Constance Moore

Constance Moore is an artist and educator based in Oakland, California. She earned her MA from Brown University in museum studies, her MFAIA from Goddard College, and holds a single subject teaching credential in the visual arts. Constance is the arts integration specialist and art studio teacher at Maya Lin School in Alameda, California. Constance has taught in the Integrated Learning Specialist Program (formerly of Alameda County Office of Education) and co-leads and facilitates Our Changing Planet for Alameda Unified School District. As an educator, Constance uses the work and processes of contemporary artists to help students connect to and express environmental and social justice concerns. She shares her students’ love of color, and hopes to transmit their spirit and freshness into her work. Her interdisciplinary art practice is rooted in the power and meaning of storytelling, often borrowing from and reimagining natural forms. Constance is concerned with presence, creating work about people, objects, and ideas that are felt but not always seen in this world. You can see her illustrations in the children’s book Brown: The Many Shades of Love (Cameron, 2020).

Constance Moore is an artist and educator based in Oakland, California. She earned her MA from Brown University in museum studies, her MFAIA from Goddard College, and holds a single subject teaching credential in the visual arts. Constance is the arts integration specialist and art studio teacher at Maya Lin School in Alameda, California. Constance has taught in the Integrated Learning Specialist Program (formerly of Alameda County Office of Education) and co-leads and facilitates Our Changing Planet for Alameda Unified School District. As an educator, Constance uses the work and processes of contemporary artists to help students connect to and express environmental and social justice concerns. She shares her students’ love of color, and hopes to transmit their spirit and freshness into her work. Her interdisciplinary art practice is rooted in the power and meaning of storytelling, often borrowing from and reimagining natural forms. Constance is concerned with presence, creating work about people, objects, and ideas that are felt but not always seen in this world. You can see her illustrations in the children’s book Brown: The Many Shades of Love (Cameron, 2020).

Trena Noval

Trena Noval co-leads Our Changing Planet; is cofounder of Bay Area Integrated Design for Education, the Arts, and Leadership (IDEAL), a new organization whose mission is to foster innovative teaching and learning through integrative creative practices that cultivate liberatory learning spaces; and, along with veteran educator Ana Raquel Thomas, is a cofounder of Creativity Lab, a new science and environmental literacy project. Trena is an artist, educator/activist, and writer, whose work engages participatory research, cross-disciplinary platforms, learning pedagogies, and community engagement. At the heart of her interests is the investigation of social and natural ecologies—relationships of people and place with a focus on justice, the environment, and creative actions. Trena’s work in education has focused on integrated learning practices and pedagogies in program design and leadership development in both public and nonprofit educational sectors, creating communities of practice that engage liberatory spaces for learning. She is one of the founding faculty of the Integrated Learning Specialist Program, where she developed principal and teacher leadership initiatives and supported integrated learning demonstration sites across the county. In collaboration with UC Berkeley Principal Leadership Institute, she is a co-lead for a leadership research initiative that examines school leaders who practice leadership through integrated learning pedagogies. She serves on the board of directors for Youth Art Exchange, and she is a member of the 2019/2020 Stanford Arts Institute's Creative Cities Working Group. Trena teaches at California College of the Arts.

Trena Noval co-leads Our Changing Planet; is cofounder of Bay Area Integrated Design for Education, the Arts, and Leadership (IDEAL), a new organization whose mission is to foster innovative teaching and learning through integrative creative practices that cultivate liberatory learning spaces; and, along with veteran educator Ana Raquel Thomas, is a cofounder of Creativity Lab, a new science and environmental literacy project. Trena is an artist, educator/activist, and writer, whose work engages participatory research, cross-disciplinary platforms, learning pedagogies, and community engagement. At the heart of her interests is the investigation of social and natural ecologies—relationships of people and place with a focus on justice, the environment, and creative actions. Trena’s work in education has focused on integrated learning practices and pedagogies in program design and leadership development in both public and nonprofit educational sectors, creating communities of practice that engage liberatory spaces for learning. She is one of the founding faculty of the Integrated Learning Specialist Program, where she developed principal and teacher leadership initiatives and supported integrated learning demonstration sites across the county. In collaboration with UC Berkeley Principal Leadership Institute, she is a co-lead for a leadership research initiative that examines school leaders who practice leadership through integrated learning pedagogies. She serves on the board of directors for Youth Art Exchange, and she is a member of the 2019/2020 Stanford Arts Institute's Creative Cities Working Group. Trena teaches at California College of the Arts.