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Contact Information

NAME : Mrs. David

SCHOOL: Murch E.S.
CLASS: A220 (2nd Floor of the New Murch Wing)
SCHOOL PHONE: 202-282-0130

E-MAIL: nichole.david@dc.gov

BLOG: http://www.murchartroom.wordpress.com

TWITTER ACCOUNT: twitter.com/MurchArt

Background

Mrs. David began her teaching career as a general ed teacher in the Bay Area of Northern California and taught second, third, and fourth grade during the academic year while teaching art at summer school to grades Pre K through 6.

In 2008, she relocated to Washington, D.C. and taught third grade for five years at Janney Elementary School before transferring to Murch Elementary School to become a full time art teacher.

Mrs. David holds a B.A. and MAEd of Liberal Arts Studies in Art History and English with a minor in Visual Art from Saint Mary’s College of California and U.C. Berkeley. She is licensed in both California and Washington, D.C. to teach general and special education, visual art, and art appreciation to grades K through community college. During her time in undergraduate and graduate school, she studied abroad in Rome, Florence, and Milan in Italy, Bourges, Chartres, and Paris in France, as well as London, Windsor, and at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. She has exhibited her work at the Hearst Art Gallery, the San Francisco Gallery of Art, The Art Gallery of Los Angeles, and the Arbinger Gallery of New York.

Tidbits

Mrs. David loves to teach everything art and spend time with kids exploring the world through their eyes! When she’s not planning the week’s art lessons, you might find her painting, reading at Barnes & Noble and enjoying a yummy cup of coffee, or shopping at the Apple Store or Paper Source!

Favorite Artist: Edward Hopper

Favorite Museum: The Tate Gallery, London
Favorite Color: Green
Favorite Musicians and Bands: Cold Play, Chet Baker, Josephine Baker, Jack Johnson
Favorite Travel Spot: Rome, Italy
Favorite Game: Scrabble & Words With Friends
Favorite Books: The Alchemist, by Paolo Coelho; The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick

Hobbies: Reading, knitting, photography, painting, sewing quilts, digital illustration, book clubs, antique collecting, and author & artist talks

Personal Work

Mrs. David is completely enamored with birds and their inherent symbolism and majesty. In her most recent work, she has combined her love of everything vintage with beautiful song birds of North America. The outcome is a creation of mixed media collages that use ephemera including letters and postcards dating as early as 1918!

Below are a few examples of her work.