Christine Neville
Fairhaven High School Art Educator
Fairhaven High School
Christine Neville was born in Westport, Massachusetts. She received her BFA and MAE from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Neville works predominantly in digital media, photography, watercolor and occasionally fibers. Neville currently resides in Warren, RI with her husband Craig and daughter Ella. She has worked as a secondary visual arts teacher in Fairhaven, Massachusetts for the past 10 years in addition to her photography business CM Photography (www.christinemphoto.com). Fairhaven’s art community is vast and expansive ranging from the digital realm, media, ceramics, art I - IV and AP.
With society's fast developments in technology, Neville’s curriculum maintains focused on staying current with technology trends in her classroom. This includes having students become Adobe certified in industry standard software. Although technology is a major focus in neville’s classroom, it is ultimately a method for students to create personal connections through their art. Neville can be seen in her classroom presenting through lecture, hands on demonstrations, one on one student mentorship, creating video tutorials, and collaborating with her colleagues. Her hope is for students to be able to look back in twenty years and be able to use art as an outlet to communicate and express themselves.