DOUGLASS

BFA in Art Education from Wichita State University

BA in Studio Art from Wichita State University

Certificate in Decorative and Ornamental Painting and Design from Wichita State University

Graduated from Clearwater High School

Teachers for Global Classrooms Fullbright (2017-18) awarded form the US government (only Kansas teacher selected and 1 of 2 art teachers from the nation selected that year)

BFA in Art Education from Wichita State University

BA in Studio Arts from Wichita State University

Certificate in Decorative and Ornamental Painting and Design

Every year Mrs. Young travels to art workshops/conferences to learn new art techniques and keep up to date. She applies for grants or pays out of pocket for her summer travels and goes alone to these workshops. This helps push her to see and do things she wouldn’t normally experience. She has learned how important travel is to be a well rounded and knowledgeable individual. The things she experiences and learns on location cannot be matched by reading a book (however she does enjoy reading when she can).

2025:Summer-EF International trip with students and adults to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

• Personal Travel to Scotland

Spring Semester- Taking a graduate class in Drawing From AAU (Part of her master’s program)

Winter-Attended the CTE conference in Manhattan, KS

Spring Semester- Taking a graduate class in Drawing From AAU

2024:

Summer-Mrs. Young went to an amazing small workshop in Maine where she stayed for a few weeks in a cottage by the shore without electricity. She bonded with the small cohort of college professors and enjoyed the daily hikes, learning creative movement, watching the tides come in and out, eating fresh Maine Lobster, eating all the different blueberry desserts, and the amazing stargazing. Not being a morning person she did not appreciate being woken up at 4 am every morning from the sun shining in her window:)

*Mrs. Young was selected by the US Marine Corps and attended a week long educator workshop in San Diego, CA where she got to experience first hand what the Marine recruits go through. 

*She was also selected to go to Walden’s Pond (Henry David Thoureu) Writing Educator workshop in Mass. for a week, but had to cancel last minute

Traveled to the Banff National Park in Canada

Spring Semester- Took a graduate class in Chiaroscuro From AAU (Part of a master’s program)

Fall-Went to the KAEA (Kansas Art Educator Association) State Conference

• Personal Travel to Salem, Mass.
• Took a graduate class in Landscape Painting From AAU (Part of a master’s program)

2023- Fall- Went to KAEA State Conference at rock springs 

• Personal Travel to Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania for inspiration for the HS Musical Mural (Backdrop)

 Summer- Attended the week long SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) Art Educator workshop in Savannah Georgia

2022- Fall-Attended KAEA State Conference

*Personal travel to Green Bay Wisconsin

Summer- Attended the week long Art Educator Workshop at Beverly College in Mass. 

She also takes students on international trips to share her knowledge of the world.

Places she has been with or without students: Morocco, Scotland, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, France, Ireland, England, Jamacia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Canada, and many, many states in the U.S.