Mission Statement
The Incarnate Word Academy Fine Arts Department strives to instill self-confidence; provide opportunities for self-expression; and encourage appreciation through participation in the visual and performing arts. We realize our students are living in a world that is multi-cultural and easily connected through the speed of communication. The Visual Arts are a universal language that all peoples can share.
Amy Kling
Department Chair
akling@iwacademy.org
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Ms. Kling has been teaching three dimensional visual arts at Incarnate Word Academy since 2005. She graduated from St. Joseph's Academy in 1999, but Incarnate Word has now become her home and she has embraced the Red Knight spirit! It has been a dream to be able to teach in the same high school environment and be able to be a strong role model for her students as her teachers were for her.
Ms. Kling graduated from the University of Central Missouri in 2004 with a BS in Art Education. She was awarded the portfolio scholarship to continue her college education in visual arts and soon found her passion in teaching. Her areas of emphasis in college were fiber arts, ceramics, design, and painting. She is currently working on her Masters of Art at Fontbonne University with an emphasis in ceramics.
Ms. Kling is the current department chair of the visual arts department. She is a sophomore homeroom teacher, as well as the sophomore class moderator. Ms. Kling loves to be a part of the student's spiritual lives by being a Kairos retreat leader, and also a Eucharistic minister at school masses. This is her fifth year coaching the freshman volleyball team.
Michele Stokes '80
mstokes@iwacademy.org
Ext 128Michele Stokes is in her second year teaching two-dimensional art at IWA. A proud alum of the class of 1980, Mrs. Stokes spent the seven years as the learning consultant at IWA before she joined the Visual Arts Department. She has a bachelor’s degree in Clothing and Textiles/Fashion Merchandising from the University of Missouri-Columbia (Summa Cum Laude) and a second bachelor’s degree in Special Education from the University of Missouri-St. Louis (Summa Cum Laude). She recently received her certification to teach art (grades K-12). Mrs. Stokes has always had a love of art; she took 10 art classes while a student at IWA and went on to take art classes in college. She has also taken continuing education classes in ceramics, watercolors, quilting, and weaving.
One of Mrs. Stokes’ biggest loves is theater and costume design. For the past seven years, she has been the costume designer for most of the plays and musicals at IWA. She is also co-founder, president, and costumer for Shooting Star Productions, a theater company producing plays and musicals featuring youth ages 5 to 19. Mrs. Stokes also facilitates the IWA Fashion Club and serves on the AdvancEd steering committee. She is married and has three sons.
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