Faculty: Gözde Efe

For the last fourteen years, I have worked with people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds at different levels of education: preschools, elementary schools, public and private schools, nonprofits, pre-college, college, and more. Unicef, Root Division, Exploration School at Yale, Montessori Children's House of the West Coast, Youth in Arts, and San Francisco Art Institute are only a few I taught for.  

I have continuously developed and completely customized my curriculum, which has always sparked curiosity not only among my students but also among my colleagues, who then started conversations about change. 

I knew no boundaries between the art forms many institutions structure their systems around (a big thank you to the San Francisco Art Institute). I learned ideas, concepts, inspiration, innovation, and connection. I wanted to connect it all rather than set them apart. 

I heard thousands of ideas and witnessed thousands of different ways come to life. Not a day passed without extreme awe. The list is long. See some of my students' previous works here. 

With my Intensive Filmmaking Class for pre-college at Exploration School at Yale in New Haven, 2016

On a field trip with my students from St. Peters Elementary, Storytelling: Making Artist Books Class at Root Division

With my students at a private workshop