teacher instills passion for art

By Brooke Stevenson
brooke@seymourherald.com
    Seymour High School teacher Tami McCroskey has always had a love of art, and for the last five years she has been sharing that appreciation with her students.
    She taught at the elementary level for several years, and although she thoroughly enjoyed it, she now is teaching what she has always dreamed of.
    Her passion for art can be seen throughout her classroom with students’ self portraits hanging on the wall, their clay creations sitting on selves, their Pop Art sculptures displayed around the room and with the eclectic assortment of painted ceiling tiles created by McCroskey’s former students.
    McCroskey graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1982 with an art degree, has an elementary school certification and is also certified to teach health and wellness for grades seven through 12.
    She taught second grade for 20 years at the primary school and taught third grade at the intermediate school for one year and has been teaching art at the high school for five years.
     “I just wanted a change and I really wanted to teach art,” McCroskey said.

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