About Ms. Wahlen
Greetings! Beyond teaching APAH, I have the privilege of serving as the Department Chair of the Visual & Performing Arts Academy at Aquinas High School. I also teach courses in Journalism, Digital Media, Broadcasting, and serve as the Yearbook Adviser. My background is in filmmaking (B.S. Film Production, Southern Adventist University, 2014), fashion (FIDM, 2021-23), and art history (M.A. Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism, Azusa Pacific University, 2020).
I love everything to do with visual world culture and its manifestations. Between 2010-2011, I completed eleven months of foreign service teaching in Malawi, Africa and have had a love for teaching ever since. After film school, my husband and I spent three years working as an independent filmmakers, traveling to Africa, Asia, Central and South America, and Europe, working in documentary and narrative genres. Since 2020, I have been working as an independent art historian and have presented and published several pieces of original work at professional conferences and in peer-reviewed journals.
This year, I swapped out social media for gardening. I grow a California Native Garden, and am a member of the California Native Plant Society (CNPS). I moonlight as a writer and layout designer for the CNPS - San Gabriel Mountains chapter newsletter The Paintbrush. (chapters.cnps.org/sgm/)
We keep busy with our twin boys, Judah and Killian. We also have two cats and a pet snake. In what bits of free time I have, I enjoy painting, embroidering, yoga, reading, and gardening.
I love everything to do with visual world culture and its manifestations. Between 2010-2011, I completed eleven months of foreign service teaching in Malawi, Africa and have had a love for teaching ever since. After film school, my husband and I spent three years working as an independent filmmakers, traveling to Africa, Asia, Central and South America, and Europe, working in documentary and narrative genres. Since 2020, I have been working as an independent art historian and have presented and published several pieces of original work at professional conferences and in peer-reviewed journals.
This year, I swapped out social media for gardening. I grow a California Native Garden, and am a member of the California Native Plant Society (CNPS). I moonlight as a writer and layout designer for the CNPS - San Gabriel Mountains chapter newsletter The Paintbrush. (chapters.cnps.org/sgm/)
We keep busy with our twin boys, Judah and Killian. We also have two cats and a pet snake. In what bits of free time I have, I enjoy painting, embroidering, yoga, reading, and gardening.
