year, my students decorated storefront windows in downtown Waterville for this year’s (2024) Halloween events. My students also generate Holiday cards each year for recipients of the Meals on Wheels program through Waterville’s Muskie Center.
EXTRACURRICULAR INVOLVEMENT
2020-present Volunteer work with Unified programs through the AYCC in Waterville, hosting art workshops for adults with special needs.
2020- 2024 Special Olympics Maine, participating in the Lobster Dip charity fundraiser at Old Orchard Beach, Maine.
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