A Visual Arts Teacher,
Photographer and Practitioner Researcher
A Global Virtual Exhibition
Teachers as Artists
This exhibition celebrates educators who maintain an active artistic practice alongside their teaching.
As teachers, we guide students through experimentation, revision, doubt, and discovery. But how often do they see us navigating that same creative journey?
This virtual exhibition brings together practicing teachers from around the world to share their artworks and their creative process behind each piece: the challenges, adjustments, ethical decisions, and persistence required to bring a piece to life.
A powerful message to all our students and other teachers as well: you can be creative today and share your art with the world!
Curatorial Statement
Too often, artistic work is presented as polished and complete. Yet in our classrooms, we teach that creativity is iterative, vulnerable, and shaped by experimentation, revision, and resilience. This exhibition makes that reality visible.
Each participating educator shares their artworks, the challenges, decisions, and uncertainties that shaped their process. Together, these works form a collective statement: artistic growth does not end with graduation, nor does it disappear behind a lesson plan.
As both a teacher and a practicing artist, I believe modeling the creative journey is one of the most honest forms of pedagogy. This exhibition is an invitation to every creative mind: students, educators, and artists alike, to value process, persistence, and integrity over perfection.
- Camila Vasconcelos
Founder & Curator
Ms. Mila Arts & Culture
Meet The Artists
Artworks
Educational Impact Reflection
This exhibition serves as a showcase and an instructional resource.
For Visual Arts students and all emerging artists, understanding the creative process is essential. Seeing educators navigate doubt, make revisions, face cultural or technical challenges, and persist through uncertainty reinforces a critical truth:
Artistic excellence is not accidental.
It is built through reflection, adaptation, and courage.
By documenting and sharing these lived artistic experiences, we hope to cultivate a deeper respect for creative labor and a stronger sense of resilience in the next generation of artists.
The process is the lesson, the vulnerability is the teaching, and persistence is the practice.
Thank you to all amazing teacher-artists who joined me on this initiative!
Mila Vasconcelos