Hello, my name is Esther McCune and for me art making is not successful until my hands are dirty, my clothes are stained and the room I’m working in is in a state of organized chaos.

This is the start of my third year in my certification/master’s program at MU and true to form I am late getting enrolled in my classes because of some conflict with any one of a half a dozen departments. I love and hate MU, I can’t stress enough how much I have respected and enjoyed my teachers but with equally as much frustration I have hated having to deal with the bureaucracy of MU.
This past spring I did my student teaching in the Independence School District and loved every minute of it. I got wonderful recommendations for all four of my principles and full marks from my host teachers, but no job yet. So I will continue moving forward with the program and continue trying to get a teaching position.

The piece below is one of my 8th graders, we had a lot of storms last spring and I wanted to incorporate them into my lesson plans.

The second is one of Cezanne's Mont Sainte Victoire from the Nelson Adkins in Kansas City, a personal favorite

The last two are a pastel piece I did for a friend last fall so that he would have a reminder of home while stuck in Columbia MO