About Ms. Wahlen
Hello! I am the new Yearbook Adviser and Department Chair of the Visual & Performing Arts Academy at Aquinas High School. I also teach courses in Journalism, Digital Media, and Broadcasting. My background is in filmmaking (B.S. Film Production, Southern Adventist University, 2014), fashion (FIDM), 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.
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, thrifting, and reading.
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.
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, thrifting, and reading.
