Jamie Treacy

Jamie is an Oakland, California-based teacher and visual artist. He was born in 1980 in Topeka, Kansas and was raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. In 2002 he graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and printmaking from the University of Michigan School of Art and Design. In 2004, Jamie relocated to California where he began his Masters of Fine Arts at California College of Arts. During his two years of graduate study, he worked at Berkeley High School as a Teaching Artist in the school's photography, drawing and painting classes. In 2006 he received his MFA in Painting and Drawing from the California College of Arts in San Francisco.

Also in 2006, Jamie received a grant from the Center for Art and Public Life at CCA to realize his project “Young Artist Explorers” with a group of adolescent artists in the town of Tlacolula, Oaxaca, Mexico. During his four-month residency in Oaxaca, he taught at the Casa de la Cultura in Tlacolula, and continued to develop his adventure based art curriculum. Jamie's devotion and enthusiasm for educating youth through the arts found a home at Unity High School in fall of 2006.

Jamie is a practicing artist who has exhibited internationally in Japan, Canada, Mexico, as well as throughout the United States. He currently teaches Unity's classes in Visual Art and College Prep/ Digital Portfolio to the school's eleventh and twelfth graders as well as a weekly after school art club open to students of all grades at Unity. In his first year at Unity High his students completed a 24 foot mural in the school's courtyard that celebrates Oakland's multicultural heritage.

The Unity Visual Art department maintains a web site of student work study tour adventures.
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