As new art teacher, Meyer makes a splash at Cunniff
October 9, 2015
Jaclyn Meyer knows what to do when you don’t like how your painting comes out.
“If you mess up, rip it up, and turn it into a collage,” she says.
Meyer is the new art teacher at Cunniff Elementary School. She was born in Boston and grew up in the Boston area and in California. She has one brother and one sister. She says she was not good at sports, but she was good at writing, reading, and art, especially painting.
She says that when she was in high school, her art teacher said to her, “You’re good. You should be an artist, and I said, ‘OK.’ ”
She says she’s inspired by nature and enjoys abstract art. Her favorite artist is Mark Bradford.
“Art make me feel good,” she says. “It expresses my feelings.”
Meyer, who is now 30, decided to be an art teacher when she was 22. She went to Mass. Art and Tufts. She has spent five years teaching, including three years in public schools at Winchester Middle School and Hardy Elementary in Arlington.
She says she likes teaching elementary school children best of all the grades.
“You have more imagination than middle school and high school kids,” she says. “[Elementary school students] are easier to talk to.”
In her free times, she says she likes to play with her two new kittens and her sister’s puppy.
She is enjoying her new school.
“There’s no better place to be than Watertown,’’ she says.
–Oct. 8, 2015–
