Heather West

Heather is returning for her second year as a Kino teacher. Along with being a homeroom teacher, she will be doing math and science with primary and midlevel kids, as well as ceramics, oil painting, woodworking, and writing retreats with some of the older ones.

She received her B.A. from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, home of the Fighting Geoducks. At Evergreen, she focused on visual art, though she also studied such diverse topics as Orissi dance, American Sign Language, the chemistry of ceramics, political economy, environmental design, and sociology.

Heather travels periodically to Ecuador, where she and Neill Prohaska helped the Yunguilla workers’ cooperative build an arts and crafts center, kiln, and kick-wheel, and develop a ceramics program to generate income and increase youth participation in the co-op. (See www.verdesoft.com/yunguilla.)

Here in Arizona Heather likes to garden, hike, take road trips, and build stuff. She dislikes flies that persistently land on her bare arms and face; she finds them obnoxious and tickly. She enjoys doodling, tinkering, and wandering. She has two sisters and her favorite color is red.

 

 

 

 

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