Art

Ms. Laine Bowen

Email: laine.bowen@apsva.us

Laine Bowen is an Arlington native hailing Westover Village as her homeland.  She has been making art since age 3 and considers drawing to be her first and forever love!  In 2002 she graduated from The Corcoran College of Art and Design where she earned a BA in Fine Arts.  During her undergraduate years she enjoyed two years abroad studying printmaking at Goldsmiths University of London. Ms. Bowen has been teaching for 17 years and has cherished every moment spent inspiring her students to flex their imaginations and create!  In 2010 she graduated from VCU where she earned an MA in Interdisciplinary studies.  When she’s not teaching, she enjoys making art with her children Nonie and Flynn,  drawing comic books, and reading poetry with her two lap panthers India and Kentucky.

Ms. Rachel Staley

Email: rachel.staley@apsva.us

Rachel Staley is an Art teacher at Randolph.  This is her 10th year working at Randolph!  She moved here from NY when she was hired at Randolph.   In her free time she likes to practice yoga, go for walks and add to her Art-room giraffe collection!

Art at Randolph is a historical and scientific adventure explored in a sensory and emotional context.  Students are challenged to develop their expressive abilities alongside our extensive IB Curriculum.  Virginia SOLs paired with vocabulary pertaining to the Fine Arts are embedded in grade level lessons Pre K-5. Exposure to a wide range of two dimensional, 3 dimensional, and recycled materials help to shape our creative abilities.  At Randolph, we believe that Art is both an enriching practice as well as a language capable of communicating on global scale.