Earthenware, assemblage, beeswax, photography and fiber are just some of the ingredients in Lyn Belisle’s collage of life. Trained as a studio artist at Trinity University, Lyn’s path took her into art education for at-risk teenagers for 35 years. During that time, she established a reputation as an outstanding teacher (she was a finalist of Texas State Teacher of the Year in 2000) and as a Fine Art Collagist with her large-scale origami kimonos and her acrylic paintings on paper which were exhibited nation-wide.

She retired from public school in 2003 to join the Computer Science faculty at Trinity University and taught Information Technology for twelve years, sneaking in art and design at every opportunity. In 2013, she established Lyn Belisle Studio in San Antonio where she designed and taught workshops on such topics as Indigo and Rust dyeing, Wax and Tissue Collage, Wax and Collage, Book Construction, Altered Photography Transfers on Fiber, Abstract Painting for Beginners, and Found Object Assemblage.

Lyn is the Vice President of the Board of the International Encaustics Artists, and has taught encaustic mixed-media workshops nationwide in Taos, Santa Fe, Provincetown, Morro Bay, Boston, Washington State, and other venues. She is the author of five popular eBooks and has written articles for Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine. Her work can be found in the Museum of Encaustic Art in Santa Fe and in the San Antonio Art League & Museum. Creativity runs in the family. She is the mother of bestselling author Rick Riordan, her favorite artistic creation.

Creativity runs in the family. She is the proud mother of best-selling author Rick Riordan whose books inspire millions of young readers.

Lyn is represented by Mockingbird Handprints Gallery in San Antonio, Texas, and has work in the Museum of Encaustic Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico as well as the San Antonio Art League & Museum. She is an active member of the San Antonio Art League (President), the Fiber Artists of San Antonio, The San Antonio Potters' Guild, the Encaustic Art institute, the International Encaustic Artists (Vice-President), and the American Craft Council.

You can view Lyn’s work at:
www.lynbelisle.com
www.instagram.com/lynbelislestudio
www.pinterest.com/lynbelisle
twitter.com/lynbelisle
www.linkedin.com/in/lynbelisle

CV: Academic and Educational
 
Colleges, Universities, and Post-graduate Studies:

Texas A&M University, 1998-2000
     Texas IPT Post-Graduate Certification through Pilot   
     Program between NEISD and Texas A&M
Our Lady of the Lake University, 1997-1998
     6 Post-Graduate Hours, Educational Technology,
     Local Certification (first on-line courses)

Trinity University, 1980-1982
     Special Education Certification, E.D, including
     Practicum in In-Patient Psychiatric Hospital
     For Children

Trinity University, 1969-1972
     Masters Degree
     English Literature/Fine Arts
Texas A&M University, 1963-1966
     Baccalaureate Degree
     English Literature/History
Trinity University, 1961-1963
     Studio Arts Major
 
Selected Honors and Awards:

2003 – Arts and Letters Award, Friends of the San Antonio Public Library
2002 - Trinity Prize for Excellence in Teaching
2001 – Koehler Foundation Grant to develop
     Web-based Curriculum for San Antonio
     Museum of Art
2000 – Finalist, Texas Teacher of the Year
2000 – Region 20 Teacher of the Year
2000 – North East Overall Teacher of the Year
2000 – North East Secondary Teacher of the Year
2000 – ExCel KENS-TV/SACU Award
1999 – Selected as one of nine educators for pilot
     technology program with Texas A&M
1998 – Wrote and awarded TIFF Connectivity
     Grant for $100,000 for Academy of Creative
     Education
1997, 1989 – Center School Teacher of the Year
1993 – Tenet Mini-Grant for Technology Award
 
Professional Associations:
     ATPE, Campus Representative
     Delta Kappa Gamma, Epsilon Beta Chapter
     Texas Art Educators Association
     Texas Association of Alternative Education
     Texas Computer Educators Association
     Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

Selected Staff Development and Training:

Texas Education Agency, Milkin Foundation:  Mentoring. Monitoring and Molding Conference
Texas Alternative Education Conference, Presenter, 1997-2001
Texas A&M University, Three Day Conference on Recruiting and Retaining Teachers
Texas Education Agency, Panelist on New Technology Standards
Texas Lutheran University, Presenter to New Teachers on Integrating Art in Curriculum
ESC Region 20, TIFF Grant Technology Training