Doodles Academy

Specialties

Art education, art, art school, after-​school classes, art curricula, art curriculum, school partner

History

Established in 2015.

Our story originates with our founder, fresh out of graduate school in New York City, cobbling together a career teaching art by traveling across boroughs and teaching everything from private classes to five year olds to school-​wide lessons in Title 1 schools. She eventually began teaching as a full-​time art teacher in a Title-​1 School in Brooklyn.

Through all this she was exposed not only to the difference in artistic opportunities students, sometimes only blocks apart, were being offered, as well as to the quality of arts education in some of the schools where teaching art was an additional burden laid on the classroom teachers. As a result, Tempest left her school to found Doodles Academy, with the goal of creating a curriculum that combined open-​ended art lessons that was as easy to follow and implement as cut-​and-​paste ones.

Doodles tests its content in Portland, Oregon through small, intimate sliding scale classes before making it live online for schools to use.

Meet the Business Owner

Tempest N.

Business Owner

Tempest NeuCollins is originally from Solon, Iowa. She moved to Portland, Oregon to study at Pacific Northwest College of Art for her BFA, then went on to New York City to receive an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in Studio Art. After graduating she worked for many non-​profit organizations around New York City that provide an arts education to students in underserved communities, including TimeIn! and Free Arts NYC. Eventually she was asked to found and run an arts program at a Brooklyn based charter school, which she did for two years before founding Doodles Academy. Tempest continues to make her own artwork, design and teach lessons for Doodles Academy in the physical Portland Classes, as well as act as Executive Director. Her lesson plans have been recognized and published in SchoolArts Magazine.