Jaime Knight teaches art in CP Academy. He received his B.F.A. in Studio Art from the University of New Mexico and his M.A. in Art Education from San Francisco State University. He’s been teaching at Berkeley High for five years, including his student teaching. In addition to Berkeley High, his teaching experiences include teaching at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MoMA) and Southern Exposure (SoEx), a nonprofit gallery in San Francisco. Jaime loves to travel and his extensive travels have included several summers spent in El Salvador teaching community art classes and doing collaborative art projects. Before Jaime began teaching, he worked as a cook in a small breakfast cafe and managed a scooter shop in San Francisco to support himself while working as an artist and musician, playing and recording music, booking and hosting live music shows, and traveling on tour in different bands.
Jaime’s philosophy of teaching is to give students an experience of the transformative nature of art making in a safe, respectful and humanistic community. He challenges his students to push the limits of their creativity and physical abilities while having fun and learning about themselves and the world around them through artistic processes. He holds his students and himself to the same high standards.
Mr. Knight did service-learning in El Salvador from 2004 through 2006, and runs the Teens Visionaries after-school art program.
