Shari Densel

Assistant Teaching Professor, Art Education

M.Ed, University of Toledo, Art Education 
BS, St. Francis University, Art Education

Courses taught          
ARTE 4070 Visual Arts Methods & Teaching Practicum (Saturday Art)
ARTE 4920 Teaching Internship-Elementary
ARTE 4970 Teaching Internship-Secondary
EIEC  2150 PE/Art/Music

Areas of Research/Artistic Focus  
Arts Leadership around the world. Shari has served as an Assistant Group Leader & Participant for Fulbright-Hayes Group Seminar in South Africa/Lesotho, a participant in Freeman Foundation to East Asian China Study Tour, and a Research Co-director and Visual Art Educator in a Tanzanian Arts Education Program. She was also part of the U.S. Delegation of Women Artist to visit Tanzania, a U.S. State Department Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs sponsored grant program called, "Art Exchanges on International Issues for Tanzania" with special focus on developing young women artists. She was also a Japan Fulbright Participant.

Recent Accomplishments
Grant recipient of over $8,500 for the Anthony Wayne District Art Department
Raised over $3,000 to send to orphans in Lesotho, Africa through a mural project at Anthony Wayne Junior High
2005 Published article School Arts Magazine / Coordinated K-12 Ceramic Mural
Art Teacher of the Year / Northwest Ohio Art Education Association, 2011
Anthony Wayne District Teacher of the Year, 2009-2010
Ohio Master Teacher and held a Lead Teacher License, 2004-2014
Nation Board Certification

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Faculty member at BGSU since 2009