About Our Director

Alexandra Martin, the founder and director of Children and Art is an Artist and an Art and Museum Educator, who has been working in the field for ten years.

A native New Yorker and Upper Westsider, she attended the University of Buffalo, New York School of Interior Design, and Marymount Manhattan College from which she has a degree in Studio Art and Art History, and a minor in Art Education. She is now working towards a Master's Degree in Childhood Education

She is a certified New York City Board of Education teacher and has worked in New York art galleries and museums for seven years holding both curatorial and educator positions.
 
Currently she works in the Education Department at the Guggenheim Museum as an Art Educator. She has designed and run exhibit openings, tours, and art workshops for children of all ages. Earlier experience includes work as an art teacher and counselor at summer camps in New York and at the Bradford Children’s Center in Yorkshire, England.
 
She started Children and Art to provide children with after-school art classes that are nurturing, enriching and fun.

To read Alexandra's philosophy, click here.