Cary Cauthen

Visual and Performing Arts

Cary Cauthen received her BA in History from the University of Virginia. She has studied education at UVA’s Curry School of Education, New York’s Bank Street College of Education, University of Colorado Boulder’s School of Education, and completed the San Francisco Waldorf Teacher Training through Rudolf Steiner College. She has worked in costume design in NYC, studied acting in Boulder, and San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater.

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Cary taught school at the elementary level in the Bay Area, bringing her love of education, art, history, and drama, to the classroom. After focusing on raising her three children, Cary is thrilled to be teaching at AESA, where she can bring her passion for nurturing the creative capacity of the human spirit to our students. She has received great satisfaction using her creativity to give students the skills, materials, environment, and guidance to find and express themselves through the visual and dramatic arts. Cary looks forward to more fun, failure, inspiration, and problem-solving on the path of creative growth in the art studio. She believes that now, more than ever, this essential part of being human cannot be left uncultivated.

”The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a by-product. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.”     
     - Dana Gioia, American poet, essayist, and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.