Ruth Byrne

Studentsʼ abstract paper shapes are assembled in a temporary collaborative collage.

I love heading outside and teaching landscape art en plein air, but last year my landscape plans were given a contemporar y twist through the work and artistic process of painter, writer, and teaching artist Dahlia Elsayed.

We were fortunate to have Elsayed speak at our 2022 Art Educators of New Jersey Conference, where she explained how she uses stream-of-consciousness writing to uncover her sense of place, much affected by her familyʼs history of displacement. Her connections to the visual language of maps and her humorous narrative titles combine written and visual expression to get to the heart of being in a particular place at a certain time.

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