Who is Dr. Jane Hendrickson, PH.D?.
Jane Hendrickson, Ph.D. Mytho-Ceramics
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Potter and painter Jane Hendrickson taught high school students in the Seattle area for 25 years, during which time she became increasingly concerned about adolescent despair. At the time of the Columbine massacre she was studying mythology and Jungian psychology during summers at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Mythology had become part of her own healing process recovering from cancer; the identities of mythical personalities became meaningful and useful in her art. It was following Columbine that she began to evolve a high school curriculum combining the academic study of mythology with serious work in clay, using the creative process to explore archetypal personalities; the object was to foster healthy development of the psyche. This non-clinical application of Carl Jung’s “depth psychology” seemed a suitable way to invite students to get to know themselves, and to begin to direct their own destinies. In her final years at Lynwood H.S. in Edmonds School District she had 150 students in five classes, some of whom went on to art school.
Hendrickson’s classroom was dedicated to a workshop for the largest clay arts program in the state and one of the state’s few glass arts programs. In her last two years she piloted an “enriched” art and drama curriculum, introducing “Mytho-Ceramics,” influenced by Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, and Mary Caroline Richards (“When we make the pot we make ourselves.”)
Students Make Highly-individualized Masks Based on Mythical Personae
ADDITIONAL INNOVATIONS:
A National Endowment for the Arts Research Fellowship for curriculum integrating math and art (1993) and two grant awards from the City of Edmonds Arts Commission, to (1991-2000) develop an advanced clay arts curriculum, resulting in a series of 15 wall murals in clay relief; and (1999-2001) develop and implement a vocational arts curriculum combining math and art (with glass artist Stan Price, Everett, WA). Over four years, students etched 35 windows in the schools and district office. SPECIAL NOTE: 40 of these students subsequently received art scholarships.
Also, as assistant coordinator of Global Education Integrated Studies; she organized and led student tours to Russia (1988 and 1989) and England (1998).
Special Education was the field that Hendrickson gravitated to as a young teacher. She frequently was called upon to develop curricular materials in art for students with special needs, including those having difficulties with the English language and juvenile offenders. At Lynwood she set up an arts and humanities program for gifted and disabled students, influenced by Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
EDUCATION
B.F.A. (1971), California State College, Northridge (Clay Arts and Printmaking). Teaching Credential (1971), California Lutheran College, Thousand Oaks (Art, Special Education, Psychology)
M.A. (1977), Chapman College (now University), Orange County, CA (Special Education);
M.A. (2000), Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpenteria, CA (Mythological Studies)
Ph.D. (2002), Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpenteria, CA (Mythological Studies, Depth Psychology Emphasis)
CONTACT:
Jane Hendrickson, Ph.D.
63704 E. Desert Highland Dr.
Tucson, AZ 85739
TEL (520) 825-1188
E-MAIL janeangel@att.net
